Sentences with phrase «recent geological time»
Its well - defined shape indicates it's relatively young, the impact that formed it having occurred in recent geological times.
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Natural climate variability over recent geological time is greater than reasonable estimates of potential human - induced greenhouse gas changes.
«For a long time, scientists weren't sure how or why Madagascar's biogeography changed in very recent geological time, specifically at the key period around when humans arrived on the island a few thousand years ago.
«It kept some of its volatiles around to more recent geological times.»
Nothing like the late heavy bombardment has hit Earth in recent geological time, but every 100 million years or so something big wallops the planet.
More intriguingly, the results suggest that liquid water may have existed beneath the surface of Ceres in recent geological time.