Sentences with phrase «relatively young rock»

Right before the ice age begins the ratio becomes low in strontium 87, which accumulates as rock ages, suggesting weathering of relatively young rock.

Analysis of a relatively young rock collected by Apollo astronauts reveals the moon had a weak magnetic field until 1 billion to 2.5 billion years ago, at least a billion years later than previous data showed.

They found it in relatively young rocks both from Baffin Island, off the coast of northern Canada, and from the Ontong - Java Plateau in the Pacific Ocean, north of the Solomon Islands.

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While the Tetons are a relatively young mountain range, formed by an uplift along the Teton Fault less than 9 million years ago, the rocks exposed there are some of the oldest found in North America.

It was a strong year for guitar rock, the best of it coming from relatively younger bands dominated by women: Jay Som, Charly Bliss, Vagabon, Waxahatchee, Diet Cig, Palehound, Chastity Belt, Girlpool, Daddy Issues, Partner.

«Students talk about how relatively isolated they felt in their sending schools because they were interested in Plato and their classmates were interested in the five - paragraph essay,» said Peter Laipson, provost at one such campus, Bard College at Simon's Rock, which enrolls students as young as 16.

Reykjanes is a relatively small peninsula, it is one of the youngest parts of Iceland and here you can find several lava field of different ages, some covered in moss, some with grass, some with just black rocks.

While this is relatively young for a barrier reef, the limestone rocks that the Belize Barrier Reef corals have grown upon may be anywhere from 2 to 135 million years old, and the atolls somewhere in between.

When they bumped up against Isabela, the island was still relatively young, and the abundance of hard volcanic rock (and lack of soil) meant there wasn't much to eat on land.