Sentences with phrase «rock units»

Many of these rocks are fairly heavy, so they should not be used in the integrated rock units mentioned earlier.
In South America, the two endemic «river dolphin» lineages form a clade (Inioidea), with closely related fossil inioids from marine rock units in the South Pacific and North Atlantic oceans.
We also got to see some of the amazing rock formations of the Sheep Rock Unit of John Day Fossil beds and go to the visitor center there to see the fossils and watch the video.
During 2011, we landed at Humps Island, the Naze peninsula and Santa Marta Cove of James Ross Island, and False Island Point, Cape Lamb, and Sandwich Bluff of Vega Island to investigate Late Cretaceous - aged (~ 75 — 66 million - year - old) rock units at these localities.
While it's almost two and half hours away from Bend, the area included in the Sheep Rock Unit of the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument was fascinating to explore.
While mountains are high and give the impression of strength, they are built largely from previously fractured rock units.
He attributes the Alaska Range's alternating topographic signatures to a myriad of factors: contrasting lithospheric strength between large terranes (i.e., distinctly different rock units); the location of the curved Denali fault; the transfer of strain inland from southern Alaska's active plate margin; and the shape of the controlling former continental margin against weaker suture - zone rocks.
The new genus and species of extinct baleen whale is based on a skull and associated bones unearthed from the Kokoamu Greensand, a noted fossil - bearing rock unit in the South Canterbury and Waitaki district from the Oligocene period, which extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years ago.
The new lagerpetid (Ixalerpeton) and saurischian dinosaur (Buriolestes) were unearthed from the ~ 230 - million - year - old Carnian Santa Maria Formation — one of the oldest known rock units including dinosaur fossils anywhere in the world.
«Specimens of Archaeopteryx are now known from three distinct rock units, which together cover a period of approximately 1 million years,» Rauhut explains.
This resource further aligns our Choices in Little Rock unit with the Common Core State Standards through an argumentative writing assignment.
They both gona struggle one homegrown rules kick in... While Hargreaves and Carrick tunrout to be high class english midfielders, the rest of th teams may be screwed... Remember we also have youth players in DGibbo, D Jones and R Jones coming through... our defence is a rock unit and versatile in their style of play.
You are allowed to plug in AC adapter cord to the auto - rock unit and also to the wall outlet, but never into a ceiling outlet.
The rock unit has yielded nearly 20 species of megaherbivores from the Late Cretaceous period.
The marine shale layer in which it was found is part of the Eagle Ford Group, a rock unit unique to Texas.
In these rock units the challenge is not «finding» the reservoir; the challenge is recovering the gas from very tiny pore spaces in a low - permeability rock unit.
When directional drilling is combined with hydraulic fracturing, some rock units which were unproductive when drilled vertically can become fantastic producers of oil or natural gas.
I made this presentation to teach some common types of rocks and their use in Looking at Rocks unit to grade 1.
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