Sentences with phrase «sedimentary history»

«We already have sediment cores from that lake, and now we are unraveling its sedimentary history and trying to get an age model there as well.»

Sedimentary history of the Ross Embayment: a unified hypothesis from a glaciological perspective.

Mount Sharp appears to contain layers of sedimentary history dating back several billion years.

While ancient levees may be difficult to spot with an untrained eye, geoarchaeologists employ an array of precise analytic tools to confirm a site's sedimentary history.

The study also highlights the importance of sea levels, which are a real metronome for Earth's sedimentary history.

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Rock and sedimentary layers hold the clues to understanding the major episodes in our planet's 4.6 billion - year history.

Nearly 10,000 feet (3,000 m) of sedimentary strata are found in the Capitol Reef area, representing nearly 200 million years of geologic history of the south - central part of the U.S. state of Utah.

2 By studying the record of Earth's history contained in sedimentary rocks from the time just prior to the rise of animals, between 1200 and 650 million years ago, reading these rocks for clues about changing environmental conditions by chemical analysis, and systematically scouring them for traces of life — from fossils as well as chemical signatures;

In addition, as a sedimentary rock, it contains fossils that give important information about the Earth's history.

Morphological, pedological, and sedimentary evolution on the fringe of the southwestern European drylands during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene Premier cartridge collecting site covering all types and forms of ammunition and their history, manufacture, markings and variations

Granted, the styling is pretty bland, almost Toyota Camry - like, though the last Camry with a manual transmission can be found in sedimentary layers of sandstone in the museum of natural history, next to the fossilized ducks.

This quick GIF animation by sedimentary geologist Zoltan Sylvester uses the Landsat program and Google Earth Engine to whisk us through 28 years of history from 1985 to 2013.

Firelei Báez's installation will recall the sedimentary architectural history of colonial structures, indigenous and occupying cultures layered on the walls.

Drilling into those sedimentary layers provides a history of the kind of organisms that lived there.

His research interests are broadly in the area of Earth history and are aimed at understanding the dynamics of past perturbations in the Earth's physical and biological systems and their expression in the sedimentary record.

These models will have the capability to predict the ancient hydrologic history of a sedimentary basin together with the related processes of organic maturation, hydrocarbon migration, rock alteration, and mineralization.