Sentences with phrase «soon after the eruptions»

By measuring the size of the largest raindrop imprints (inset) in ash that solidified soon after an eruption 2.7 billion years ago (pocked slab, main image) and comparing them to the imprints made by drops of various sizes and momentums in lab tests, the team estimates that the density of Earth's oxygen - free atmosphere 2.7 billion years ago most likely ranged between 50 % and 108 % of today's air and was certainly less than twice its modern density — a thickness insufficient to offset the dimness of the sun at the time.

Not exact matches

Regardless of artistic style, paintings created soon after volcanic eruptions had redder skies than those painted during periods of low volcanic activity, the researchers report online today in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.

However, using this experimental method, if a forming cyst was treated soon enough upon formation, the infection could be eliminated, after which the body slowly eliminated the toxic byproducts without any form of skin eruption (in three test cases).

But the expected acceleration due to climate change is likely hidden in the satellite record because of a happenstance of timing: The record began soon after the Pinatubo eruption, which temporarily cooled the planet, causing sea levels to drop.»

After the eruption, as soon as the temperature starts to drop, we get less and later daily tropical clouds and thunderstorms, and this rapidly counteracts the loss of radiation.