Sentences with phrase «study earth history»

Geologists study Earth history: Today we are concerned about climate change.

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Toynbee's growing concern about the future of humankind led him, after spending a lifetime studying human history, to devote the last book of his career to Mankind and Mother Earth.

You're right that the interesting study is what's inside of them, but you don't find it the least bit interesting that a rock that's been probably flying around in outerspace for maybe close to millions maybe even billions of years landed on earth and you could actually touch history?

He assumed that the study of the teaching of Jesus `... has an independent interest of its own and a definite interest of its own and a definite task of its own, namely, that we use every resource we possess of knowledge, of historical imagination, and of religious insight to the one end of transporting ourselves back into the centre of the greatest crisis in the world's history, to look as it were through the eyes of Jesus and to see God and man, heaven and earth, life and death, as he saw them, and to find, if we may, in that vision something which will satisfy the whole man in mind and heart and will».

All seventh graders might study early American History or Earth Science.

In order to reconstruct climate history, it is necessary to study natural climate archives since, in terms of Earth's history, humankind has only very recently begun measuring the planet.

Professor Paul Upchurch (UCL Earth Sciences), co-author of the study, added: «Our large and refined data set allows us to build a clearer picture of evolutionary history.

Paleoclimatology is the study of climate change taken on the scale of the entire history of the earth.

Ivany says this kind of work has implications for the study of the evolutionary history of life on Earth, and may help explain why the metabolism of cold - blooded animals has changed over time.

Scientists are using the most - studied brain in history to create a Google Earth for everything inside your head.

Mars» volcanoes show evidence for activity over a larger time span than those on Earth, but their histories of magma production might be quite different,» said Jacob Bleacher, a planetary geologist at Goddard and a co-author on the study.

«People think of the Earth as having a certain amount of oil the way you might have a certain amount of money in your bank account,» adds Daniel Yergin, chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, who wrote the The Prize, a history of oil, and The Commanding Heights, a study of market forces and the energy industry.

By studying the gas, dust and structure of the nucleus and organic materials associated with the comet, via both remote and in - situ observations, the Rosetta mission should be a key to unlocking the history and evolution of our solar system, as well as answering questions regarding the origin of Earth's water and perhaps even life.

But to study Earth's history over tens to hundreds of millions of years, researchers examine the chemical and biological signatures of deep sea sediment archives.

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

The study forms part of the GATEWAYS (www.gateways-itn.eu) project of the European Commission's 7th Framework Programme, coordinated by Rainer Zahn, a researcher with the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA - UAB) and the UAB's Department of Physics, and taking part in it was Martin Ziegler, a post-doctoral researcher at the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences of the University of Cardiff (UK) and scientists from the Natural History Museum, London (UK).

IODP is a collaboration of scientists from 23 countries; the organization coordinates voyages to study the history of the Earth recorded in sediments and rocks beneath the seafloor.

The scientists who studied the wellconstructed a geologic history showing that the shale could have hostedbacteria as early as 160 million years ago — before flowering plantsfirst began growing on Earth.

Can studying Pluto and these other objects tell us anything about Earth's formation and its history?

«The anterior sclerite has been lost in modern arthropods, as it most likely fused with other parts of the head during the evolutionary history of the group,» said Dr Javier Ortega - Hernández, a postdoctoral researcher from Cambridge's Department of Earth Sciences, who authored the study.

Because scientists who've looked to glaciers to study the history of climate on Earth have found that the Northern and Southern hemispheres have not been moving in sync.

As photosynthesis favours the lighter isotope, carbon 12, over the heavier carbon 13, this «light» ratio finding suggests that organic material from biological sources may have been more abundant in diamond - forming zones early in the Earth's history than we find today,» explained Suzette Timmerman, lead author on the study.

Professor Michael Benton from the University of Bristol, another co-author of the study, said: «This work illustrates a case of the impact of climate change on the evolution of animal biodiversity, and shows that for crocodilians, warming phases of our earth's history constitute ideal opportunities to colonise new environments.»

Studying the craters on the moon offers a window into that violent history of the young solar system that is not nearly as accessible on Earth.

Researchers from the United States and China are now studying the core — nearly as long as the Empire State Building is tall — to assemble one of the longest - ever records of Earth's climate history.

In addition to its scientific usefulness, this study demonstrates the need for the ongoing revision of Earth's biological history, and highlights the immense value of museum collections in uncovering new knowledge.

By studying the relationship between CO2 levels and climate change during a warmer period in Earth's history, the scientists have been able to estimate how the climate will respond to increasing levels of carbon dioxide, a parameter known as «climate sensitivity».

«This is the first study that makes use of the idea that atmospheric pressure could have varied over Earth's history,» Li says.

«Our study also allows us to put our 21st century temperatures into the context of Earth's history.

The new evidence has the potential to alter perceptions about which planets in the universe could sustain life and may mean that humans are having an even greater impact on levels of CO2 in Earth's atmosphere than accepted evidence from climate history studies of ice cores suggests.

Co-author of the study Dr Chris Berry, from Cardiff University's School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, said: «There is no other tree that I know of in the history of Earth that has ever done anything as complicated as this.

By studying the gas, dust and structure of the nucleus and organic materials associated with the comet, the Rosetta mission should become key to unlocking the history and evolution of our solar system, as well as answering questions regarding the origin of Earth's water and perhaps even life.

Geologists study the composition, processes, and history of Earth.

The new study, led by University of Bristol's Professor Philip Donoghue and Dr. Harald Schneider of the Natural History Museum, London, indicates that these events actually occurred a hundred million years earlier, changing perceptions of the evolution of the Earth's biosphere.

Rapid increases in greenhouse gases have happened more frequently in the Earth's history than previously realized, according to a Scripps Institution of Oceanography - led study published last week in the journal Nature.

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;

According to the study, which is based on three - dimensional simulations of geodynamos created by turbulent liquids and models of Earth's thermal history, the inner core is believed to have begun solidifying roughly 650 million years ago.

However, Bob Kopp studied another snowball Earth that happened much earlier in the planet's history.

The first United States mission in history to launch a robotic spacecraft to an asteroid, retrieve samples, and return those samples back to Earth for study just passed a big milestone in its development this -LSB-...]

Over the past several years, however, thousands of planets have been discovered orbiting stars beyond our sun, allowing us to study our own Earth in the context of other worlds for the first time in history.

In addition to providing a new perspective into the history of Earth, the discovery is also expected to provide significant insights into the study of planetary habitability.

A new study in the April 22 edition of Science reveals that volcanic activity associated with the plate - tectonic movement of continents may be responsible for climatic shifts from hot to cold over tens and hundreds of millions of years throughout much of Earth's history.

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If you want to study the causes of a warming or cooling in period X of Earth history, you study the data from period X. — Stefan]