Sentences with word «subfossil»

And, in any event, this has nothing to do with CRU's failure to even disclose the existence of 1021 crossdated subfossil trees from the two early transects.

To date, most LGM sea ice estimates have been derived from subfossil diatom data [reviewed by Gersonde et al. (13)-RSB-.

Even in a long chronology (i.e., including subfossil data), this effect will bias the start and end of the RCS chronology.

AbstractThe subfossil remains of 14 cimicids (Hemiptera: Cimicidae) were recovered during archaeological investigations of the Paisley Five Mile Point Cave site (35LK3400), an exceptionally well - dated (n = 229 radiocarbon dates) late Pleistocene — early Holocene rock shelter site in south - central Oregon.

We used subfossil mosses and peats to document changes in regional climate, cryosphere, and terrestrial ecosystems in the western Antarctic Peninsula at ~ 65S latitude.

«The systematic collection of subfossil wood samples was begun, in 1982, in the basins of the Khadytayakha, Yadayakhodyyakha and Tanlovayakha rivers in southern Yamal in the region located between 67 ° 009 and 67 ° 509 N and 68 ° 309 and 71 ° 009 E».

Low number of used for reconstruction subfossil series is explained by standardisation method («corridor method»).

Then in 2005, she met evolutionary biologist Michael Hofreiter, then at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, who shared some extraordinary news: Dutch trawlers raking the mud of the North Sea dredged up a cache of gray whale subfossils, the largest ever discovered.

This starting point in Crowley's study reveals a contrast of lemur mobility between subfossil and living species.

He's like «Mr. Subfossil Bird Bones» (and a lot of other subfossil animals, but especially birds — and especially island birds).

She has been particularly fortunate to have material borrowed from the Duke University Primate Center's excellent collection of subfossil materials.

By matching modern strontium data from Madagascar's geologically diverse region with the strontium values she measures in the teeth and bones of ancient lemurs and other subfossil mammals she can trace their relative mobility during the past 10,000 years.

Anderung C, Danise S, Glover AG, Higgs ND, Jonsson L, Sabin R, Dahlgren TG (2014) A Swedish subfossil find of a bowhead whale from the late Pleistocene: shore displacement, paleoecology in south - west Sweden and the identity of the Swedenborg whale (Balaena swedenborgii Liljeborg, 1867).

[38][39] Similarly, radiocarbon dating of American east coastal subfossil remains confirm that gray whales existed there at least through the 17th century.

Archaeological and paleontological research has identified more than 100 fox bones from more than 35 different archaeological and subfossil sites across the archipelago.

The analysis examined both «living and subfossil pine (Pinus sylvestris) trees from 14 lakes and 3 lakeshore sites.»

As to reliability of recent increase in tree growth — we have updated our data using many additional subfossil and living trees and using RCS - method.

Within this clade, we estimated the mean age of the split between the ABC bears and the polar bears to be 152 ky, and the mean age for all polar bears as 134 ky, near the beginning of the Eemian interglacial period and completely in line with the stratigraphically determined age of the Poolepynten subfossil (11).

For years, Alter and her colleagues have meticulously reconstructed the history of the species using subfossils — ancient bones that, unlike true fossils, are not yet fully mineralized and still contain minute traces of DNA.

The series of annual growth rings from subfossil — or intact — tree deposits covers the past 7,600 years.

[37] Radiocarbon dating of subfossil or fossil European (Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom) coastal remains confirms this, with whaling the possible cause.

When Alter first had the idea to trace the history of gray whales from subfossils in the early 2000s, she quickly hit a major snag; gray whale subfossils are hard to come by.

It holds ribs the size of small logs and 6 - foot - long mandibles — modern bones similar to the subfossils Alter has studied.

The subfossil remains of now extinct gray whales from the Atlantic coasts of England and Sweden were used by Gray to make the first scientific description of a species then surviving only in Pacific waters.

We do, however, have information about the time - span of the subfossil samples — and if we align these by the year of the last - ring in each sample it can highlight periods of enhanced mortality.

I have requested elevations of the subfossil cores without any success.

Two sets of correlations are shown: one based only on the subfossil series and the other including the living tree material whose precise elevations are not known and have been set here to a constant elevation of 250 m. None of the correlations is significant indicating that there is little evidence for an elevation influence on ring density and hence little age - dependent bias in the temperature reconstruction arising out of the differences in sample heights shown in Figure 4.»

In an earlier posting, I pointed out the striking change in altitude of samples at this site, with 13th century samples averaging from an altitude of about 310 m. (NATO 1996, Figure 4, top panel), while modern samples all come from between 200 and 250 m. Briffa says that the elevations of the subfossil cores are known precisely, but not the modern cores (p. 35).