Sentences with phrase «used subfossil»

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

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.

CRU should have asked Shiyatov for the right to use the subfossil data from their 1968 and 1983 transects and, if they were refused, this should have been reported as well.

Not exact matches

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.

This should have been reported in the article, together with an explanation of why they didn't use it, letting reviewers and readers decide for themselves whether CRU was justified in using less than 8 % of the subfossil data.

CRU's Failure to Use or Disclose the Shiyatov Dataset In a recent CA post, I observed that Shiyatov had crossdated 1021 subfossil trees from his 1968 and 1983 transects plus hundreds of living trees, from which the samples sent to Schweingruber were a minute subset.

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

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.