Sentences with phrase «very arid»

The Central Iberian Peninsula was characterised by a very arid savanna during the middle Miocene, according to a study led by the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) that compares the mammal assemblages from different localities in Africa and South Asia with those that inhabited the Iberian central area 14 million years ago.

In this study paleontologists have been able to infer that the centre of the Iberian Peninsula witnessed a very arid tropical climate with a high precipitation seasonality.

But if you remain within the framework of critical thinking decade after decade after decade, and you can stay in it your whole life, it becomes a very arid place in which to live when it's wedded to the framework of modernity, and it becomes a desolate place, T.S. Eliot's wasteland.

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Last week, it found itself at odds with the Institute for Fiscal Studies on this very point, in an arid war over methodologies.

The few young soils, the volcanic ones, are very porous and occur most often in arid and semi-arid regions.

However, until very recently, little information has been forthcoming about the age of the archaeological sites in arid zones, and hardly anything is known about the specific ecological settings that hominins occupied.

It is easier to see the harmful effects in parts of the world with very different geography from Canada: the arid lands, where three billion people live.

The slowly rotating version of Earth has climate zones very different from actual Earth — the Sahara desert has turned into a rain forest, and the northern U.S. and Canada have become more arid like Los Angeles.

I really like, and use, some of the masks, the Seaberry Face Oil was lovely and effective for helping to heal the latter stages of my last Rosacea flare - up; Black Tea Corset Cream; Black Tea Firming Overnight Mask; for lots of moisture if your skin is very dry try tiny bits of Rose Deep Hydration Face Cream (which I use more of in the arid air of Colorado).

In fact, it's mainly domestic pet cats for one very simple reason: there are very few people in the arid, so - called conservation areas where wild born feral cats actually are a major threat to native wildlife, so there aren't many to witness what real feral cat predation looks like, there's not much white civilisation or infrastructure out there, either, comparatively speaking.

It's the very elements that provided such challenges over the centuries that make a visit to NT a uniquely enriching experience: endless, arid deserts; rust - red canyons and gorges; bird - rich wetlands; «roos, wallabies and — yes — crocs.

This is a very picturesque city where you can see the contrast of the arid Jordanian desert with the lush vegetation of the Red Sea coast.

The flip side to that is that Aruba is a very dry island with little natural greenery or tropical plants — once away from the resort areas the island can be rocky and arid and there isn't much in the way of wildlife to be seen.

This short but very interesting two - day trek starts in the lush valley town of Chivay and takes you into the open heart of the canyon where the massive condor swoop and prickly cactus shoot up from the arid earth.

Unlike many of the more popular islands in Indonesia, it is not green and lush, but dry, dusty, arid and sparsely populated with very little tourism infrastructure.

After the unhinging events of part 1, ARID's very existence is threatened when she is ejected from her body and projected onto a vast global network.

This exhibition traces a great voyage of discovery of a very special artist: heaving oceans, arid deserts, spread - ing night skies and intricate spiders» webs are Vija Celmins» major themes.

Arid and dry climates are very restrictive for human survival since water does not come so abundantly as required for regular life booming with abundance.

The Nile, like the other great rivers of Africa (notably, the Congo, Niger, and Sénégal), became very reduced, if not totally blocked, by silt and desert sand during the low - precipitation, arid phases of the Pleistocene.

For tens of thousands of years its arid wastes isolated the very first anatomically modern humans from the rest of the world.

In some arid regions (e.g. Namibia and central Australia), floods occur very occasionally.

A very light molecule which would likely travel much further in the atmosphere than water vapour in arid climes.

«In Australia, our native vegetation is superbly adapted to surviving in arid environments and it consequently uses water very efficiently,» said Dr. Randall Donohue, a CSIRO research scientist.

Hansen began his career studying Venus, which was once a very Earth - like planet with plenty of life - supporting water before runaway climate change rapidly transformed it into an arid and uninhabitable sphere enveloped in an unbreathable gas; he switched to studying our planet by 30, wondering why he should be squinting across the solar system to explore rapid environmental change when he could see it all around him on the planet he was standing on.

Ocean - dominated systems, such as the open - ocean and coastal ecosystems adjacent to arid land (e.g. those in Antarctica and adjacent to arid regions, such as NW Australia; Falter et al. 2013) and very small watersheds, such as those in atolls and small islands, will likely reflect the open - ocean pH and Ω dynamics (Falter et al. 2013).

Rather than developing the idea of the purposes of the Code, it embarked upon a very doctrinal, arid and terribly familiar discussion of «employment» in the abstract — all unrelated to the discussion thus far about the allegedly broad purposes of the Code.