... over a period of several thousand years.Scientists peered into the Sahara's verdant past by analyzing sediment samples drilled out of the bottom of one of the desert's last ...
... of Colorado at Boulder will analyze plant microfossils in sediment samples collected from a variety of locations, including areas where streams expose sediment layers 10,000 years old ...
... ." Kennedy and colleagues collected hundreds of marine sediment samples in South Australia for stable isotope ... isotopic variation ever reported from marine sediments, which they attribute to melting waters in ice sheets ...
... Oceans and the Black Sea. The cored sediments included samples that were the result of research expeditions conducted ... , U.S., and Japanese laboratories investigate standardized sediment samples from the seafloor using varied methods. To gain ...
... Carolina, Chapel Hill. The researchers looked at sediment samples from a variety of depths taken off ... the ocean floor. The use of the metagenomics, where bulk samples of sediment are sequences without separation, allows ...
... to be a site of high methane consumption. However, these sediment samples contained over 5,000 species ... of carbon, and fed each compound to a separate sediment sample. The microbes that could consume the compound incorporated ...
... of 30 years of data from hundreds of bayfloor sediment samples, radiocarbon tests and seismic surveys ... Galveston Bay because the channel diverts the sediment that is flowing into the bay, preventing it from replenishing the upper ...
... large swaths of wetlands this century in one or more bays from Alabama to Texas. The findings stem from bayfloor sediment samples, radiocarbon tests and seismic surveys ...
... from the Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal – which contain sediments that were eroded from the Himalaya, where the principal rainfall ... to determine the cooling ages of thousands of bedrock and sediment samples from all over the Himalaya. "Most people are familiar with the use of such techniques ...
... . They analyzed four stone tools and six sediment samples from the site. "This was the first dating of this kind ... . The research team had difficulties in separating quartz from the sediment samples, and Shen and Gao got their entire ...
... of the Gulf of Maine Toxicity (GOMTOX) study, spent 10 days collecting seafloor sediment samples between Massachusetts Bay and the Bay of Fundy ...
... that it ends up in the sediments because it's not ending up on land. It's not dissolving in ocean water." An all-night sampling marathon ... leading the way, the team took 16 sediment samples from the ocean floor, following a carefully ...
... . "Farwell developed and mapped out our plan for collecting sediment samples from the ocean floor," said WHOI marine ... AD Colburn guided the Atlantis on an all-night sediment sampling campaign. It was no easy task ...
... Zhang of Pennsylvania State University examined sediment samples from across the North Atlantic coast ... seasons over the past 1,500 years. The sediment samples match up relatively well with the computer ...
... of fixed nitrogen. The team studied ocean sediment samples obtained in methane cold seeps ... . In the laboratory, the researchers examined the methane-rich sediment and the tiny microbial conglomerations that live within ...
