- Like The Bahamas' Great Bank? Thank Dust From The Sahara
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... for specialized bacteria to produce the island chain's carbonate-based foundation. UM Rosenstiel School Lewis G. Weeks Professor ... carbon dioxide and induces the precipitation of calcium carbonate, thus causing the whiting. The signature of atmospheric nitrogen, its ...
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- Specialized Microbes Clean Stubborn Chemicals From The Environment
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... A further discovery of the new research is that carbonate minerals naturally present in water and soil act as electron ...
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- Cloudina: Animals Were Building Reefs 550 Million Years Ago
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... other – by producing natural cement composed of calcium carbonate, to form rigid structures. The creatures – known as Cloudina ... Bowyer Professor Rachel Wood, Professor of Carbonate GeoScience at the University of Edinburgh, who led the study, said: ...
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- Where Have All The Craters Gone?
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... Much of the mineral content of microbialites is calcium carbonate. This is generally assumed to have been precipitated alongside living ... in Lake Clifton, Western Australia, forms not from carbonate, but from the magnesium silicate mineral stevensite. Carbonate ...
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- New Study Says It Has Made The Paleoamerican-Native American Connection
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... University, Chatters noticed accumulations of calcium carbonate -- tiny rosettes of calcite deposited by water dripping off the cave ... "More work is needed," said Kennett. " There are still carbonate deposits on the bones of Naia and other animal bones in the cave. The ...
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- Now That's Warming: 50 Million Years Ago, Antarctica Was Like California
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... say their new measurements, using a technique called carbonate clumped isotope thermometry, can help improve climate models ...
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- Winter Weather: Warm West, Cold East: Is Part Of A 4,000-Year Pattern
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... in ancient rainfall and incorporated into calcium carbonate. They reveal jet stream directions during the past 8,000 years, a ... oxygen in ancient rain water was incorporated into calcium carbonate deposited in cave and lake sediments. The ratio of rare, heavy ...
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- Climate Change: The Role Of Oceanic Carbon Reservoir Over Glacial Cycles
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... South Atlantic Susceptibility (SUSAS) stack indicative of carbonate preservation. (C) Eccentricity . (Photo Credit: ©Science China ...
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- Climate Change Linked To Indus Civilization Decline
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... this ratio when they incorporate oxygen into the calcium carbonate (CaCO3) of their shells, and can therefore be used, in conjunction ...
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- Better Than Calcium? Magnesium May Protect Against Hip Fractures
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... magnesium and calcium, while lime contains only calcium carbonate", says Cecilie Dahl, a research fellow at the Norwegian Institute of ...
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