fossil -- Any evidence of past life, including remains, traces, imprints as well as life history artifacts. Examples of artifacts include fossilized bird's nests, bee hives, etc.
fossil fuel A hydrocarbon (coal or petroleum) that can be extracted from the Earth for use as a fuel. Fossil fuels are non-renewable energy sources.
Fossil-like bodies consisting of the iron oxide magnetite and iron sulphides are present in the globules, as seen at high magnification under the electron microscope.
List of fossil sites (with link directory)
List of primate and hominin fossils (with images)
Neanderthal interaction with Cro-Magnons
Earth's Children, a series of historical fiction novels written by Jean M. Auel, taking place in ancient Europe ...
Present and fossil teeth suggest several migration waves in the past, when reduced sea levels created bridges between now isolated Japanese and Aleutian islands. Cassini projection.
The concentration of this gas has been steadily increasing in the atmosphere over the last three centuries due to the burning of fossil fuels, deforestation, and land-use change.
A mound-shaped fossil that forms from the repetitious layering of algal mat covered by trapped sediment particles.
Subduction Zone: ...
1770 - The fossilised bones of a huge animal (later identified as a Mosasaur) are found in a quarry near Maastricht in the Netherlands.
1795 - Georges Cuvier identifies the bones found in the Netherlands in 1770 as belonging to an extinct reptile.
The landscape of Velingara is a mosaic of upland dry Sudanian woodland, riparian or moist gallery forest in the fossil river valleys, and clearings for agriculture, with no major urban centers.
AutoPIPE was developed as a scalable offering to meet the needs of companies working in industries like nuclear and fossil power, process and chemical plants, offshore FPSO platform and riser design, fire protection systems, oil refineries, ...
And in 1927-28 the Rawson-MacMillan subarctic expedition explored Frobisher Bay, specifically Silliman's Fossil Mount. Donald MacMillan, an American arctic explorer from Provincetown, had been on the Peary expedition to the North Pole in 1908-09.
* More efficient use of fossil fuels for commercial fleets; in the agriculture, marine, and aviation industries; in mass transit; and in consumer navigation ...
Canada: Geography, etc.
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The size of this effect is difficult to quantify: the IPCC say that their "estimate of the global mean radiative forcing for BC aerosols from fossil fuels is ... +0.2 W m-2 (from +0.1 W m-2 in the SAR) with a range +0.1 to +0.4 W m...-2".[25] ...
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