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277 Results found for "environment"
141. Mount St. Helens and Spirit Lake
...attention than the eruption of Mount St. Helens. In addition to the spectacular eruption that destroyed environments and human life, interesting associated phenomena with important ramifications for...
142. Beetles Indicate a Faunal Change in the Arctic During Cenozoic Time
...studying this assemblage. Preliminary evidence indicates that the site represents a flood-plain environment within a region of open spruce forest. Some fossils of tundra insects are present in the assemblage...
143. Coral Reef Growth
...Harper & Row, New York. Shinn, E.A. 1976. Coral reef recovery in Florida and the Persian Gulf. Environmental Geology 1:241-254. Smith, S.V. and D.W. Kinsey. 1976. Calcium carbonate production, coral...
144. Footprints in the Grand Canyon
...slopes for comparison. Four experimental conditions were used: 1) dry sand (simulating a dry desert environment), 2) dry sand moistened with a fine spray of water (simulating desert sand moistened by...
145. C-14 Age Profiles for Ancient Sediments and Peat Bogs
...to be the result of an increasing rate of formation, an increasing level of C-14 activity in the environment, or a combination of increase in both factors. FIGURE 9. PROFILE INTERPRETATION GUIDE. CONCLUSIONS...
146. The Cruelty of Nature
...The apparent cruelty and suffering was just an unfortunate result of organisms adjusting to their environments. In the 1844 draft of what eventually became The Origin of Species, he concluded [3]: It...
147. The Spirorbis Problem
...problem for this theory. Spirorbis will not live in peat bogs, because this is not the right kind of environment, yet sometimes its shells are found in great numbers in coal. The interpretation that...
148. Towards the Development of a General Theory of Creation
...curses. Whether they represented creative acts of God, explosive genetic adaptations to changed environmental conditions, genetic, and/or physical manipulations of Lucifer, or a combination of these...
149. A Chemist's Perspective of the Yellowstone Petrified “Forests"
...ldquo;intrigue” bug. Dr. Coffin focused much time and research into understanding the physical environment and orientation of these fossil forests. From his, and other, studies there developed...
150. A New Blind Watchmaker: Design by Homeostasis
...This conclusion fails to address why, rather than evolving complex behavior to maximize their environmental conditions, termites don’t evolve greater tolerance to normal environmental variations...
151. Annotations from the Literature
...attention than the question of whether the peculiar shape of these burrows might indicate some unusual environmental conditions. Perhaps future research will reveal that the answers to these two questions...
152. Annotations from the Literature
...argument for common ancestry was proposed by Oparin and others: that living organisms altered their environment so that conditions were no longer favorable for life to originate a second time. This argument...
153. An Amphibious Whale or a Terrestrial Swimmer?
...Peregocetus must not be understood as a behavior or anatomy in evolutionary transition from one type of environment to another, but meaning a different and specific lifestyle that is independent of evolution...
154. Different Colors on Different Soils
...C Lke et al. The genetic basis of adaptation following plastic changes in coloration in a novel environment. Current Biology 28(18):2970-2977. Variation in color of side-blotched lizards. (Left) A dark...
155. Annotations from the Literature
...Scientists have generally considered dinosaurs to have lived in warm, tropical, usually humid environments. However, dinosaur fossils have been found at several locations within the arctic or antarctic...
156. Annotations from the Literature
...genetic mechanisms beyond those normally observed within populations. SPECIATION, BOTTLENECKS AND ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS Carson HL, Wisotzkey RG. 1989. Increase in genetic variance following a population...
157. Annotations from the Literature
...evolutionary theory is based on the belief that variation is produced by random mutations, and that the environment acts in such a way that those individuals best adapted for survival are favored over...
158. Annotations from the Literature
...for design from the viewpoint of a physical scientist. The author argues that the fitness of the environment of our earth for life is unique and beyond happenstance, that the origin of life demands intelligent...
159. Annotations from the Literature
...Takahashi K, Mathews GJ, Bloom SD. 1986. Shell-model calculations of 99Tc beta decay in astrophysical environments. Physical Review C 33(1):296-302. Summary. The purpose of this paper was to recalculate...
160. The “Australian Problem”
...are also presented, but more from an ecological perspective, with the emphasis being on how the environment regulates their placement. The seventh section is a group of papers on aboriginal man, his...