Sentence examples for geological sources from inspiring English sources

The TGO mission, which could potentially distinguish between microbial and geological sources of methane, will release its results next week.

Natural geological sources of methane such as marine seepage and volcanic areas are estimated to contribute around 52 million tonnes per year to global methane emissions, but the true figure remains uncertain.

Carbon isotope data show that up to 40% of the carbon within the soil carbonate is derived from photosynthesis, mixed with carbon from geological sources (limestone present in the quarry fines).

Using standardized dust-production devices and definitions of dustiness will improve comparisons between laboratories and instruments: lessons learned from other disciplines can be used to improve laboratory research on the generation of atmospheric dusts from geological sources.

Five distinct types of groundwater were recognized, reflecting a variety of geological sources and chemical conditions which are understood to be typical for the whole east coast of Sumatra.

Sulphur isotopes either show more positive values, typical of fertilisers, rain or sea spray in open pastoral sites, or more negative values consistent with weathered geological sources such as metamorphic sulphides found in schist in some river valley sites.

Engineers planning a project need to know the extent of the basic geological source of water (the aquifer), as well as the amount the water level is lowered by pumping and the rate of recharge of the aquifer.

Although there is a marked dispersive action of tropical weathering on metal distribution in the region, Cu, Pb, and Zn were found spatially associated with their geological source.

The objective of India's latest mission is not to land on Mars — with NASA's rover missions there that would be redundant — but to place a satellite in an elliptical orbit around the planet in order to identify the geological source of the methane that has  been detected in the atmosphere.

Using laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA ICP MS) of geological source material from 31 quarries and 61 artifacts from the Sebastián Englert Anthropology Museum, we argue that similar to other culturally valuable stone (i.e. obsidian, scoria, and tuff), there was communal access to and use of Rapa Nui's basalt resources.

But much atmospheric dust is naturally created on bare land in quantities that are governed by a combination of factors including rainfall, geological source and wind speed.