Sentence examples for natural archive from inspiring English sources

The Jarama River and its catchment provide a valuable natural archive to study and reconstruct past environmental conditions in central Spain.

We will also talk about historians' use of the "natural archive" (pollen samples, ice cores, etc). as sources to recreate the past.

Researchers in Australia found evidence for the early onset of warming after trawling through 500 years of data on tree rings, corals and ice cores that together form a natural archive of Earth's historical temperatures.

The sediments of Lake Ogawara, which include a succession of finely laminated clays, represent a good natural archive of past environmental changes.

"It's a bit of a race against time we don't want to lose this natural archive of information about past climate and ecosystem change," says Amy Hessl, a tree ring researcher at West Virginia University in Morgantown.

Indeed, hemlocks provide "arguably the most important natural archive of annually resolved paleoenvironmental data across eastern North America," write Hessl and forest ecologist Neil Pederson of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University.

Techniques for extracting paleoclimatic information are continually being developed and refined, and new kinds of natural archives are being recognized and exploited.

Researchers studying climatic changes predating the instrumental record rely increasingly on natural archives, which are biological or geologic processes that record some aspect of past climate.

There is more evidence of abrupt and violent change, most of it culled from ice cores, lake sediments, tree rings and other natural archives of climate.

These in turn are key parameters governing the use of this natural radionuclide for dating and interpreting environmental records stored in natural archives such as lake sediments.

Although all species provide some spatial information about past environments, remnant populations of habitat specialists can serve as biological legacies and natural archives of historical landscapes.