Sentence examples for sample of sediment from inspiring English sources

Abundances of transcripts of pc and tfd were not different in fish exposed to either sample of sediment.

The vegetation around three ponds was reconstructed by applying four methods (inverting the two RPP estimate approaches, the modern analogue technique and correction for pollen productivity using the linear regression estimated RPP values) to pollen data obtained from the uppermost sample of sediment from the ponds.

Other possible explanations for the lack of nematode sequences are that, (1) although we used a larger (8 g) than usual (~0.5 1 g) sample of sediment for RNA extraction, this amount may be insufficient due to patchy distribution of active nematodes in any sample extracted or (2) the nematode cuticle does not protect the nematode postmortem as well as the copepod exoskeleton.

A sample of sediments from a shore next to an old pulp and paper mill was analyzed in order to detect and isolate bacterial strains able to thrive in this type of heavily polluted environment.

Samples of sediment collected for Hg recorded lower concentrations during the sampling period, with no Hg being detected during some sampling periods.

They report in the journal Nature that samples of sediment drilled over decades by oceanographers revealed concentrations of the telltale isotope iron-60 in the cores, all dating from between 3.2 and 1.7 million years ago.

Markus Engelhardt, a German, joined us in Manali, and a second vehicle carried a group of Norwegian glaciologists who were heading to a lake near Chhota Shigri to take samples of sediment dating back as far as twelve thousand years.

Geologists who analyzed 37 samples of sediment from three sites at the creek and elsewhere in the basin concluded that they contained a telling concentration of iridium at the Pinna base.

The researchers hope to explore the lake with a remotely operated submersible and take samples of sediment from the lake bottom.

The United States Navy has sent remote-controlled underwater vehicles to the wreckage of the submarine Thresher, which went down in 1963 off Cape Cod, and the Scorpion, which sank in 1968 off the Azores, about six times each, collecting samples of sediment, water and plant or animal life around the wrecks.

That has to be hundreds of thousands times higher doses of potential health effects than swimming," said Ken Buessler, a senior scientist and marine chemist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, who visited Runit and gathered samples of sediment in the lagoon earlier this year.