sedimentary rocks | AMNH https://www.amnh.org/explore/ology/ology-cards/034-sedimentary-rocks
These rocks provide the most clues about the history of life on Earth.
This material is sediment.
These rocks provide the most clues about the history of life on Earth.
This material is sediment.
If there’s life on any other planet in our solar system, it’s probably on Mars. Scientists have sent orbiters, landers, and rovers to the Red Planet in search of clues of life.
Curiosity’s mission is to analyze layers of sediment
Three-dimensional scans of two mummified newborn woolly mammoths recovered from the Siberian Arctic are revealing previously inaccessible details about the early development of prehistoric probosci…
, the scans revealed a solid mass of fine-grained sediment
how the process of lithification „cements“ mineral sediments
Deep-sea sediment core What Ice Cores Record
The study of ancient climate is key to understanding how the climate system works—and how it might change in the future.
Deep-sea sediment core What Ice Cores Record
Knightia is an extinct freshwater herring from Eocene freshwater herring from the Eocene period (about 40-55 million years ago).
Deep-sea sediment core What Ice Cores Record
What regulates climate and causes it to change? Explore interactives and evidence such as an ice core to find out.
Deep-sea sediment core What Ice Cores Record
Herbertella insculpta is a brachiopod from the Ordovician period (438 to 505 million years ago).
Deep-sea sediment core What Ice Cores Record
Many natural resources renew themselves, but often do so much more slowly than they are extracted and used.
Deep-sea sediment core What Ice Cores Record
necessary to form clay minerals, which accumulate as sediments
Deep-sea sediment core What Ice Cores Record