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See also Liu Ts-ui-jung, "Han Migration and the Settlement of Taiwan: The Onset of Environmental Change," in Sediments of Time: Environment and Society in Chinese History, ed.
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Sediments could buffer the carbonic acid, for example.
Ocean acidification is latest manifestation of global warming 2011
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Jay of the Wine Chicks and also a fellow Wine Sediments contributor recently relocated from the NYC metro area to western NY -- Buffalo in fact.
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Lenn: This sounds like a natural progression from the "50 Wines from 50 States" effort you launched back when we were both contributing to Wine Sediments, and your posts on those wines from off the beaten path were informative and well-written -- some of the best content to ever appear on that site.
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Sink Amount in Billions of Metric Tons Atmosphere 578 (as of 1700) - 766 (as of 1999) Soil Organic Matter 1500 to 1600 Ocean 38,000 to 40,000 Marine Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks 66,000,000 to 100,000,000 Terrestrial Plants 540 to 610 Fossil Fuel Deposits 4000
Carbon cycle 2009
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* Sediments are being eroded into our oceans at a fixed rate.
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Sediments of silts, clays, and peats contain large amounts of methane, oil, and hydrogen sulfide gas.
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Sediments found deposited across New York and New Jersey in as many as twenty locations suggest that a strong force hit the Northeast of the coastal area back in 300BC.
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Sediments pose another problem, Eakin adds, in that they coat the skeletal reef surfaces that coral larvae would otherwise settle on and populate.
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Sediments carried by streams to lower elevations are occasionally deposited and stored at numerous locations for various periods of time within the stream system before they reach their final resting place.
Stream 2008
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