Word: layering
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...Lausanne, in Switzerland. Both researchers knew that challenging the impact doctrine would not be easy. The asteroid charged with killing the dinosaurs, after all, left more than the Chicxulub crater as its calling card. At the same 65-million-year depth, the geologic record reveals that a thin layer of iridium was deposited pretty much everywhere in the world. Iridium is an element that's rare on Earth but common in asteroids, and a fine global dusting of the stuff is precisely what you'd expect to find if an asteroid struck the ground, vaporized on impact and eventually rained...
Some of the effects may be reversible once steroid intake is stopped, but things like cardiac effects may not, since there is the possibility that steroid use hardens arteries and damages the muscle layer surrounding the heart...
Richard Branson The media mogul and entrepreneur is the CEO of Virgin Group and a past TIME 100 honoree James Lovelock developed an instrument that helped decipher the role of chlorofluorocarbons in the depletion of the ozone layer. His Gaia theory of how our planet works has real applicability in the battle for our survival in a rapidly changing climate...
...long enough for life to have taken hold - life that would have then had to retreat into underground water deposits and make the same kind of hurry-up adaptation Mikucki's microbes did. Similar adaptive metabolism could be in evidence on the Jovian moon Europa, where a layer of surface ice may cover a globe-girdling ocean. (See pictures of Mars' patterns...
...Angels in America” is full of challenges for actors. It’s a two-part, six hour epic about four gay men in New York during the 1980s AIDS epidemic. But it’s also about democratic theory, celestial orgasms, the ozone layer...