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01:50Global Climate Change
Throughout its ~4.5 billion year history, the Earth has experienced periods of warming and cooling. However, the current drastic increase in global temperatures is well outside of the Earth’s cyclic norms, and evidence for human-caused global climate change is compelling. Paleoclimatology, the study of ancient climate conditions, provides ample evidence for human-caused global climate change by comparing recent conditions with those in the past.
02:06Conditions on Early Earth
Around 4 billion years ago, oceans began to condense on earth while volcanic eruptions released nitrogen, carbon dioxide, methane, ammonia, and hydrogen into the primordial atmosphere. However, organisms with the characteristics of life were not initially present on earth. Scientists have used experimentation to determine how organisms evolved that could grow, reproduce, and maintain an internal environment.
02:06Conditions on Early Earth
Around 4 billion years ago, oceans began to condense on earth while volcanic eruptions released nitrogen, carbon dioxide, methane, ammonia, and hydrogen into the primordial atmosphere. However, organisms with the characteristics of life were not initially present on earth. Scientists have used experimentation to determine how organisms evolved that could grow, reproduce, and maintain an internal environment.
01:06Tidal Forces
The origin of Earth's ocean tides has been a subject of continuous investigation for over 2000 years. However, the work of Newton is considered to be the beginning of the proper understanding of the phenomenon. Ocean tides are the result of gravitational tidal forces. These same tidal forces are present in any astronomical body; they are responsible for the internal heat that creates the volcanic activity on Io, one of Jupiter's moons, and the breakup of stars that get too close to black holes.
02:45Biological Clocks and Seasonal Responses
The circadian—or biological—clock is an intrinsic, timekeeping, molecular mechanism that allows plants to coordinate physiological activities over 24-hour cycles called circadian rhythms. Photoperiodism is a collective term for the biological responses of plants to variations in the relative lengths of dark and light periods. The period of light-exposure is called the photoperiod.
02:56The Fossil Record
The fossil record documents only a small fraction of all organisms that have ever inhabited Earth. Fossilization is a rare process, and most organisms never become fossils. Moreover, the fossil record only exhibits fossils that have been discovered. Nevertheless, sedimentary rock fossils of long-lived, abundant, hard-bodied organisms dominate the fossil record. These fossils offer valuable information, such as an organism's physical form, behavior, and age. Studying the fossil record helps...
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11:34
Scattering And Absorption of Light in Planetary Regoliths
Published on: July 1, 2019
まとめ
33年と2億6000万年に1度発生する周期的な彗星衝突は,地質学的,生物学的変化と相関しています. これらのサイクルは,地球の進化と構造に地球外からの影響があることを示唆しています.
科学分野:
- 地質学 地質学 地質学
- パレオントロジー・パレオントロジー
- 天文学 天文学
背景:
- ファネロゾーイクエオンは,重要な地質学的および生物学的出来事によって特徴付けられています.
- 地球の歴史における長期サイクルを理解することは,進化論と地質学の研究にとって極めて重要です.
研究 の 目的:
- ファネロゾーイクイオンにおける地質学的および生物学的動乱の周期性を特定し,分析する.
- これらの周期性と地球外現象,特に彗星の衝突との潜在的な関連を調査する.
主な方法:
- ファネロゾイクイオンからの地質学的および生物学的動乱データのタイムシリーズ分析.
- 特定された周期を地球上の衝突クレーター形成のサイクルと比較.
主要な成果:
- 2つの支配的で安定した長期周期が特定されました:約33 +/- 3百万年と260 +/- 25百万年です.
- これらのサイクルは,地球の衝突クレーター形成記録の期間と相と密接に一致しています.
- この発見は,周期的な彗星の衝突と地球上の構造と生物の進化との間に強い相関関係があることを示唆している.
結論:
