| 单词 | lake bed |
| 例句 | Do we just lie down on the cracked, dried mud of the lake bed and call it a day? Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z He spent fourteen months in a dried-up lake bed, where he did nothing except dig holes. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Using all his might, he brought the shovel back down onto the dry lake bed. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z The truck went faster and faster across the dry lake bed. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z Soon they stood on the edge of a cliff, looking down on the dry lake bed. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z The lake bed had been dug out by the southernmost advance of the Wisconsin glacier. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z For a quarter, then half a mile, she fairly smoked after the coyotes until they ran out into the dry river/lake bed once again. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z That ancient lake bed is now a wall of rock, home to Warfield Quarries. Finding fossils, on your own dig (or in a monument or museum) 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z I am standing on a dry lake bed on the scorched fringe of the Mojave desert. Meet the incredible Mr Goodwin, daredevil extraordinaire 2013-03-01T14:00:00Z A 10-space accessible parking area and viewpoint opened two weeks ago, overlooking the canyon, river and former lake bed. Road to Olympic Hot Springs reopens after 3-year closure 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z A barren tree rises up from the center of a shallow lake bed in a wide, horizontal visual field. Getty's Josef Koudelka retrospective is grim yet riveting 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z Before my eyes the incredible first images of Titan's surface were revealed, showing dried-up lake beds, river channels and smooth pebbles. Destination Titan: Mission impossible? 2011-04-08T16:21:00Z Fossil remains of a new genus and species discovered in an ancient Hawaiian lake bed reveal a duck unlike any living species. New to Nature No 15: Talpanas lippa, the 'mole duck' 2010-08-04T14:24:00Z Scientists believe that the homes were constructed on a foundation of wooden piles driven into the lake bed. Everything Is Bigger at Open-Air Museums 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z The other day, looking from a great distance on Interstate 15 toward the same lake bed, a few pinpoints of brightness were visible, neon anomalies against the dun-colored scrubland. Building an Artist’s ‘Magic Mountains’ to Draw Visitors to the Desert 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z And six years later, Michael Heizer created one of his first earth works here, a zigzag trench incised like an abstract painting into the surface of a dry lake bed. Building an Artist’s ‘Magic Mountains’ to Draw Visitors to the Desert 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z It is unclear what will be done with the enormous foundations already built on the site, a former lake bed known as Texcoco. Mexico vote cancels partly built $13 billion airport 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z Science barely figures in the current book because the victim, Lucie Martin, wasn’t found until her bare bones were discovered in a lake bed that had been exposed during a severe drought. The Latest in Crime Novels: Bad Mothers, Bad Memories and Bad Sex Toys 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z To sit in the gazebo and stare out at the lake bed when it’s shrouded in early morning fog is profound somehow, and humbling. ‘Dirty Dancing’: Where Kellerman’s Came to Life 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z To ensure that the homes don’t drift away or into one another, they’re anchored to the lake bed by steel mooring poles. This Floating City May Be The Future of Coastal Living 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z Now, though, the lodge overlooks a dry lake bed. ‘Dirty Dancing’: Where Kellerman’s Came to Life 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z Six intake structures, each about 10 feet tall, will be built along the sloping lake bed next to the dam, like steps. Spiral fish slide planned at Cle Elum Dam 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z Built on a spongy part of former lake bed, Roma was particularly hard hit by major earthquakes in 1985 and 2017 and still bears some scars. Street party in Mexico City's Roma district for Cuaron's Oscars 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z “The London Mastaba” rests on a floating platform that’s anchored to the lake bed. Christo’s Latest Work Weighs 650 Tons. And It Floats. 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z On the dry lake bed in Nevada where the Burning Man festival is held every year, white-out conditions turn tunnel vision into a torus, wrapping the observable world around you in a tight feedback loop. Burning Man on its last legs 2012-10-14T14:00:00Z Other pictures of tiny disturbances suggest much larger ones, such as a river delta or a dry lake bed. Galleries: Big Brother is watching 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z The tracks are shallow but broke the crust of the lake bed. Driver defaces Death Valley landmark with tire tracks 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Millions of tons of rock were quarried in nearby towns and transported to the site to fill and drain the swampy former lake bed. Mexico vote cancels partly built $13 billion airport 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z The Conqueror was filmed in the Utah's Escalante valley in 1954, just downwind of a lake bed where the Atomic Energy Commission had tested 11 nuclear weapons the year before. The Conqueror: Hollywood gives Genghis Khan a kicking he won't forget 2013-05-03T08:51:48Z It was 3 a.m. in Bradley, Calif., in the middle of a dusty dry lake bed, and Carl Weiseth, 33, was shoeless, shirtless and regaling a gathering crowd about last night’s escapade. Burning Man Spawns New Age Festivals 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z Rather than human footprints, we found the trails of nocturnal kit foxes and coyotes and claw prints in dried clay patches that revealed an ancient lake bed as sunrise spread over the sand. It’s the Cool Season in Death Valley 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z Today the exposed lake bed is a strange feature, wet in some sections and white with saline in others — an unusually visible example of the effects of water diversions. Rugged Country, Rugged History in California?s Owens Valley 2010-05-06T21:41:00Z Now he walks across the dried-up lake bed. In South America's Andes, a shrinking Lake Titicaca rings climate alarm bell 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z “The lake bed contains clays that prevent water from moving into aquifers below the ground, and the water quality is not ideal for uses like drinking water,” Stork said. California's epic rain year boosted groundwater levels, but not enough to recoup losses 2023-10-13T04:00:00Z In contrast, fossil trackways preserved in dried lake beds in Nevada and New Mexico show ground sloth footprints with all four feet on the ground. 'Spirit Whales and Sloth Tales' tracks Washington fossils and their stories 2023-09-15T04:00:00Z The days were warm and dusty, a hallmark of the landscape whose dried-up lake bed, known as the playa, consists of a caustic alkaline dust akin to the texture of flour. Commentary: How dancing through rain and mud helped relight the lost fire of Burning Man 2023-09-10T04:00:00Z Black Rock City Municipal Airport appears in the desert for 13 days each year around festival time, using two runways on the dry lake bed, and then disappears, according to its website. Burning Man road reopens, allowing festival-goers to escape muddy mess 2023-09-04T04:00:00Z While hundreds escaped, others got stuck in the thick, gooey mud that coated the normally dusty lake bed where the festival occurs. Burning Man revelers unfazed by deluge and deep mud 2023-09-03T04:00:00Z The site is in Nevada's Black Rock Desert, a large, flat, ancient lake bed known as a playa. One death reported at Burning Man, thousands stranded in mud and rain 2023-09-03T04:00:00Z The seasonally dry lake bed abuts Steens Mountain to the west, with a low ridgeline to the east and miles of parched earth in between. 10 places in Oregon to catch a sunset 2023-08-05T04:00:00Z First, there are the “underground archaeologists,” as the real archaeologists call them, opportunists who have shown up in recent weeks to sneak onto the lake bed in search of pieces for the underground antiquities trade. ‘It’s Crazy’: The Scramble for Ancient Treasures After Ukraine’s Dam Disaster 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z But around about a hundred years ago, all those waterways were redirected to farms, and the lake bed itself got plowed and cultivated for crops. Cities’ thirst nearly killed these California lakes. Not so fast, said our epic wet winter 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z Water is already being captured by reservoirs before it reaches the lake bed. A Vast Lake Has Captivated California Where Farms Stood a Year Ago 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z What had been a dry lake bed filled with crops and crisscrossed by powerlines began to go underwater. California officials say communities near refilling Tulare Lake now unlikely to flood 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z The challenge now is to prevent the bounty of Sierra snowmelt expected to course through the aqueduct this spring and summer from overflowing, inundating the lake bed, as well as fields, homes and businesses. As temperatures rise, flood threat grows along Los Angeles Aqueduct 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z But water in the lake bed — which now sits like a bathtub with essentially nowhere to drain — could stick around for as long as two years. Newsom visits flood-threatened town of Corcoran as California heat wave kicks off 'big melt' 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z From its signature red-colored soil to canyons, dead volcanoes and dry lake beds, the Martian landscape has intrigued humans for generations. For the first time, scientists detect seismic waves rattling through Mars' core 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z Most of the land in the lake bed is agricultural and owned by huge farming operations. A Vast Lake Has Captivated California Where Farms Stood a Year Ago 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z Hundreds of oil and gas drilling operations are in the lake bed. ‘The Big Melt’ Has Begun in California 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z Last week, the repair work of utility crews on the lake bed coincided with the eighth annual Owens Lake Bird Festival, which drew more than 100 nature lovers from across the nation. As temperatures rise, flood threat grows along Los Angeles Aqueduct 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z “We are here in the Tulare lake bed because, as we all are acutely aware, all of that snowmelt, without interruption, ends up right here,” she said. Newsom visits flood-threatened town of Corcoran as California heat wave kicks off 'big melt' 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z As runoff from several rivers drains into the valley, the homes and streets and fields that sit on the lake bed, which covers 1,000 square miles, are being inundated once again. The ghost of Tulare Lake returns, flooding California’s Central Valley 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z The lake bed is essentially a 790-square-mile bathtub — the size of four Lake Tahoes — that dates back to the Ice Age. Tulare Lake Was Drained Off the Map. Nature Would Like a Word. 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z In satellite images of the San Joaquin Valley, the footprint of the old lake bed stands out as a darker, grayish area in the patches of farmland. California's 'phantom lake' returns with a vengeance, unearthing an ugly history of water 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z The researchers tracked this deadly pattern in five prehistoric lake beds in Scotland and Greenland. Tree Roots May Have Set Off a Mass Extinction 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z The next phase of the state’s response will include efforts to evacuate water from the lake bed over time. Newsom visits flood-threatened town of Corcoran as California heat wave kicks off 'big melt' 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z Some cities near the lake bed have sunk by as much as 11 feet over the past half-century. The ghost of Tulare Lake returns, flooding California’s Central Valley 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z Chile’s Easter Island has added a new head after a buried moai statue was unearthed from a volcanic lake bed. New Polynesian moai statue unearthed in dry volcanic lake bed on Chile’s Easter Island 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z They detected two images on the lake bed, one later identified as the Ohio. Long-lost ship found in Lake Huron, confirming tragic story 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z Sonar images from the expedition revealed that a vessel resting on the lake bed appeared to be Ironton. Doomed Vessel and Its Unused Lifeboat Are Discovered at the Bottom of Lake Huron 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z But it’s been shrinking for decades, killing off fish species that attract migratory birds and exposing lake bed that generates dust that is harmful to human health. The Salton Sea, an Accident of History, Faces a New Water Crisis 2023-02-25T05:00:00Z The only levees in the lake bed are those owned and maintained by local flood control districts, which often lack the capital to make significant improvements. The ghost of Tulare Lake returns, flooding California’s Central Valley 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z The lake bed is full of heavy metals and pollutants accumulated through generations of human activities including coal burning, mining, agriculture and urban runoff. Opinion | Will Mormons save the Great Salt Lake? 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z After years of cutbacks, the dried-up lake bed is like something out of dystopian science fiction. Want to solve climate change? This California farm kingdom holds a key 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z The quarter-billion dollars will largely go to bolster and speed up existing state projects designed to lower the negative environmental impact of the drying lake bed. Drying California lake to get $250M in drought funding 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z The retreating water has exposed huge expanses of lake bed, and with wind stirring up dust from them, air quality in the Imperial Valley is among the worst in the state. The Salton Sea, an Accident of History, Faces a New Water Crisis 2023-02-25T05:00:00Z Much of the land on the lake bed is owned by J.G. The ghost of Tulare Lake returns, flooding California’s Central Valley 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z The greater risk, Neumann said, is to organisms living near the lake bed. Gas Works Park enters new phase of cleanup: Shoreline and lake bed to be dredged, capped 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z As the water retreats, intense winds bombard the dry lake bed, stirring up dust particles laced with pesticides and heavy metals. Want to solve climate change? This California farm kingdom holds a key 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z Under the 2014 agreement, the city agreed to comply with district orders to implement controls on 48.6 square miles of the lake bed, and up to 4.8 additional square miles, if needed. Legacy of dust: How Owens Valley air pollution increases L.A. water bills 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z The plan, which is still in its design stages, would also reroute some water to adjacent areas of exposed lake bed to further control dust. The Salton Sea, an Accident of History, Faces a New Water Crisis 2023-02-25T05:00:00Z Corcoran, one of the largest cities on the lake bed, has a population of around 22,000, but only five of its households participate in the National Flood Insurance Program. The ghost of Tulare Lake returns, flooding California’s Central Valley 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z That’s contingent on adequate payment and help for the Salton Sea, a drying lake bed fed by farm runoff. New US plan could lead to federal action on Colorado River 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z California communities exposed to hazardous dust by a drying lake bed have found themselves at the center of tensions between Arizona and California over how to conserve water along the overtaxed Colorado River. Salton Sea cleanup in jeopardy as states battle over Colorado River water 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z Without more water, they argue, the lake will continue to decline, and its retreating shorelines will expose growing stretches of dry lake bed that spew hazardous dust and greenhouse gases. As the Salton Sea shrinks, a radical plan to save it with ocean water is rejected 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z To the south, at the state project, bulldozers, graders and trucks are creating new wetlands, rearranging the dry lake bed into habitat for fish, birds and other wildlife. The Salton Sea, an Accident of History, Faces a New Water Crisis 2023-02-25T05:00:00Z The lake bed also contains facilities like a sewage sludge composting plant that could leak or rupture as the area fills with water. The ghost of Tulare Lake returns, flooding California’s Central Valley 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z The position of the boat’s fragments in the lake bed were near where a 1,200-year-old canoe was found in 2021. 3,000-year-old canoe discovered in Wisconsin; canoe is the oldest ever found in the Great Lakes 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z Satellite images show the river’s topography has changed dramatically since 2017, and scenes on the ground are no less shocking: stranded houseboats, dead plants and cracked lake beds. Opinion | The Colorado River is in crisis. There are no painless solutions. 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z It shows a graph of displacement versus time for a jet-powered car on a very flat dry lake bed in Nevada. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z By inundating nearly seven square miles of lake bed, the project will also eliminate a source of dust. The Salton Sea, an Accident of History, Faces a New Water Crisis 2023-02-25T05:00:00Z Instead, they explored sites that might be dried-out lake beds, dating back to a time when the climate on Mars was warmer and the atmosphere thicker—allowing water to be liquid on the surface. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z Exquisitely groomed dirt mounds, roads, buttes and depressions like dry lake beds spread out in no immediately obvious order and in different directions. One visionary artist’s desert dream 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z On May 1, boaters docking at Hemenway Harbor on the lake’s south end found a corroded barrel sticking out of the mud in the lake bed. Fifth set of human remains found at diminishing Lake Mead 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z While other dry lake beds, called playa, often become significant dust generators, Great Salt Lake remains an outlier. A looming ecological crisis in the Great Salt Lake isn't that far off 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z The exposed lake bed reveals a sweeping pattern of cracked mud baking in the sun, mineralized areas of the lakeshore that were once underwater and littered with dead fish. Dramatic NASA photos reveal Lake Mead water levels at lowest point since 1937 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z Area sources can also be thought of as non-point sources, such as construction of housing developments, dry lake beds, and landfills. Environmental Biology 2018-09-06T00:00:00Z Others have flocked to the dried lake bed for selfies in the haunting landscape or against the backdrop of what looks like a colossal ring around a bathtub. AP PHOTOS: Amid drought, Lake Mead 2022-07-10T04:00:00Z The capsule will then endure a fiery plunge to Earth, sans parachute, ultimately landing in a dry lake bed within the Utah Test and Training Range. Controversy Grows Over whether Mars Samples Endanger Earth 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z A huge expanse of dried and cracked earth that was once the lake bed is littered with fish skeletons and desperate animals searching for water. 'We beg God for water': Chilean lake turns to desert, sounding climate change alarm 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z The lake bed contains high levels of arsenic and as more of it becomes exposed, windstorms carry that arsenic into the lungs of nearby residents, who make up three-quarters of Utah’s population. As the Great Salt Lake dries up, Utah faces ‘an environmental nuclear bomb’ 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z These days, the lake bed is carpeted by an alien canopy. Can Ancient Maori Knowledge Aid Science? Ask These Freshwater Crayfish. 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z For the new study, they extracted the remains of long-dead microbes from the layers of mud on the lake bed, which they dated with radiocarbon. Greenland’s Vikings may have vanished because they ran out of water 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z How did the skin on those appendages go from unlined and dewy to something resembling a dry lake bed, the surface crisscrossed by tiny creases, my knuckles as baggy as a Shar Pei? Perspective | I used to hate hearing old people describe their aches and pains. Oh, how the tables have turned. 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z They are relatively low-tech, constructed off-site and weighted by basins filled with recycled, water-resistant concrete, then pulled across the water by a tug and moored to the lake bed. In Amsterdam, a community of floating homes shows the world how to live alongside nature Since then, Los Angeles has spent $2.5 billion trying to keep wind from blowing dust off the lake bed. As the Great Salt Lake dries up, Utah faces ‘an environmental nuclear bomb’ 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z Years ago, Mr. da Costa said he bought clay from the dried-up lake beds within a few miles of his operation. A Slow-Motion Climate Disaster: The Spread of Barren Land 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z The fault produces earthquakes, but it also provides access for the heated saltwater to rise closer to the Earth’s surface, where it formed ancient lake beds. U.S. Looks to Extract Lithium for Batteries from Geothermal Waste 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z But the seeds of America’s high-performance hobby were planted on the dry lake beds of California in the late 1920s. A Hot Rod Before Its Time: Ford’s Model A, With a Boost 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z Before the new designation, funding was severely limited, hindering Thomsen’s ability to research the lake bed. Dozens of Shipwreck Discoveries Anticipated in Lake Michigan’s New Marine Sanctuary 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z The city has tried different strategies: Covering the lake bed in gravel. As the Great Salt Lake dries up, Utah faces ‘an environmental nuclear bomb’ 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z That’s when turbulent winds scour Mono’s exposed lake bed, or “bathtub ring,” and launch clouds of fine dust that blanket homes, ranch lands and scenic trails. Vexed by dust pollution, officials around Mono Lake call on Los Angeles to cease water diversions 2021-11-06T04:00:00Z Carcasses of flamingo hatchlings and adults scattered across the cracked, dried-up lake bed. Turkey’s Lake Tuz dries up due to climate change, farming 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z The vast expanse of the lake bed allowed ample room for acceleration. A Hot Rod Before Its Time: Ford’s Model A, With a Boost 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z It was about as full as usual, cutting a sharp contrast with the desiccated lake beds where state officials have appeared in recent months, pleading with Californians to save water. Despite a Punishing Drought, San Diego Has Water. It Wasn’t Easy. 2021-10-17T04:00:00Z He described that period, before Los Angeles began trying to hold down the lake bed, as “the time of dust.” As the Great Salt Lake dries up, Utah faces ‘an environmental nuclear bomb’ 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z Without an adequate source of replenishment, critics say, the lake has been left to slowly shrink, exposing more and more of its alkaline lake bed to the air. Vexed by dust pollution, officials around Mono Lake call on Los Angeles to cease water diversions 2021-11-06T04:00:00Z The first footprints were found in a dry lake bed in White Sands National Park in 2009. Oldest human footprints in North America found in New Mexico 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z But in the years preceding the military takeover, many young daredevils pushed their Ford Model T’s and Model A’s to speeds they were never meant to achieve on the lake bed’s hard, sunbaked surface. A Hot Rod Before Its Time: Ford’s Model A, With a Boost 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z “Every time the wind blows, we’re subject to the dust from these dry lake beds being scattered all over,” said Dr. Brian Moench, president of Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment. Booming Utah’s Weak Link: Surging Air Pollution 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z Vas, the local activist, acknowledged that the lake has dried out before, noting that in 1863 the Hungarian hussars trained with their horses in the lake bed. Drought threatens Hungarian lake with environmental crisis 2021-08-14T04:00:00Z The suit alleged violations of public trust and the creation of a public and private nuisance by exposing 14,700 acres of former lake bed. Vexed by dust pollution, officials around Mono Lake call on Los Angeles to cease water diversions 2021-11-06T04:00:00Z The most astrobiologically promising targets are in Perseverance’s future: parts of the former lake bed that once accumulated sediment and the ancient river delta that channeled this material from surrounding regions. NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Grabs First Rock for Return to Earth 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z From her campsite on the dry lake bed, she watched the fire glowing on the horizon before dawn. Raging wildfire destroys parts of Northern California Gold Rush town 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z A study by researchers at Brigham Young University, the University of Utah and Middlebury College in Vermont showed that 90 percent of dust in the Wasatch Front came from dry lake beds. Booming Utah’s Weak Link: Surging Air Pollution 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z From her campsite on the lake bed, she watched the fire glowing on the horizon before dawn. Fire engulfs Northern California town, leveling businesses 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z Think of those really cold days when you get steam coming off lake beds and the ocean. Perspective | Weather can help us make sense of art. And it’s not just about painting pretty clouds. The helicopter arrived on the Red Planet attached to the underbelly of NASA’s Perseverance rover, which landed at Mars’ Jezero Crater, a dried-out lake bed, on February 18th. NASA’s Mars helicopter had a midair brain fart 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z Under Michigan’s previous governor, Rick Snyder, a Republican, Enbridge received state permission to build a tunnel well under the lake bed. Canadian Company Defies Michigan Order to Shut Down Oil Pipeline 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z In a 2018 study, paleoecologist Sarah Ivory of Pennsylvania State University and her colleagues examined fossils, pollen and minerals in two sediment cores drilled from the lake bed. People May Have Used Fire to Clear Forests More Than 80,000 Years Ago 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z An elevated slab of land that Scientists say is a junction where ancient rivers once flowed into Jezero, a dried up lake bed. NASA’s Perseverance rover scoots around on Mars for the first time 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z To create the tunnels, workers known as “sandhogs” had to burrow beneath the lake bed through sand, gypsum, limestone—and mammoth reserves of natural gas. Black Inventor Garrett Morgan Saved Countless Lives with Gas Mask and Improved Traffic Lights 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z The segment runs across rivers, migratory paths for endangered species and an ancient lake bed through the length of Kings County, a fertile agricultural belt south of Fresno. A 'low-cost' plan for California bullet train brings $800 million in overruns, big delays 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z Perseverance used its autonomous guidance system to avoid hazardous terrain in the target area, an ancient lake bed known as Jezero Crater. NASA rover Perseverance lands on Mars in mission to search for past life 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z Asia heads south of Las Vegas to escape the busy city and catch mountain views from a dry lake bed. New Year. New Beginnings. 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z This is the mysterious tale told by the longest track of fossil footprints in the world, which stretches over 1.5 kilometres in the dried-up lake bed of White Sands National Park in New Mexico. Daily briefing: A plan to make journal abstracts free to read in one place 2020-10-11T04:00:00Z Like its predecessor, Curiosity, Perseverance will touch down in the remains of an ancient Martian lake bed. 3 Great Mysteries About Life on Mars 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z Rucker said he, along with Officer Richard Harrison with the Rio Campus Police Department, pulled the monument out of the lake bed and it had been taken to the department’s office on campus. Lost in the lake - unforgotten monument, memories resurface 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z When mercury reaches low-oxygen environments, such as wetlands and lake beds, bacteria convert it to a toxic form called methylmercury that can accumulate in plants and animals. ‘Ghost fleas’ bring toxic mercury up from the depths of prairie lakes 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z The capital is seen as particularly vulnerable due to its location on top of an ancient lake bed. Major quake of 7.4 magnitude hits southern Mexico, shakes capital 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z As the shoreline recedes, dry lake bed is exposed, polluting the air with windblown dust that may contain pesticides and heavy metals. As a dying Salton Sea spews harmful dust, Imperial Valley water wars heat up again 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z For now, they remain drained or poised to be re-drained when weather permits heavy equipment to be used on the now-wet lake beds and shorelines. Work forcing closure of 4 lakes in Davenport 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z A July launch will send the rover to a dry lake bed on Mars that is bigger than the island of Manhattan. NASA's Mars 2020 rover set to hunt Martian fossils, scout for manned missions 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z Zhang said quarrying by giant dredgers had hit fishing hard, with deeper lake beds making it harder for fishermen to deploy their nets. Fishermen cry foul as China bids to fix drought-hit lake 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z As the liquid evaporates, winds kiss the lake bed, leaving a smooth layer composed largely of salt. Where Cars Try to Hit Mach 1, the Salt of the Earth Is Crumbling 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z A report in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives said pulling trees from lake beds can pollute the water with sediment, thereby blocking the light needed by aquatic organisms to survive. How an underwater forest could help rebuild Notre-Dame 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z Holt said two people badly hurt Saturday in a rollover crash of a vehicle on a dry lake bed near Rachel were sent to hospitals in St. George, Utah, and Las Vegas, Holt said. ‘Storm Area 51’ fizzles out: ‘It was a gamble financially. We lost’ 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z The 31-year-old fisherman pointed to the rusting husks of oil drills that were built to draw crude from the lake bed. In Venezuela’s oil capital, life is a struggle. So is death. 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z The evidence was preserved in a fossil lake bed near Puebla, Mexico. How Did an Ancient Sea Turtle End Up Under a Dinosaur’s Foot? 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z The popular race car driver and TV personality was reportedly attempting to break her own land-speed record when she died driving through a dry lake bed in the Alvord Desert. Jessi Combs' fatal crash under investigation: 'There was a fire involved' 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z The Harney County Sheriff’s Office confirmed Wednesday that Combs died in a crash in a dry lake bed on Tuesday. Jet-car speed racer Jessi Combs dies in Oregon jet-car crash 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z She was reportedly involved in a fatal crash during her attempt, which took place Tuesday on a dry lake bed in Oregon. Jessi Combs, race car driver and host, dies in jet-car crash at age 36 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z Webb’s burned body was found the next day in a dry lake bed near Sunway Road and Rosehedge Avenue in an unincorporated area near Joshua Tree National Park, prosecutors said. He listed his luxury Marina del Rey home for sale. Then, police say, he was murdered 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z A burned body was found last week in a dry lake bed in Joshua Tree. Burned body found in dry lake bed in Joshua Tree 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z Sitting at the intersection of three tectonic plates, Mexico is one of the world’s most earthquake-prone countries, with the capital particularly vulnerable, as it is located on top of an ancient lake bed. Small quake hits Mexico City, no damage reported 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z Bordering the property is federal land with a dry lake bed, where the Mitchells said they take leashed tigers for walks. The trouble with tigers in America 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z Pyrotechnicians work in relative secrecy, firing shells over a dry lake bed, taking notes and making tweaks to ensure that each year’s show delivers something new. The Crazy Planning for the Macy’s Fireworks Show Begins in the California Desert 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z Every summer, tens of thousands of people descend on a dry lake bed two hours north of Reno and build a temporary city in the desert. Essential California: Will there be drug screening at Burning Man? 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z That is a legacy of the facility’s troubled history in the 1980s, when spills from a pipeline carrying radioactive wastewater to a distant dry lake bed led to a federal investigation and costly cleanup. China hints it will choke off U.S. ‘rare earths’ access. But it’s not that easy. 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z Thomas and his colleagues were part of an international collaboration that in 2010 drilled 430 meters below the lake bed in an unprecedented opportunity to better assess our climate’s past. The Not So Dead Sea: Traces of Ancient Bacteria Found in the Lake's Sediments 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z Now this prehistoric lake bed is shaping up to be an unlikely battleground between environmentalists and battery technologists who believe the area might hold the key to a carbon-free future. A war is brewing over lithium mining at the edge of Death Valley 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z The reservoir was lowered almost 20 feet by late November, and the lake bed was exposed to harsh winter conditions. Lake being drawn down again to control zebra mussels 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z Drilled from ancient lake beds, each three-foot segment represents about five millennia of Earth’s history. A Geological "Orrery" Could Reveal Planetary Dynamics in Deep Time 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z The Salton Sea has shrunk dramatically in recent years exposing a contaminated lake bed and threatening nearby communities with toxic dust. Will Congress leave the Colorado River high and dry? 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z As it dries, fine dust from the lake bed blows into the air, which has been linked to childhood asthma and other illnesses. Amid 19-Year Drought, States Sign Deal to Conserve Colorado River Water 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z The diagnosis arrived only 240 million years later, when a femur turned up in an ancient lake bed in Germany, one side marred by a malignant bone tumor. The Patient Had Bone Cancer. The Diagnosis Arrived 240 Million Years Too Late. 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z In 2010, a DWP proposal to put solar panels on 80 square miles of dry lake bed and flatlands east of the Sierra Nevada range ran into a fatal engineering problem: extremely caustic mud. Los Angeles Department of Water and Power agrees to relinquish Owens Valley commercial property 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z On a recent day, he parked his Jeep and walked down a hill to the snowy, desiccated lake bed with David Primus, who has studied the history of the Gunnison Valley for over 40 years. Man flooded the town of Iola; now nature is bringing back its ghost 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z For her master’s degree at Rio’s Federal University, she was studying a 110m-year-old Brazilian crocodile, found in a lake bed in the north-east. 'The museum is alive' - Rio team toils to rescue items from devastating fire 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z Despite his previous concerns, Snyder in October approved a project to replace the current submerged pipes with a new single pipe that will run through a tunnel 100 feet below the lake bed. A submerged oil pipeline triggers a winter of frigid protest 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z The molecules, which were found in rocks from an ancient lake bed, provide fresh insight into the Red Planet, according to scientists. Mars 'terror,' future Moon missions and an epic journey to the Sun: 2018’s year in space 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z He negotiated with Enbridge to move Line 5 into a tunnel bored through the rock deep beneath the lake bed. A roundup of recent Michigan newspaper editorials 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z Initially, the authorities paid little attention to restoring local ecology, but the transformation of the dry lake bed into a heterogeneous expanse dotted with saline pools encouraged the return of wildlife. Lake Lazarus: the strange rebirth of a Californian ecosystem 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z Like the rest of the city, it is a former lake bed that was filled in by Mexico’s Spanish conquerors, and is rapidly sinking. Mexico City is building what would be the world's third-largest airport. But a popular vote might kill it - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z The sub also snagged dozens of the tiny invasive mussels that conquered the lake bed. Teen scientists went looking for meteorites in the Great Lakes. They found another type of alien. 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z That phase requires piledriving in the mucky lake bed, lane shifts on the highway, and closure of the Montlake Freeway Station. I-5 will add a 5th express lane to serve future Eastside-South Lake Union bus routes 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z Its waters hissed, bubbled and popped as a powerful greenhouse gas escaped from the lake bed. An Arctic Cauldron 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z To this end, one of the tools Robinson introduces is a robot that rakes sandpits with various designs and connects with 3D-modelling software that renders how the lake bed might look in various scenarios. Lake Lazarus: the strange rebirth of a Californian ecosystem 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z Mexico City was on unstable ground, built on a former lake bed in one of the most seismically active regions of the world. The earthquake took his mother and sister. Now, it's time to turn the page - Los Angeles Times 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z A month later, Stucky and another member of the Desert Skywalkers, the local paragliding club, met near a ridge overlooking a dry lake bed south of Las Vegas. Virgin Galactic’s Rocket Man 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z Bricault was found on the lake bed and brought to shore. Man drowns in lake, alcohol believed to have played a role 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z But the thawing of permafrost at the lake bed might also have unleashed older fossil gases from a reserve that had been sealed — creating another kind of worrisome lake. An Arctic Cauldron 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z By then, the lake bed was dry and the city sought supplies elsewhere. Lake Lazarus: the strange rebirth of a Californian ecosystem 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z Centuries of evaporation have transformed this ancient lake bed into a dry alkali flat, inhabited today by a migratory roost of 30,000 sandhill cranes. The Water Wars of Arizona 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z He landed in a creosote bush near a dry lake bed. Virgin Galactic’s Rocket Man 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z In fact, the air was brilliant: I could see clear across miles of lake bed, into Owens Valley, and off to the distant snow-capped peak of Mount Whitney. As California’s largest lake dries up, it threatens nearby communities with clouds of toxic dust 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z It was a plan intended from the start to cope with the uncertain situation of how the former lake beds would respond to planting. Elwha revegetation effort plants forest on once-flooded land 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z Scientific studies concluded that the dry lake bed was causing itchy throats, burning eyes, asthma and other respiratory problems in the surrounding communities. Lake Lazarus: the strange rebirth of a Californian ecosystem 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z We found artifacts and fossils in the cracked mud of dry lake beds. Fear of the Federal Government in the Ranchlands of Oregon 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z He glided over the California desert, toward the constellation of dry lake beds below. Virgin Galactic’s Rocket Man 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z Once the water left, dust rose from the lake bed at staggering volumes, with thick walls of soot traveling up Owens Valley for up to 60 miles. As California’s largest lake dries up, it threatens nearby communities with clouds of toxic dust 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z Contrary to expectations that the trees would die as the waters dropped, their roots chased the moisture deeper and deeper into the sediments, and the trees shot up and vigorously colonized the former lake beds. Elwha revegetation effort plants forest on once-flooded land 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z In the case of the Great Salt Lake, the researchers warn that another 30 square miles of lake bed could be exposed in the next 30 to 50 years if planned development and overuse continue. Seeking the Source of the Vanishing Great Salt Lake 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z Eventually, the Aztecs expanded the ancient capital with landfill and planted crops on floating gardens called chinampas, plots of fertile, arable soil on the shallow lake beds of the Valley of Mexico. Age-old mistakes haunt Mexico’s ‘green’ airport of future 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z For the next four hours, they do hundreds of squats, hauling up and then dropping down a heavy piston, driving the pipe vertically into the mud, grit, sand, and gravel of the lake bed. Scientists Brave Arctic Perils for Climate Science 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z The receding Salton Sea will reveal at least 75 square miles of playa, the lake bed that the water once hid. As California’s largest lake dries up, it threatens nearby communities with clouds of toxic dust 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z Riverbank lupine seeds collected from nearby and broadcast over the lake beds sprouted spectacularly. Elwha revegetation effort plants forest on once-flooded land 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z Some of her friends were leaving, moving to areas off the lake bed. Residents are fleeing Mexico City's hippest neighborhoods amid earthquake fears 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z Despite the land transfer, the politics of the poor towns surrounding the airport zone, especially Chimalhuacán, a city of low-slung concrete houses straddling the hillsides above the lake bed, are unpredictable. Age-old mistakes haunt Mexico’s ‘green’ airport of future 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z On this date in 1926, three massive teeth, 4 inches thick, 12 inches wide and 14 inches long, were discovered in a dry lake bed near Quitobaquito. Today in Arizona History 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z It formed in 1905, when flood waters breached a nearby canal, sending the entire volume of the Colorado River into what was then a dry, ancient lake bed called the Salton Sink. As California’s largest lake dries up, it threatens nearby communities with clouds of toxic dust 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z But since Mexico City sits on a large Jell-O-like lake bed, any serious ground... Out of the Rubble in Mexico 2017-09-24T04:00:00Z Like other stretches of central Mexico City, these ones were built atop a shifting, dry lake bed. Residents are fleeing Mexico City's hippest neighborhoods amid earthquake fears 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z The damp sands and clays of the former lake bed amplify seismic waves, and are appallingly prone to liquefaction, both of which cause the damage from earthquakes to drastically increase. Disaster Geology: A Tale of 2 Mexican Earthquakes 2017-09-24T04:00:00Z The region’s unusual position atop an ancient lake bed makes earthquakes particularly destructive, and lax enforcement of building codes doesn’t help. North Korea, Puerto Rico, the N.F.L.: Your Weekend Briefing 2017-09-24T04:00:00Z But half of that dust comes from less than 0.5 percent of the Sahara — the dusty lake bed of what was once Lake Chad. As California’s largest lake dries up, it threatens nearby communities with clouds of toxic dust 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z The earthquake wreaked havoc in parts of the capital, which is built on a drained lake bed, as more than 50 buildings – including a school, pharmaceutical lab, and clothes factory – collapsed. Mexico City hit by fresh panic as aftershock rocks buildings 2017-09-23T04:00:00Z Much of the capital is built upon an ancient lake bed that shakes like jelly during a quake. Mexico searches for earthquake survivors against increasing odds 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z That is particularly true in Mexico City, which sits on an ancient lake bed. Mexico City residents whose buildings survived the 1985 quake thought they'd be safe in the next big one. They were wrong 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z The same deep soft soil effect worsened the deadly 2015 Nepal earthquake because Katmandu is also built on a dry lake bed, Jackson said. Soft soil makes Mexico City shake like it was built on jelly 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z Photo by Alex Welsh for The Verge Dry lake beds are some of the largest sources of dust on the planet. As California’s largest lake dries up, it threatens nearby communities with clouds of toxic dust 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z Even worse, Mexico City sits on an ancient lake bed with soft soils that amplify the shaking from an earthquake by 100 times, Jones said. Why some buildings crumbled and others survived the Mexico City quake: A sober lesson for California 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z Much of the capital is built upon an ancient lake bed that shakes like jelly during a quake. Mexico searches for earthquake survivors against increasing odds 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z Something similar happened in the 2015 magnitude 7.8 Nepal earthquake, in which Katmandu, which also sits on an ancient lake bed, saw its tall buildings suffer damage, while its short buildings performed far better. Mexico City residents whose buildings survived the 1985 quake thought they'd be safe in the next big one. They were wrong 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z Mexico City is prone to major damage in earthquakes because it was built on an old lake bed, which amplifies the shaking. Earthquake death toll climbs to 225 in Mexico as frantic search continues for survivors 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z But the more recent one was much closer to the country’s megalopolis, Mexico City, part of which is built on the soft soil of a lake bed and is thus prone to seismic shaking. Another earthquake strikes Mexico 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z “So the reason that Mexico City seems susceptible to more damage is because of this amplification effect of the lake bed,” Bellini says. Mexico's back-to-back earthquakes, explained by a seismologist 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z Last week, however, Mr. Burzynski’s group found one of the models lying upside down on the rocky lake bed and covered in zebra mussels. Hunting for a Canadian Legend: the Avro Arrow Jet Fighter 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z The city is built on sediments from an ancient lake bed. Why the Giant Mexican Earthquake Happened 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z Once Lake Geode is empty, sediment will be removed from the lake bed through a process of mechanical dredging. Iowa plans to drain Lake Geode to improve water quality 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z It winds past stumps of old-growth trees cut before the dam was built, and the new forest rising on the former lake bed. At Elwha River, forests, fish and flowers where there were dams and lakes 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z Reposing the memorial on the smooth surface of the lake bed wouldn’t have suited Brown given the rocky circumstances the prologue to his March 17, 2010, death in Kunar province, Afghanistan. Navy SEAL honored with underwater memorial 2017-06-04T04:00:00Z Rovers on Mars are searching for traces of similar microbial structures in ancient Martian lake beds. In Antarctica, Scientists Are Lured to a Frozen Desert 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z A derailed train would sink 200 feet to the lake bed. World’s first light rail on a floating bridge: For I-90, Sound Transit had to invent ‘a brilliant solution’ 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z The next phase will be to disk the lake bed to increase aerobic decomposition of organic material and encourage soil compaction where conditions allow. Renovation of Mercer Bayou to begin 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z The boats beached on the island’s north shore where the lake bed drops more precipitously, enabling the crafts to touch the shoreline. Scientists visit Great Salt Lake pelican breeding ground 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z On July 23, they tied it on a crate and took it to the lake bed. Navy SEAL honored with underwater memorial 2017-06-04T04:00:00Z Australia’s largest inland lake, Lake Eyre, is easily recognisable from space, being a large, white-floored lake bed that is usually dry. Satellite eye on Earth: February 2017 – in pictures 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z Mexico City rests on a mix of clay lake beds and volcanic soil. Mexico City is a parched and sinking capital 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z On July 1, the gates will be opened to start draining the bayou and close the lake bed to public access. Renovation of Mercer Bayou to begin 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z Geological evidence from the Curiosity rover shows evidence of lake beds and... New Study Adds to Mystery of Water on Mars 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z “That’s where the dam ends, and the lake bed is smooth, it becomes like the surface of the moon,” said William Stevens, the founder of the Fearless Rock Underwater Memorial Fund. Navy SEAL honored with underwater memorial 2017-06-04T04:00:00Z Tan, green, and blue splotches stretching across the lake bed are the result of flood waters channeled down Warburton Groove. Satellite eye on Earth: February 2017 – in pictures 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z Always short of water, Mexico City keeps drilling deeper for more, weakening the ancient clay lake beds on which the Aztecs first built much of the city, causing it to crumble even further. Mexico City is a parched and sinking capital 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z “As soon as you hit the lake bed, everything is just covered in dust.” Why is there a TARDIS on Colo. 66 and Main near Longmont? 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z Rangers are taking stronger measures to try to prevent visitors from driving on dry lake beds and other fragile areas at Death Valley National Park. Death Valley sees more damage from visitors driving off-road 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z Officials worried there would be so little water that coyotes would roam on the dry lake bed and go after the large gull colony there. Weeks of rain are rapidly reviving California's drought-ravaged lakes 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z The team therefore set about examining peatlands and lake beds in England, Wales, Sweden and Poland, drilling sediment cores to try to find traces of the tiny glassy shards produced by volcanoes - so-called tephra. 'Better estimate' of volcanic ash cloud return - BBC News 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, the Mexican federal government envisions constructing a giant new airport on a dry lake bed, exactly the worst place to build. Mexico City is a parched and sinking capital 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z The lake bed was too soft to drive on, so we used the drone to survey a very large expanse of it. 5 Times Drones Told the Story 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z To the contrary, they found that it was a large, 10 foot deep, icy lake bed. This stunning Antarctic lake is buried in ice. And that could be bad news 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z According to scientists’ estimates, more than three-quarters of the lake bed is now exposed in Farmington Bay. Satellite Eye on Earth: November 2016 – in pictures 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z A sediment core drilled from the lake bed has shown scientists how ephemeral this water supply is. Satellite Eye on Earth: August 2016 - in pictures 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z Wines said officials may try to restore the protective crust on the lake bed. Tire tracks mar Racetrack Playa in Death Valley park 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z A look at the massive project that has “ultimately turned Silver Lake into what many are calling Silver Hole, a dusty lake bed that looks more like a strip mine than an urban oasis.” Wells Fargo chief is taken to task over fake accounts 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Einarsson and others believe the dredging for an ingredient that was used in beer destabilized the lake bed and set off a cascade of changes. One of the World's Most Unusual Plants Is Disappearing SDOT’s full replacement calls for columns 100 feet beyond the lake bed, into firm glacial soil that wouldn’t liquefyeven in a severe quake. Shut Fairview, replace 2 bridges all at once? Plan draws fire 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z He produced his first significant pieces—burials, dispersals, pits, motorcycle drawings in a dry lake bed—in the shadow of the Vietnam War, after being summoned before the draft board and narrowly avoiding service. A Monument to Outlast Humanity 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z Sunday in a dry lake bed near the town of Jean. Man killed in ATV crash in desert near Jean 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z For example, we are running on Hakskeen Pan, which is a dry lake bed. Bloodhound Diary: Racing up a mountain of paper - BBC News 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z That meant the debris would be buried in areas like lake beds and ocean deltas, where it would effectively be locked away for millennia rather than releasing carbon into the air. How earthquakes help capture carbon dioxide 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z Geothermal plants stand beside a dried up lake bed near Red Hill Marina at Salton Sea in California on March 19, 2015. California's Super-Pollutant Problem 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z It crashed about 5 p.m. in an area west of the dry lake beds near the town of Jean, Nevada, which is about 30 miles south of Vegas. 2 killed in Vegas stunt-flying company’s plane identified 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z Temperatures rise past 100 degrees, and the course tracks over cracked, dry lake beds, steep “jebel” climbs and sloping sand dunes. A 153-mile run through the Sahara — on prosthetic legs 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z Among the pictures produced with the SRR technique are views of the planet’s ancient lake beds, showing their craggy forms in breathtaking detail. Beagle 2: most detailed images yet of lost Mars lander revealed 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z Paul C. Sereno, a University of Chicago paleontologist, has analyzed many recent Chinese fossils of animals that had lived more than 100 million years ago that were found in lake bed sediments. ‘Dinosaurs Among Us’ Retraces an Evolutionary Path 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z It is the largest salt flat on earth, an ancient dried-out lake bed in the southern Altiplano, or high plains, region, where the Andes are at their widest. An Exhilarating (If Risky) Family Adventure in Bolivia 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z In September, the team behind Bloodhound, Britain’s 1,000mph rocket car, will ship the extraordinary vehicle to South Africa for test drives on an old lake bed called Hakskeen Pan. What will happen in 2016? 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z Most of the car is built and ready to roll on its specially prepared track at Hakskeen Pan, a dried-out lake bed in Northern Cape, South Africa. A science preview of the year 2016 - BBC News 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z Mexico City is built on an ancient lake bed surrounded by volcanoes and whose liquid-rich soil amplifies seismic waves. Quake in Mexico shakes capital, no reported damage or injuries 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z They were found dead at the crash site in a dry lake bed. College flight instructors killed in plane crash identified 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z It's one of the major sources of income for the lake dwellers who spend years carefully nurturing their floating gardens from the weeds and rich soil extracted from the lake bed. AP PHOTOS: Kashmir's floating vegetable market makes a comeback year after devastating floods 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z The two instructors were found dead at the scene in dry lake bed. 2 college flight instructors dead in Utah plane crash 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z Related: New Mexico park rangers rescue child after French tourists found dead The trail is known for crystalline-white sand dunes and ends at the edge of the Alkali Flat, an ancient dry lake bed. French couple's sacrifice probably saved son from desert death, US sheriff says 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z The first colour picture showed orange skies, a recently dried-up lake bed, a thick fog in the background. Great robotic missions to explore space - BBC News 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z The polygonal blocks may be the result of contraction processes similar to those that create the cracked mud in dry lake beds on Earth. Mysterious Ice Plains Spotted on Pluto (Video) 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z Photograph: Junchang Lü The near complete skeleton of the feathered raptor was found in sedimentary rock that formed in ancient lake beds in China’s Liaoning Province. Zhenyuanlong suni: biggest ever winged dinosaur is found in China 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z The chocolatey mud coating its lower half revealed that it had stabbed more than a meter into the lake bed—just enough to measure the heat flow. High Heat Measured under Antarctica Could Support Substantial Life 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Seven years ago, a similar milky rain mystery in New Mexico was also ultimately traced to a dry lake bed, they said. Scientists solve mystery of milky rain in U.S. Pacific Northwest 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z After years of farm runoff, the lake bed is toxic, with high levels of arsenic, selenium and even traces of the banned pesticide DDT. What’s going on at California’s largest lake illustrates fight over water in West 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Without the inflows, the sea, already shrinking, will recede dramatically, exposing miles of lake bed loaded with a hundred years’ worth of contaminants. California Runs Dry 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z Katmandu and the surrounding valley sit on an ancient dried-up lake bed, which contributed to the devastation. Ancient Collision Made Nepal Earthquake Inevitable Epochs Later 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z The drought in California has revealed more than just dry lake beds. Stop Counting on Individuals To Solve California's Water Crisis 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z "The chemistry is consistent with a saline source from a dry lake bed," he said. Scientists solve mystery of milky rain in U.S. Pacific Northwest 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z And 100 square miles of lake bed will be exposed. What’s going on at California’s largest lake illustrates fight over water in West 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Las Vegas police said the glider was tethered to a tow truck when it fell into a dry lake bed near Jean, Nevada. Friend says man killed in hang-gliding accident was expert 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z And in that turbulent climate, smaller scale exterminations - such as the one captured in the ancient Portuguese lake bed - were common. 'Monster salamanders' found in fossilised mass grave 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z The attempts will be made on a specially prepared lake bed in South Africa. Supersonic car gets its superwheels 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z "With the geologists, one thing they noticed was how dark the soil looked and saying that shows how saturated it was. And that might be from an old lake bed up there," he said. New video shows Washington state landslide's aftermath 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z But the barren lake bed is still the No. 1 source of dust in the United States. What’s going on at California’s largest lake illustrates fight over water in West 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Some 80,000 people tried to buy $390 tickets to the massive, free-for-all festival in a remote dry lake bed in the Black Rock Desert in Northern Nevada in late August. Hackers snap up Burning Man passes, leaving many ticketless 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z Fast-forward 165 million years, and that lake bed has long dried up. 2 Jurassic Mini-Mammals Discovered in China 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z To “do science” in the demo, you point to ridges on the terrain that look like an ancient lake bed and then place a flag with a click gesture. Hands-on: Microsoft HoloLens 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z In that role, he installed cameras and air pollution maintenance stations across the lake bed, haranguing the city to step in whenever air pollution standards were violated. A Century on, the ‘Chinatown’ Water Feud Ebbs 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z Dried lake bed, called playa, is lighter and flies farther than ordinary soil. What’s going on at California’s largest lake illustrates fight over water in West 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z A stand of trees remains in the lake bed, with lanes carved out for boat access. Recreation area to offer fishing, flood protection 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z The details and cost estimates are changing constantly, he said, and the two estimates are similar but the big difference with the removal option is dealing with the lake bed. Lynchburg to decide College Lake’s fate 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z “Deputies met with witnesses on scene who stated that two airplanes collided north of the dry lake bed and crashed into the side of a hill,” sheriff’s Sgt. Pilots die as 2 planes collide over Nevada desert 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z A key concession that the city obtained was a ceiling on how much of the lake bed it was responsible for controlling, a subject of a continuing tug of war. A Century on, the ‘Chinatown’ Water Feud Ebbs 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z Firefighters later hauled the 350-pound wheelchair back up from the lake bed and returned it to family members. Woman in wheelchair falls off trail into lake bed 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z He cited challenges that include frequent earthquakes and the fact that the capital lies on a lake bed. Mexico unveils Norman Foster design for new international airport 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z The lowest estimate for addressing the lake bed if the dam were to be removed is $1.9 million, he said. Lynchburg to decide College Lake’s fate 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z The crash occurred near Yerington in western Nevada, about 60 miles southeast of Reno, during an informal weekend fly-in at the dry lake bed, the Lyon County Sheriff’s office told the paper. Pilots die as 2 planes collide over Nevada desert 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z The journey’s final hours, across a dry, perfectly flat lake bed that seems to stretch on forever, is usually part of the fun. Soggy start: Burning Man crews stuck at Wal-Mart 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z Rauw, one of the two guides Sunday, led a group of about 65 people of all ages into the lake bed. Take a walk on the bottom of a former lake 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z Most difficult to revegetate are the cobbly, gravel flats of the lake bed farther upstream, in the former Lake Mills, a land where many a planted Douglas fir and other seedlings have gone to die. Back to nature: Last chunk of Elwha dams out in September 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z Even on the Elwha, where the Glines Canyon Dam still impedes the river, East says that hundreds of salmon have been seen spawning in the lower dam's former lake bed. Dam removals: Rivers on the run 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z They lay beneath an ancient lake bed in Siberia alongside the remains of hundreds of other animals – a field of bones that stretched for “hundreds of meters” beneath grassy hills and fields, Godefroit describes. Scientists Discover Plant-Eating Dinosaur With Mullet 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z Supervisor Charlene Detwiler says crews are continuing to level the lake bed, even as efforts are made to fill the lake. Penn State’s Lake Perez slowly being refilled 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z The rover has already drilled at two other sites, which yielded signs that an ancient lake bed once existed at Gale Crater. NASA Plans Mars Sample-Return Rover 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z In all, more than 500 acres of former lake bed are being replanted, with nearly 60 varieties of native grasses, flowers, woody shrubs and trees from the Elwha Valley through 2018. Back to nature: Last chunk of Elwha dams out in September 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z Mexico City is vulnerable to distant earthquakes because much of it sits atop the muddy sediments of drained lake beds. Strong Earthquake Shakes Mexico City 2014-05-08T17:51:56Z Mexico City is vulnerable even to distant earthquakes because much of it sits atop the muddy sediments of drained lake beds that quiver as quake waves hit. Magnitude-7.5 Earthquake Shakes Mexican Capital 2014-04-18T14:51:07Z The Bloodhound team aims to achieve the 1,000-m.p.h. target at the Hakskeen Pan, a vast, dried-up lake bed in the Kalahari desert in South Africa’s Northern Cape province. Driven to Set a Record: Zero to 60, Plus 940 2014-03-03T02:51:52Z The most likely route of the HKND's canal is 286 kilometers long and would cut an approximately 90-kilometer swathe across Lake Nicaragua, requiring a major transformation of the lake bed and local rivers. Nicaragua Canal Could Wreak Environmental Ruin 2014-02-24T21:30:00Z Alders stand more than head high as the native forest reclaims the former lake beds. Back to nature: Last chunk of Elwha dams out in September 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z The most likely route of the HKND's canal is 286 kilometres long and would cut an approximately 90-kilometre swathe across Lake Nicaragua, requiring a major transformation of the lake bed and local rivers. Conservation: Nicaragua Canal could wreak environmental ruin 2014-02-19T18:50:51.783Z Wind-induced saltation abrasion of the rocks in Yellowknife Bay appears to have been the mechanism responsible for erosion and exhumation of the ancient lake bed sampled by Curiosity. [Introduction to Special Issue] Habitability, Taphonomy, and the Search for Organic Carbon on Mars 2014-01-23T19:26:06.492Z All the running will be done on a specially prepared dried-out lake bed in South Africa. 1,000mph car to use Norwegian rocket 2013-12-19T08:30:34Z When they die and fall to the lake bed they leave behind an environmental archive in the sediment layers that continually accumulate year after year. Global Warming Finally Reaches the Last Arctic Region 2013-11-07T23:15:00.477Z A wider area was searched Thursday near Poverty Island with equipment that probes beneath the lake bed for signs of buried objects. | Midwest: Michigan: No Ship, but Hope Remains 2013-06-21T03:24:56Z With the timber no longer in place, crews stepped up their digging operation in hopes of reaching a hard surface that a probing device indicated is 18 to 20 feet below the lake bed. Wooden beam may be clue to 1679 shipwreck 2013-06-20T20:55:56Z On Friday, commercial divers hired by Mr. Libert and his organization, the Great Lakes Exploration Group, began dredging the lake bed adjacent to the beam for the first time. Clues in the Search for a Sunken Ship, Lost in the 1600s 2013-06-19T01:04:38Z These lake beds are the youngest deposits that predate integration 5 to 6 Ma. [Technical Comment] Comment on “Apatite 4He/3He and (U-Th)/He Evidence for an Ancient Grand Canyon” 2013-04-18T15:55:22.193Z Competitors greeted children riding bikes in a dried-out lake bed on Tuesday. Marathon of the Sands 2013-04-12T16:03:38Z And after one particular pass along the mud on the lake bed, there was a sudden, ecstatic moment of discovery. Searching Lake Garda for WWII missing 2013-01-12T00:41:26Z I was surprised to find that the causeway repair, where the old man-made road was graded down to its original level, is actually harder than the surrounding lake bed surface. Bloodhound diary: Making tracks in 2013 2013-01-02T12:11:31Z Water samples will be taken from the lake surface to the lake bed, and a core of mud from the lake floor over the next few days. Scientists wait on polar drilling 2012-12-15T15:26:41Z They are sifting through evidence archived in sediments from lake beds, floodplains, marshes and submarine basins. Megastorms Could Drown Massive Portions of California 2012-11-30T12:15:00.203Z Competitors greeted children riding bikes in a dried-out lake bed on Tuesday. Marathon of the Sands 2013-04-12T16:03:38Z And in the lake bed sediments, the team will search for records of the poorly understood history of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, potentially revealing how the mighty glacier has waxed and waned over time. Hunt for Life under Antarctic Ice Heats Up 2012-11-21T17:15:00.317Z Mount Sharp may be the remains of this ancient lake bed and perhaps a place that life once called home. Rover to probe whether Mars was life-friendly in the past 2012-08-04T20:19:40Z After crossing several small lake beds and old moraines—for the big Rongbuk Glacier seemed to have been retiring in the last few years—we came to the big moraine-covered Rongbuk Glacier. Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 2012-04-12T02:00:28.417Z While studying salmon in lakes, Holtgrieve, also a co-author, found that the nitrogen in the lake beds was lighter than he expected. Nitrogen Pollution Likely to Increase Under Climate Change 2012-02-16T19:45:00.273Z The greater part of North Africa lies at a higher level, the exception being a chain of old lake beds or chotts on the border of Algeria. Scientific American, Vol. XXXIX.?No. 24. [New Series.], December 14, 1878 A Weekly Journal Of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, And Manufactures 2012-01-05T03:00:31.783Z Methane bubbling up from beneath a lake bed near Fairbanks, Alaska. Green Blog: Arctic Methane: Is Catastrophe Imminent? 2011-12-20T17:24:22Z Over time, this will result in disappearance of surface springs and ephemeral water in desert lake beds, and a declining groundwater level. Zombie Water Projects (Just when you thought they were really dead...) 2011-12-07T21:22:50Z This plain, over which we were riding, was evidently once upon a time a lake bed, as the pebbles were rounded and there were distinct evidences of former shores along the sides of the hills. Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 2012-04-12T02:00:28.417Z Near the northwest corner of this flat, an exposure in the sediments of the old lake bed shows the curiously contorted layers of sand, silt, and clay represented in Plate XXXVIII. The Geography of the Region about Devils Lake and the Dalles of the Wisconsin 2011-11-29T03:00:17.347Z The lake bed is for the most part clear sand along the margin, and in deeper water is largely coated with crusts of salt, soda and gypsum. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z Often in our extreme thirst we would drink out of the sloughs or stagnant lake beds. Some Pioneers and Pilgrims on the Prairies of Dakota Or, From the ox team to the aeroplane 2011-10-17T02:00:15.157Z Mineral deposits, ancient shorelines, dried up lake beds and long-empty waterways all attest to the sloshingly aquatic place the planet once was. Mars has flowing water 2011-08-04T14:05:00Z Scientists had only 70 days — a number framed by mountain winter weather and lawyerly fine print — to search the old lake bed sediments for remnants of these ancient animals. Pleistocene Treasures, at a Breakneck Pace 2011-07-04T19:42:29Z In the Great Salt Lake in Utah, the brine shrimp egg cysts form layers on the lake bed going back decades. Time-travel sex: Bad for sea monkeys 2011-06-17T19:18:00Z The dry lake beds in the desert, looked, with the sun shining on them, like great pearls set in the Desert Maze. The Pony Rider Boys in the Alkali or, Finding a Key to the Desert Maze 2011-06-15T02:00:19.437Z A natural-gas-fired power plant shimmers in the heat between two dry lake beds. Spot The Tortoise? 2011-06-08T22:00:00Z Bill and Bob Summers were hot-rodding high school students when they began souping up clunkers in their Southern California town in the 1950s and heading out to race them across dry lake beds. Bill Summers, Car Builder Who Set a Speed Record, Dies at 75 2011-05-21T02:19:19Z A businessman from Wisconsin, R. Douglas Ziegler, bought the lake bed in 1958, when it was just an old meadow being used for grazing sheep. Pleistocene Treasures, at a Breakneck Pace 2011-07-04T19:42:29Z In the interior basins there are saline and alkaline lakes, and numerous dry lake beds or playas, which are whitened by saline efflorescences. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z But the impact of a three-inch-diameter coring tube on a large lake bed is fairly small. Scientist at Work: Q. and A. on Maya Archaeology 2011-04-28T18:09:54Z Pictures taken by the Cassini-Huygens mission reveal what look like river channels, cobblestones, and lake beds or mud flats. Rafting for Rocks 2011-02-18T20:32:00Z The trees are taken to a different lake each year, where volunteers bundle them and secure them to the lake bed. Firs for the Fish (and the Fishermen) 2011-01-05T03:10:31Z On one, Post’s plane was sabotaged, and he made a belly landing on a dry lake bed in California. Letters: Uniquely Suited (2 Letters) 2010-12-27T19:30:10Z Farmers in the fertile Red River Valley -- an ancient lake bed -- plant soybeans, corn, spring wheat, sugar beets and dry edible beans. North Dakota prepares for flood as Red River rises 2010-03-17T19:26:00Z Is the same true for these lake bed samples? Scientist at Work: Q. and A. on Maya Archaeology 2011-04-28T18:09:54Z Another seismic bull's-eye is Mexico City, which sits on the worst possible soil, a drained lake bed that will intensify seismic waves. Under the world's greatest cities, deadly plates 2010-02-23T05:00:00Z Far below and still many miles away was the pinkish gleam of a dry lake bed. The Scarlet Lake Mystery He drew up more than two hundred yards from where the domed roof forming the lake bed hung above the waters of the creek. The Golden Woman A Story of the Montana Hills Farming is confined to the river-flood-plains, the parks, and the old lake beds and margins. Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges He fences a bit of land with willows, and deposits on it weeds and mud from the lake bed. The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir These floods recede as the dry season approaches, but only partially so from the south coast, which is gradually being incorporated into the lake bed. The Philippine Islands Their map showed that the main cluster of buildings was three miles from the gate and nine miles from the blockhouse and the firing pads on the dry lake bed. The Scarlet Lake Mystery The lake bed is now the seat of an important industry—the gathering of the borax and its refining. The Western United States A Geographical Reader Roman coins and pottery, and even prehistoric implements have been found in great quantities in the neighbourhood, and there are traces of a prehistoric lake bed, to the S.E. Hertfordshire Fortunately the water was so low that advantage could be taken of the closely overgrown shore by walking on the lake bed, and far better progress was made owing to the firmer footing. Bowdoin Boys in Labrador An Account of the Bowdoin College Scientific Expedition to Labrador led by Prof. Leslie A. Lee of the Biological Department Started and passed through flats till we came to a creek where we stopped for a short time; crossed creek to the margin of a lake bed containing some water. McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia Soon the strip was behind, then the level floor of the dry lake bed became rough terrain and the jeep began to climb toward the foothills. The Scarlet Lake Mystery These dry lake beds deceived them many times. Death Valley in '49 My hair used to be on its feet most of the time when we were in the hay camp at the lake beds. Red Saunders His Adventures West & East "We can pull up behind the driftwood on the farther edge of the lake bed." The Gold Hunters A Story of Life and Adventure in the Hudson Bay Wilds "Snakes don't like this kind of moss," answered Leslie; "this is an old lake bed grown up with tamaracks and the bog of a thousand years." Michael O'Halloran According to the map, the ghost town was in a valley next to a dry lake bed. The Scarlet Lake Mystery Slow precipitation, season after season, as the water dried, had left the lake bed smooth as a cast in plaster. The Desert and the Sown These lake beds are filled with fossils,--the preserved bones of fishes, reptiles, and mammals, of strange and often gigantic forms, no longer found living on the globe. Canyons of the Colorado On all sides the darkish-green water was spouting from the holes and cuts in the lake bed. Jack North's Treasure Hunt Or, Daring Adventures in South America A very shallow sheet of water now appeared upon the surface of the lake bed, but it was quite salt. Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, Scotty put the jeep in gear and they rolled swiftly down to the level of the dry lake bed and toward Steamboat. The Scarlet Lake Mystery The water was clear, and we could see the lake beds strewn with huge boulders, some of them reaching to very near the surface. Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador The lake bed—a plain of till—was spread smooth and level as a floor with lacustrine silts. The Elements of Geology The test pilot rode to the lake bed with Rick in the jeep. The Scarlet Lake Mystery I have said previously, that at the extremity of this range there lay an ancient lake bed, but I had only been a mile or two upon it. Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, There was considerable activity down on the lake bed. The Scarlet Lake Mystery Nearer to us, north-westerly, and stretching nearly to west, lay the dry, irregular, and broken expanse of an ancient lake bed. Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, Waves abrade the shore and strew the debris worn from it over the lake bed. The Elements of Geology The deposits laid since glacial times graduate into those now forming along the ocean shores, on lake beds, and in river valleys. The Elements of Geology |
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