How to Use geochemistry in a Sentence

geochemistry

noun
  • Methane detected on their surfaces suggests hot geochemistry in their rocky cores.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Methane detected on their surfaces suggests hot geochemistry in their rocky cores.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
  • The geochemistry of barnacle shells provides clues as to where the barnacles have traveled.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Since similar colors mean similar geochemistry, the bristles were more like skin than hair.
    — Jon Tennant, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2016
  • A little geochemistry goes a long way towards understanding a volcanic system!
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Ice cores provide a valuable history of isotopic geochemistry that dates back only as long as the ice has been continually frozen.
    — Carly Miller, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
  • Yet new research on Venus’ looking at its center of mass, surface geochemistry, and spikes in volcanic gasses, suggest that the truth is far less cataclysmic.
    — Mara Johnson-Groh, Discover Magazine, 4 May 2019
  • By analyzing their changes in geochemistry, mineralogy, pollen counts and more, the team can recreate the region’s climate, and its changes, over that time frame.
    — Bill Andrews, Discover Magazine, 11 Oct. 2018
  • The team collected a range of samples in South Africa and analyzed the rocks’ compositions and geochemistry.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 22 Oct. 2024
  • There’s a lot of geochemistry and structural geology about water that’s going to be important for the sustainability of the park.
    — Katherine Lagrave, Outside Online, 25 Feb. 2019
  • This seemingly miraculous feat happens because of the local geology and some tricky geochemistry.
    — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 19 Oct. 2017
  • The research was presented at the Goldschmidt geochemistry conference in Paris earlier this week.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 17 Aug. 2017
  • The research was presented at the Goldschmidt geochemistry conference in Paris earlier this week.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 16 Aug. 2017
  • On the way to allowing life to evolve, the rise of oxygen also transformed Earth’s rocks and thus fundamentally altered our planet’s geochemistry.
    — Nola Taylor Redd, Scientific American, 22 Mar. 2018
  • First, the team used geochemistry to look at the composition of the lava and recognized a similarity between samples taken several miles apart.
    — Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 28 June 2024
  • Working with a colleague who is an expert in dietary reconstruction using bone geochemistry, Hill plans to determine which of those species this particular cat might have preyed on.
    — Steven Hill, Field & Stream, 4 Apr. 2023
  • His admittedly idiosyncratic take on the topic of color ranges widely over art history, geochemistry, physics, neuroscience and global commerce.
    — Alan Hirshfeld, WSJ, 25 June 2021
  • The model is being geolocated to the current surface and geology and geochemistry and will then be interpreted to strengthen both shallow and deep targeting.
    — Kansas City Star, 10 Apr. 2024
  • To trace its origins, the research team conducted a study of the geology and geochemistry of the mine, including a detailed mapping of the underground mining facility.
    — Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 23 Oct. 2019
  • Tschauner named the mineral after Ho-kwang ‘Dave’ Mao, a scientist who made many pioneering discoveries in high-pressure geochemistry and geophysics.
    — Gabriela Miranda, USA TODAY, 13 Nov. 2021
  • In essence, natural systems operate on the free energy of the sun, which interacts with the geochemistry of the earth to sustain productive, regenerative biological systems.
    — William McDonough, Scientific American, 1 July 2017
  • In any case, Webster said the methane apparently works its way into the atmosphere from sub-surface reservoirs of some sort, places where non-biological geochemistry is going on or where microbial life might somehow flourish.
    — William Harwood, CBS News, 8 June 2018
  • The most exciting progress these days is happening in the interstices between those antiquated domains, in astrobiology or neurogenetics or geochemistry, and that is where the smart research grants are going, but not the Nobels.
    — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2016
  • This pathway, known as the acetyl-CoA pathway, is believed to have been one of the earliest methods of carbon fixation, providing a possible link between the geochemistry of ancient hot springs and the biology of the first living organisms.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Peterson and coauthors looked at the fossil assemblage from two angles – a geological technique called x-ray florescence to determine the geochemistry of the Cleveland-Lloyd rocks and a detailed analysis of bone fragments found within the quarry.
    — Brian Switek, Scientific American Blog Network, 21 June 2017
  • Goff and other researchers also look for microscopic marine organisms like diatoms and foraminifera, ancient DNA from marine life, changes to geochemistry, and, as in the Atacama, unexpected boulders.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The wreck’s hazardous pollutants continue to impact nearby marine microbiology, as well as the geochemistry of the seafloor, according to new research published Tuesday in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Using tools from bioinformatics and geochemistry, Lloyd, now at the University of Southern California, makes organisms visible that are doubly beyond our view — in terms of their microscopic size and their hard-to-reach locations.
    — Laura Poppick, Quanta Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The discovery has major implications for our understanding of cosmic history, says Francois Tissot, a geochemistry researcher at the California Institute of Technology, who was not involved in the study.
    — Jenna Ahart, Scientific American, 9 June 2026
  • Val Finlayson is an assistant research scientist in high-temperature isotope geochemistry, marine geology and tectonics with the Department of Geology at the University of Maryland.
    — Mark Price, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2025

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