"Is it from life (past or present) buried below the surface of Mars, or does it come from a more prosaic source such as geochemical processing of rocks?".    From Wordnik.com.  [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference

This stage is called the geochemical stage.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Economic Aspect of Geology] Reference

RE: #19 – I personally consider geochemical proxies to be superior.    From Wordnik.com.  [Juckes' Reply # 1 « Climate Audit] Reference

Further geochemical analyses are ongoing on a number of oil samples, the company said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scottish Driller Finds Oil Off Greenland] Reference

During the test soundings, we will take soil samples for geochemical analyses in Belgium.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Tepe Duzen Report 1] Reference

Do you have any skepticism about this belief that the first cells arose from geochemical processes?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dawkins on the OOL] Reference

The rocks present in the area have been sampled for a further petrographic and geochemical analysis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Survey Report 18] Reference

In the past, a detailed geochemical prospection had isolated this location as an iron-production area.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Survey Report 5] Reference

Prior to that year a detailed geochemical prospection had isolated this location as an iron production area.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Archaeometallurgy Report 1] Reference

Monitoring super-volcanoes: geophysical and geochemical signals at Yellowstone and other large caldera systems.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yellowstone Lake Earthquake Swarm Summary as of 8 January 2009] Reference

CSIRO LEME are doing a rather large geochemical sampling operation in which 54 different elements are analysed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wahl and Ammann: Some Verification Statistics « Climate Audit] Reference

Physical and geochemical properties across the Atlantic/Pacific water mass front in the southern Canadian Basin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Variability in hydrographic properties and currents in the Arctic] Reference

Sellschop and collaborators unwrapped the hidden geochemical secrets contained in diamonds, known as inclusions.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Living systems produce more than 90 percent of Earth's atmospheric methane; the balance is of geochemical origin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Belching Volcanoes or Fartin' Martians? - NASA Watch] Reference

The notion that life was spawned by geochemical processes (law + chance) here on earth is not the output of "HTR.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Confirmation Bias and ID] Reference

The geochemical analyses and exploration data from its offshore acreage indicate potential for commercial production.    From Wordnik.com.  [Western Indian Ocean Islands and coastal and marine environments] Reference

He said the find was made during a routine geochemical survey over an area of 1000 square kilometres in the upper part of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Thus in this case, it was geochemical and microscopic analysis -- rather than scholarly erudition -- that uncovered the truth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gold Dust and James Bond] Reference

We have this problem all the time when gridding geochemical or geophysical data – generally edge effects at the data limits.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Hole in the Map « Climate Audit] Reference

The notion of “frustrated” origins of life have actually gained some geochemical support in, Rosing, Minik T. and Robert Frei.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yet another reason Paul Nelson is extremely silly - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

The geochemical program, initiated within the Centre for Archaeological Science (in collaboration with P. Degryse) also continued.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Glass Studies Report 1] Reference

Thus, a denial that geochemical processes spawned the first cells would be to deny "continuous creation" and move closer toward deism.    From Wordnik.com.  [2006 June - Telic Thoughts] Reference

Her project applies a combined molecular diversity, metagenomic, and geochemical approach to provide a window into the microbial world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-05-01] Reference

The rest of the week was spent selecting samples from all ceramic waregroups for further macroscopic and geochemical analysis in Belgium.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Survey Report 21] Reference

Much of modern industrial technology is based on processes which are by nature polluting and disruptive of biological and geochemical cycles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pollution Crusade] Reference

So, whether it be trench sampling, soil sampling, bio-geochemical sampling, or drilling, all of these assays have to go through the assay lab.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hurst Lot | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles] Reference

The biosphere as a whole represents the global ecosystem of planet Earth, regulating all the biological and geochemical cycles at the global scale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Microeconomics and the environment] Reference

Nonrenewable resources consist of geochemical concentrations of naturally occurring elements and compounds that can or may be exploited at a profit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Limits to Exploitation of Nonrenewable Resources (historical)] Reference

It also marks another big step in the takeover of geochemical processes by living things: most Phanerozoic limestones are made of biological debris.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who Do You Say I Am] Reference

Above a threshold level of radiation input, the geochemical and biochemical cycles that had maintained the temperature of Earth would be overwhelmed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Genesis]

A mineralogical, geochemical and microthermometric study of the carbonates will allow us to deduce the nature of the fluids responsible for precipitation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Sagalassos 2003 - Seismological Studies Report 2] Reference

Antarctic ice cores show that CO2 and temperature went up and down together through past ice ages, pointing to powerful biological and geochemical feedbacks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Climate Change Timeline] Reference

Drizzle once fell on Martian soil, according to a new geochemical analysis by Berkeley scientists, though the rain probably stopped several billion years ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘It Once Rained on Mars’ Says Scientists | Disinformation] Reference

The existence of gas hydrates has been confirmed by direct evidence through sampling and by indirect evidence through geochemical and geophysical investigations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 9] Reference

Reminds me much of the enhancement techniques we use in highlighting geochemical data wehre extremely low values need to be extracted from the background signal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Errors Matter #1: the no-PC Alternative « Climate Audit] Reference

Geological and geochemical studies indicate that a high-temperature geothermal system underlies the Alid volcanic center in the northern Danakil Depression of Eritrea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Geothermics Abstract] Reference

By working out a sequence of efficient reactions, they have set the stage for a more fruitful investigation of geochemical scenarios compatible with the origin of life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Convincing Evidence for God] Reference

Dr. Veerle Lauwers is a post-doctoral researcher working on the glass of Sagalassos, specialized in the field of interaction between geochemical and typo-chronological data.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Staff Profiles] Reference