Sentences with phrase «when rock fragments»

When rock fragments fall into the magma chamber, they are rapidly heated by several hundred degrees, and all fluids inside boil instantly.

When rock fragments fall into the magma chamber, all fluids inside boil instantly.

Not exact matches

Scientists will use that series of tests to see how seismic waves are affected when they travel through fragmented rock as opposed to more coherent granite.

Researchers reporting in the journal Geoarchaeology discovered that the interior of the container, which was found at an archaeological site on southern Baffin Island, contains fragments of bronze as well as small spherules of glass that form when rock is heated to high temperatures.

After the meteor was sighted streaking through the sky on 22 April, meteorite hunters found fragments of the rock, identified by the «fusion crust» that forms when it burns in the atmosphere.

When not busy working or hunting or (in his spare time) reassembling the fragments of a dead squirrel's skull, he may simply sit on a rock and think.