Sentences with phrase «accreted while»

The power of chiefs from the split region has been accreted while that of others from the other 9 regions has been diluted.

Not exact matches

The Russians held off drilling into the accreted ice for seven years, while they went through the long process of preparing a comprehensive environmental evaluation detailing their drilling plans and inviting comment, as required by the Antarctic Treaty, an environmental - protection agreement signed by nations with a presence in the Antarctic.

The study's authors knew the ratio for carbonaceous chondrites and reasoned that if they could compare that to an object that was known to crystallize while Earth was actively accreting then they could gauge when water appeared on Earth.

In their paper, published this week in Nature, the team said that while it is now well established that most, if not all, galaxies host a supermassive black hole at their center, the process for how galaxies accrete — or acquire — matter is not well understood.

While the presence of the calcium - carbonate is still in question, the paper shows strong evidence that the accreted material is almost certainly coming from the outer layers of a planet - like object and that white dwarf stars hold promise in informing on the structure of planets outside of the Solar system.

Colliding at speeds up to 22,000 miles per hour (36,000 kilometers per hour), such a collision may have stripped most of the rocky mantle from the protoplanet that became Mercury with its iron - rich core, while a Mars - size protoplanet struck the early Earth off - center and created a spray of mostly mantle material that later accreted to form the Moon.

Under one popular theory (Boss, 1995), if such protoplanets become sufficiently massive while there is still abundant amounts of hydrogen and helium gases remaining in the disk, then they may accrete substantial amounts of those gases and become so - called gas giants (like Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in the Solar System).

By painting layer upon layer of whites and off - whites over silkscreened elements used in previous works — monochrome forms taken from reproductions, enlargements of details of photographs, screens, and polaroids of his own paintings — he accretes the surface of his pressurized paintings while apparently voiding their very substance.

On the other hand, about 8 % of the world's sandy beaches experience significant accretion (> 3 m / yr), while 6 % (3 %) are accreting more than 5 m / yr (10 m / yr).

Analysis of the satellite derived shoreline data indicates that 24 % of the world's sandy beaches are eroding at rates exceeding 0.5 m / yr, while 28 % are accreting and 48 % are stable.»

If left alone for a while, your investment will accrete steadily — rather like a pearl!