Sentences with phrase «brittle crust»

Ah, that realm of ink - black secrets bubbling beneath the brittle crust of English normalcy and reserve.

The mantle, between the brittle crust and super-dense core, makes up a whopping 84 % of Earth's total volume.

That could save the rover the trouble of breaking its way through the brittle crust that it fell through on the way in, operators reason.

The brittle crust shatters, yielding to a marriage of thinly sliced ham, tidy planks of Comté cheese, and a schmear of quality salted butter.

Not exact matches

Viewed as a single sequence, therefore, unrest at Campi Flegrei can be explained by the evolving deformation of an elastic - brittle shallow crust.

Here we apply a new model of elastic - brittle failure to test the alternative view that successive episodes promote a long - term accumulation of stress in the crust.

Just like any graham cracker crust dough this one is too brittle to roll out and transfer into the tart pan, instead you need to press it in with your fingers.

Don't pass this by, thinking it will be brittle and difficult — despite being gluten free, this crust does not crumble apart, is very easy to work with, and is very forgiving.

The texture of the Naan should be lightly flaky crisp on the outside, almost brittle that the crust will break with the tiny pressure of the finger, but the bread itself will be soft, fluffy with nice flaky air pockets inside.

The crust encompasses the brittle and shifting continental plates; it becomes scarred with mountains when the plates grind together or with deep ocean basins when the plates pull apart.

Scientists conducted the research using Carbopol, a gel - like substance that can simulate the characteristics of rock formations in Earth's middle crust because it is simultaneously brittle and malleable.

Slip along the fault there, under the higher temperatures and pressures found deeper in the crust, takes on a different character: Ruptures are more plastic than brittle.

Ringworm symptoms in pets include hair loss in a circular pattern, scabs or crusts on the skin, dandruff, broken hairs or brittle nails.

Perhaps its crust is too thin and brittle; or perhaps water is necessary to «lubricate» the action of plate tectonics.