Sentences with phrase «by accumulated dust»

Not exact matches

In preparing to teach a course, I looked through a folder of accumulated notes and realized that I first taught the course to an adult class consisting of three women: Jennifer, a widow of about 60 years of age with an eighth - grade schooling, whose primary occupations were keeping a brood of chickens and a goat and watching the soaps on television; Penny, 55, an army wife who treated her retired military husband and her teenage son and daughter as items of furniture in her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she lived.

«Normally at the ocean floor, at 700 meters depth, what you're accumulating is very fine material» — dust or silt small enough that it could be carried by currents or winds far from land without settling out.

The power output of the rover's solar panels had been reduced by almost half because of a year's worth of accumulated dust.

By contrast, Lance Grande's The Lost World of Fossil Lake is a photographic catalogue of wonders, detailing the fossils that accumulated at the bottom of the lake near the intersection of Wyoming, Utah and Colorado some 15 million years after the dinosaurs bit the dust following that famous asteroid impact in Mexico's Yucatan peninsula.

The now pebble - sized larger grains (in the second panel) then pile up and slow down, and in the third stage the gas is pushed outwards by the back - reaction, creating regions where dust accumulates, the so - called dust traps.

Dust clouds masking the Sun would have plunged the Earth into dark cold, followed by intense warming as clouds of greenhouse gases accumulated.

When the dust settled the C6 accumulated a total of 812 points besting the CTS by 2 points.