Sentences with phrase «by catastrophic collisions»

The formation of our Solar System was a chaotic collapse of gas and dust into the Sun, planets, asteroids, and comets we have today, punctuated by catastrophic collisions between these forming...

But as far as they are concerned, «the two largest mass extinctions in Earth history at the K - T and P - T boundaries were both caused by catastrophic collisions with chondritic meteoroids.»

Not exact matches

Rather than catastrophic resurfacing that would take as little as 10 million years, Venus may have had gradual turnover of a thin crust stirred by mantle plumes or asteroid collisions that renewed the surface 1 percent at a time over billions of years.

[14] The legislature's definition of «catastrophic impairment» is intended to foster fairness for victims of motor vehicle collisions by ensuring that accident victims with most health needs have access to expanded medical and rehabilitation benefits.

When a pedestrian is struck by several thousand pounds of metal and glass, even a low - speed collision carries a high potential for serious or catastrophic injury, or even death.

When a car or truck has a collision with a motorcycle, the motorcyclist and any passengers are automatically at the greatest risk for catastrophic injury because they are not protected by the metal body of a car.

TRUCK ACCIDENTS: A majority of truck accident caused by driver negligence and collisions with large commercial vehicles on busy highways are likely to cause serious injury, catastrophic injury to the brain and spinal cord, and injuries which can lead to death.

Our individual catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases consist primarily of people injured or killed by trucking collisions, drunk driving, and distracted driving, and we are currently reviewing the potential cases of veterans and others affected by the Iraq War Fund / Anti-terrorism Act, and with workers who were injured in the BP Gulf Oil Spill catastrophe.