Sentences with phrase «crack in the rock»

This was due to the fluid injected into the rock flowing into a pre-existing natural crack in the rock, known as a fault, triggering a minor earthquake.

This study is the first to advise legislative bodies as there are currently no guidelines set for the horizontal distance required between the fluid injection points and pre-existing cracks in the rock.

These could be places where water flowed through cracks in the rock, leaving mineral deposits behind, although the rover has not yet measured their composition.

Geochemists explored the outcrop in a tiny submersible vehicle, hoping to collect samples of the warm fluids that emerge from cracks in the rocks; they didn't count on finding dozens of octopuses huddled around the cracks.

In a new study led by the University of Sussex, geoscientists from the British Geological Survey and the Technical University of Munich reveal that using a micro-seismic technique, which detects tiny earthquakes which cause cracks in the rock, alongside modern electrical imaging technology, which measures rock mass, would provide scientists with much earlier warnings of potential rock falls.

Water gushing out of cracks in the rock, caused by mining, turned out to be over a billion years old.

The main argument of the Doubting Thomases has always been that the chemical signs of fossil life in Martian meteorites are really terrestrial contaminants; perhaps microbe - laden water seeped into cracks in the rocks after they landed on the Antarctic ice.

«The total energy from an earthquake includes energy required to create new cracks in rock, energy dissipated as heat through friction, and energy elastically radiated through the earth,» reports the U.S. Geological Survey's Earthquake Hazards Program.

A world - class climber since his student days, Reppy is famous for his invention and promotion of clean - climbing techniques, in which the nuts that hold the rope are wedged into existing, natural cracks in rock faces rather than banged in like pitons.

Another wild card is methane, which inevitably seeps out during the extraction process, escaping from imperfect joints on thousands of pipes, valves, compressors, and holding tanks, or simply migrating through hairline cracks in the rock.

Within 20 seconds, a chemical reaction causes a hydrogel to form, expanding the fluid up to 2.5 times its original volume, expanding existing cracks in the rock and creating new ones.

The «well - preserved starch granules» — discovered in cracks in rocks used to grind up the potatoes — are the oldest evidence of cultivation of...

The sawyer mini water purification filter is a fantastic little device with the straw you can drink from small cracks in the rocks etc..

Each also has a special power which lets them clear obstacles or defeat certain enemies — for example, Duren can lockpick chests while Ozma can use his spear to break cracks in rocks.

As the cooling oceanic crust moves away from the mid-ocean-ridges in the oceans, seawater eventually percolates through cracks in its rock and in the process uranium gets incorporated into the oceanic crust, in a similar way that a sponge takes up water.

They suggest the collapse might represent compaction of cracks in the rock that developed during the fault rupture, as fluids migrated away from the fault zone.

For years now, wastewater pumped underground as part of oil and gas development has seeped into natural cracks in that rock, easing the friction that keeps it stuck in place.

Voight notes that there's evidence for the unseen population: the scientists observed octopus arms emerging once in a while from cracks in the rock.

They are tectonic, having been formed by faults and cracks in the rock.

«They're basically making a crack in the rock and filling it with little beads,» said Rice chemist Andrew Barron, whose lab produced the device detailed in the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Environmental Science Processes and Impacts.

Though they always win, their friends remain loyal losers: puppyish playboy Ryan (Billy Magnussen), a dimwitted but enthusiastic meathead; and couple Kevin and Michelle (Lamorne Morris and Kylie Bunbury), together since age 14, who find a crack in their rock - solid relationship during their game - night ordeal, a la The Amazing Race.

Since Paper Mario joins the fun, he can assist in battle in multiple ways, like creating copies of himself to help defeat enemies and using his unique paper moves to access hard - to - reach areas like slipping through a crack in a rock.

«I am fascinated by the movement of water — the way it flows through cracks in the rocks, laps at a sandy beach, and breaks into a wild display on rocky cliffs.