Sentences with phrase «crust of the earth»

The solid crust of the earth will be broken up by the shock, and an immense quantity of heat will be generated by the destruction.

Two thousand years of Christian history become decreasingly venerable when confronted by the findings of radioactivity dating techniques which date the hardened crust of the earth at three billion years.

This region of anomalously high seismic velocities can be related to the intrusion of magmatic material in the lower crust of the Earth.

not sure if these people r right or wrong I do know that the usa is having more Earthquakes that are more than normal, look down in Missouri at the New Madrid fault, in Pennsylvania up in Maine in Canada the problem is that the crust of the earth is shifting if you believe this or not it may not be the end of the world as we see it but it will change a lot in the next few months.

If I am thinking of this object as a piece of coal having certain characteristics, I might be either surprised or be amused by your commenting on its beauty or its being a part of the crust of the earth or a thousand other comments, each true but not relevant to my consideration.

What I mean by Theology, continues Newman, is none of these things: «I simply mean the Science of God, or the truths we know about God, put into a system, just as we have a science of the stars and call it astronomy, or of the crust of the earth and call it geology.»

As these life forms established themselves over some hundreds of millions of years, the luxuriant foliage formed layer after layer of organic matter, which was then buried in the crust of the earth to become fossil formations with enormous amounts of stored energy.

Merleau - Ponty, as phenomenologist, points to the build - up of experience in terms of sedimentation by analogy to the way in which the crust of the earth is built up.

The crust of the Earth is between 5 km and 70 km thick, and everything beneath that is unreachable / uninhabitable / unusable (i.e. it's near molten rock at least 500 °C or more).

«The atmosphere, the oceans, and the crust of the Earth were acting as a stable, interlinked system.»

And, as one geophysicist writes, «the torques from the sun, moon, and planets move the rotation axis [of Earth] in space; torques from the atmosphere, ocean, and fluid core move the rotation axis relative to the crust of Earth.

They're in the wings of insects, the surface of our brains, the fabric of umbrellas, even the crust of the Earth.

She enunciated «down there» as if it were a region beneath the crust of the earth.

Kilauea and the Yellowstone Supervolcano are both formed and fueled by hot spots under the crust of the Earth but that's where geologist Dr. Sarah Fieldman says the similarities end.

The rest has been absorbed by the oceans, the biosphere and the crust of the Earth.

It sounds like a bad sci - fi movie, but are we weakening the crust of the earth?

1 The Geology Paradigm — Plate Tectonics Continents fit together Surprise: Mid-Ocean Ridges Sir Francis Bacon 1620 Benjamin Franklin 1782 The crust of the earth must be a shell floating on a fluid interior.

In short, the action of water removes CO2 from the atmosphere and puts it into the crust of the Earth.

Something appears to be happening to the crust of the earth, and if the number of volcano eruptions continues to rise, we could be in store for absolutely catastrophic changes to our climate.

Geologist Julio Friedmann of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory says that «The crust of Earth is well configured to contain CO2,» and that there has been no catastrophic failure at the 80 US oil wells that have been injected with CO2 (to help get the oil out) for 30 years, but one can wonder if such a failure might have gone unnoticed since scientists have just learned about the problem.

A geologist is a person who is hired to study the structure, composition, and the other details of the crust of the earth.