Sentences with phrase «crustal minerals»

Even more crustal minerals were formed by plate tectonics with the help of lubricating ocean water, atmospheric oxygen from the successful development of photosynthetic microbes, and land - based lichens (of algae and fungi) and mosses which were followed by deep - rooted plants that hastened the erosion and weathering of surface rocks with the help of biochemical action and the creation of soils as well as new clay minerals.

While exposed water ice would not be stable at the surface of Ceres at its relatively close distance to the Sun, water and ammonia do appear to be bound up in crustal minerals on the asteroid's surface.

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The crustal basement weakness extends south - westerly of Wattenberg beneath the Rocky Mountains, where the same high heat flow system has contributed to extensive mineral deposits.

The high ground beyond the crater is the favorite of spectroscopists, who have detected an abundance of water - altered minerals in crustal rocks there.

«Up to ten percent of the Earth's crustal phosphate may have originated from schreibersite, so the mineral was abundant and readily available to engage in early chemical reactions,» said Pasek.

«Where these two crustal blocks came into contact, there would have been tremendous deformation that aligned the mineral grains in the rocks and changed the propagation velocities of the seismic waves,» Fischer said.