Sentences with phrase «dense than rock»

Because salt is much less dense than rock, the sound waves surveyors use to scour the depths race through it at nearly three miles per second, twice as fast as it traverses the surrounding rock and sand.

Frozen or liquid water is less dense than rock, but more dense than a gas.

To prevent bars denser than rocks, I also reduced the quantity of brown sugar.

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Rock fragments will clump at the base, and because they are denser than the ice - rock mixture beneath, would slowly sink to the core of a mRock fragments will clump at the base, and because they are denser than the ice - rock mixture beneath, would slowly sink to the core of a mrock mixture beneath, would slowly sink to the core of a moon.

The other study proposes that the section below the boundary is denser — meaning its molecules are more tightly packed — than the section above it, due to a shift in rock composition.

Remote sensing has already suggested that the peak ring is less dense than expected for a granite — a sign that the rocks are porous and fractured in places.

Tom Myers, a hydrologist, drew on research showing that natural faults and fractures are more prevalent than commonly understood to create a model that predicts how chemicals might move in the Marcellus Shale, a dense layer of rock that has been called impermeable.

The melts, since they were less dense than the unmelted rock, rose to form Earth's crust, while the denser residues of the melting sank back downward, altering the mantle's chemical composition in the process.

On the northern side of the rock, in waters not deeper than 8 meters / 25 feet, the subtract is barely seen at points, where the coral cover is denser.

It may also result in the flow of rock beneath the rebound where rock is denser than the ice the volume of which it was replacing.

As to sea level rise due to displacement of mantle, because rock is denser than ice, more water must be drawn from the sea to displace the mantle than the volume of the mantle displaced.

Tom Myers, a hydrologist, drew on research showing that natural faults and fractures are more prevalent than commonly understood to create a model that predicts how chemicals might move in the Marcellus Shale, a dense layer of rock that has been called impermeable.