Sentences with phrase «dry lake»

The polygonal blocks may be the result of contraction processes similar to those that create the cracked mud in dry lake beds on Earth.

The red - toned bed is covered by ridges that are the remnants of sediment that filled cracks that formed in drying lake in Gale Crater some ~ 3.5 billion years ago.

Photographer Nick Brandt spent months on dry lake beds and dusty plains, waiting to capture images of African wildlife in what he calls their «state of being».

Artist Ugo Rondinone, center, is interviewed as Art Production Fund and the Nevada Museum of Art celebrate the opening of Seven Magic Mountains — Rondinone's large - scale, site - specific public artwork near the Jean Dry Lake south of Las Vegas on Monday, May 9, 2016.

Art Production Fund and the Nevada Museum of Art celebrate the opening of Seven Magic Mountains — a large - scale, site - specific public artwork by the artist Ugo Rondinone near the Jean Dry Lake south of Las Vegas on Monday, May 9, 2016.

Diatomaceous earth is mined from underwater beds or from ancient dried lake bottoms thousands of years old.

The ranch sat on the edge of Muroc Dry Lake, the largest slab of uninterrupted flatness on Earth.

Spine of the Earth was originally created on the El Mirage Dry Lake bed in the Mojave Desert of California in the fall of 1980.

In 1943, a replica of a Japanese cruiser, nicknamed «Muroc Maru», was constructed in Rogers Dry Lake where it was used for bombing training until 1950.

Ferah took the sports wagon to the El Mirage Dry Lake Bed where he put the 556 - hp Caddy through its paces which included a 3 - mile top speed run while shouting out the speed to an OnStar advisor.

Footprints of mammoths, dated to 43,000 years ago, are seen in a portion of a trackway that was uncovered by researchers in 2017 in an ancient dry lake bed in Lake County, Oregon.

An extension of this solo exhibition will feature a 4 - channel video installation depicting Benedict's repeated attempts to collect a core sample from the arid, clay - hardened surface of Harper Dry Lake located in Hinkley, CA.

Mesquite bushes have migrated out from dry streambeds and the edges of dry lakes into the valley floor and flatlands.

Hot rodders began flocking here on an annual basis in 1949, when the Southern California Timing Association put together an event at Bonneville because the salt flats offered so much more room than the Mojave Desert dry lakes that had been used in the past.

When we left the sand and dry lakes for the rocky hillclimb portion of the test, we missed the Ford's E-locker.

An extension of Benedict's ongoing investigation into processes of research, collection, extraction and cultivation, this solo exhibition will feature a 4 - channel video installation depicting Benedict's repeated attempts to collect a core sample from the arid, clay - hardened surface of Harper Dry Lake located in Hinkley, CA.

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In one of the hottest, driest places on earth, velvety sand dunes surround dry lake beds that, with luck, fill with spring rains.

The Company is currently engaged in the exploration and resource development of the Bristol Dry Lake Lithium Project located in the Mojave region of San Bernardino County, California; the location has significant infrastructure in - place, with easy road and rail access, abundant electricity and water sources, and is already permitted for extensive brine extraction and processing activities.

The project seeks to protect Flagstaff's two watersheds: Lake Mary, which provides half the city's water supply, and the Rio de Flag / Dry Lake Hills watershed.

«Ancient trail of Columbian mammoths uncovered in south - central Oregon: University of Oregon - led research team uncovers numerous footprints of adult, juvenile and infant elephants in a remote dry lake basin.»

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The 1926 Indy 500 trophy, the Muroc dry lake measured - mile record of 171 mph, and eight of twenty - two board - track races he entered were in his pocket when he died on Daytona «s sands in 1928, already a legend at the age of 25.

Yet after a day that included a romp through the ruts, jumps, and the desert landscapes that make up the El Mirage Dry Lake off - road area, I realized my imagination may have gotten the best of me.

In the Hyundai Tucson, that motor makes 134 hp and 221 lb - ft of torque, which helped hustle the little hydrogen - powered crossover up to a record - breaking top speed of 94.6 mph on the strangely - named Soggy Dry Lake Bed in California.

For the powerplant, John Beck, a record - setting Bonneville and dry lakes racer who works at Vintage Hot Rod Design & Fabrication in Chico, California, started with a 5.0 block, and set it up for a displacement of 347 cubes using a 3.400 - inch Eagle crank and 4.030 - inch KB Performance pistons with Mahle rings.

Hyundai engineers headed out to the Delamar Dry Lake in Nevada to create the «largest tire track image» ever recorded, according to the Guinness World Records.

These small dunes were formed by north winds pushing sands off the Cadiz Dry Lake.

In 1905 the Colorado River flooded and water overflowed in to the then dry lake bed that is now called the Salton Sea.

Bring back the Temple of Time, fill dry Lakes, etc, etc..

The one exception is Dry Lake Sirens, in which a trio of women surrounds a man who appears to be sleeping or unconscious sprawled in a tiny vessel.

Randolph Sims helped American Land Artist Michael Heizer use land moving equipment for the first time on Nevada's Coyote Dry Lake in 1968.

Artists seem drawn to the dry lakebed, where in 1968 Michael Heizer dug a zigzag trench called «Rift 1» into the surface, one of nine depressions he made in dry lakes throughout Nevada to create a 520 - mile earthwork.

JEAN DRY LAKE.

Ivanpah Solar Power Facility: a 392 MW three - tower project with generation capacities of 126 MW, 133 MW, and 133 MW located in Ivanpah Dry Lake, California

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That may not play well for marketers who love to show their cars hustling over Alpine passes or powersliding on dry lake beds, but it's probably more consistent with the way buyers actually drive, and it's certainly more in line with Our Autonomous Future.

Artist Ugo Rondinone poses near his creation as Art Production Fund and the Nevada Museum of Art celebrate the opening of Seven Magic Mountains — Rondinone's large - scale, site - specific public artwork near the Jean Dry Lake south of Las Vegas on Monday, May 9, 2016.

Geologically speaking Hillsboro is located in a large, flat, and ancient dried lake bottom surrounded by some of the most fertile farmland in the world.

Artist Ugo Rondinone, center, is greeted as Art Production Fund and the Nevada Museum of Art celebrate the opening of Seven Magic Mountains — Rondinone's large - scale, site - specific public artwork near the Jean Dry Lake south of Las Vegas on Monday, May 9, 2016.

Just beyond Dryden we could see the Rogers Dry Lake Bed, designated a National Historic Landmark in 1985 in honor of all the history - making flights that took off and landed there.

This innovative and audacious spirit shown at Muroc Dry Lake was the main motif for the design of the car.

Top - speed runs at the desert dry lakes had been going on since before World War II; drag racing was beginning to boom for those whose speed needs could be contained in a quarter - mile; and oval tracks flourished throughout the area, drawing everything from rough - and - tumble jalopies to nitro - fed midgets.

He also currently leads Drum circles here in Las Vegas on the desert, dry lake bed which have attracted over 500 people.

Marissa Lee Benedict, Video still from «Attempting to collect a good sample, Attempts 1 - 4, Harper Dry Lake, Hinkley, CA,» 2014.

«Elmiraj» is a stylized word meant to recall El Mirage Dry Lake, a site in California's Mojave Desert where hot rods have been making top - speed runs since just after World War II, and the Cadillac concept projects the same look of California - style performance.