Sentences with phrase «dry lake beds»

Most people don't realize that the sport started out in the dry lake beds of the hot California deserts.

The 550 - mile (885 - km) race offers a variety of rough terrain, from salty desert wallows, to dry lake beds and mountain passes as high as 8,000 ft (2,438 meters) above sea level.

But previous radar observations viewed the apparent lakes at an angle, and therefore did not see bright radar glints reflected back from their surface, leaving open the possibility that the features were dry lake beds or patches of soot.

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

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».

Question: When I remove the loaves from the oven, and cool them, the crust cracks all over like a dry lake bed.

Large boulders like this one wander across the flat clay surface of Racetrack Playa, a dry lake bed in Death Valley National Park in California, leaving long furrows but no hint of what propelled them.

Okin, a wind erosion expert, tells me he got caught in one such storm just the other day on a dry lake bed.

We move to another site, a dried lake bed, and start peeling shale off the edge of a cliff.

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

This photograph was from the very first photo shoot that Ashley and I did three years ago in the dry lake bed of Las Vegas.

Stand on the parched, dusty surface of El Mirage, a dry lake bed north of Los Angeles that covers almost 76,000 acres, and as the sun dips behind the mountains to the west and the landscape adopts an eerie silence, it's just you and your shadow, stretching dozens of metres towards the east behind you.

Here the Honda Ridgeline sits next to the Racetrack, a dry lake bed, and beyond the rocky outcrop of the Grandstand.

But before we got behind the wheel, we were taken for a wild ride over the dunes by a Mercedes - Benz test driver, who fired the big pickup across the sand at breakneck speeds before performing a round of donuts on a dry lake bed to prove just how well engineered the G63 AMG 6x6 really is.

«There is no lake at Camp Green Lake,» where Stanley and his fellow campers (imagine the cast from your favorite prison movie, kid version) must dig one five - by - five hole in the dry lake bed every day, ostensibly building character but actually aiding the sicko warden in her search for buried treasure.

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

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.

And six years later, Michael Heizer created one of his first earth works here, a zigzag trench incised like an abstract painting into the surface of a dry lake bed.

At first glance a dry lake bed in the southern California desert seems like the last place to prepare to study ice.

In this Nov. 17, 2014 file photo, boat slips sit on the dry lake bed at Brown's Marina at Folsom Lake, near Folsom Calif..

We start with a dry lake bed and regulate the river flow and measure the level.

Blowing dust, laden with pesticides and other chemicals, is routinely scoured from the dry lake bed and poses a severe public health hazard.

Not exact matches

We would just roast out here all day in the 110 - degree desert heat, staring across the expanse of dried - up lake bed without seeing any sign of the «dust devils» (video)-- mini-tornadoes — that the scientists and arrays of instruments stood ready to record.

The 4 - square - meter area of the bone bed already excavated has yielded 10 skulls and hundreds of remains, suggesting that the creatures became concentrated in one area and then died when the lake they inhabited dried up, the researchers say.

Sudden shifts in climate occurred at the end of the last ice age, according to American researchers studying sediments from the bed of a dry lake in New Mexico.

The intrepid robotic explorer successfully completed its primary scientific objective when it discovered strong evidence early on in its mission that a place called Yellowknife Bay near its landing site, constitutes an ancient dried - out lake bed which was once filled with drinkable liquid water billions of years ago and could have sustained life — if any were present.

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

There, in the searing summer heat, the detainees build character by digging holes in a dried up lake bed, day after day after day.

Well, on a sandy, dried - up lake bed in Thailand, we were instructed to disable the car's traction control system before being sent out on a given route to test out the Forester's all - wheel drive system.

The painting appears to have been carved and moulded from a slab of thick primordial soup; now as cracked and eroded as the bed of a dried up lake.

The paint is finally dry; time to complete the thing and get out on the lake where the air is fresh and no realturds can get to me, unless someone's septic tank is too close to the water's edge and the leaching bed is pooched.