Sentences with phrase «dry lakebeds»

For hours on end, they gaze out on endless waves of withered, yellow - green creosote brush lapping up against sere mountain slopes, broken up here and there by low - lying dry lakebeds called playas.

We don't hear too much about natural dust, the kind that the winds loft from deserts and dry lakebeds into the air and carries for hundreds of kilometers, crossing oceans and continents, but we should.

As dry lakebed is exposed, salts and sediments can go airborne, causing respiratory and cardiovascular problems, says Maura Hahnenberger, an atmospheric scientist at Salt Lake Community College.

While El Mirage is best known for its large dry lakebed, where people come to set land - speed records, many are unfamiliar with its Off - road Highway Vehicle (OHV) area.

The drive through through the dry lakebed seemed endless, but before long, the Trona Pinnacles began to reveal themselves over the horizon.

The storied Corkscrew turn that stands at the summit of Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca heralds a precipitous 300 - foot drop to the dry lakebed below.

The Japanese carmaker said it chose the Sambhar Lake in Rajasthan as the location for the attempt for its level and dry lakebed surface and soil which is soft enough to leave a deep impression to be captured by camera drones high above.

On a dry lakebed we held an impromptu turning - circle contest and confirmed what most of us believed: the GMC's turning radius was the largest of the three.

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

Begun at the Center for Land Use Interpretation's artist - in - residence program in Wendover, Utah, Lamson finished the project in a dry lakebed west of Barstow, California.

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.

As the lake shrinks, wildlife habitat is disappearing and airborne dust from the exposed, dried lakebed threatens the health of the two million people in the surrounding area, including Salt Lake City, according to Wurtsbaugh and his co-authors.

Not exact matches

Some scientists scramble up equatorial peaks to measure melting glaciers; others scour dry African lakebeds for sediment that reads like a talking science book.

When you congregate 68,000 people in a dried up lakebed with no cell service or wireless, you can rest assured that sunrise and sunset become highly celebrated performances.

The conversation will range from their collaborations in Houston, including Tex Hex and other activities along the Buffalo Bayou, and their projects on the dried out basins and lakebeds of the desiccated West.

The team then compared these findings to the New York - New Jersey cores, which penetrated old lakebeds and soils that hold exquisitely preserved signs of alternating wet and dry periods during what was believed to be the same time.