Sentences with phrase «exposed at the surface»

The part of the animal that was exposed at the surface was the hip region.

On Pluto, a slurry of nitrogen and water ice melted by subsurface heat stands in for lava, the team suggests, freezing solid once it is exposed at the surface.

Using the SAM mass spectrometer to measure the abundance of three isotopes that result from cosmic - ray bombardment — helium - 3, neon - 21, and argon - 36 — Farley and his colleagues calculated that the mudstone at Yellowknife Bay has been exposed at the surface for about 80 million years.

Professor Kamber said: «Due to later tectonic forces, all the rocks of the once ~ 200 km - wide structure are now exposed at the surface rather than being buried.

More recently, geochemists have been gauging when river erosion removed most of the crust overlying a particular rock now exposed at the surface.

The researchers also showed that depending on the growth direction chosen, different optical properties were observed thanks to the crystal surfaces exposed at the surface of the nanowire.

Because the temperature of Ceres is relatively warm (between -93 ℃ and -33 ℃), water - ice exposed at the surface would rapidly convert into a gas in such a low - pressure environment.

This unified piece of ancient continental crust, called a craton, lies exposed at the surface in the Canadian Shield, and forms a solid foundation...

Here on Ambergris Caye, the oldest rocks exposed at the surface are Late Pleistocene and Holocene in age.

The beauty of the jewels extends within the piece: text and images pass all the way though the object, only exposed at the surfaces - giving a tantalising glimpse of the book within.

Not exact matches

1) Melt butter 2) Dissolve sugar in melted butter 3) Mix sugar butter mixture with self - raising flour until homogenously mixed 4) Knead cookie dough with your hands on a cool, flat surface, using a rolling pin to flatten it to 0.7 cm thickness 5) Use a round cookie cutter to cut out round pieces 6) Arrange the cookie dough pieces on a greased baking tray 7) Bake at 200 deg cel for 8 — 10 minutes or until they turn slightly golden brown 8) Spread dulce de leche on one cookie, and cover it with another cookie 9) Coat the sides of the cookie sandwich (the parts where dulce de leche is exposed) with shredded coconut

Carefully place plastic wrap over the surface of the dough so no part is exposed to air and refrigerate it for at least an hour.

Diapers worn at the pool, beach, or other location may end up being scratched on hard surfaces (concrete around pools, sand, rocks, shells, etc) or exposed to chemicals (chlorine in pools) and may damage your regular diapers.

Last year the Herschel Space Observatory detected wisps of water vapor around the dwarf planet, and since its arrival at Ceres, Dawn has imaged oodles of highly reflective bright spots on the Cereian surface that may be sites of exposed water ice.

That recycling of Earth's surface leads to the separation of light - colored continental crust (exposed here at Yosemite National Park's Half Dome) from darker, denser oceanic crust.

The household product was used to absorb liquid in radioactive debris at a waste disposal site in New Mexico where a radiation escaped to the surface and exposed 21 workers

At 80 million years ago, wind would have caused this scarp to migrate across the surface and the rock below the scarp would have gone from being buried — and safe from cosmic rays — to exposed,» Farley explains.

Concerned about the possibility that astronauts might unwittingly be exposed to pathogens that lurk in a spacecraft's surfaces or in air filters — biological contamination has been found in both the ISS and Russia's MIR before — NASA asked researchers at its Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, to assess the problem.

The researchers designed the electrodes at the nanoscale — thousands of times thinner than the thickness of a human hair — to ensure the greatest surface area would be exposed to water, which increases the amount of hydrogen the device can produce and also stores more charge in the supercapacitor.

But some regions may become redder and darker than others because parts of the atmosphere collapse, exposing those spots to more surface - darkening radiation from space, researchers report March 22 at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas.

In a related paper by Thom, Goldsby and colleagues, published recently in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, the researchers examined patterns of roughness in faults that have become exposed at Earth's surface due to uplifted plates and erosion.

Surface inspection is the most productive after a hard rain exposes the minerals: You simply walk around and look at the ground until something shiny catches your eye.

They are designed to operate fully exposed in the harsh conditions of the Array Operations Site, to survive strong winds, and to keep their smooth reflecting surfaces accurate to at least 25 micrometers (less than the typical thickness of a human hair) under a wide range of air temperature of -20 to +20 degrees.

The researchers looked at how microbial communities (from waste - water - activated sludge) behaved when exposed to gold nanoparticles with various surface coatings and shapes.

The lake's surface was likely last exposed in the late Pleistocene epoch, 1 million years ago at most.

Impact craters at many latitudes sometimes expose thin ice layers a foot or so beneath Mars» surface.132 «At polar latitudes, as much as 50 percent of the upper meter of soil may be [water] ice.&raquat many latitudes sometimes expose thin ice layers a foot or so beneath Mars» surface.132 «At polar latitudes, as much as 50 percent of the upper meter of soil may be [water] ice.&raquAt polar latitudes, as much as 50 percent of the upper meter of soil may be [water] ice.»

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.

These cells, referred to as innate - like lymphocytes, position themselves at the exposed surfaces of the lymph node — the locations where microbes are most likely to enter the organ.

Concern about alkylphenols first surfaced decades ago when a group at Tufts observed an excessive proliferation of human breast cancer cells in certain types of plastic containers, something that would normally only be seen if the cells were exposed to some type of estrogen.

Los Angeles — and in Refn's case Hollywood — subsists on its own mythology, and Refn exposes this by chipping away at the concealer - smothered cracks at the city's surface.

School grounds should be inspected for potential hazards such as: • Verandah poles outside doorways, in thoroughfares or in situations where students are unlikely to see them, especially while running; • Steps and changes in level which are poorly proportioned, difficult to see or lack handrails; • Fencing, gates and railings which students climb and which have structural problems, sharp protrusions, splinters or other hazards; • Trip hazards at ground level — protruding drainage pit covers, irregular paving, cracks or tree roots in thoroughfares, broken off post or other remnants of old structures; • Loose gravely surfaces on slopes and where students run; • Slippery patches which may stay damp in winter; • Rocks which students can fall onto or throw around; • Embankments which students can slip down or which have protruding sharp objects; • Blind corners in busy areas; taps and hoses which are positioned where students play or walk; window glass at low levels through which students could fall; • Holes, cracks or exposed irrigation fixtures in ovals; • Trees or shrubs with poisonous parts, sharp spikes or thorns or branches at eye level; • Splinters and deteriorating timbers in seats, retaining edges and other wooden constructions; • sSeds or other areas with hazardous chemicals or machinery to which students have access; rubbish skips which students can climb into or around, or which place students at risk when trucks enter the school; • Areas within the site used for car parking when students are present; and, • Sporting equipment such as goal posts or basketball rings which have structural or other design or maintenance problems.

In the «neutral sound» of our semi-anechoic chamber we precisely expose the cabin to a range of frequencies and vibrations, making certain that Discovery Sport sounds refined at every speed and across every surface.

In the neutral sound of our semi-anechoic chamber, we precisely expose the cabin to a range of frequencies and vibrations, making certain that the Discovery Sport sounds refined at every speed and across every surface.

In his fourth novel, Lookaway, Lookaway, the native of Winston - Salem and current professor at North Carolina State University delves into Southern high society, peering beyond the serene surface of propriety and exposing the down - and - dirty truths (and secrets!)

While the bowl feature allowed more than one furkid to drink at the same time, the exposed water surface also accumulated dirt and other particles quite quickly, requiring frequent cleaning.

If your cat is eliminating on hard or smooth surfaces, such as a tile floor, try putting a relatively thin layer of litter at one end of the box, and leave the other end of the box empty, to expose the bottom.

At 3 weeks of age they are moved to the living room and are exposed to different noises, people, other dogs, cats and different surfaces to help them develop a well adjusted personality.

Avoid contact with sick or possibly exposed dogs, as the virus can persist on clothing and other surfaces for at least 24 hours.

By then every cat at the shelter was presumed to have been exposed to the virus, which can live on some surfaces for days.

The most colorful and visible creatures are the sea stars that are exposed at low tide and the large green anemones just below the water surface.

At the surface, dwarf minke whales will spout (breathe) 5 - 6 times per minute, in preparation for a deep dive, they will spout 3 - 5 times in short intervals and may arch and expose much of their back.

In making work in his «own image,» he exposes the prejudices, privileges and presumptions inhabiting Frank Stella's famous dictum, «What you see is what you see,» and Andy Warhol's claim, «Just look at the surface of my paintings, and there I am.»

The revelation can be architectural - as in his 1973 work at the Galleria Toselli in Milan, where he had layers of paint stripped from the walls to expose the original plaster surface - or functional, as in his piece for the Claire Copley Gallery in Los Angeles, in which he made public the business operation of the gallery by removing the wall dividing the exhibition area from the office and storage space.

In 1958, he began making Attese (Waiting), monochrome surfaces that he sliced open with a single gesture or inscribed with multiple cuts at irregular intervals across the canvas, exposing backgrounds that had been artfully darkened with black gauze to create a mysterious sense of illusion and depth.

Barely perceptible traces of the paint linger on the exposed canvas, but especially at the slightly ragged edge of the painted surface.

The physical processes by which energy might be added into the glacier material include: (A) convection between the glacier surfaces and local surrounding atmosphere and water, (B) direct radiation onto the exposed surfaces of the material, (C) addition of material that is at a temperature higher than the melting temperature onto the top of the glacier (rain, say), (D) Sublimation of the ice directly into the atmosphere, and (E) conduction into the material from the contact areas between the glacier and surrounding solid material.

Joerg Schaefer, a research professor at Lamont - Doherty, did the chemical analysis of the concentration of elements in the rocks using a process called surface exposure dating, which made it possible to figure out how long the rocks had been exposed.

«The fastest alterations occur at the surface, where the ocean is directly exposed to the rising carbon dioxide concentration and increasing temperature of the atmosphere.

Much of this IR is at wavelengths at which other atmospheric constituents do not interact, so if CO2 is exposed to a warmer surface like the earth, it will absorb radiation that would otherwise pass through into the cold of space AND likewise if CO2 is exposed to the cool of outer space it will emit vast quantities of IR at wavelengths which other gases can not emit.

In the polar regions, where few such storms occur, heating by greenhouse gases remains at the surface, and is exacerbated by the melting of bright sea ice that exposes more of the dark ocean surface and causes more sunlight to be absorbed.