Sentences with phrase «from deep rock»

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This crustal weakness allowed unusually high heat flow from deeper mantle sources to «super-heat» the highly organic Niobrara source rocks, which in turn generated the significant oil and gas deposits now contained in the Niobrara and Codell formations.

They knew from the Theory of Evolution where such a creature should be, the rock type, how deep, then they dug for more than 3 years.

The images shift from the rotating stars of the night to deep, hidden caverns below the earth, where we find those red and sepia - toned primitive images painted on rocks — images of men and women with their children.

Festival producer Danny Wimmer of Danny Wimmer Presents comments, «Chicago has a deep history with rock «n» roll, from the pioneers of Chicago blues, to the icons of modern rock that call this place home, to the incredible live experiences that have happened here.

I threw all the diapers back in the wash for another deep clean and then used our new detergent from Happybottomus: Rockin» Green Bare Naked Babies (unscented) Classic Rock.

Two MPs tested the noise of the House of Commons after the Speaker John Bercow complained that PMQs can be louder than a Deep Purple rock concert from the 1970s.

He also found cells of D. audaxviator, a bacterium that made up 99.9 % of the organisms he recovered from one of the filters used to extract water from rock fractures deep in the mines.

We started finding the same organisms that people were reporting from deep - sea hydrothermal vents [where hot, mineral - laden fluid flows through volcanic rock into the ocean from deep within the Earth].

Zipkin contrasts working with specular hematite — a heavy, glittery rock that's deep purple - red and has a high iron content — with material much lighter in both color and iron content from Kenya's volcanic Rift Valley: «They're both ochre, but elementally and chemically they are radically different.»

As each cylinder of rock comes up from the deep, onboard specialists rush to record its density, resistivity, temperature and any other data that might change before the cores are examined at a main lab in Bremen, Germany.

Extracting gas from deep shale deposits by fracturing the rock using a high - pressure mix of water, sand and chemicals is a hot topic.

But analyses of earthquake vibrations along Earth's surface have suggested that continents could run 200 or 300 kilometers deep, very gradually transitioning from cold, hard rock to hotter, gooier material.

Iceland is also where scientists have long debated whether a mantle plume — a vertical jet of hot rock originating from deep inside Earth — intersects the mid-ocean ridge.

Other mitigation strategies that states and oil and gas companies are exploring include recycling the wastewater or injecting it into layers of rock that are farther removed or isolated from deep faults.

The strain is accommodated by either rocks sliding past one another, causing earthquakes, or by molten rocks welling up from deep underground to fill the opening space, ultimately leading to volcanic eruptions.

LIKE water draining from an unplugged bathtub, meltwater flowing through deep cracks in the Martian rock may explain the origins of the enormous Hebes Chasma canyon.

Because different noble gases move at various speeds through rock and water, the proportions present revealed that although the gases had come from deep underground, they had arrived directly rather than percolating through layers of rock and water (PNAS, DOI: 10.1073 / pnas.1322107111).

Other evidence to bolster this claim includes rock sequences from the deepest point on Earth, the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean.

Their discovery of shocked, granite rocks from deep in the crust placed «out of order» on top of sedimentary rocks validates the dynamic collapse theory of formation for Chicxulub's peak ring, the scientists says.

Also, the rocks must be piled deep enough to form crevices that protect eggs from being washed downstream or consumed by predator fish.

In New Zealand, scientists are exploring why some faults are more prone to earthquakes than others by studying rocks extracted from deep within the wildly dynamic Alpine fault — the system that formed the mountains in the backdrop of The Lord of the Rings movies.

To obtain a clearer, quantifiable look at carbon trapping rates in basalt, Giammar collected samples of the rock from Washington state, where researchers previously injected a thousand tons of CO2 gas deep underground into a basalt flow.

Earth continuously heats the rock deep below the surface; a new report from M.I.T. suggests harvesting that renewable energy

If life exists on Mars, it is most likely to be in the form of bacteria buried deep in the planet's permafrost or lichens growing within rocks, say scientists from NASA.

Researchers from the University of Liverpool have found an unusual mass of rock deep in the active fault line beneath Chile which influenced the rupture size of a massive earthquake that struck the region in 2010.

It is surrounded by a mile - high rampart of material that was ejected from the crater — enough rock to bury the continental United States under a two - mile - deep layer.

Central peaks are formed when, in the aftermath of an impact, rocks from within the crust rebound upward, bringing layers to the surface that had been buried many kilometers deep.

These rocks, dredged up from deep within the moon, contain traces of a well - known highly volatile molecule: water.

Easily vaporized elements, known as volatiles, are largely missing from moon rocks but might be sequestered deep in the lunar interior.

Biologists say this process «is really deep in the tree of life, but we've had little evidence from the rock record until now,» Johnson says.

A team of researchers studying water quality around hydraulic fracturing, the process used to extract gas from rock deep underground, have found a blueprint to move those conversations forward.

Advocates said the approach could entomb waste in stable rock deep in Earth, far from underwater aquifers (see graphic, below).

They then used the technique to analyze methane from Kidd Creek Mine, in Canada — one of the deepest accessible points on Earth — and two sites in California where the Earth's mantle rock reacts with groundwater.

The leading theory is that CO2 is seeping from rock beneath the lake and is trapped in deep water by the high water pressure.

Dr Alice Samson, co-author of the paper from the University of Leicester School of Archaeology and Ancient History, explains: «Scientific analyses from the team have provided the first dates for rock art in the Caribbean — illustrating that these images are pre-Columbian made by artists exploring and experimenting deep underground.

In the year since the centre opened, 200 000 visitors have flocked to see marine creatures of all shapes and sizes living in recreated natural habitats, including rock pools, waterfalls, wave - lapped shallows and deep - water tanks reaching from floor to ceiling.

These plumes of hot rock welling up from deep in the mantle are a key link in the plate - tectonic cycle.

From this volcanic rock, geologists hope to find out about the processes that occur deep within the Earth.

About year ago, Garnero, McNamara, and SESE associate professor Dan Shim reported that two gigantic structures of rock deep in the Earth are likely made of something different from the rest of the mantle.

Based on radiometric dating and geochemical isotope analysis, Czaja characterizes his fossils as having formed in this early Vaalbara supercontinent in an ancient deep seabed containing sulfate from continental rock.

Common in Precambrian Shield rocks — the oldest rocks on Earth — the ancient waters have a chemistry similar to that found near deep sea vents, suggesting these waters can support microbes living in isolation from the surface.

The $ 25 - million project aimed to achieve two firsts: to sample rocks from deep inside an active fault, and to install pressure sensors, thermometers and seismometers within a roughly 3 - kilometre - deep borehole to catch a small earthquake in action.

Their discovery could aid secure fracking — in which rocks below ground are split with high - pressure fluids — or extraction of methane gas from deep coal beds.

Prehistoric rock art at many sites, from deep French caves to North American canyons, typically appears in inaccessible locations.

The device gathers data on how tracers — microscopic particles that can be pumped into and recovered from wells — move through deep rock formations that have been opened by hydraulic fracturing.

If it spots elements of interest, it will approach and use a drill on its robotic arm to collect rock samples from as deep as 5 centimetres.

They will handle rare rock samples and examine deep - sea creatures pulled up from the depths, including crustaceans, bizarre tube worms and flocculent orange and yellow microbial mats.

Farrell says a deeper magma reservoir had been hypothesized because of the excess carbon dioxide, which comes from molten and partly molten rock.

By Year 1.1 billion, deep - sea hematite - bearing rock found in the Marble Bar chert formation of northwestern Australia indicates that iron - rich water gushed from volcanically heated seafloor vents were able to mix with cooler oxygen - rich seawater (Ohmoto et al, Nature Geoscience, March 15, 2009; PSU press release, and in EurkaAlert; and Sid Perkins, ScienceNews, April 11, 2009).

So while it's true that organisms living deep in the Earth are not exposed to the high - energy radiation found when you travel between planets or more hypothetically between stars, the systems that cells have evolved to repair damage done by reactive oxygen species will be useful whether they arise from rocks or from cosmic rays.