Sentences with phrase «from nearby pits»

It is hoped that Philae will also see jets of gas and dust emerging from nearby pits as the comet heats up as it travels towards the sun.

The Uruk forces may have run short of ammunition and resorted to digging clay from a nearby pit to make their sling bullets.

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I took advantage of the delicious, locally grown, seasonal fruits with daily pit stops at the nearby fruit stand to stock up on peaches, plums (from green to fuschia to purple) like these,

Cary officials have invited Town and Country Homes back for a second round of discussions about developing a 333 - acre former mink farm into a golf course community, which could keep a nearby parcel of land from becoming a gravel pit unwanted by many neighbors.

In 2000, Klapper took a break from his patients at Cedars - Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles to visit the nearby tar pits, where myriad mammals and other animals (SN: 5/17/14, p. 18) have been getting stuck for the last 40,000 years.

Twice a week, a Haitian contractor would send a truck to collect sewage from the camp's containers and haul it to an open septic pit (pictured) on a nearby hilltop that was far from secure.

But the changes — heavy traffic, loss of nearby stockyards, smog and dust from drilling, growing waste ponds and pits and the pressures on the schools from temporary worker families — have strengthened their environmental commitment.

And now one month on from the pit closure, all four are settling into their new homes — and jobs - after being moved in pairs to nearby farms.

The gas was ignited decades ago to avoid the spread of the fumes to a nearby village and is still burning, although there are reports that the president of Turkmenistan is seeking to extinguish the pit of fire as part of efforts to develop huge gas reserves in the area (warning: the preceding link is a rough Google translation from Japanese).

Yet, on the contrary, when I make a pit - stop at my nearby conventional supermarket (that I usually resist going to, yet fail on occasion out of its convenient proximity to my apartment), I spot rotund rear - ends and thicker guts — carting around way more packaged and processed diet foods, ironically from the makers of fad diets like South Beach, the Zone, Slim Fast and Lean Cuisine.

He saw that the famed monument's marble had turned yellow and was pitted as a result of pollutants from nearby industries.