Sentences with phrase «hot rock»

Perhaps the most fundamental is an abundance of elements that can be easily boiled out of hot rock.

Some categories are going up, others are dropping like hot rocks, for a total combination of lower quarterly sales overall.

They change the dry heat to wet heat by pouring water over hot rocks.

Hot rocks at depth boil the water into steam, which rises back to the surface to spin a turbine and generate electricity.

There could be pools of cold water, perhaps partly covered by ice but kept liquid by hot rocks.

A number of companies are exploring for hot rocks to use for the generation of geothermal energy, which will help replace coal fired power station electricity.

In regions with hot rocks and plentiful water near the surface, building massive power plants is straightforward.

It is locally renowned for its seafood dishes and hot rocks cooking, and vegetarian options are available.

For the same reasons, the loss of glaciers in the mountains create hotter rocks and more evaporation of the water that remains.

Sometimes a little «worm» of hot rock will force its way up through the crust, forming what is known as a shield volcano, with long, gentle slopes.

Sinking slabs of ocean crust and rising plumes of hot rock in Earth's mantle are observed to behave differently below one megameter (1,000 kilometers) depth.

Second, large plumes of hot rock rise from the deepest reaches of the mantle, and the outlines of these structures can be seen in the deep Earth as well.

Some saunas, such as hot rock saunas, heat the air with steam.

The Maroons of Jamaica, who once sought refuge in the island's Blue Mountains, eternalized the Arawak's ancient jerk technique by spicing or seasoning the meat, wrapping it in leaves, then placing it on hot rocks over a lattice of wood.

Oil companies must get off their fat cotton Pickin» butts and fully invest in serious hot rock Geothermal drilling programs.

Job duties within this profession may include offering hot rock massages, deep tissue massages, facials, body wraps, mud baths, and other spa treatments designed to enhance beauty in a relaxed setting.

Plate tectonics is ultimately driven by the churning of hot rocks deep inside the Earth.

Resurfacing After the diamonds formed in the lower mantle, they may have then been launched back near the surface by a giant plume of hot rock originating from near Earth's core known as a mantle plume, possibly starting back during the Cretaceous era, when dinosaurs still ruled the world.

The al fresco Grill, light poolside dining by day, morphing into Hot Rocks cooking by night.

Instead, as hot rock enters and leaves a volcanos magma chamber, its walls shift.

More surprisingly, they reveal hot rock beneath the Bentley Subglacial Trench, a deep basin at the other end of the transect.

The most plausible source of this hydrogen is hydrothermal reactions between hot rocks and water in the ocean beneath the moon's icy surface.

C; the loss of coolant in this environment was not anticipated, but our study suggests that substantial contraction of such hot rocks would have opened wide fractures that drained away the cooling slurry from the borehole.

The EGS process, by comparison, replicates these conditions by fracturing hot rock, circulating water through the system, and using the resulting steam to produce electricity in a conventional turbine.

According to Eilon's calculations, the narrow strip underneath the mid-ocean ridge, where hot rock wells up to generate the Juan de Fuca Plate, has very high attenuation.

Everything on the surface of the Earth rests on massive tectonic plates that resemble a jelly sandwich, with two rigid pieces — the upper crust and the upper mantle — enclosing a gooey middle layer of very hot rocks, which is the lower crust.

According to a group of current and former researchers at Arizona State University, the key to unlocking this complex, geochemical puzzle rests in a model of mantle dynamics consisting of plumes — upwelling's of abnormally hot rock within Earth's mantle — that originate in the lower mantle and physically interact with chemically distinct piles of material.

A group of former and current Arizona State University researchers say chemical differences found between rocks samples at volcanic hotspots around the world can be explained by a model of mantle dynamics that involves plumes, upwellings of abnormally hot rock within the Earth's mantle, that originate in the lower mantle and physically interact with chemically distinct piles of material.

Scientists have long debated over the origins of Yellowstone's supervolcano, with the most widely accepted idea suggesting that it was formed by a mantle plume — a column of hot rocks emerging from deep within our planet, in the mantle layer.

While sweat generated in a conventional hot rock sauna has been found to consist of 95 to 97 percent water, the sweat produced by infrared saunas contains only 80 to 85 percent water.

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Enhanced geothermal systems, which require energy to drill and pump water into hot rock reservoirs, have life - cycle global warming emission of approximately 0.2 pounds of carbon dioxide equivalent per kilowatt - hour [11].

Food Counter Attendant 2010 — Present Hot Rocks Grill, Calgary, AB • Prepare a variety of food items such as hamburgers, salads, sandwiches, milkshakes and ice cream • Actively take and deliver customers» orders • Clean, unwrap, slice and trim raw food using manual and electric appliances • Portion and cover food, and place it on plates to serve customers

Currents of hot rock churning inside our planet have tended to pull all the continents together and then cast them apart again over hundreds of millions of years.

Research indicates a huge upwelling of hot rock lies beneath the ice of Antarctica's Marie Byrd Land.

Thus, unlike most energy used by mankind, the primary source of hot rock energy is not the Sun.

Basically, you fill a box with straw, add hot rocks and your dutch oven.

If your barbecued goat or marmot hasn't exploded into tiny bits of meaty shrapnel, then start your meal by passing around and fondling those health - giving hot rocks, then use your hunting knife to dig into the cooked meat.

According to the five - term Republican, he had a few pops with buds at Hot Rocks bar in Barclay Heights, not far from his home: «two drinks and a cheeseburger.»

The presence of water can make it easier for rocks to melt, Navon says, by lowering the melting point of hot rock under pressure.

Liverpool geoscientists undertook a research study to find out how hot the rocks were when they cracked open to form these spectacular stepping stones.

Pacific white skate lay their eggs onto the sizzling hot rocks of hydrothermal vents in the depths of the sea, possibly because the heat speeds up their development

Until now, evidence for the plume and hotspot theory had been circumstantial, and some seismologists argued instead that hotspots are very shallow pools of hot rock feeding magma chambers under volcanoes.

«CT scan of Earth links deep mantle plumes with volcanic hotspots: Scans prove that plumes of hot rock anchored at core - mantle boundary rise to form island chains.»

The latest theory is that a giant, lopsided plume of hot rock tore through the lunar interior some 3.5 billion years ago, smothering the Earth - facing side with enormous volcanic flows that erupted from the interior.

Dashboard - camera video of the white - hot rock streaking through the sky, replayed repeatedly on TV and online, boldly illustrated the threat asteroids pose.

They still believe such cracks move hot rock from the plume head to the magma reservoir and from there to the shallow magma chamber.

Washington, DC — Plumes of hot rock surging upward from the Earth's mantle at volcanic hotspots contain evidence that the Earth's formative years may have been even more chaotic than previously...