Sentences with phrase «in cracks in rocks»

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Once the shale rock formations are injected with water and chemicals, it is the proppant (normally treated sand) that keeps the newly formed cracks open after they are made in the rock.

I then took that tiny folded paper, which contained more pain and names than I care to share, and wedged it deep into a crack in the ancient red rock where it will disintegrate in time — along with my pain.

I wonder how much gold was in the cracks of the foundation that the Dome of the Rock was also built on?

The melamine scandal that rocked China's dairy industry back in 2008 may have faded into the memory, but the Chinese government has cracked down on the local industry in recent years.

He had his own Scripture, spoken by Biggie in his song «Things Done Changed»: «If I wasn't in the rap game / I'd probably have a key knee - deep in the crack game / Because the streets is a short stop / Either you're slinging crack rock or you got a wicked jump shot.»

Kids will love jumping over cracks in the sidewalk, rocks on the driveway, into puddles or off of curbs, even on one foot.

Wilson, whose campaign combines a sense of road - tested North Country ruggedness with a certain punk rock, streetfighting sensibility, spent a windswept Saturday in a battered Toyota Prius with a cracked windshield and busted muffler bombing around the St. Regis Mohawk Reservation (also known as Akwesasne) collecting signatures to get on the Democratic ballot.

Fungi Barely Make It Microscopic black fungal cells, found in the cracks of Antarctica's rocks, might also survive on Mars — but just barely.

«The total energy from an earthquake includes energy required to create new cracks in rock, energy dissipated as heat through friction, and energy elastically radiated through the earth,» reports the U.S. Geological Survey's Earthquake Hazards Program.

Martin collected the rocks in New York and then cracked them in an effort to examine what was inside.

In a new study led by the University of Sussex, geoscientists from the British Geological Survey and the Technical University of Munich reveal that using a micro-seismic technique, which detects tiny earthquakes which cause cracks in the rock, alongside modern electrical imaging technology, which measures rock mass, would provide scientists with much earlier warnings of potential rock fallIn a new study led by the University of Sussex, geoscientists from the British Geological Survey and the Technical University of Munich reveal that using a micro-seismic technique, which detects tiny earthquakes which cause cracks in the rock, alongside modern electrical imaging technology, which measures rock mass, would provide scientists with much earlier warnings of potential rock fallin the rock, alongside modern electrical imaging technology, which measures rock mass, would provide scientists with much earlier warnings of potential rock falls.

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.

That is hot enough to make its rocks expand and crack, generating dust that reflected sunlight and caused the asteroid to brighten (The Astronomical Journal, in press).

«Rifts are long, narrow cracks splitting the Earth's crust, with some volcanic rocks in them that rise to fill the cracks.

Even when a prime, rock - free site is found, samples can be contaminated with microbial activity or by modern air that seeps in when temperature changes cause the ice to crack.

That bulging, in turn, tends to open the cracks at the top and bottom of the fissure behind the slab, generating stresses that pull the rock apart and thus drive crack growth.

This study is the first to advise legislative bodies as there are currently no guidelines set for the horizontal distance required between the fluid injection points and pre-existing cracks in the rock.

This was due to the fluid injected into the rock flowing into a pre-existing natural crack in the rock, known as a fault, triggering a minor earthquake.

Was it rock grinding on rock, ice groaning over ice, or, perhaps, hot gases and liquid rock forcing their way through cracks in a volcanic complex?

To get to one of their study sites, Onstott and his colleagues have to take an elevator 3.5 km down into one of a dozen gold mines in the Witwatersrand basin of South Africa, where they have found microbes living in water trapped in cracks in the hot rock.

A simpler organism is more likely to leave a simpler trace that can be confused with something that is not biological, like a squiggle or a crack in the rock, says Buckley.

Geochemists explored the outcrop in a tiny submersible vehicle, hoping to collect samples of the warm fluids that emerge from cracks in the rocks; they didn't count on finding dozens of octopuses huddled around the cracks.

One way is extrusion, in which magma erupts through volcanic craters and cracks in the Earth's surface; the other is intrusion, whereby magma forces itself between or through existing formations of rock, without reaching the surface.

In 2010, Pederson and coauthor Amy Hessl, a tree - ring scientist at West Virginia University, were studying wildfires in Mongolia when they came across a stand of gnarled, stunted Siberian pines growing out of cracks in an old solid - rock lava flow in the Khangai MountainIn 2010, Pederson and coauthor Amy Hessl, a tree - ring scientist at West Virginia University, were studying wildfires in Mongolia when they came across a stand of gnarled, stunted Siberian pines growing out of cracks in an old solid - rock lava flow in the Khangai Mountainin Mongolia when they came across a stand of gnarled, stunted Siberian pines growing out of cracks in an old solid - rock lava flow in the Khangai Mountainin an old solid - rock lava flow in the Khangai Mountainin the Khangai Mountains.

These could be places where water flowed through cracks in the rock, leaving mineral deposits behind, although the rover has not yet measured their composition.

Robert Howarth of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, studies shale gas, which is extracted by injecting a mix of highly pressurised water, chemicals and sand underground to crack open the hydrocarbon - rich rock.

A world - class climber since his student days, Reppy is famous for his invention and promotion of clean - climbing techniques, in which the nuts that hold the rope are wedged into existing, natural cracks in rock faces rather than banged in like pitons.

Another wild card is methane, which inevitably seeps out during the extraction process, escaping from imperfect joints on thousands of pipes, valves, compressors, and holding tanks, or simply migrating through hairline cracks in the rock.

The main argument of the Doubting Thomases has always been that the chemical signs of fossil life in Martian meteorites are really terrestrial contaminants; perhaps microbe - laden water seeped into cracks in the rocks after they landed on the Antarctic ice.

But according to a panel of geologists at the AAAS Annual Meeting, the culprit isn't hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking,» in which geologists crack open subsurface rocks to extract oil and gas; instead, it's the processes associated with pumping wastewater and other fluids back into the ground.

The risk of human - made earthquakes due to fracking is greatly reduced if high - pressure fluid injection used to crack underground rocks is 895m away from faults in the Earth's crust, according to new research.

Within 20 seconds, a chemical reaction causes a hydrogel to form, expanding the fluid up to 2.5 times its original volume, expanding existing cracks in the rock and creating new ones.

In Northern California, AltaRock Energy hopes to become the first of many developments to produce geothermal energy by fracturing rock at the bottom of a deep hole and then circulating water through the cracks to generate steam.

The new pumps are critical for «enhanced geothermal systems,» in which energy is produced by fracturing dry rock at the bottom of a deep hole and then circulating water through the cracks to generate steam.

These expand when heated, causing cracks in the rock and helping it erode.

For example, the government's report presents rocks found in the Cocula dump that had been cracked from heat as evidence supporting the confessions.

«They're basically making a crack in the rock and filling it with little beads,» said Rice chemist Andrew Barron, whose lab produced the device detailed in the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Environmental Science Processes and Impacts.

The problem, Torero says, is that «I could have gotten the same cracked rock with a small fire, with an old fire, in a number of different ways» — none of which the AG ruled out.

As the magma chamber fills up, it causes an increase in pressure, which leads to cracks closing in the surrounding rock and producing faster seismic waves — and vice versa.

For years now, wastewater pumped underground as part of oil and gas development has seeped into natural cracks in that rock, easing the friction that keeps it stuck in place.

rock formation created by magma as it is pushed from the Earth's mantle into cracks or holes in the crust.

Oldest known, bacterial «trace fossils» found as mineralized tubes with organic residues in undersea volcanic glass 3.34 billion years old, which were etched by «rock - eating» bacteria along cracks (more).

Some carbon byproducts get pumped below ground to seep into the cracks of rock layers deep below the surface, a process that we already know causes huge chemical changes in the rock.

You will recall that hydrothermal vents are plumes of hot water that spew from rocks and cracks along the ocean floor, especially in regions of sea - floor spreading, such as oceanic ridges and rift valleys.

When rainwater is introduced to this kind of rock, either seeping in through tiny pores in the rock surface, or, more typically, dribbling in through larger cracks, the rock will begin to dissolve.

NASA's Curiosity rover finds calcium deposits on Mars similar to those seen on Earth when water circulates in cracks and rock fractures.

It is likely that some kind of circulation system develops where seawater enters cracks in the crust at one location, is transported downwards where it makes contact with hot rocks or even magma, and boils to the surface.

Hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking,» is a petroleum - extraction procedure in which millions of gallons of water (as well as sand and chemicals) are injected deep into underground shale beds to crack the rock and release natural gas and oil.

As this water moves through rocks, it dissolves salt compounds and pushes through fractures in the overlying ice to form reservoirs closer the moon's surface, where it is expelled into space when the outermost layer of the crust cracks open and the resulting depressurization of these reservoirs causes water vapor and ice particles to shoot out in the observed plumes.

Christmas, giant monsters, rock and roll, talking animals, toys coming to life, magic; it's pretty much everything I would want in a film if my head was cracked open and pure into a cinematic jar for preservation.