Sentences with phrase «in deep sand»

The heady torque of the engine combines with the traction - enhancing qualities of the six - wheel - drive system to deliver impressive speed, even in deep sand.

We dive in the deep sand track and full speed ahead, full throttle, hill jump, yay!

It has a harsher street ride, and it exhibited poor traction in deep sand.

Modest engine power held it back in our deep sand - hill climb, but it sailed through other challenges without fuss and its Quadra - Trac system is almost as user - friendly as the Explorer's.

Although the Land Rover's hefty weight worked against it in our deep sand hill climb, it was agile as a mountain goat elsewhere.

In spite of the tyre pressures, the car's traction was better than expected, thanks to the Haldex all - wheel - drive system, which reacted fairly promptly in the deep sand encountered (over sections of hundreds of metres at a time).

Yes, it's struggling for grip in the deepest sand and mud but it's on road tyres, and despite its firmness it tracks the ground very well over the bumpier, rockier sections.

Not exact matches

The EPA fracking study was commissioned in 2010 by the US Congress and stands as the most comprehensive review of the controversial mining technique, which releases natural gas by injecting a high - pressure mixture of water, sand, and chemicals into rock formations deep below ground.

More than half of affected reserves are in deep - water projects, and nearly 30 percent are in Canadian oil sands.

«The cost of actually doing deep - sea drilling, the cost of doing fracking in North Dakota, the cost of tar sands, the cost of Arctic drilling is way, way, way higher than anyone admits,» Shah said.

They do not in fact bury their heads in the sand as the old wives» tale tells it, but the fact that most of us believe that myth to be true only makes a stronger point: if the move you choose is to burrow in deeper to protect the current nest on which you rest, the odds are high that you're leaving yourself a sitting duck (or ostrich, as it were).

The CEO of Mammoth says Cobra has electrical experience in the Midwest, but according to Mammoth's website, the company's deeper expertise is in drilling and fracking, including «pressure pumping services, well services, natural sand and proppant services, contract and directional drilling services and other energy services.»

In situ technology injects steam deep beneath the earth to separate the viscous bitumen from the sand and pump it up to the surface.

Whether you're looking for sand and sea, a skyline full of high - rises, or a secluded retreat deep in the mountains, our top countries can offer you all that and more.

Better they stop blaming others with 7th century brain buried deep in sand.

She would not allow me to remain ignorant with my head buried deep in the sand, she challenged me to grow and does so also with many in our community.

That said, the White House has signaled that it may draw a deeper line in the sand than originally assumed.

The searchers curse it, call it a fraud, but they keep going back to dig again, stubbornly sure that treasure — or some nebulous thing worth more than gold — lies just a foot farther, a foot deeper in the sand

The sand is deep, and, as the wheels dug in, Harry dropped into four - wheel drive.

The drive was into a sand trap about halfway to the green, which was then played from the trap with a six - iron to a deep trap in front of the green.

The Churchill Downstrack in those days was covered by deep sand.

Discovering that, after years when a wreck shook like a giant sifter in rough seas, the small relics have often trickled beneath the ballast and even under the hull planks, McKee sought some way of mining deep in the sand.

@alfie, @khilen, no point trying to get through to people like @shard who always has his head deep deep in the sand.

The only thing I did not get to see was the famed «Sandbox» (a special workout that Shaw devised which an athlete performs in a 50 - yard by 10 - yard area hacked out of native scrubland and filled ankle - deep with thick, cloying sand), but this camp was all about strength, flexibility, and speed.

Miles upon miles of golden, sun drenched sand, in some places up to 1 km deep.

Put your head deeper in the sand

While the rumors that Donovan would leave office are less widespread than Borelli's, on the chance it happens, both Borelli and Malliotakis would seek the GOP nomination, drawing a deep line in the sand within their party.

The state had a de facto ban in place as it studied the process, which involves extracting oil and gas from deep underground by pumping water, sand and chemicals at high pressures deep underground.

To free the gas trapped in the Marcellus and other shale formations, drillers pump millions of gallons of water mixed with sand and chemicals deep underground under pressure.

Deep in a sinkhole, buried in a pile of sand and mastodon dung, was a small, ancient knife used for hunting and cutting carcass meat from the bone.

Marked by massive wooden posts, the necropolis extends deep into the sands and is still a forbidding sight in the arid Taklamakan Desert of western China.

Deep blue regions, such as Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming and the Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado, have background noise levels lower than 20 decibels — a silence likely as deep as before European colonization, researchers Deep blue regions, such as Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming and the Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado, have background noise levels lower than 20 decibels — a silence likely as deep as before European colonization, researchers deep as before European colonization, researchers say.

Some of the spill remains to this day, with a 2003 estimate pointing to about 20,000 gallons (75,700 liters) soaked deep into sands in intertidal zones, slowly poisoning ducks and other shore creatures.

Emergency responders successfully rescued the boy after three and a half hours, but the accident left Indiana University Northwest coastal geologist Erin Argyilan, who was there at the time, struck by the concept that deep, stable holes could form and survive in loose sand.

Mount Baldy, a sand dune in Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, may appear to be no more than an innocent pile of sand grains speckled with vegetation, but the rolling slopes hide narrow, deep holes, which are evidence of entombed oak trees.

In addition, the total amount of cesium retained more than 3 feet deep in the sands is higher than what is found in sediments on the seafloor offshore of the beacheIn addition, the total amount of cesium retained more than 3 feet deep in the sands is higher than what is found in sediments on the seafloor offshore of the beachein the sands is higher than what is found in sediments on the seafloor offshore of the beachein sediments on the seafloor offshore of the beaches.

These layers indicate that the sandstorms were much worse than typical, blanketing the ground in sand and piling it nearly 2 meters deep along walls and other structures.

Eunice aphroditois, also known as the Bobbit worm, buries its long body deep in the sand, leaving only its powerful jaws protruding above the surface.

It uncovered «very serious» erosion in parts of the ancient city that, Fletcher believes, accounts for the deep sand deposits documented in the team's excavations.

«This finding makes a deep connection between the physics of inert granular matter such as sand and the geometry of multicellular living systems,» said lead author Lior Atia, a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Jeffrey Fredberg, professor of bioengineering and physiology at Harvard Chan School.

There are no drifts of sand close to the lander; however, several channels measuring as large as a meter in width and up to 10 cm deep, meanders through the pictures.

Here we show that the East Greenland Ice Sheet existed over the past 7.5 million years, as indicated by beryllium and aluminum isotopes (10Be and 26Al) in quartz sand removed by deep, ongoing glacial erosion on land and deposited offshore in the marine sedimentary record.

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.

The required additional fossil fuels will involve exploitation of tar sands, tar shale, hydrofracking for oil and gas, coal mining, drilling in the Arctic, Amazon, deep ocean, and other remote regions, and possibly exploitation of methane hydrates.

These plastic shades are lightweight and feature nose and ear grips to help them stay in place whether you're on a jog on the beach or deep into a game of sand volleyball.

Tao is the deep exhale that happens when you bury your feet in the beach sand or walk through a quiet forest.

Try digging fast, deep holes in the sand using your hands while in a deep squat or forward bend.

Four Easy Steps 1: Apply Soft Touch Eye Shadow in Sand, a deep brown, in creases of the lids.

She observed how indigenous Brazilians left deeper footprints while walking barefoot in the sand on their heels rather than their toes.

I have a tabletop with a deep gouge in it so it will never sand out so I need to look at painting instead of staining the driftwood color I wanted