Sentences with phrase «in mudstone»

Even today, there are still boulders remaining in the mudstone that will, eventually, fall on to the beach as they come lose due to erosion!

Its robotic arm drilled a 2.5 - inch borehole in mudstone bedrock.

A step forward that non-specialists neither know nor care about (eg New fossil forces radical rethink in mudstone geology)

Dr Tom Harvey from the Department of Geology, University of Leicester, together with Professor Nicholas Butterfield, University of Cambridge, discovered the new species while conducting a survey of microfossils in mudstones...

Not exact matches

The first hole also generated dark green to black ash - rich mudstone, starting at around 50m depth, just like a few other, earlier holes did in the 2017 program on Dean.

Preliminary indications are that the rock contains a more diverse mix of clay minerals than was found in the mission's only previously drilled rocks, the mudstone targets at Yellowknife Bay.

In a study published today in PLOS ONE, scientists spent a year observing purple sea urchins (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, pictured above) growing on sections of sandstone, mudstone, and granite reefs that had been transported into a laboratory settinIn a study published today in PLOS ONE, scientists spent a year observing purple sea urchins (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, pictured above) growing on sections of sandstone, mudstone, and granite reefs that had been transported into a laboratory settinin PLOS ONE, scientists spent a year observing purple sea urchins (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, pictured above) growing on sections of sandstone, mudstone, and granite reefs that had been transported into a laboratory setting.

In samples of fine - grained deposits and drilled mudstone, the Mars rover Curiosity discovered «fixed» nitrogen — a chemical form in which the ultrastrong bond in nitrogen gas, or N2, has brokeIn samples of fine - grained deposits and drilled mudstone, the Mars rover Curiosity discovered «fixed» nitrogen — a chemical form in which the ultrastrong bond in nitrogen gas, or N2, has brokein which the ultrastrong bond in nitrogen gas, or N2, has brokein nitrogen gas, or N2, has broken.

In the lab, the researchers placed single sea urchins on pieces of soft mudstone, hard sandstone and tough granite.

Despite these hurdles, several years ago the team discovered chlorobenzene, a ring - shaped molecule containing six carbons, along with other chlorinated organics, using a sample from a mudstone Curiosity drilled at Yellowknife Bay near its landing site in Gale crater.

The nearly complete skeleton, unearthed from 160 - million - year - old mudstone deposits in northwestern China's Junggar Basin, extends the fossil record of alvarezsauroids back in time by a whopping 63 million years — making it about 15 million years older than the earliest known bird, Archaeopteryx.

The Stimson unit that the researchers discovered covers a mudstone layer that was deposited in a lake - like environment.

The thick mudstone layer known as the Morrison Formation was deposited on top of the Sundance Sea as it disappeared in the late Jurassic.

The sandstone, limestone and mudstone that were deposited in the area about 113 million years ago are part of the shoreline of what was an ancient sea.

The park is located on the Paluxy River and you can also see mudstones, limestones and sandstones that were deposited in that location about 113 million years ago.

Go see the mysterious sailing stones at Racetrack Playa, take in the panoramic vistas at Zabriskie Point and Dante's View, walk on sand dunes, explore the mudstone hills of the Badlands, climb down into a caldera, go on scenic drives, and gaze up at the stars at night.

Stroll along the beach beneath mudstone cliffs, where golden sand ensconces dozens of spherical boulders at the tide line, many weighing several tons and stretching 10 feet in diameter.

And I'd have to say that if I have to save my life by winning an argument with oil men in a bar in Midland, Tex., on this topic, I would go in with some lumps of black mudstone from the ancient rock record, I'd go in with the established figures on our present input of carbon dioxide, and I'd say which bit of this observational science do you guys quarrel with, and why?

At Cerrejón, tropical rains every spring and summer cut huge erosion channels in the shale and mudstone, sending fossils and bones to a watery grave in the crater far below.