Sentences with phrase «into lake beds»

Also planned for next March is the repair of the lakefront retaining wall around the Adler Planetarium, where steel sheet piles will be driven 72 feet into the lake bed using 150 foot cranes.

In case you're not convinced that concrete can be made to float, there are floating bridges across Lake Washington in Seattle — the glacially - carved lake is far too deep to drive pilings into the lake bed to support the bridge, so it floats instead.

Not exact matches

Huygens did spot what looked like a lake bed near its landing site, with apparent feeder channels — riverbeds, in essence — snaking into it.

We need to drill down into these former lake beds to get the vegetation records, look at the archaeology, and see what people were doing there.

Ancient sediments that once resided on a lake bed and the ocean floor show sulfur isotope ratios unlike those found in other samples from the same time, calling into question accepted ideas about when the Earth's atmosphere began to contain oxygen, according to researchers from the U.S., Canada and Japan.

The plot centres on a petty thief Peter Lake, played by Colin Farrell, who breaks into the home of a bed - ridden young woman (Jessica Brown Findlay), only to slowly fall in love with her.

A few things that wouldn't have ended up in my new novel, The Wednesday Daughters, if I hadn't traveled to England while writing it: a blue cottage door; a snowbow arcing over Windermere (which in England, means the lake); a castle that isn't really a castle; a leather patch in a manor house wood floor; three waterfalls spilling into a single pool before flowing under a miniature bridge - house; a coffin road; a slipper tub not in the bathroom, but evocatively at the foot of a bed.

And six years later, Michael Heizer created one of his first earth works here, a zigzag trench incised like an abstract painting into the surface of a dry lake bed.

Nearby, in the bed of the Truckee River, which now drains Lake Tahoe into the Nevada desert, there are the remains of a forest from the same period.

Since she jumped from the truck bed into the lake, she passed the purpose test.

Teetering on the edge of a hill overlooking the flawless Lake Como, this medieval looking castle has been divided into apartments and the two - bed, two - bath flat for sale occupies 861 square feet of the mansion.