Sentences with phrase «into piles of debris»

There's something grim about watching Chicago collapse into piles of debris and ash, even if it is just at the hands (paws?)

The technology works by beaming microwave radar signals into the piles of debris and analyzing the patterns of signals that bounce back.

In the worst - case scenario, the section of the volcano lying above the fault becomes so unstable that once slip starts, gravity pulls the entire mountainside downhill until it disintegrates into a pile of debris on the ocean floor.

Not exact matches

Active composting requires that all feedstock (these are the inputs into a compost pile like manure, food waste and yard debris) reach a certain temperature within the pile for a certain length of time.

In some places, cleanup crews could do little more than rearrange the debris — by some estimates as much as 25 million metric tons of it — into piles up to 10 meters high.

Because of how heat transfers, only piles larger than this critical size will ignite, meaning rearranging debris into smaller piles could prevent fires from breaking out.

«The fuming World Trade Center debris pile was a chemical factory that exhaled toxins in a particularly dangerous form that could penetrate deep into the lungs of rescue workers and local residents,» Cahill and his fellow researchers concluded.

These artists are coming together, actively gathering vast quantities of debris floating up on shorelines or collecting waste wherever it might be piling up and turning it into beautiful pieces of art.

A compost pile is a teeming community of microorganisms that help break down yard debris into compost.