Sentences with phrase «into the rocks below»

She was hunting for muck - loving worms, but figured she'd take a poke into the rocks below because — well, to this day, she still doesn't know.

These channels were eroded into the rock below the ice, leaving distinctive formations known as «tunnel valleys.»

Now to the sequestration of the extracted gas: it will be injected into the rocks below an inefficient oil well to encourage the oil to be pressured upward.

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.

Looking below he was shocked to find a 200 foot drop undergirded by dangerously jagged rocks; above the hungry tiger stared menacingly into his eyes.

Standing on top of a raft, he dived into the shallow waters and broke his neck on the rocks below.

Last summer Gov. Andrew Cuomo lifted the official moratorium on the controversial drilling technique, which involves shooting a high pressure mixture of water and chemicals into the shale rock deep below the Earth's surface.

He became obsessed with unconformities in the rocks, where strata are distorted, rumpled or jumbled in composition, some layers of rock thrusting near vertically into those above or below.

C below the temperature at which magma crystallises into a rock, which is about 980?

As it ripped through the valley below, the water gushed into the bedrock, tearing away chunks of rock the size of refrigerators, hurling them miles down Antarctica's Wright Valley.

Sponsored by Shell, the team drilled deep down below the surface into one of these natural CO2 reservoirs to recover samples of the rock layers and the fluids confined in the rock pores.

One incident that is emblematic of the problems occurred on 8 March, a month before the accident, when BP discovered that drilling fluid had leaked into rocks 5000 metres below the sea floor instead of returning to the surface via a pipe.

The uppermost layer — the lithosphere, divided into tectonic plates — is a rind of cool, rigid rock some 200 miles thick that slides slowly across the surface of the asthenosphere, the warmer, weaker roughly 100 - mile - thick layer below.

When sound waves pass from compact rock in the seabed to the pliant salt below, they kick into overdrive, scattering and distorting the seismic waves.

It's also critical to a future less dependent on foreign oil: Hydraulic fracturing, «clean coal» technologies, nuclear fuel production, and carbon storage (the keystone of the strategy to address climate change) all count on pushing waste into rock formations below the earth's surface.

Most of Oklahoma's wastewaster has been injected into the Arbuckle formation, a layer of sedimentary rock about 7,000 feet below the surface.

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.

A unique chemical signature suggests volcanic rocks recently collected on Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic survived untouched for 4.5 billion years from before the melted mantle began firing up magma to form Earth's crust and plate tectonics then mixed that crust back into the mantle below.

The researchers injected this bubbly liquid into basaltic rock some 400 to 800 meters (about 1,300 to 2,600 feet) below ground.

The planet's mass and diameter are consistent with the hypothesis that it has a low average density due to an inferred composition of three - fourths water (possibly 47 percent) and other ices (that have subliminated into a «supercritical fluid» above an «electronically conductive,» dense fluid plasma below a steamy atmosphere) and one - fourth rock and iron in the core.

The hydraulic fracturing process — pushing gallons upon gallons of chemical - laden water into shale rock in order to bubble up natural gas — takes place deep in the ground, thousands of feet below the earth's surface and thousands of feet below the shallow aquifers that provide drinking water.

For one thing, I stayed in my normal clothes well into the second trimester (with the help of # 1 below), and continued to rock the same workout clothes (below the belly pants, for example) and shirts that were long enough to cover the bump.

Two thirds of its water sank into a blue - black no different from the deep water offshore; the other third, on the south side of the city, shone a wonderful turquoise blue, lit from below by a shallow bed of rock and coral that caught the sun like the inside of an oyster shell.

Situated at the end of a path at the heart of the island not far from the Na Muang Safari Park, a 30 minute trek will take you to the highest point of the falls, which gush down the purple hued rocks from a height of 30 metres into the large pool below.

Best beaches: Dubrovnik as such doesn't really offer beach experiences close to the old town but I have seen people jumping into the water from the rocks below the city wall.

Over 380 metres crash over the rocks and down into the Krimmler Ache Valley below, producing a thunderous roar.

In addition, there are easily accessible rocks and cliffs where you can jump into the pool below.

Champagne Pools, where the surf crashes over a series of rock walls into a calm but bubbly rock pool below the headland on the northern tip of the island, is another top spot to cool off.

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When our new COG heroes found themselves up against a turret, one player used a cannon to launch an exploding rock into the air, while another shot that rock out of the sky to rain fire on the enemy below.

It seems a considerable failure of candor to discuss Greenland's ice at such length without noting that the base of most of it lies far below sea level, the weight of it having pressed the underlying crust of the Earth into the mantle by roughly the ratio of the ice's thickness to the density of the underlying rock -

And still another bit of nonsense is how you describe the surface rock of your local «protecting» your city from earthquakes originating in the bedrock below, and how digging into that surface rock would expose the city to earthquakes.

The pits were filled in with water — some had been that way for decades — and several kids drowned or were killed or injured diving in and slamming into rock unseen below the surface or climbing up on an unstable slag heap to drink beer and hang out.

That's for pingos underneath the ocean, where slow warming has thawed the seabed — which can collapse into a «moat» — but the material (brown, red arrows) being forced up from below is dense mud and rock and clathrate and ice.

The process of breaking big rocks into smaller ones releases more minerals and chemicals so the water below valley fills contains higher concentrations of selenium

A trial at the Archer Daniel Midlands Company biofuel facility is currently removing 1 million tonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere annually by pumping CO2 from the production of corn - based ethanol into rocks 7000 feet below.

It's also critical to a future less dependent on foreign oil: Hydraulic fracturing, «clean coal» technologies, nuclear fuel production and carbon storage (the keystone of the strategy to address climate change) all count on pushing waste into rock formations below the earth's surface.

Hydraulic fracturing is accomplished by pumping a mixture of water, sand and chemical additives, into dense rock formations deep below the earth's surface under pressure.

Don't put rocks on top of the line as you back fill, if you ever drive over it you can push a rock into your line, car can cause that a foot and half below grade and a large dump truck can push 3 feet down (a rule of thumb around here, but that depends on soil type, rock, etc), but consider that since you are near an alley.