Sentences with phrase «layer of mud»

The Barroth has a layer of mud covering it that will make weapons bounce off of it.

They are constructed by hand by using a thin layer of mud, but it is the voids and empty space in between that defines the contours of the mass.

It's depth is eleven meters of water with a twelve meter layer of mud underneath.

In fours graves, researchers found plant impressions on a thin layer of mud veneer which was presumably spread like plaster inside the grave.

Layers upon layers of mud and dirt.

Hydrate Ridge is one of several accretionary ridges off Oregon, long layers of mud that get scraped off the Pacific tectonic plate as it plunges under the North American continent.

But Denniston and his research team found more than just variations in the chemical composition of the stalagmites they examined; they discovered that the interiors of the stalagmites also contained prominent layers of mud.

Next, the team hopes to analyze the guano content in the collected layers of mud to discover how long the penguins have been nesting in the Danger Islands.

Some areas closer to the bottom and in the surface layers of the mud may suffer from no oxygen at all (anoxic) during these periods.

Not exact matches

«My old house was only made of mud and stone, but this house has layers of concrete reinforcements built in,» she said.

I regularly find pockets of mud three layers in.

For instance, my Grain - Free Chocolate Mud Cake (which is also used in the layers of this Halloween cake) and my 14 - Layer Chocolate Strawberry Cake.

I used this as an inspiration and adapted the crust (almond meal instead of the pumpkin seeds, I know that doesn't work for you) for the bottom layer of a vegan mud pie.

A bit of recipe searching revealed that there's definitely some freestyling going in when it comes to mud pie creation, but the common theme seems to be multiple layers of rich, sweet, gooeyness, with chocolate making repeated appearances.

Feather the layers of the leek open under cold running water to remove any sand or mud.

The hastily made assembly lines and barracks were on the grounds of the Portland International Livestock Exposition, with a layer of plywood the only thing separating the workers from the mud and manure.

At those outcrops, the researchers calculated the percent of mud rock in the overall deposit by measuring the thickness of the muddy layers compared with the thickness of layers containing larger grains such as sand.

When the newly multiplied bacteria died, they fell to the floor of those ocean shallows, stacking up layer by layer to decay and enrich the mud with phosphorus.

In Pescadero Basin, however, hydrothermal - vent fluids pass through thick layers of seafloor mud.

Layer on layer of fine, sandy mud created by grinding glaciers revealed that Larsen B had shaded this area for at least 11,000 yLayer on layer of fine, sandy mud created by grinding glaciers revealed that Larsen B had shaded this area for at least 11,000 ylayer of fine, sandy mud created by grinding glaciers revealed that Larsen B had shaded this area for at least 11,000 years.

Bay mud consists of thick deposits of soft, unconsolidated silty clay, which is saturated with water; these soil layers are situated at the bottom of certain estuaries, which are normally in temperate regions that have experienced cyclical glacial cycles.

Bay muds often have a high organic content, consisting of decayed organisms at lower depths, but may also contain living creatures when they occur at the upper soil layer and become exposed by low tides; then, they are called mudflats, an important ecological zone for shorebirds and many types of marine organisms.

And thanks to tidal rhythms, the mud deposited on top of this forest is layered, so years can be counted as with the rings of a tree.

They had been discovered in the 19th century in New Jersey's Navesink formation, a greenish, calcium carbonate — rich layer of sand, clay, and mud.

Agricultural areas like St. George were hardest hit by the relentless rains and overflowing rivers that swamped roads, cut off power lines, washed away vineyards and fruit orchards, drowned thousands of head of cattle and other livestock, and covered homes and everything inside them in thick layers of sediment and mud.

Some 115 million years ago, when it was much colder here than it is today, mud pushed down into the permafrost layers of soil below, forming these blotches.

However, the microfossils of aquatic organisms, preserved in the chronologically layered muds of the Arctic's ubiquitous lakes, provide a good climate history book.

If a dinosaur stepped through mud instead of sand, the prints themselves wouldn't survive as fossils; because of its high organic content, mud turns into crumbly coal when compressed beneath other sediment layers.

Angelique Gonzales» 14, who worked with Denniston on the research and is third author on the paper, examined nearly 11 meters of stalagmites, measuring them in half millimeter increments and recording the location and thickness of mud layers.

Elliott carefully peeled apart hundreds of leaves stuck together by mud and layered like a pile of sticky notes.

Once the ages of the stalagmites were known, the mud layers were measured.

She found that in anoxic conditions, when there is no oxygen in the bottom layers of the Chesapeake Bay's waters, dissolved methane built up, probably coming from the mud, and when storms mixed up the invisible layers of the Bay's waters, the methane made it to the surface and into the atmosphere.

There, they collected mud from the sea floor, which builds up for millions of years like a giant layer cake as newer sediments pile on top of older ones.

When they took a sediment core from a lake originally created as part of a moat in the Danish capital of Copenhagen, they found centuries» worth of dirt, refuse and pollution particles, with the earliest mud layer dating to 1649.

Volcanic ash yields reliable dates and the dating of the Koobi Foora and Illeret muds is no less reliable because they lay between reliably dated ash strata [layers].

Katrin Monecke of Wellesley College and her colleagues were able to identify a layer of light brown organic - rich mud within the core, deposited between 1740 and 1810, as a part of an underwater landslide, possibly unleashed by the 1755 Cape Ann earthquake.

Donnelly led a team of researchers who pinpointed the hurricane peaks after examining 2,000 years worth of storm - thrown sand, which washed from the ocean into a Massachusetts salt pond, settling as layers of sandy sediment that was sandwiched between layers of ever - accumulating mud.

Now that the sun is (hopefully) going to peek through, I am ready to shed the icky winter layers of nursing tanks, sweaters, leggings, and mud - laden boots.

Mud masks can be messy, but this two - ply sheet mask harbors the mud on top of a microfiber layer so that it can still penetrate without causing a meMud masks can be messy, but this two - ply sheet mask harbors the mud on top of a microfiber layer so that it can still penetrate without causing a memud on top of a microfiber layer so that it can still penetrate without causing a mess.

The yard is well filled with a thick layer of white aggregate, keeping the lot high and dry and devoid of mud.

Within the thick layers of green mud, they found slices of gray clay - rich sediment.

Even swifter changes could show up in the clay varves derived from the layers in the mud of lake beds laid down each year by the spring runoff.

Why, in the sediment of the northern Atlantic Ocean, are there occasional layers of sand, interrupting the blanket of ultra-fine-grained mud?

Cut through the red - tape, layers of bureaucracy and stick - in - the - mud attitudes.