If you've spent your whole life oohing and aahing at technicolor tie - dyed tees and vivid
layers of Sand Art, this will be your favorite part of the process.
In Washington and Jackson Parks
a layer of sand that lies naturally under 2 1/2 feet of soil leaves trees vulnerable to gusty winds and downpours, Schwerner said.
You never know what is hiding under the first
layer of sand, right?
The layer of sand designed to keep toxic chemicals sealed at the bottom of Onondaga Lake is working well despite three small «disturbances,» a DEC official said.
The layer of sand Honeywell has applied to the Onondaga Lake bottom to keep toxic mercury and other chemicals in place has failed at least three times since 2012, spilling wastes onto areas of the lake that had been relatively clean.
The gravel beds that the salmon need to lay eggs have disappeared under a thick
layer of sand and silt.»
Several swipes of his army shovel exposed something odd a few feet below the top of the bank, beneath
a layer of sand from the bay.
That uppermost
layer of sand, above the peaty soil, had been dumped on top quickly enough to seal off the arrowgrass from the air and keep it from rotting.
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.
«You have
a layer of sand and a layer of organic material that includes bat droppings, so simply it is
a layer of sand and a layer of bat crap, and so on, going back for 5,000 years,» Horton says.
The researchers dug six trenches and analyzed the alternating
layers of sand and debris using radio carbon dating.
The L - shaped cave had a rim of rocks at the entrance that trapped successive
layers of sand inside.
In the late 18th century, Ernst Chladni, a scientist and musician, discovered that the vibrations of a rigid plate could be visualized by covering it with a thin
layer of sand and drawing a bow across its edge.
A layer of sand keeps the flowers in place, and the pastel blooms make us so thankful it's finally spring.
the alternating
layers of sand and debris using radio carbon dating.
Deposition of
a layer of sand as the sea moves out and is followed by sand dunes.
This process can restore compacted and contaminated synthetic football, rugby, hockey and tennis surfaces to «as new» performance and appearance using compressed air to remove the contaminated top
layer of sand and restore the pile to vertical.
The colours are even better after a windy or rainy period as the top
layer of the sand would have been removed.
A thin
layer of sand covered the gallery's terrazzo floor, while ostrich - size chalk eggs and purple sachets of white dragées were arranged atop fragrant bales of hay.
Why, in the sediment of the northern Atlantic Ocean, are there occasional
layers of sand, interrupting the blanket of ultra-fine-grained mud?
Once our «hole» was dug,
a layer of sand was spread to help cushion the rocks or any sharp objects from puncturing the liner.
If you're after real seaside style, pour
a layer of sand into the bottom of your jar and place your tealight gently on top.
Not exact matches
It was a modified steam - assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) technology that, instead
of burning natural gas to create steam to inject into the oilsands
layer and thus «melt» the bitumen (heavy oil) away from the
sand (as some experts describe it, burning a clean fuel to create a dirty one), it would burn a bituminous byproduct
of the upgrading process in a closed loop.
In the past year, Canadian securities regulators have raised the bar for exempt - market dealers, requiring them to be registered and bonded, issue an offering memorandum with every deal and provide audited financial statements to investors annually, says
Sand, who supports this new
layer of assurance.
The oilsands
layer in northern Alberta can be thought
of as a Frisbee stuck diagonally in the
sand at a beach.
These brainy engineers working on the outskirts
of Fort Worth, dubbed «mildcatters» by Texas Monthly magazine, then blew the
layer up in 100 - metre segments, one at a time, using bursts
of water,
sand and chemicals.
Slice it lengthwise and wash to get rid
of any
sand that is stuck between the
layers.
Feather the
layers of the leek open under cold running water to remove any
sand or mud.
A tiny bit
of sanding on the bottom to level it all, some putty to cover the holes, a
layer of paint later (Yolo's Imagine.04, which I've used on all the bookshelves in the house)... and well, we had ourselves a table.
A variation on the chemical peel is microdermabrasion, which
sands away the top
layer of your skin.
CoolPlay, made by Field Turf, replaces the top
layer of its crumb rubber / silica
sand blend with an exclusive cork material.
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.
Two meters (six and a half feet) below the surface he encountered a
layer of sediment marked by coral fragments, mollusk shells and coarse beach
sand that could only have come from the sea.
Both wolf and flic - flac piders lay down silk threads in rings around the tunnel as they dig it out, creating a very thin mesh with just a
layer or two
of sand grains.
The team used information from boreholes drilled around the Dead Sea to estimate the depth
of different
layers of clay, gravel, salt, and
sand and their respective particle sizes.
About 8 years ago, geographer Kam - biu Liu
of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge realized that finding such
layers of storm - driven
sand in old sediments offered a way to track hurricanes that came ashore thousands
of years ago.
When the scientists found the telltale bands
of sand, they measured the ages
of organic matter in the
layers with carbon - 14 dating.
The river
sands are topped with a thick
layer of coarser sediment that signals the onset
of glacial erosion in the valley, the researchers found.
Cities need to add a
layer of preparedness, such as land - use restrictions in flood - prone areas, provisions for groundwater pumping and regular dredging in some areas to minimize silt and
sand deposits on riverbeds following heavy rainfall.
Most cities provide little in the way
of a porous
layer of earth or
sand through which surface water can permeate.
These distinctive,
layered mounds are the result
of colonies
of cyanobacteria or other microorganisms that have captured and cemented sediment and
sand.
Such prints are preserved in a sandstone matrix when grains
of sand fuse over the course
of millions
of years beneath the weight
of accumulating
layers of sediment.
Collins will present what the USGS has learned about the 2014 Oso landslide, including the liquefied base
layer, the intact hummock blocks, and hundreds
of telltale liquefaction features such as
sand boils that give evidence
of the high pore pressures at the base
of the slide.
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.
Researchers are using Curiosity to examine examples
of the Bagnold Dunes, a band
of dark
sand dunes lining the northwestern flank
of Mt. Sharp, the
layered mountain the rover is climbing.
Their systems are elaborate, with
layers of soil, clay,
sand, gravel and matting to protect the plastic from puncture, and sumps, pumps and wells to monitor and draw off any water that penetrates the system.
Mariette: It's actually if you can imagine, I'm trying to, you know, when you make silly
sand sculptures, those
sand sculptures where you have different colors
of sand that you
layer up?
Mr van der Zanden used a range
of instruments to measure the concentration and speed
of sand particles in the water, he also examined changes in the underlying
sand layer, and measured the water pressure at various points in the wave flume.
In the case
of hurricanes, sources such as windblown
sand layers lying amid pond muck offer spotty resolution at best, says Claudia Mora
of the University
of Tennessee.
Only the far - reaching inland surge
of a tsunami can carry
sand into this cave, where it can then be deposited
layer by
layer, tsunami by tsunami.