Sentences with word «metamorphic»

A variety of gifts were interred with the dead: pottery, bone and stone beads and pendants, stone axes made of metamorphic rocks, flint and obsidian blades, shell pendants, and shell and bead necklaces.

However, P5 is likely made of metamorphic rocks, making it incapable of holding ice in the same way that comets do.

Pore spaces that shelter subsurface microbes areconstricted to the vanishing point in metamorphic rocks buried over eons byfurther sedimentation, volcanic eruptions, or massive folding of Earth's crust.And dense crystalline material formed by melting — basic igneous rock — offerslittle housing or dining.

Key topics discussed range from metamorphic rocks and stolen Rhododendrons; to Surrealist gardens and John Latham's aunt.

Often depicting organisms that undergo metamorphic transformation, they have recently devised an apparatus with a refrigerated flat plate that keeps snowflakes frozen until their unique forms can be captured through a microscopic lens.

When DeFeo became intrigued with the visual and metamorphic possibilities of the tripod, she found the perfect subject to explore, merging her interest in the anthropomorphic transformation of inanimate objects with her experimental use of photography and other media.

The round was led by Compound (formerly Metamorphic Ventures), with participation from strategic angels including Scott Belsky, Alan Chung, and Peter Stern.

Given the ubiquity of clay, I think it likely that ceramics would be an early development of any technological civilization, and they are robust and inert enough to survive in many metamorphic and some igneous environments.

Recently, however, I had a reading experience I can only describe as metamorphic.

July GSA Today cover image: Khosoumi Mountains in the southern part of the Chapedony metamorphic core complex of Central Iran.

But if «Wilson» can pack an emotional punch, and Harrelson carries his character through some form of metamorphic arc, anything is possible.

«Symbolically the fallen Ukwa represents metamorphic processes that are constantly injected into the natural cycle to establish cosmic balance and planetary order,» explains the gallery.

It's called metamorphic code, and the short definition is that viruses learn how to evade antivirus programs the same way bacteria becomes resistant to antibiotics.

Stracher had just finished his postdoctoral training in metamorphic petrology; as a new professor at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, he went to Centralia on a geology field trip.

Gems are usually found in igneous rocks (mainly pegmatite dikes) and in contact metamorphic zones.

What's even stranger is that the characters seem to acknowledge the ability in subtle ways and you're left wondering if, aside from the Eagle Vision everyone seems to have, the Assassins were gifted with magical metamorphic powers too.

The pattern used in geological mapping to represent metamorphic rock is here stitched into paper.

Drawing upon other studies that have demonstrated deeply buried metamorphic rocks can also have a coherent magnetic signal, Parker has analyzed the detailed characteristics of the magnetic anomalies from data collected across zones in Georgia and concludes that the Brunswick Magnetic Anomaly has a similar, deeply buried source.

Asbestos describes any of a group of fibrous metamorphic minerals of the hydrous magnesium silicate variety.

Growth equity is particularly powerful as we can witness metamorphic evolution from ~ 25 employees to over 1000 employees.

Marbles in metamorphic aureoles and iron - rich skarns appear to be favored sites for gold mineralization in these deposits, perhaps due to the rheological character, permeability after fracturing, and chemical reactivity of those rocks to alteration by hydrothermal fluids.

The deposit is bounded by the Eastern Graben Fault, a major structure that separates the Oligocene age sedimentary and volcanic rocks to the west from Mesozoic metamorphic basement rocks to the east.

The sequence of accretion, formation of water, an oxygenated atmosphere and then the formation of varied geologies — like metamorphic and sedimentary rock along with continental drift and glaciation alone would take billions of years.

One example might be warm, wet plains, on metamorphic rock, with mostly deciduous forest.

Dorin Bofan captured metamorphic rock peeking through the cover of golden birch leaves that had covered it over the course of autumn.

This implies that it is a rather strange, metamorphic protein that can potentially perform several different roles.

On Earth, tridymite is formed when metamorphic or igneous rocks are exposed to high temperatures.

Their results, published online May 15 by Nature Geoscience, indicate that the carbon contained in such ancient rocks should not be assumed to be as old as the rocks, unless it can be shown to have had the same metamorphic history as the host rock.

I'm here to talk about the metabolic and metamorphic type of strength.

Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) is still having a bad hair day; Storm (Halle Berry) gets to fly this time; Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart) sits enthroned in his wheelchair; Magneto (Ian McKellen) continues to wear that really silly Captain Video helmet; Mystique (Rebecca Romijn) is alluring in metamorphic basic blue.

We get plenty of conversation, obvious metaphors such as mirror gazing and metamorphic amphibians, but truly salient points about identity and limitation seem just out of reach.

As with the 3 Series, our own personal advice here is to avoid the Gran Turismo model, which is an ungainly metamorphic amalgamation of 5 Series saloon, Touring and some sort of SUV.

What if she's deficient in sedimentary rock, and has eaten metamorphic rock instead?

In the Argun Valley on the Georgian side of the border in the Greater Caucasus Mountains, the Chechen frontier overlooks an untouched landscape of metamorphic mountains, where pieces of shale flake off onto empty roads.

The western 2/3 of Santa Catalina contains primarily metamorphic rocks, while the eastern end is composed of igneous rocks.

The bits and pieces in Frith Powell's canvases are culled from his imagination, a kind of metamorphic workshop.

He describes her sometimes fitful but extraordinarily long and prolific career and explores the many metamorphic aspects of the work to which the alternating currents of her imagination gave rise to.

Her Mimesmas lay in the soil below, large coiling yonic works made from soapstone, a soft metamorphic rock mined from the quarries of Minas Gerais.

Moreover, in an ever - changing world whose metamorphic pace is verging towards the frenetic, how is our ability to think and dream being influenced?

She is currently Deputy Director Senior Curator for The Mistake Room, where she has organized Histories of a Vanishing Present: A Prologue (2016)(co-curator); Cao Fei: Shadow Plays (2015); Carlos Amorales: A Film Trilogy (2015); and Matsumi Kanemitsu: Metamorphic Effects (2014).

His clothes fuse Victorian design approaches with forms derived from nature and are defined by dramatic curves and metamorphic extensions from the body, accentuated by unusual color choices and combinations.

Arching and prancing, their tails variously drooping and rearing, these strange metamorphic creatures epitomise the way in which Lucas» art slides between real and surreal registers.

Her paintings work on a profound, intense, and metamorphic cognizance that gently pushes inward and drowns out the loud, the vulgar and the irritating in favour of a gratifying equanimity.

At The Hepworth Wakefield, large light - filled gallery spaces more familiar with the wieldy steel sculpture of Anthony Caro or the oozing metamorphic wax and crystalline works of Lynda Bengalis, are this summer playing host to a series exhibitions and displays celebrating some of the best of twentieth century British painting.