Sentences with phrase «movement of grains of sand»

«Nature is too complex, they (the authors) say, and depends on too many processes that are poorly understood or little monitored — whether the process is the feedback effects of cloud cover on global warming or the movement of grains of sand on a beach,» the Times article explained.

Not exact matches

Another way of producing a solid, however, is by jamming particles (such as atoms, molecules, or even grains of sand) together, physically constraining their movements under high pressure.

The rover team now studies wind strength and direction using change - detection pairs of images that were captured at different times revealing the movement of the sand grains.