Sentences with phrase «of earth crust»

The biosphere is that slim layer of earth crust, earth surface, ocean and atmosphere which envelops the earth and which supports life.

I understand that bottom ocean does not equilibrate with 5000C of Earth crust because of slow mixing with colder water coming from arctic, as explained by michael sweet@11, thanks!.

You're not being real Neil, you consistently disregard scientific findings (like absorptive properties of co2, and the weakening of the earths crust through resource extraction), you're not being real and the worst part is you come across as an intelligent person, this leaves one answer: you have an agenda, you're protecting anthropogenic warming practices.

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As a result, the magma continues to pool, causing pressure in the Earth's crust to build and build until finally, a catastrophic explosion of magma and ash erupts.

Gold is one of the rarest elements in the world, making up roughly 0.003 parts per million of the earth's crust.

Most of the ocean's salts were derived from gradual processes such the breaking up of the cooled igneous rocks of the Earth's crust by weathering and erosion, the wearing down of mountains, and the dissolving action of rains and streams which transported their mineral washings to the sea.

Other sources of salts include the solid and gaseous materials that escaped from the Earth's crust through volcanic vents or that originated in the atmosphere.

Earthquakes result from natural shifts in earth's crust (and possibly from the fracking process of obtaining oil, but the jury is still out on that one).

If all of that water was contained inside the Earth (as many Christian «claim» is the case when they get desperate because the other options clearly don't work), then you wouldn't have been able to walk on the surface because the Earth's crust would have turned into a literal quicksand soup.

And if your complaint is that there's water under the earth, look into artesian wells, underground rivers, the water table and the recent discovery of a great amount of water deep in the earth's crust.

«But, as by this theory innumerable transitional forms must have existed, why do we not find them embedded in countless numbers in the crust of the earth?»

The crust of the earth is a vast museum; but the natural collections have been imperfectly made, and only at long intervals of time.»

not sure if these people r right or wrong I do know that the usa is having more Earthquakes that are more than normal, look down in Missouri at the New Madrid fault, in Pennsylvania up in Maine in Canada the problem is that the crust of the earth is shifting if you believe this or not it may not be the end of the world as we see it but it will change a lot in the next few months.

If I am thinking of this object as a piece of coal having certain characteristics, I might be either surprised or be amused by your commenting on its beauty or its being a part of the crust of the earth or a thousand other comments, each true but not relevant to my consideration.

The first is that fossils are formed only under a small set of very special circumstances, and that fossils formed are often obliterated by a variety of well - verified mechanisms, including subduction of continental plates under the earth's crust, the fate of most pre-Cambrian fossils.

«On the other hand, creationists interpret the majority of the fossiliferous sedimentary rocks of the Earth's crust as testimony to Noah's flood... Creationists do this because they regard the Genesis record as implying that there was no rain before Noah's flood, therefore no major erosion, and hence no significant sedimentation or fossilisation.»

What I mean by Theology, continues Newman, is none of these things: «I simply mean the Science of God, or the truths we know about God, put into a system, just as we have a science of the stars and call it astronomy, or of the crust of the earth and call it geology.»

Two thousand years of Christian history become decreasingly venerable when confronted by the findings of radioactivity dating techniques which date the hardened crust of the earth at three billion years.

As these life forms established themselves over some hundreds of millions of years, the luxuriant foliage formed layer after layer of organic matter, which was then buried in the crust of the earth to become fossil formations with enormous amounts of stored energy.

I made a simple crust using honey - free graham cracker crumbs and Earth Balance butter spread, but followed your recipe for the filling, adding in swirls of vegan friendly dark chocolate.

I was thinking of using Earth Balance for the crust instead of oil to get a buttery taste..

«This deal,» said CEO of Axiom Foods, David Janow, «further decreases the heavy metal levels, despite the fact they are found in the earth's crust globally and are intrinsic to plants grown in healthy soils.

WWE superstars are forged in the Earth's core and burst through its crust wearing leather gloves, or they descend from the heavens on a cloud of floating sequins, or they wash up on shore in a folding chair and a haze of hairspray.

A lot of concern rose about the arsenic content.Arsenic naturally occurs in the Earth's crust and due to global environmental issues it's content is rising.

Note to Teachers: Students are expected to have prior knowledge of: 1) the layers of the earth (magma and crust), 2) what minerals are, 3) rocks consist of minerals, and 4) the three categories of rock.

Lead is an element found naturally in the earth's crust that has been mined and used by people for thousands of years.

The crust of the Earth is between 5 km and 70 km thick, and everything beneath that is unreachable / uninhabitable / unusable (i.e. it's near molten rock at least 500 °C or more).

We can tell that this came from space both because of the fusion crust you can see that formed from entering the Earth's atmosphere at something like 30,000 miles per hour.

The planetary architecture that provides Earth's sheltering field has been broadly understood for several decades now: a solid - iron inner core roughly the size of the moon, surrounded by a 1,400 - mile - thick outer core of liquid iron and nickel, with 1,800 miles of solid mantle above, topped by a crust of slowly drifting tectonic plates.

A team of Soviet scientists began drilling at Kola in the spring of 1970, with the goal of penetrating as far into Earth's crust as their technology would allow.

All of Earth's layers, from core to crust, are in constant motion, caused by the flow of heat.

After lunch you enter the fumarole zone of Hverarönd (Namaskard) where groundwater is superheated by magma forced up through the Earth's crust.

Besides having the right mix of ingredients and pressures, this range defines a well - known transition zone within the mantle, the 2900 - kilometer - or - so - thick layer of slowly circulating material that lies between Earth's crust and its outer core of molten iron.

A geologist by training, Onstott spent his early career studying the Earth's crust — until he heard a talk in 1993 about colonies of bacteria living thousands of feet below the surface.

Now, researchers have come up with a way to more quickly gauge a big quake's magnitude and thus provide faster, more accurate tsunami warnings: by measuring the miniscule changes in Earth's gravitational field that are generated when massive slabs of the planet's crust shift by dozens of meters over the course of a few minutes.

Since we know that Earth's atmosphere first carried measurable quantities of oxygen around 2.45 billion years ago, the crust must have formed and been subducted at least this long ago, Cabral reasons (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature12020).

Volcanoes can also form where there is stretching of the Earth's crust and where the crust grows thin (called «non-hotspot intraplate volcanism»), such as in the African Rift Valley or the European Rhine Graben with its Eifel volcanoes).

On the Earth, the lithosphere includes the crust and the uppermost layer of the mantle (the upper mantle or lower lithosphere) which is joined to the crust.

Stevenson's idea is to open a crack in Earth's crust with a controlled blast and pour in 100,000 tons of liquid iron, along with a few refrigerator - size probes.

The findings, published April 4 in the journal Science, shed new light on how temperature in the depths of the mantle influences the contours of Earth's crust.

To understand what makes an earthquake stop, it's important to understand what makes it go: the release of energy stored in rocks clustered around a fault, which separates masses of the earth's crust known as tectonic plates.

ANCIENT pieces of continental crust that are falling to the bottom of the Earth's mantle could explain mysterious dents in our planet's gravitational field.

Weird and wonderful forms of life have been found deep within the Earth's crust, swimming in boiling pools, and clinging to vents deep under the ocean surface.

While there's plenty of iridium in Earth's core, there's not much in our planet's crust.

The prevailing view is that the Andes became a mountain range between ten to six million years ago when a huge volume of rock dropped off the base of Earth's crust in response to over-thickening of the crust in this region.

Unlike a GPS method proposed last year, which detects seismic waves transmitted through the Earth's crust to distant receivers, the new ground - based system takes real - time measurements of vertical ground motion — the type of fault movement more likely to produce tsunamis (Journal of Geophysical Research, DOI: 10.1029 / 2006JB004640).

And only a fraction of faults may have the necessary orientation, relative to natural stresses in the earth's crust, that is conducive to a slip.

Weaknesses in the field are believed to be created by «slab graveyards» — ancient pieces of crust and sediment that were pushed down into the Earth when plates collided and are now falling through the mantle.

When slabs of Earth's crust sink into the mantle layer below, they drag ocean water with them.

Remnants of Earth's original crust preserve time before plate tectonics.