Sentences with phrase «of dried mud»

Casts of dried mud dislodged whole from the body, or mummified fragments: Embodied Forms, the first exhibition dedicated to the work of Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz since her death last year at 86, welcomes us with arms, formed or partially formed up to the elbow, from resin - stiffened burlap (From the Anatomy Cycle: Anatomy 21, 29 & 32, 2009)

Not exact matches

Outside of a mud hut in Africa, I want to ask Noah if there was a dry corner of handkerchief in that willing and ready pocket of his?

Although they lived in comparative isolation, a part of farm and other forest produce like wax, honey and dried meat of animals was marketed for cash through Muslim traders.5 Many of their houses were good substantial erections of wood and stone,» although a majority preferred to live in temporary huts of mud and bamboos as the «survivors often dislike living in a dwelling in which the head of the family has died.

Other mud masks tend to dry out my sensitive skin but this mask dries nicely, not overly drying which has made it one of my favorite masks pretty quickly.

This has been an exceptionally wet winter and cleanup of tails exposed to mud and road debris was machine washable and dried wrinkle free.

The Baja sun was glaring, and the ground was bone dry except where I slopped through the mud with James Ketchum, also a disciple of Klimley's, at his lab.

The first signs of life on another planet may not be a complex signal captured by an antenna or images of a scampering creature on the horizon, but a track left in long - dried mud.

Most solutions involve pumping some combination of mud or fly ash combined with an inert gas or water, but the mixture does not always flow thoroughly enough to cover the burning coal, and it can crack when dried, allowing oxygen to get back in.

The polygonal blocks may be the result of contraction processes similar to those that create the cracked mud in dry lake beds on Earth.

The find, based on new radar observations, adds to a deluge of evidence that the moon's lakes are indeed filled with liquid, rather than dried mud.

Despite its pretty pink color in the jar, it applies clear and sits on top of the face, rather than sinking in and drying like a mud mask.

And they'll start finding out where their food comes from» — in this case, from the seed - bed shelves (caked with dried mud until HGSE showed up) that run its entire length on either side of a walkway.

Most buildings are made of mud bricks and many people make their living by farming the dry, harsh land.

The new General mud tires needed very little weight to balance out and seem to hook up well in a variety of wet and dry on - and off - road environments.

Such techniques as building with rectangular sun - dried mud - bricks, imprinting clay with cylinder - seals, the use of certain new styles of ornamentation, and the first attempts at a pictographic system of writing have been traced by some scholars to a Mesopotamian source.

During rainy periods, the kennel help came after «things dried out» because of the mud.

The stress on these roads from traffic creates an extremely bumpy car ride and also generates a great deal of dust during the dry season and mud during the green season, making pedestrian traffic more challenging.

The park has 330km2 of underwater forest, bush plains and of course, the centrepiece, Lake Manyara, which has alkaline waters with a pH level near 9.5 during the wet season but turns to a large area of mud flats during the dry spells.

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

With waterfalls, several craters, still active, mud baths, tropical dry, Rain and Cloud Forests and much more makes this a one of a kind nature experience.

In the center of Mopti, The Great Mosque (or Komoguel Mosque) resembles the well - known Great Mosque of Djenné, built with sun - dried mud bricks.

Right away you'll notice the obvious things like the dynamic lighting that glimmers through the rainforest, right down to the smallest of details like the appropriate amount of dirt or mud you get on your car when drive down a muddy track or through the harsh dry outback.

Well, well, I've dried the mud off my Manolos and am writing to tell you that attendance was up, caravans of buses smoothed the to and fro for $ 5, the spacious serpentine tent had been extended to accommodate 180 - plus galleries, bottled water could be had for $ 2, and any remaining sour grapes were crushed underfoot by Mayor Bloomberg, who fast - walked his four bodyguards down the three isles at noon as though art were an exercise.

The lens focuses the sun into a 1,600 - degree point of light that melts the dry mud, transforming it into a black glassy substance.

Lamson excavated the mark by pouring water over it, softening the dry mud on either side of the line and eventually causing the insoluble glass to separate from its muddy surrounding.

Birth (Gunpowder Works), from 1981, is a wonderfully graphic film in which the dried, cracked mud and raking light of the Iowa landscape gives birth to a dream of artistic magic and power.

However, several studies suggest that significant amounts of CH4, produced within the Earth's crust (mainly by bacterial and thermogenic processes), are released into the atmosphere through faults and fractured rocks, mud volcanoes on land and the seafloor, submarine gas seepage, microseepage over dry lands and geothermal seeps (Etiope and Klusman, 2002; Etiope, 2004; Kvenvolden and Rogers, 2005).

c. Need for thermic and hydric isolation in homes: they capacitated locals to build membranes with discarded tetrabrick; d. No interior heat and poor cooking techniques (fires inside the houses, which provoqued toxic smoque): they built and taught how to make an adobe (pressed mud dried to the sun) oven in one of the houses.

Dried mud extended up my arms, like a pair of long - sleeved gloves, as if I were dressed for a gala event with forest - fairies.

It seems that a wide variety of possibilites could exist in the Arctic or sub-Arctic for dead trees, such as encased in mud, and therefore very moist, or exposed to wind, and therefore, very dry or even desiccated.

«Some, like Connelly Branch of the Mud River, are two miles long — certainly not the «dry ditches» industry claims.

Mudflow, defined as a river of liquid and flowing mud carried by a current of water on the surface of normally dry land.

Mudslides which are proximately caused by the overflow of inland or tidal waters and are akin to a river or liquid and flowing mud on the surfaces of normally dry land areas including your residence, as when earth is carried by a current of water and deposited along the path of the current.

My mudroom is the hardest to keep clean - coming in out of the snow and mud — everything gets peeled off and left to dry in some manner or another.

It took him about 2 weeks of mudding, drying, leveling and mudding some more.