Sentences with phrase «of rock material»

But when we look at the quantum mechanical properties of an isolated atom, it turns out that we don't understand how the microscopic properties of the rock material result from the quantum mechanical interactions in an «a priori» fashion.

Not exact matches

• Rock Hill Capital Group recapitalized LeBlanc Marine LLC, a New Iberia, La. - based provider of marine construction, barge and tug services and material offloading services along the Gulf Coast.

And because of the materials he had, including his rock saw that he uses for the trenching, he was able to provide a more efficient and much cheaper service than others for the customers, who are usually large - ranch owners investing a lot of money to save their trees.

The agency's European counterpart, ESA, has suggested that moon rock and Mars dust could be used to 3D print structures and tools, which could significantly reduce the cost of future space missions because less material would need to be brought along from Earth.

This implies that the asteroid is made of dense material — rock and possibly metal — and has no water or ice.

Our third expedition will bring back samples of lunar dust and rocks that everyone can own, providing scientists with a new source of lunar materials for research, and making these treasures from the Moon available to collectors and commercial purposes.

Oil sands are sand and rock material which contains crude bitumen, a heavy, viscous form of crude oil.

There is a great deal of evidence showing that the moon was created by a collision... the fact that the moon rocks are made of the exact same materials..

«the fact that the moon rocks are made of the exact same materials..

All materials made have a seam, so the earth has seams, it is not a solid thing like a rock, it's like patched up, it took him 7 days to patch up this planet into a ball, which you can compare to a football, which have patches of two different colors (white and black), the people that are living on this «ball» the earth, is also mixed with black and white people, who try to live in harmony with everybody, why disrupt it with foolishness.

You may have ansered your own question... so the materials of this universe, including the foundational material of this world may have come from billions of years ago... no reason not to reuse a perfectly good hunk of rock to create a world upon.

We are often exhorted by scientists and philosophers alike to accept the material given to us by sense perception as though it is the rock - bottom foundation of our knowledge of the physical world, Simultaneously we are told to refrain from coloring neutral sense data over with our subjective wishes and teleological desires.

Dr. Austin, the «scientist» in question, is a young earth creationist who went to the site with the stated purpose of finding «proof against evolution,» gathered material which was a mix of newly formed rock and ancient rock which had been ejected from the mountain, dated them with imprecise methods, and then skewed the results, as thousands of actual scientists have already reported.

A bit later, he says: «All observable things are of the same organizational type, so that human beings are analogous to material things such as rocks and bodies of water.»

Gingerbread houses are generally made of «construction grade» gingerbread and royal icing glue, both of which are rock hard and not exactly prime snacking material.

Identify and name a variety of everyday materials, including wood, plastic, glass, metal, water, and rock.

But I armed myself with an arsenal of resources and educational materials, and a rock - star birth team (an experienced and skilled midwife, a doula and my husband).

The variations in the geometric weave will remind you of the infinitely interesting patterns that are present in the particulate minerals, rock, and organic material that make up the coasts, sea floors, and deserts of Earth.

In 1849, Dublin - born engineer Robert Mallet detonated kegs of gunpowder he'd buried on a beach to test how shock waves traveled through rock and other material: the world's first seismological experiment.

A team of physicists has now found the unusual materials, famous for their ability to conduct electricity without resistance, within two space rocks.

Scientists predict the boundary layer — a mix of original peak ring materials, tsunami deposits and melted rocks that fell from the sky — should span hundreds of feet.

But analyses of earthquake vibrations along Earth's surface have suggested that continents could run 200 or 300 kilometers deep, very gradually transitioning from cold, hard rock to hotter, gooier material.

The waves travel at differing speeds depending on the materials they flow through, which provides clues about the topography of the interior: Faster - moving waves, for instance, generally indicate denser rock.

These muons can travel through solid rock, though some get absorbed, and the percentage lost depends on the mass of material along their path.

Previously it wasn't clear if the dark material was liquid or merely saturated sediment — which at Titan's frigid temperatures would be made of ice, not rock.

Now, over the coming weeks, a team of international researchers are returning to offshore Sumatra to collect marine sediments, rocks and fluids from this particular zone for the first time to gain a better understanding of the materials and to collect data for predicting how they behave in fault zones to generate large earthquakes.

The pattern — a change in wave orientation that reflects a journey through differently aligned materials — hints that rock flows horizontally toward the base of the plume, then rises vertically toward the hot spot.

Central peaks form when material under the impact zone rebounds, forming an upraised rock formation in the middle of the crater.

Most such lavas have been altered by billions of years of mixing, but in this case, the rocks bore chemical signatures of truly primitive material, almost untouched by time.

After inspiring millions of people worldwide with its successful landing in a crater on the Red Planet on Aug. 5, 2012, PDT (Aug. 6, 2012, EDT), Curiosity has provided more than 190 gigabits of data; returned more than 36,700 full images and 35,000 thumbnail images; fired more than 75,000 laser shots to investigate the composition of targets; collected and analyzed sample material from two rocks; and driven more than one mile (1.6 kilometers).

Evidence of a past environment well suited to support microbial life came within the first eight months of the 23 - month primary mission from analysis of the first sample material ever collected by drilling into a rock on Mars.

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Jackson's new tests of lead isotopes there confirm the rocks» ancient pedigree, which should help researchers better understand the raw materials from which our planet formed.

In their paper, published in Nature Communications, Atmospheric oxygen regulation at low Proterozoic levels by incomplete oxidative weathering of sedimentary organic carbon, the University of Exeter scientists explain how organic material — the dead bodies of simple lifeforms — accumulated in the earth's sedimentary rocks.

Astronomers believe large moonlets up to at least a half - mile in size may hide among the rings, which themselves are only about 30 feet thick; the taller vertical structures visible here could be ring material that «splashes» up when the fine particles of the rings collide with these moonlets, much as water at the sea's edge can splash up and over a rock.

This supports models where the material in the plume is a mixture of normal mantle rock and primordial rock from the dense rock anchoring the plume at the core - mantle boundary.

A trio of papers released online in Science this week shows how in this technological transition, these toolmakers in the Olorgesailie Basin in Kenya chose as raw material shiny black obsidian and white and green chert, rocks they had to get from distant sources or through trade networks.

When you do achieve something big and surprising — the kind of shocking, foundation - rocking science that wins Nobel Prizes — there's a good chance you'll encounter resistance from those whose research you're overturning, says Daniel Shechtman, a materials science professor at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa.

The observable material is a so - called debris disk consisting entirely of dust and large rocks, some of them possibly as large as planets.

In all three fossils, outlines of soft tissue were preserved in the surrounding rock as dull black material.

In a paper in the current issue of Geology, Mark Sephton of Imperial College London and his colleagues reveal that sedimentary rocks from that period — when they were on the bottom of a shallow sea — contain a pulse, or unusually elevated levels of organic material from soil and plants.

What happens, Mayo says, is that as erosion undercuts the material in ways that would normally cause it to collapse, pressure mounts along the remaining rock where the greatest amount of material has been removed.

In January 2005, for example, Ohio State University geophysicist Ralph von Frese and his colleagues noticed a concentration of higher - than - average - density material in the rock about a mile under the surface of the East Antarctic ice sheet.

Railway systems are designed for a 50 - year lifespan, which is calculated on the integrity of the materials used, and most railways are built along one of two common track systems: rails set on railway ties (U.S.A.) or sleepers (UK), which are then «ballasted» into beds of rock or gravel; or rails that are set onto concrete slabs.

Many residents» homes were built using mud and rocks near mines, and some of that building material is radioactive.

They examined 130 outcrops on the flanks of the volcano, exposing sequences of pumice — ash hardened into rock — and other pyroclastic material.

The biggest caveat, says geologist Dawn Sumner of the University of California, Davis, is that the organic material observed in the study may not actually be ancient, coming instead from recent microorganisms living in the rocks.

The material, they believe, was recycled as older volcanic rocks forming the roofs of magma chambers collapsed and remelted during eruptions, only to be reejected in the next volcanic outburst.

The results revealed that rocks in the area where the ankylosaurs congregated were more fine grained in texture and contained a higher degree of coal than those found elsewhere, suggesting the area was once a stagnant locale containing lots of organic material.

People living at the end of the Stone Age were probably amazed to discover that certain rocks could be heated to produce a fiery liquid that flowed like water but which cooled to produce workable materials.