Sentences with phrase «of volcanic rock»

Our water is slowly and naturally filtered through layers of volcanic rock, producing a naturally delicious spring water with nothing added, removed or touched.

A level field of volcanic rock spread out around them.

Following the discovery of volcanic rocks of the same age as the extinction, volcanic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions had previously been suggested as an important contributor to this extinction event.

Importantly, the water in the basin was isolated from the open ocean for long enough to deposit more than 1.5 km of volcanic rock and sediment.

This reef is a maze of volcanic rock with schools of fish at every turn.

It was fashioned out of volcanic rock from outcrops in central Turkey, a minimum of 700...

To test that idea, researchers with the Ocean Drilling Program collected samples of volcanic rock from the older seamounts in summer 2001.

Located right in the center of Edinburgh, Arthur's Seat stands out as the highest hill in an ancient formation of volcanic rock which graces the city's sky line.

I had traveled 2,600 miles to a frozen slab of volcanic rock in the middle of winter to experience Thorrablót, a celebration of rotten - tasting food.

Researchers uncovered a piece of volcanic rock dating back to the formation of Earth's early crust.

(A molcajete is a traditional Mexican mortar and pestle made of volcanic rock.

The meteorite, known as Northwest Africa 7635 and discovered in 2012, was found to be a type of volcanic rock called a shergottite.

Researchers gathered data by squeezing samples of the volcanic rock basalt (dark blob in center of image) between small bits of diamond at pressures approaching 600,000 times that exerted by Earth's atmosphere at sea level — or about the same as that found within rocks about 1400 kilometers below Earth's surface.

NWA 7635 and the 10 other meteorites discovered along with it by the researchers were a type of volcanic rock called a shergottite and had similar chemical compositions and ejection times, lead author and University of Houston geology professor Tom Lapen said in a statement.

Dr Farris notes: «This study examines the relationship between arc magmatism and tectonic change in a sequence of volcanic rocks along the Panama Canal.

Listen to MCfx, afterall, he is the borderline genius who thinks that the age of volcanic rocks can be determined by radiocarbon dating.

This sprawling city of a million people, built on and out of volcanic rock on the shores of an exploding lake has become synonymous — insofar as it comes to the attention of the wider world at all — with catastrophic refugee crises, ecological devastation, and looting and pillaging.

Scientists could not say for sure, however, because the dichotomy's exact shape was unclear: As much as a third of its edge was obscured beneath a 20 - mile -(30 - kilometer --RRB- high pile of volcanic rock (the second largest feature on Mars) known as the Tharsis Rise.

They state that changes in the composition of volcanic rocks likely drove a transition from water - bearing magmas to dry, hot magmas over time, and these magmas in turn caused different types of volcanoes to form.

Already, a growing number of concrete manufacturers are exploring the use of volcanic rock and less energy - intensive processes, Jackson said, which could be a win - win for industry and the environment.

Park ranger Lindsay Smith poses with a chunk of volcanic rock in 2013.

It took 20 people to carry in the second slab of volcanic rock, which, at the last minute, was dropped and smashed.

Wailea includes five main beaches of soft sand bordered with outcroppings of volcanic rock.

Here you will observe ancient domes of volcanic rock displaying fascinating geological formations and a vivid array of colours, as well as shimmering salt lakes and densely vegetated sand hills which bloom with wildflowers after rain.

We observe ancient domes of volcanic rock displaying fascinating geological formations and a vivid array of colours.

Here you will see a brilliant array of colors created by the reds and browns of volcanic rock, mixed with the blues and greens of tropical vegetation.

Surrounded by ridges of volcanic rock and lush tropical forests, the Blue Flag award - winning Playa Hermosa certainly lives up to its name.

The Commission's duty is to monitor and study the movements of a colossal monster composed of volcanic rocks known as Zorah Magdaros.

To this day, Ajusco's landscape of volcanic rock remains a work in process, with structures in a constant state of transformation as additions are made when materials become available and necessity dictates.

Fiji Water trickles down through the layers of volcanic rock over time and gathers minerals and electrolytes along the way that create Fiji's soft smooth taste — slow cooking and baking often brings out the most amazing flavors and scents of almost any ingredient.

A few things you said regarding evolution and the dating error of volcanic rock made me rethink the atheist in the Gaps explanations for the unknown.

The colorful canyon walls arelined with massive spines of volcanic rock, and here and there a puff of steamand a dot of green against the snow will mark the location of a belchingfumarole.

A dense, underground block of volcanic rock (shown in red) helped shape the well - known bend in the Appalachian mountain range.

The men were stationed at Matienzo Base, a dreary cluster of steel huts that sat atop a wedge of volcanic rock jutting from the sea, 50 kilometers off the coast of Antarctica.

Though the researchers had trekked the route often, this time they noticed that coal miners had freshly exposed a gleaming white bed of volcanic rock.

Large igneous provinces, or LIPs, are huge pools of volcanic rocks poured out at the Earth's surface.

Its exterior is covered with 3 million tonnes of volcanic rock, but the interior is a mound of earth.

Some researchers have suggested that these gases might have been spewed out by the volcanic eruptions that produced the Siberian traps, a vast formation of volcanic rock produced by the most extensive eruptions in Earth's geological record.

«If we can find ways to incorporate a substantial volumetric component of volcanic rock in the production of specialty concretes, we could greatly reduce the carbon emissions associated with their production also improve their durability and mechanical resistance over time,» Jackson says.

Then, in 1964, rock climbers found the dried - out remains of a giant stick insect on Ball's Pyramid, an 1,800 - foot - tall spire of volcanic rock 14 miles from Lord Howe Island.

But this was not a hot spring, and these chimneys were not built of volcanic rock.

Compared to the Taklimakan desert, source rocks of the Gobi desert include a high percent of volcanic rock.

The meteorite (image; edge of cube is 1 centimeter long), dubbed NWA 7034, weighs almost 320 grams and is a conglomerate of chunks that include bits of volcanic rock.

When Johnson and her students started to poke around through the dense vegetation swathing Mole Hill, the very texture of the volcanic rock appeared unusual.

He could extract only two ages from the 26,700 feet of core, from a pair of volcanic rock layers near the top.

A geologist has discovered a thorny, palmlike plant in Liberia that seems to grow only on top of kimberlite pipes — columns of volcanic rock hundreds of meters across that extend deep into Earth, left by ancient eruptions that exhumed diamonds from the mantle.

One leading candidate for the cause of this event is gas released from a large swath of volcanic rock in Russia called the Siberian Traps.

Matter, who works with the program, said CarbFix is the first system that injects carbon dioxide into basalt, a form of volcanic rock.