Sentences with phrase «piece of rock»

There may not be the thrill of accidentally getting a stray piece of rock salt in your ice cream, but it certainly is easier, quieter, and cleaner.

The team decided to split the load and bring half of the large pieces of rock home on the plane, and half shipped on a cargo vessel.

The crushed limestone screenings are very fine pieces of rock that bond together to make a smooth surface.

This is based on lots of different people going back and examining the same pieces of rock.

It doesn't boast incredibly lifelike faces or enough polygons crammed into one square millimetre to replicate the tiniest piece of rock with incredible detail, but it does have something else; beauty.

«As the fossils are very small and delicate and because the limestone is very hard,» this paleontologist explains, «fossils are recovered by putting pieces of the rock in acid baths.»

Hundreds of Youth Softball Players Compete at Annual Rocklin Girls Fastpitch Softball Event as Piece of the Rock Tournament Swings into Kathy Lund Park on June 16 - 18.

Much of the action is disappointingly perfunctory (no doubt owing in part to difficulties in working with the elaborate robotics on set that robbed time and attention from the rest of the film), although a scene where Benson holds Alex's head still and asks Hector to clear a tiny piece of rock from her eye is expertly staged.

The hardy bugs could have travelled to Earth on pieces of rock that were blasted into space by an impacting asteroid and fell to Earth as meteorites.

The works on exhibition have begun their lives as pieces of rock destined for reconstruction into everyday objects: counters, gravestones, and pavements.

They shaped the cerium oxide into nanometer - sized rods and polyhedrons, which look like tiny pieces of rock candy, to capture the platinum atoms.

Volcanic ash consists of pieces of rock, glass and other minerals.

We Ho.mo Sapiens are one of a few million species that live on a big piece of rock hurling around a large hydrogen bomb, which is itself one of 100,000,000,000 hydrogen bombs in our galaxy, which is one of 200,000,000,000 galaxies in a cold, dark space of dimensions you or I can not comprehend.

Most pieces of rock art, painted in red, brown or yellow ocher — a hydrous iron oxide — contain no organic carbon.

In the cases of the rock at Caves Branch Cave, the angular pieces of rock are called ìrip up clastsî.

As the BBC reported, tourists have been filmed using the arch as a platform to dive into the sea, dislodging pieces of rock in the process.

We hiked all day along the ridge occasionally walking out on the narrow pieces of rock that jutted from the main path — only three feet wide with hundreds of feet of cliff on each side.

Don't get me wrong, the ice cream from the Cusinart is still good, but maybe I just liked that thrill of getting a spare piece of rock salt in your bowl

Jason Collins, President of RGFSL, explained that Piece of the Rock dates back to 2001 and has continued to grow over the years.

Rocklin Girls Fastpitch Softball League (RGFSL) is teaming up with Placer Valley Tourism (PVT) to hit a home run with their annual Piece of the Rock Tournament.

Did you know the Earth is made up of large pieces of rock called tectonic plates?

AMERICAN MADE A 18,500 - to 17,000 - year - old stone artifact unearthed at Chile's Monte Verde site, shown from the side (left) and top (right), contains smooth areas where pieces of the rock were struck off to create a scraping or cutting tool.

Friedman was hunting in rubble at the foot of a Wyoming cliff when he came across an interesting piece of rock.

After all, where is the glory in scuffling around the Gobi Desert in dirty clothes, blowing your nose and clutching pieces of rock?

For the first time, astronomers predicted when and where an asteroid would strike Earth — and recovered pieces of the rock to prove it.

EET 83309 has fragments of many other kinds of meteorite embedded in it, showing that there were many impacts on the surface of the parent asteroid, bringing pieces of rock from elsewhere in the solar system.

Downes and her team studied the meteorite, named EET 83309, an object made up of thousands and broken pieces of rock and minerals, meaning that it originally came from the broken up surface, or regolith, of an asteroid.

«Our islands were essentially smallish pieces of rocks with some forest and heathland on them.

And yet Cassini was picking up little pieces of rock.

It is hard to look back that far and determine what could have formed pieces of rock a few millimeters in diameter, quickly melted that rock, and then encased those liquid droplets in other rock.

Small pieces of rock, moving in outer space billions of years ago, before the Sun and Earth formed, suddenly and mysteriously melted.

The entire tongue - in - cheek premise of the movie is that soccer was invented during the Pleistocene epoch, when a meteor fell to Earth and a bunch of barbarians couldn't handle the hot piece of rock.

The process would take time, but in the end, the ragged piece of rock you started with would be smooth and refined, with the superfluous bits cut away.

These are pieces of rock several inches on a side that were torn up and jumbled about before the clasts or pieces had a chance to harden.

The fragment's transformations, from having had a clear use within a building into an apparently functionless piece of rock, and then into a historic relic, are both continued and emphasised through its incorporation into Siegel's work.

Another idea is that it's very hard to actually stab a sword into a big piece of rock.

The team is planning lab studies to measure the level at which the fluid can be recycled as well as its ability to fracture larger pieces of rock.

Pieces of rock art dot the Appalachian Mountains, and research by University of Tennessee, Knoxville, anthropology professor Jan Simek finds each engraving or drawing is strategically placed to reveal a cosmological puzzle.

In Caves Branch Cave for example, angular pieces of rock can be found that are called ìrip up clastsî.

Hundreds of Youth Softball Players Compete at Annual Rocklin Girls Fastpitch Softball Event as Piece of the Rock...

@Frank and actually the word for Peter is pe» tros, the masculine form of the Greek word, which actually means «piece of rock.»

As has been demonstrated, take a piece of rock, give it to a university lab and ask them to date it.

When you want to procure things that would make you comfortable, you should have ready money and not a piece of rock with veins of gold in it straight from the mine.

Not just going round the Kabba, but kissing the hajr al aswad too, which is another piece of rock.