Sentences with phrase «ridge into»

When the grounding line retreats from its current position on a ridge into the valley, the rim of the ice facing the ocean becomes higher than before.
Clicked in to our bindings, I give our youngest a ski pole tow across the flats to where «It's A Ten», begins rolling down the ridge into Crystal Bowl.
This beautifully filmed Western is basically a slow moving two hour chase, down a snowy mountain ridge into the desert plains.
Then slice ridges into the potato.
As the tide rises and falls and water moves through the strait, colder, denser water is pushed up over the ridges into warmer, less dense layers above it.
Here he worked a tracery of ridges into walls of wet riverine mud.

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And nearly every evening, as the sun descends below its ridgeline, the whole mountain is briefly crowned in purple and pale gold, and the southwest horizon, where the ridge descends, is transformed into a gulf of amethyst, rose, and orange.
Thus Buber walks the narrow ridge between the mystic and the non-mystic, between one who asserts unity with the ground of being and the other who either removes God into the transcendence beyond direct relation or limits Him to objective «personal» existence.
The view that Jesus was a village farmer who also has practiced part - time carpentry in his native village and immediate surroundings as corroborated by the parabolic emphases has been confirmed by recent archaeological discoveries.31 Recent explorations have revealed that Nazareth was a small agricultural village that came into being in the 3rd century BCE.32 Settlements in Nazareth were mostly found right at the top, whereas in the nearby «three northern spurs» they were to be found largely «on the slopes, lower ridges, and just off the basins.
They are maybe five years old, these three moppets, and I hear Their bus groaning a ways behind me, but they are totally into sculpting Little hills and ridges of leaves, and I can hear them giggling, and in one Minute the bus will hold out its arms and absorb them, and the parade is Starting to move in front of me, but for another perfect instant I can hear And see them skiffling and giggling, and smell the sharp savory death of The brilliant leaves, and see the shoulder of the mom or aunt or neighbor In the lee of the apartment building, where she is just lighting a cigarette, And we get these moments all day long, don't we, we get them all month And week and year all our lives, such a flood and flow of them, too many To count, too many to endure, they are too generous and savory and holy, We could not bear to see and savor and sing them all; we would go blind.
In those moments I am willing even to indulge his somewhat romanticized view of himself: a figure in the twilight, at the end of a long journey through a large valley and into wooded hills, perhaps pausing on a low ridge that affords him a last narrow glimpse of the paths he has followed, watching the evening descending over the mountains and down toward darkening lakes and fields, trying to fix in memory the shape of a world soon to be lost in night.
In addition to the brine dumped in at the northern end, run - off from Israeli fish farms and untreated sewage from Jewish settlements along the ridge of the Jordan Valley and from the Arab community of Jericho make their way into the river bed from the west.
Potato Gnocchi are, in essence, cooked potatoes mashed and combined with flour to create a dough that's then rolled out and cut into small pieces then pressed with a fork to create ridges to hold sauce / broth.
The gist of gnocchi goes like this: a) usually a mixture of flour, eggs, and potatoes (though in this case, pumpkin) mixed together and kneaded into a light dough, 2) rolling out the dough and cutting the gnocchi into cubes, 145) using a special tool to give the gnocchi ridges for the sauce to cling on to.
Then, cut the fruit into short lengths, split the skin superficially along the ridge and peel the skin gently away from the flesh to get firm flesh inside.
Dandelion sinks its pale roots deep into the earth, splaying dark ridged leaves, yolk - yellow flowers sighing pollen up and out.
Pour the batter into the prepared pan and with a rubber spatula spread the batter from the center outward, creating a slightly raised ridge around the outside rim (since heat is conducted faster near the metal rim, mounding the batter around the edges ensures the cake will bake more evenly and will be more leveled).
Yukon Gold potatoes, peeled and cut into 1» pieces 6 potol (pointed gourds) or 2 medium zucchini, peeled and cut into 1» pieces 1 loofah (ridge gourd) or 1 large cucumber, peeled and cut into 1» pieces Kosher salt, to taste 1/2 cup fresh or frozen grated coconut 1 tsp.
Add a few more dollops of potato mixture on top to be spooned around beautifully into spoon - shaped depressions and curling ridges.
Use your fingertips to tuck the dough into the pan, without stretching it, and press the dough up the sides to create a roughly 1 - inch ridge above the rim of the pan.
Ridges and furrows are also useful in regions with heavy rainfall because the moisture tends to drain off the ridges and into the fuRidges and furrows are also useful in regions with heavy rainfall because the moisture tends to drain off the ridges and into the furidges and into the furrows.
Brush a little melted butter Oberg the cake moulds (making sure to coat every ridge) and dust a little flour into each one, tapping out any excess.
The ridge rises 275 vertical feet over the surrounding lake country and has been carved into a series of half - mile trails and slopes that fan out from the terminal point of the only chair lift in Minnesota.
Behind me, the final ridge disappeared into the mist.
If you ask the right person, a fair amount of bootlegging happens on roads the color of cracklings frying in a wash pot, stories of fortunes won and lost from running in behind whiskey tucked into ridges and creases of dirt roads.
Sigvaris - Compression Stocking / Support Hose Donning (Latex) are grippong gloves with a raised ridge surface to allow for an easy grip to guide support hose and stockings into place.
Sometimes if baby wasn't able to get into an ideal presentation at birth, for example if mom had an uncorrected type of in - utero constraint, and so baby wasn't crowning properly as they were coming through, those cranial bones can really jam together and sometimes they'll even ridge up or overlap.
It takes time to cover something as large as the world's oceans, so the 2,000 - plus census takers from more than 80 countries have broken up their assignment into 17 more manageable subgroups — like coral reefs, continental shelves, and mid-ocean ridges — that should provide a good overview of what's out there.
The ridges form when mantle material melts, rises into the cracks between tectonic plates, and solidifies again.
This mysterious event suddenly warped the planet's innermost rings into a ridged spiral pattern, like the grooves on a vinyl record.
The ridge extended up into the Pacific Northwest, Svoboda explained.
Three basic forces are believed to drive oceanic plate movement: plates are «pushed» away from mid-ocean ridges as new sea floor forms; plates are «pulled» as the oldest parts of the plate dive back into the earth at subduction zones; and convection within the asthenosphere helps ferry the plates along.
The pressure difference could be caused by hot, partially molten rock piled up beneath mid-ocean ridges or beneath the cooling plates diving into the earth at subduction zones, the authors write.
In years of strong NAOs, most major hurricanes curved along the southern margin of the high - pressure ridge and then turned north to plow into the East Coast.
From the outside, a sperm whale head looks like a piece of gray clay that has been rolled into a short, fat sausage and then pinched to a slim ridge along its length on the bottom side.
Plunging into the ocean off the west coast of Vancouver Island, the more than 800 kilometers of fiber optic cables that connect the research stations stretch across the continental shelf, plummet down the slope and across an abyssal plain, and skirt hydrothermal vents near a mid-ocean ridge where the Earth gives birth to new ocean crust.
He and colleagues thought that the answer to the floodwater question might also lie in the lakes» moraines — piles of sediments bulldozed by glaciers into high ridges that act as dams.
The ridges cut into a new device's crystal (seen here in a scanning electron microscope image) collectively act as a pair of mirrors.
Within the rings themselves, Cassini spied tumbling moonlets that sculpted the surrounding dust into towering waves and jagged ridges.
Just after the impact, deep granite bedrock, flowing like a liquid, rebounded into a central tower as tall as 10 kilometers before collapsing into the circular ridge.
Although scientists have drilled into the buried crater before on land, this is the first offshore effort, and also the first to go after the crater's «peak ring» — a circular ridge inside the crater rim that's characteristic of the solar system's largest impact craters.
Oceanic plates form at ocean ridges and disappear into the Earth's mantle, a process known as subduction.
Deep valleys slide into the lake, cutting between ridges of dense forest.
To access them, she uses boreholes that have been drilled into the Juan de Fuca ridge in the north - eastern Pacific, where the Pacific plate dives beneath the North American plate.
In the same way, the instability at, say, the gravitational ridge between Earth and the moon makes the mathematical description of orbits there disappear into a kind of haze nearly impossible for mathematicians and physicists to peer through.
Those ridges dig into the soft metal of the bullet, leaving striations.
Fingerprints have a general flow to the ridges that translates into one of three major pattern types: a whorl, loop or arch.
The Antarctic ice, sculpted by wind into the layered texture of Monument Valley sandstone, flies past, and the snowmobile's shocks judder and clack over ice ridges called sastrugi.
And by drilling into a circular ridge inside the 180 - kilometer - wide crater rim, scientists hope to settle ideas about how such «peak rings,» hallmarks of the largest impact craters, take shape.
In the simulations, the clockwise - swirling winds of a ridge in the Northern Pacific drove storms and rain north, beyond California and into the Pacific Northwest, the researchers report today in Nature Communications.
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