Sentences with phrase «rock composition»

«This transition corresponds to a boundary between the layers that we can image with seismology and that we attribute to changes in rock composition.»

Team members lean toward a solid nickel - iron rock composition for the hot planet, possibly with a thick atmosphere.

For certain rock compositions, it is possible to generate large volumes of molten rock under cooler conditions.

And that helps scientists to figure out when rock composition — and geologic — changes started to occur.

Team members have been gauging rock composition by measuring the x-rays and gamma - rays emitted by a surface bombarded by the sun's x-rays and by cosmic rays.

Don't get too excited, though, it still comes with a learning curve and it's not like it can help you if you don't already have a knack for putting together rock compositions.

He produced guitar - laced rock compositions throughout the score to capture the intense action and appeal to mainstream audiences.

Musically it literally blew me away with it's epic, progressive rock composition.

The other study proposes that the section below the boundary is denser — meaning its molecules are more tightly packed — than the section above it, due to a shift in rock composition.

For many decades it has not been clear whether mid-ocean ridge elevations are caused by variations in the temperature of the mantle or variations in the rock composition of the mantle.

Does the rock composition change there?

But rather than a monotonously uniform surface homogenized by impact cratering over the eons, the first up - close look at the asteroid reveals a full palette of mineral «colors» (mapped here in false color reflecting the wide range of rock compositions).

The results also have an important consequence for rock compositions — notably the ratios of certain isotopes, Natland says.