Sentences with phrase «rock crystals in»

The gallery will highlight particular strengths within the collection, which encompasses one of the most important holdings of luster pottery and rock crystals in the world including the celebrated rock crystal ewer, one of only seven in the world of its caliber and the only one of its type in the United States.

The Keir Collection of Islamic Art Gallery will highlight particular strengths within the collection, which encompasses one of the most important holdings of luster pottery and rock crystals in the world.

Not exact matches

Crystals and rocks persist, but they do not form the constituency of any larger complex they might comprise except in the most passive way.

Each of these two types secures stability amidst environmental novelty, but the former overwhelms and virtually eliminates these intrusions and thereby persists much as we observe in crystals, rocks, planets and suns.

We must recognize that in this context «adaptation» is strictly defined in terms of survival values and that, generally speaking, it is the simpler forms of organization that possess the greatest staying power: living systems, no matter how fantastically intricate - and well organized they might be, have a much shorter span of existence than, say, a rock crystal, or a single stable atom.34

In the desert, for example, you can lie in a room while someone plays crystal bowls set to a specific frequency, just a stone's throw from the big rock where George Van Tassel met some extraterrestrials in 195In the desert, for example, you can lie in a room while someone plays crystal bowls set to a specific frequency, just a stone's throw from the big rock where George Van Tassel met some extraterrestrials in 195in a room while someone plays crystal bowls set to a specific frequency, just a stone's throw from the big rock where George Van Tassel met some extraterrestrials in 195in 1953.

Mississauga, Canada - based Cott Corp. announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement pursuant to which Cott will acquire Crystal Rock Holdings Inc., Watertown, Conn., for $ 0.97 per share in cash.

The pink - white glaciers and crystal tarns, the rushing streams and slag - gray rocks, the emerald brush and dusty trails are mere handservants to the sun, which is in command.

The England international is a rock - solid defender and was given a breather for the 2 - 1 win over Crystal Palace, perhaps in preparation for this test.

Over the course of the season Crystal Palace should have scored a lot more than they have, but they're rock - bottom in the Premier League table and have scored just 10 goals in 16 matches.

In October 2017, Mikel Merino had just scored the winner at St.James» Park against rock bottom Crystal Palace to cap...

Most notably, Liverpool have conceded six times the number of goals United have let in, shipping 12 from seven games compared with United's two - only West Ham and rock - bottom Crystal Palace have leaked more.

Crystal Lake — The park district lawsuit seeking title ownership to the lake bed stirred up stormy waters with the shoreline property owners named in the suit, but now the action appears to be rocking the Park Board itself.

These crystals form only when rocks in Earth's crust see extreme pressure.

«As a general rule, light - colored crystals are lower density, and these are abundant in igneous rocks that make up the Earth's continents.»

Igneous clast named Harrison embedded in a conglomerate rock in Gale crater, Mars, shows elongated light - toned feldspar crystals.

«If you don't distinguish between the types of crystals then you get a big variation in the age of the event which formed the rocks, potentially millions of years, as well as developing incorrect views on the conditions needed to make magmas.

But in 2003 two papers noted that there are other ways to make magnetite crystals, such as slamming a rock from space onto the Martian surface.

Seismic waves move faster through flowing rock because the pressure deforms the crystals of olivine, a mineral common in the mantle, and stretches them in the same direction.

By using high - tech dating techniques to examine crystals in the rock, Ernst's team has also narrowed down the timelines of these eruptions.

The presence of shocked quartz crystals in rocks from both regions have been cited as evidence of impacts, although the new findings suggest that the rocks could have just as easily been made by lightning strikes.

Weiss» team found that the rock conglomerate the zircon crystals were in had been magnetized just 1 billion years ago, when it probably formed as part of a volcanic eruption nearby.

And as any child who has made rock candy knows, the process also works in reverse: Crystals of sugar will form as water evaporates from the glass.

Although the heat of the upper mantle might help the olivine or pyroxene crystals within the rocks grow larger again, or «heal,» the two rock types are competing for space: Each is actually inhibited in its growth by the other's presence.

By looking at the ratio of two of these cosmic - ray - made elements — aluminum - 26 and beryllium - 10 caught in crystals of quartz, and measured in an accelerator mass spectrometer — the scientists were able to calculate how long the rocks in their samples had been exposed to the sky versus covered by ice.

In lab experiments, scientists found that the longer it took the rock to cool, the larger the resulting crystals, allowing researchers to use crystal size to determine how long a rock was hot and its electrons susceptible to alignment by magnetic fields.

«Using the atom probe to go from the rock to the crystal to its atomic level is like zooming in with the ultimate Google Earth,» Moser says.

But the rocks were erupted less than 500,000 years ago, and younger outer layers of the same crystals were added later, indicating to researchers they'd been dipped repeatedly in molten magma.

In January, a team of researchers reported that this crystal was dated as Earth's oldest known rock — at around 4.4 billion years old.

A prototype material is the rock salt crystal sodium chloride (NaCl) with elementary units in form of a cube.

They found that the carbon nuggets are encased in crystal that could only have formed when the rock initially cooled from magma.

However, ancient zircon crystals in sedimentary rocks provide evidence that our planet had liquid oceans, at least intermittently, during this earliest period.

By measuring the abundance of an isotope of the noble gas argon in the rock or its crystals, Gazel and his colleague Michael Kunk of the U.S. Geological Survey found that the magma was much younger than the last known volcanic event on the East Coast — which occurred when the supercontinent of Pangaea slowly pulled apart into North America, Africa and South America some 200 million years ago, forming the Atlantic Ocean in the process.

The igneous rock was fine - grained with small crystals of various kinds, except every once in a while where a relative giant crystal — 1 centimeter or more across — intruded.

Throughout these experiments, the team looked for tiny crystals forming in each molten sample, representing the point at which the sample turns from lava to rock.

Although surface water played an important role in the generation of both Icelandic and Hadean crystals, in the Icelandic case the water was extremely hot when it interacted with the source rocks while the Hadean water - rock interactions were at significantly lower temperatures.

In many types of rocks, particularly volcanic rocks that have substantial amounts of water locked inside them, crystals are chock - full of oxygen - oxygen bonds called peroxy bonds.

Central to the study is the idea that rocks that appear dry to the human eye can actually contain water — in the form of hydrogen atoms trapped inside natural voids and crystal defects.

The newly deposited calcite matches the orientation of the existing crystals, and organic molecules that harden calcite make it even tougher than the original rock, the scientists report in the April issue of Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

Then in 2005 the Discovery Channel television show MythBusters tackled the question, recruiting rock singer and vocal coach Jamie Vendera to hit some crystal ware with his best shot.

«The crystals could protect the organisms for many years — they could even protect them in space,» he says, suggesting astrobiologists might want to get their hands on some salt rocks from Mars.

To understand how water affects subduction of the oceanic plate, in which layers of different rock types sink into the mantle, the UO team studied hydrogen isotopes in water contained in tiny blobs of glass trapped in olivine crystals in basalt.

Eventually, a stable rocky crust may have developed between Years 0.2 and 0.4 billion (see J. Bret Bennington's discussion of recycled zircons (crystals of zirconium silicate) from the rocks of western Australia in the Hadean Eon and the January 11, 2001 announcement of zircons found north of Perth that appear to be 4.4 billion years old), covered and surrounded by soupy water that was already rich with organic compounds from interstellar space.

I may have missed the opportunity to have my aura photograph taken or to learn about my future from a Sedona fortuneteller, I can certainly understand the sense of magic this spectacular and serene scenery invokes in visitor — although for me, the true magic is not the mist in the crystal ball but knowing a bit about the incredible and distant past these majestic rock formation witnessed.

«The magma that originally erupted from the supervolcano had about 1,400 ppm lithium in it,» said Benson, describing a red - hot pyroclastic flow of pumice, ash, crystals, and rock that spread for 50 miles in all directions.

«Along the rover's path we have seen some beautiful rocks with large, bright crystals, quite unexpected on Mars,» said Roger Wiens of Los Alamos National Laboratory in a statement.

Called van der Waals forces, the attraction provides insights into how crystals self - assemble, an activity that occurs in a wide range of cases in nature, from rocks to shells to bones.

With adequate support, our project partner Crystal Bioscience, a world leader in avian biotechnologies, may begin initial experiments with Domestic Rock Pigeons.

This hot slush is created by tidal forces from the mammoth gravity of Jupiter, which slowly knead the moon as it moves in its orbit, generating enormous amounts of heat as rock crystals rub against each other.

The crystals that form inside these rocks vary based on the surrounding conditions, so geodes look vastly different depending on where in the world they're buried.