Sentences with phrase «rock rubble»

The locals expected to build a rock rubble platform approx 5 — 6 metres above ground level and build the mosque on top.

In addition, the research team will look into the energy absorption capabilities of similar geomaterials such as rock rubble.

Not exact matches

He will find that the new world he promised on that bright morning in the rose garden looks less Elysian and more Huxley: a nightmare landscape where betrayed citizens clamber through the rubble to throw rocks at him.

The resulting rubble from Phobos — rocks of various sizes and a lot of dust — would continue to orbit Mars and quickly distribute themselves around the planet in a ring.

Intense thermal stresses open up fractures in rocks; over the eons, the mechanical breakdown from daily heating and cooling can reduce boulders to piles of rubble.

«When we first came up with this number, the geologists said, «Yes, now we get it, now we understand why this rock surface is so clean and there is no sand or rubble,»» Farley says.

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

This could mean that it is similar to water - rich objects in the outer edge of the asteroid belt, or it could mean that Phobos is a rubble pile, with many empty cavities between rock fragments.

The rock formation known as the Dias rises in the distance above Upper Wright Valley, part of Antarctica's Dry Valleys region, in which most of the glaciers are buried beneath thousands of years of accumulated rubble.

Below us and extending to the misty horizon lies a desolate pit of gray - black rock and rubble where, 14 months ago, a heavily forested mountain once stood.

Over millions of years, wind and rain slowly exhume the crystal and leave it exposed on a lifeless grey wasteland of rock and rubble, under an atmosphere of carbon dioxide and methane.

Neptune, for example, does not prevent Pluto from crossing its orbit, and Jupiter's orbit is not entirely cleared of rubble — it contains hundreds of rocks, known as the Trojan asteroids, albeit locked in two clumps by the gas giant's gravity.

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (Reuters)- Rescue workers searched for survivors on Monday in the rubble left by a wave of tornadoes that ripped through the south - central United States a day earlier, killing at least 16 people in Arkansas, Oklahoma and Iowa.

They found that because Martian rocks are full of iron oxide, they can drink in about 25 per cent more water than rubble on Earth (Nature, doi.org/chnd).

Torrence Johnson, Galileo project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, says the 170 - mile - wide body is probably «a very porous rubble pile, made of light rock mixed with ice and a fair amount of empty space.»

Gray rubble on the flanks of Mauna Kea on the island of Hawaii lie in contrast to the red volcanic rock behind them, and were deposited by a glacier that disappeared thousands of years ago.

Peyton has just made another movie about the Rock running through rubble.

But what we have here is a rather sweet story of the plan to hold Angola's first national rock concert in its bombed - out, rubble - strewn, second - largest city, Huambo.

In 2010, the San Jose copper / gold mine collapsed trapping 33 Chilean miners more than 2300 feet under tons of rubble and an unstable rock that dwarfed the Empire State Building.

An obstacle course was erected within the Speedway's infield, consisting of challenges from mild dirt tracks to fierce concrete rubble rocks.

These would include items such as lace rock, tufa, limestone, coral rubble, holy rock and marine substrates.

All other Maya cities, during their building, rubble fill rocks and cut stone blocks were brought together and secured by mortar — lime — limestone fired over 800 degrees fahrenheit turning it into dust, or cement.

Among the hard coral, rubble and some rocks that formed an interesting topography, Reef Octopus, Pygmy Squid, nudibranchs, like the Nembrotha, Fimbriated and Yellowmargin Moray Eels were some of the highlights pointed out by our divemasters.

Among the rubble of rocks on the bottom you can see decorator crabs, huge bull crabs, squid and cuttlefish.

The artist makes pigment from the extracted rubble and reapplies it as handprints on the same rock, marking the spot she would normally grasp to lift the rock.

In 1970, artist Robert Smithson marshaled heavy equipment to deposit rocks and rubble along a 1,500 - foot - long path, starting at the shoreline of a remote section of Great Salt Lake, Utah, and spiraling out into the water.