Sentences with phrase «rock structure in»

Koh Poda is famous for sparkling white sand, turquoise water, and a distinctive limestone rock structure in the middle of the sea in front of the beach.

Scientists used computer models to track the path of seismic waves through the Earth and generate 3 - D images, These images revealed a new and previously jknknown rock structure in the Chile fault line.

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The «Riverfront Era» gallery features a façade made with stones from the Old Rock House, a structure built as a warehouse in 1818 that was demolished to make way for the construction of the arch.

By: Donald Makhafola 6th April 2018 Advancing and applying smart technology is improving miners» ability to delineate geological structures more accurately, which is important because a key aspect that affects safety in the sector is the variability of rock mass characteristics over time and space, says consulting engineers and... →

Ie - rocks in structures - not just a geological layer.

This is dispiriting for us who attended Forward in Faith assemblies year after year: we had discussed statements and resolutions, and planned provisions and structures through which we could dialogue with Rome for unity, because, as we heard often «Peter is the rock from which we are hewn».

Natural formations of rocks do not have geometric shapes arranged in recognizable structures.

H. Richard's view of human limitation is expressed in his understanding of God as the structure in all things, «the rock against which we beat in vain, that which bruises and overwhelms us when we wish to impose our wishes, contrary to his, upon him.»

The 6 - foot - tall metal structure was removed Sunday night from Sunrise Rock in a lonely stretch of the Mojave National Preserve, said government officials and veterans groups that have been fighting for years to keep the cross on national park land.

This is the rock where God ordered Abraham to bind his son Isaac for sacrifice, and where later David and Solomon would build the central ritual structure of Judaism, the twice - destroyed temple that many Jews dream will be rebuilt in a messianic future when the dead are revived.

PSG's club structure was stupendous and he played in a genuinely rock solid defensive side.

«Baby gear must haves are both a wrap and soft structured carrier, a good stroller, and rocking recliner in baby's room.

Geodes are special kinds of rocks that have gorgeous crystalline structures in their hollow interior.

Nature - themed indoor playground and party venue in Vaughan with 11,500 square feet that includes a three - story play structure, rock - climbing wall, toddler zone, and five private party rooms.

Authorities say the Democrat exploited his power to reap $ 4 million in kickbacks in a case that has rocked New York's power structure.

Paul said «Initially, the bone just looked like a piece of rock but, after recognising a groove and bone structure, I thought it might be part of a jaw from an ichthyosaur and immediately contacted ichthyosaur experts Dean Lomax (University of Manchester) and Prof. Judy Massare (SUNY College at Brockport, NY, USA) who expressed interest in studying the specimen.

Once he could view the objects from any angle and under varied lighting, Butterfield concluded that their ribbed structure was simply a reflection of fine layers in the rock itself rather than the regular markings of a fossil.

He attached corresponding information about the type of rock and soil beneath each structure, details of the structure itself, the amount of shaking anticipated in the area, and the expected population nearby.

The only evidence we have of the earth's past are rocks and fossils — but these are just stable structures in the form of an arrangement of minerals we examine in the present.

Scientists typically assume that a fossilized dinosaur consists of rock that would entirely dissolve in acid, but Schweitzer wanted to get a closer look at the fossil's fine structure and compare it with that of modern birds.

«In the marine rocks you just see soft tissues, you don't see much internal structure preserved,» Sallan said.

Graptolites, whose name means written in rock, were tiny animals that lived in colonies of little cuplike structures known as theca.

The graptolites built many theca together to form a branching structure that then drifted in ancient seas and therefore can be found in sedimentary rocks of a certain vintage all around the world.

And in an effort to figure out how the nickel - sized pelvic fin structure of the aptly named clingfish creates suction against rocks, a group of scientists created a giant replica using their trusty 3D printer.

Astronomers believe large moonlets up to at least a half - mile in size may hide among the rings, which themselves are only about 30 feet thick; the taller vertical structures visible here could be ring material that «splashes» up when the fine particles of the rings collide with these moonlets, much as water at the sea's edge can splash up and over a rock.

But the new results instead suggest that a comet's structure evolves from a solid boulder to a tenuous collection of rocks as it gradually wanders in from the outskirts of the solar system toward the sun.

The Duke cloak, constructed from a synthetic structure called a metamaterial, prevented those disturbances by bending light waves around the object, allowing them to continue flowing like water in a stream around a rock (concept shown at right).

In the current tests of the two - story, 22 - foot - tall structure, the researchers are studying the behavior of full - scale seismic safety systems made from advanced wood materials — including rocking walls, which can rock during a temblor and then re-center back by itself, and a mass timber floor designed to withstand strong earthquakes.

The team then went a step further, putting the rock and soil samples in a controlled combustion chamber that released carbon at different temperatures, allowing the carbon molecules to be sorted by their latent energy, an indicator of their chemical structure, and the amount of radiocarbon they contain.

«Salt domes are dome - shaped structures in sedimentary rocks that form where large masses of salt are forced upward.

Aside from landslides, many lives were lost in collapsing structures in Nepal, often in homes constructed of rock, brick or concrete, and frequently built without adequate enforcement of building codes, the report suggested.

A few structures, such as breakwaters built of rock, can be studied using miniature versions, but materials such as sand, clay, and grass behave differently in small - scale models than in the real world, van Gent says.

However, excitation of the ν6 in - plane rocking mode in H2CC results in appreciable tunneling - facilitated mixing with highly vibrationally excited states of acetylene, leading to broadening and / or spectral fine structure that is largely suppressed for analogous vibrational levels of D2CC.

The specimens document the full evolutionary spectrum of feathers, from simple strands — previously inferred only from fuzzy halos seen in rocks — to complex structures adapted for flight and diving, which Wolfe's team believes came from ancient birds.

Steele and colleagues used Raman spectroscopy — a technique that scatters laser light off a substance to identify its structure and chemical make - up — to pinpoint the MMC in the rocks with a precision of around 360 nanometres.

It's not just the size of pores that matters, but the surface structure and surface chemistry, since natural gas interacts with the outer edges of each tiny pore in the rock.

Both types of structures are preserved in geyserite, a type of rock that is only found in and around freshwater hot springs in volcanic areas on land.

The researchers hope to get a rough age range for the fossils by dating flowstones — calcite structures formed slowly by dripping water — in adjacent rock layers.

On Earth, the marbles form in all sorts of sizes and shapes, depending on the structure of the rock and the exact chemical make up of the rock and the water flowing through it.

The researchers constructed geochemical models of these rock formations, and they identified some significant differences in their physical structure and chemical composition.

About year ago, Garnero, McNamara, and SESE associate professor Dan Shim reported that two gigantic structures of rock deep in the Earth are likely made of something different from the rest of the mantle.

If found in rocks having experienced a diagenetic history, these structures could help identify the presence of low oxygen concentrations in ancient iron - rich environments.

Twisted stalks were then observed using microscopic and spectroscopic techniques, 1) to determine whether structures are preserved and 2) to characterize their mineral and organic composition and 3) to provide spectroscopic signatures that could be useful for microfossil search in the rock record.

The geological search for ancient life frequently zeroes in on fossilized organic structures or biominerals that can serve as «biosignatures,» that survive in the rock record over extremely long time scales.

In a study published in Nature Communications, researchers from the University of Tübingen, Dr. Aude Picard (now at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA), Dr. Martin Obst, Professor Andreas Kappler, and Gregor Schmid, in collaboration with Dr. Luca Quaroni from the Paul Scherrer Institute in Villigen, Switzerland, show that microbial structures that are embedded in iron minerals are preserved under pressure and temperature conditions that occur during rock formatioIn a study published in Nature Communications, researchers from the University of Tübingen, Dr. Aude Picard (now at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA), Dr. Martin Obst, Professor Andreas Kappler, and Gregor Schmid, in collaboration with Dr. Luca Quaroni from the Paul Scherrer Institute in Villigen, Switzerland, show that microbial structures that are embedded in iron minerals are preserved under pressure and temperature conditions that occur during rock formatioin Nature Communications, researchers from the University of Tübingen, Dr. Aude Picard (now at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA), Dr. Martin Obst, Professor Andreas Kappler, and Gregor Schmid, in collaboration with Dr. Luca Quaroni from the Paul Scherrer Institute in Villigen, Switzerland, show that microbial structures that are embedded in iron minerals are preserved under pressure and temperature conditions that occur during rock formatioin Cambridge, MA), Dr. Martin Obst, Professor Andreas Kappler, and Gregor Schmid, in collaboration with Dr. Luca Quaroni from the Paul Scherrer Institute in Villigen, Switzerland, show that microbial structures that are embedded in iron minerals are preserved under pressure and temperature conditions that occur during rock formatioin collaboration with Dr. Luca Quaroni from the Paul Scherrer Institute in Villigen, Switzerland, show that microbial structures that are embedded in iron minerals are preserved under pressure and temperature conditions that occur during rock formatioin Villigen, Switzerland, show that microbial structures that are embedded in iron minerals are preserved under pressure and temperature conditions that occur during rock formatioin iron minerals are preserved under pressure and temperature conditions that occur during rock formation.

One might be some oddity in the composition or structure of the rock at the nucleation site that makes it exceptionally slippery.

Because we can not sample the deep Earth, we must deduce its composition either by looking at the clues hidden in igneous and metamorphic rocks, or by examining proxies for composition and structure such as the three - dimensional variation of the velocity of seismic waves produced by earthquakes and sampled by networks of seismometers on the surface.

Information on past climate in the Bighorn basin comes from the structure of carbon atoms, known as isotopes, preserved in the rock.

They remodeled their pyramids at regular intervals, burying the old structures in reed bags full of rocks, tossing in sacrificial objects (clay figurines, human sacrifices), and covering everything with a new skin of cut stone and colored plaster.

This fourth form is water trapped inside the molecular structure of the minerals in the mantle rock.