Sentences with phrase «rock surface»

By continuing to drill sideways after a vertical well had reached its geological target, it was possible to reach far more rock surface area.

Professor Taçon said that, «As with the early art of Europe, the oldest Southeast Asian images often incorporated or were placed in relation to natural features of rock surfaces.

He said: «Limpets need high strength teeth to rasp over rock surfaces and remove algae for feeding when the tide is in.

Protected from the elements in a once - hidden cave, Ngaro artwork adorns the fragile rock surface.

According to the study's lead scientists, the new technique relies on measuring extremely small amounts of the nuclide that accumulates as cosmic rays strike exposed rock surfaces over long periods of time.

It will be a long scientific analysis, but we will finally be able to see the original rock surface on which, according to tradition, the body of Christ was laid.

Village of Glencoe: $ 7,500 to upgrade about one - half mile of the Green Bay / North Shore Trail from a crushed rock surface to asphalt.

As part of the process, team members shaved off 50 microns of sample at a time — about half the width of a human hair — and photographed the polished rock surface each time.

The paper also shows that planet c likely has a solid rock surface, and could have eruptions of silicate magmas on its surface driven by tidal heating, similar to Jupiter's moon Io.

As her foot made contact with a seemingly innocent rock surface, she slipped, due to what she believes to be black ice or as rescuers would later hypothesize, frozen lichen.

Dense colonies of sea anemones cover many of the shallower rock surfaces, providing homes for at least four different species of clown fish.

Slippery rock surfaces, cliffs with sheer drops, and location near water (which is a threat on its own) are all trademark dangers of volcanoes.

Tall cylindrical lamp with faux rock surface.

The Bureau of Economic Geology created high - resolution images of rock surfaces that yielded information about their porosity.

Walk in the footsteps of the Ngaro people at Nara Inlet on Hook Island and discover ancient Aboriginal artworks on the fragile rock surface.

IF we had say, a bowl of frigid ocean water — and we immersed a sun warmed rock into that bowl of frigid ocean water, till 70 % of it was covered — then whipped the exposed surface of the rock with air that was many degrees colder than the exposed rock surface --

The abundance of cosmogenic He - 3 depends on the altitude of the surface and thus can be used to understand the altitude history of a rock surface.

The cyanobacteria, which live less than 1 millimeter below the rock surface, tend to turn sand into rock in two ways, says Kurtz: They grow filaments that attach to the sand grains, and they produce acidic polysaccharides — sticky starches with a consistency resembling pasty glue.

«When it is injected, the solution helps detach the oil from the rock surface,» he said.

This reduces the energy needed to break the rock surface.

Siman - Tov now wants to date the layer and confirm the time when the glacier eroded the rock surface.

This suggests a process in which the glacier scrapes material from the rocks and grinds it into a fine paste, then spreads it across the rock surface to form a very thin layer only a few microns thick.

«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.

«When you walk on a rock surface, it's like walking on a 565 - million - year - old seafloor,» he says.

Liu examines fossils at Mistaken Point by creating a string grid on the rock surface.

One of the main criticisms of the study is that it does not conclusively rule out natural causes for the breakage of mastodon bones, presence of stone tools, and breakage patterns on the rock surfaces.

When rainwater is introduced to this kind of rock, either seeping in through tiny pores in the rock surface, or, more typically, dribbling in through larger cracks, the rock will begin to dissolve.

Well I'm an abstract painter but he's not the first person to experience the light on the rock surface and this huge boulder with its special magical atmosphere.

A lot of Antarctica's rock surface is below sea level — the present sea level, that is.