Sentences with phrase «rock than dirt»

In 1899, homesteaders planted wheat in the Pound's near - sterile ground, more rock than dirt, but drought soon made folly of their efforts.

Not exact matches

By your standards of what can or can not be defined as a historic symbol, museums would be nothing more than collections of dirt, rock and water.

Consider this... a person goes to college, gets a four year degree in archaeology (or some antiquities preservation analog); spends summers sifting through sand and rock and gravel, all the while taking graduate level classes... person eventually obtains the vaunted PhD in archaeology... then works his / her tail off seeking funding for an archeological excavation, with the payoff being more funding, and more opportunities to dig in the dirt... do you think professional archaeologists are looking hard for evidence of the Exodus on a speculative basis... not a chance... they know their PhD buys them nothing more than a job at Tel Aviv Walmart if they don't discover and publish... so they write grants for digs near established sites / communities, and stay employed sifting rock in culturally safe areas... not unless some shepard stumbles upon a rare find in an unexpected place do you get archeological interest and action in remote places... not at all surprising that the pottery and other evidence of the Exodus and other biblical events lie waiting to be discovered... doesn't mean not there... just not found yet...

Space colonizers could even adopt a DIY approach to building materials by baking lunar and Martian regolith — rocks and dirt — into ceramics, rather than transporting heavy supplies like steel and metal.

Judging took place over a week, as judges with the opinion - leading off - road enthusiast publication conducted a variety of tests on a total of seven trucks spanning more than 1,000 miles of terrain including pavement, gravel, dirt, sand, rocks, mud and snow.

As is, even with the suspension in the max off - road height setting, we kissed some dirt and rock a bit more than we'd like.

You won't do it of course because I suspect you know just as well I that merely changing 70 % of the planet's surface albedo from the less than 1 % of the ocean to the 15 % of dirt and rocks will reflect enough additional shortwave energy away from the planet that the bloody thing will be covered in snow faster than you can say Al Gore's Momma Wears Combat Boots.

It should be easy enough for you to do... You won't do it of course because I suspect you know just as well I that merely changing 70 % of the planet's surface albedo from the less than 1 % of the ocean to the 15 % of dirt and rocks will reflect enough additional shortwave energy away from the planet that the bloody thing will be covered in snow faster than you can say Al Gore's Momma Wears Combat Boots.