Sentences with phrase «sand pile»

It's so early he's wiping hills of sand piled in the corners of his eyes.

This push actually raises the sea level on the coast of Australia by more than 150 centimeters (almost five feet) at times, much like sand piled up against a wall.

On their artificial grid, just as in the archives, blackouts looked like growing sand piles or fusion reactors: complex systems.

We spent most of each day at the beach, building sand piles and driftwood forts, finding baby crabs, and unintentionally filling diapers with said sand.

Last week, the town board unanimously agreed to take out a $ 1 million bond to start construction on the new storage facility, which will cover the 50 - foot exposed salt and sand pile on Spellman Road.

Quinn is normally a theoretician who wrestles with problems of granular materials, such as how sand piles form and why Brazil nuts always end up at the top of mixed - nut cans.

It is in the silence of Thar Desert, sand piles give an image of the village.

- phase change (e.g., «freezing» liquid to solid)- bifurcation (e.g., fork in the road)- self organized criticality (e.g., see Per Bak, avalanches, sand pile experiments, ecocatastrophes...)- cusp (e.g., «cusp catastrophe», like in ecological situations like the spruce budworm outbreaks as described by Ludwig, et al)- horizon!

Listen to the opening paragraph of the book: «Dad and I leave town in the early dark... It's so early he's wiping hills of sand piled in the corners of his eyes.

But what if they could create a simpler simulator that could be set in motion and observed as power levels increased over time, like Bak's growing sand piles?

Build fire of wood or charcoal in front of a rock or sand pile to reflect heat towards the fish.

Take your child to new places like your closest forest, riverbank, sand pile, and backyard to just see what happens.

Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sand pile at school.

For the trio, it was a strong suggestion that blackouts were, indeed, the power grid equivalent of a sand pile's avalanche.

The quintessential example of self - organised criticality is a growing sand pile.

It's like a sand pile — you know you can't make it arbitrarily pointy.

Sand Piles — They are only seen in the second stage of the game (50 m) and they are found on the conveyer belts.

The plant then grows a little taller, and a little more sand piles up.