Sentences with word «scarp»

Still certainly made everyone else look like pygmies, with his oversized, riven scarps of claggy, craggy paint, with their fiddly, jagged interlocking fissures.

Large fault scarps on Mercury were first discovered in the flybys of Mariner 10 in the mid-1970s and confirmed by MESSENGER, which found the planet closest to the sun was shrinking.

In order to determine how Mercury may have shrunk, the researchers studied tectonic features, called lobate scarps, and wrinkle ridges on the planet, which result from interior cooling and surface compression.

The shape of the lakes indicates a process called uniform scarp retreat, where the borders of the lakes are expanding by a constant amount each time.

A model that doesn't consider the asthenosphere would show the Orangeburg Scarp sinking.

Russell's team also noticed a variety of colors and minerals on the asteroid's surface, with bright spots — perhaps crystals or another reflective material — interspersed with black streaks on scarps and crater walls.

Scarps probably formed when Mercury's interior cooled and the planet shrunk, cracking the surface.

A 20 - mile (32 - kilometer) crater west of Dantu is covered in steep slopes, called scarps, and ridges.

NASA sent the Phoenix lander to Mars in response to the Odyssey findings; in 2008, the Phoenix mission confirmed and analyzed the buried water ice at 68 degrees north latitude, about one - third of the way to the pole from the northernmost of the eight scarp sites.

«The young age of the small scarps means that Mercury joins Earth as a tectonically active planet, with new faults likely forming today as Mercury's interior continues to cool and the planet contracts,» said lead author Tom Watters, Smithsonian senior scientist at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.

In 2010 he was short - listed for the $ 5000 biennial Nature Conservancy Australia Essay Writing Award for his piece Living on the Edge: Observations from the Darling Scarp.

On a normal day, the hotel provides a complimentary dog walk, dog dining table, plush dog bed, gourmet treats from Scarps Dog Bakery and maps of dog - friendly places in Seattle.

The large scarps were formed as Mercury's interior cooled, causing the planet to contract and the crust to break and thrust upward along faults making cliffs up to hundreds of miles long and some more than a mile (over one - and - a-half kilometers) high.

When squash is done, using a fork scarp the squash to release the strands.

It is the longest such scarp to be discovered on Mercury.

The new ice - scarp studies confirm indications from fresh - crater and neutron - spectrometer observations that a layer rich in water ice begins within just one or two yards of the surface in some areas.

That shape suggests that the lakes were formed by what scientists call «uniform scarp retreat,» in which whole stacks of rock are eroded away to form cliffs.

Zeroing in on an 8 - kilometer - long escarpment south of Basel, they dug trenches at the base of the 50 - meter - high scarp.

Though careless with individual lives, she seems careful with the type, but no: «From scarped cliff and quarried stone / She cries, «A thousand types are gone: / I care for nothing, all shall go.

The authors use LiDAR and field data to identify linear scarps, sags, and swales that cut across both bedrock and Quaternary deposits along the Leech River fault.

Scientists have not determined how these particular scarps initially form.

Some of these warning signs include debris deposits from past tsunamis or landslides, ancient mid-continent rifts that mark the scars of earlier tectonic boundaries, or old fault scarps worn down by hundreds or thousands of years of erosion.

To reproduce the vertical collapse of landslide material in the landslide scarp area and the extreme thinning and runout in the front, the model must take into account the presence of ice in the calculations.

Geologists examine a section of the Orangeburg Scarp along the James River in Virginia.

A fault scarp marks vertical displacement along a fault, anything from a small step to a huge, steep cliff.

This allowed researchers to identify additional scarps missed by its predecessor.

The older, more cratered surfaces of Lutetia also feature a variety of roughly parallel, curvilinear features, including scarps, troughs, fractures, faults, grooves and pit chains.

The new inset takes us a step closer, revealing craters, rills and scarps reminiscent of Mercury or even Earth's Moon.

They are comparable in scale to small, young lunar scarps that are evidence Earth's moon is also shrinking.

«These steep banks or slopes, which are known as scarps, currently only change very slowly from year to year, retreating by a few millimeters and getting a bit dustier in the summer.»

This shrinking produced a wrinkled crust with scarps kilometers high and hundreds of kilometers long.

A jagged scarp, or wall of cliffs, known as Piri Rupes borders the young, nearly crater - free plains of Piri Planitia.

From head scarps to pants all you are looking for is comfort yet to need to make proper observations you're your veil and dress should match one another.

Oscar winner Meryl was polished in a silk scarp and blazer, keeping her hair in a low ponytail and wearing smart glasses.

Although scarping slight feel a bit stagnant, that's really the only blemish on what may be one of the last, great PlayStation 3 titles.

Luckily I had a couple scarps of plywood in my stash to take care of this.

Its core contracted which in turn broke the crust and produced the prominent lobate scarps.

The small scarps had to be very young, investigators say, to survive the steady bombardment of meteoroids and comets.

Collecting you from home we transfer you to our five star coach and begin the traverse across the Darling Scarp and the vast wheat belt to Esperance.

When squash is done, using a fork scarp the squash to release the strands.

Images obtained by NASA's MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft reveal previously undetected small fault scarps — cliff - like landforms that resemble stair steps.

But one of these old beaches, the Pliocene - era Orangeburg Scarp, warps and bends along its course from Florida to North Carolina.

Scarping out the flesh when you don't own a true coconut flesh scarier thingy is not the easiest task... I went back and forth between a grapefruit spoon and a zester until I had enough for this salad.

Add to a blender and blend on low, scarping down the sides.

Are you sure the man is not one of these aboki that buy scrap metal and other useless household items, maybe he has been accumulating all these scarp ATM because these amount of ATM cards does nt make any sense

A 1000 - kilometre - long cliff, or scarp, though to be formed as Mercury's surface contracted, was found, cutting across the rim and floor of the Rembrandt basin.

Apollo astronauts noticed these wrinkles, called «lobate scarps», near the equator 40 years ago.

The scarps probably formed as the moon cooled and contracted, says Thomas Watters of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC.