Sentences with phrase «scraping over rocks»

-LSB-...] from scraping over rocks, can melt ice at the base, a factor that's forced upward revisions of the rate of ice loss from global warming.

So, in another example of those cycles of the elements that make the world go round, ice that scrapes over rock also delivers vital nutrients to the sea, for marine plants to take up yet more carbon dioxide and flourish more vigorously in the oceans and keep the planet a little cooler.

Not exact matches

Over the next several years, Saitta — now in graduate school at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom — scraped five stegosaurs» skeletons out of the rock and noticed something odd about their broad, jutting back plates.

With both feet flat on the floor, we only braked to keep speeds to a bare minimum so that the suspension - play, while bouncing over a bigger rocks, wouldn't let the car's belly to scrape.