Sentences with phrase «slab of»

massive slab of solid rock made up of Earth's lithosphere (crust and upper mantle).

A slab of sandstone discovered a few years back provided a glimpse into the how dinosaurs and mammals interacted millions of years ago.

As a tectonic plate (a large slab of Earth's crust) drifts over a hot spot, new volcanoes are formed and old ones become extinct.

In the second round, the original column is fused to the top of a square slab of a differently treated gel.

The home has the usual appurtenances of the writerly life, with crammed bookshelves and curios of achievement, but also the perquisites that a reliable perch on the best - seller lists can confer, such as the Panasonic wide - screen television, the office assistant on call in a nearby room, even the six - inch - thick slab of 150 - million - year - old Jurassic limestone in the garden, an impression of a dinosaur footprint on its underside, that occasionally serves as a writing desk.

The fingerprints appear as unique patterns of spots on a slab of gel.

The researchers focused on a coffee table - sized slab of rock nicknamed «Old Soaker.»

Williams and Marshall's breakthrough exploits a novel staining agent to show up the spots of peptide on the slab of gel.

One model approximates the ice shelf as a smooth rectangular slab of ice, while the other approximates the ice as a layered fluid.

But once he had the 115 - million - year - old slab of limestone (below) in his hands, he knew he was looking at a unique creature.

At the meeting, he showed an image of a half - millimetre slab of the mouse brain's hippocampus, at a scale that revealed connections between neighbouring neurons.

A slab of sandstone discovered at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center contains at least 70 mammal and dinosaur tracks from more than 100 million years ago, according to a new paper published Jan. 31 in the journal Scientific Reports.

An article published in the journal Nature explains that the new lens is formed from a flat slab of metamaterial with special characteristics that cause light to flow backward — a counterintuitive situation in which waves and energy travel in opposite directions, creating a negative refractive index.

Bottom left: Scanning electron micrograph of a ring - shaped opening in a chromium sheet located on the surface of a flat slab of metamaterial.

Surf's up at an artificial California lake thanks to a slab of steel, cutting - edge fluid dynamics, and supercomputers

Astronomers have known about Europa's biological trifecta for almost two decades, yet there have always been doubts: For Europa to support life, the vital molecules on the surface need to mix with the water and energy below, and there is a giant slab of ice lying in between.

Now, three studies reveal that the April quakes were an indication that one great slab of Earth's crust is slowly fracturing into two.

Surprise find The team's actual mission was to survey ocean currents near the Ross Ice Shelf, a slab of ice extending more than 600 miles (970 kilometers) northward from the grounding zone of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet into the Ross Sea, to model the behavior of a drill string, a length of pipe extending to the seafloor which delivers drilling fluids and retrieves sediment samples.

The idea is that series of severe earthquakes within a geologically short period of time cause the rising of the land where one tectonic plate slips beneath another slab of Earth's crust in a process called subduction.

The ice stretches over these sticking points twice per day as the tide lifts up and sets down the Ross Ice Shelf, a 1,100 - foot - thick slab of ice the size of Spain that hangs over the ocean several hundred miles away.

The group of rice - size animals were first discovered in a 50 - million - year - old slab of amber and were thought to be extinct until live pelican spiders were spotted in Madagascar in 1881.

Volunteers working in Dinosaur Cove found these latest tracks on a slab of rock, and Martin later analyzed them.

Because that filling layer would be a monolithic slab of concrete, «it will be plenty strong,» he says.

The northern section of the Larsen B ice shelf — a thick slab of floating ice on the eastern side of the Antarctic Peninsula — has collapsed and separated from the continent, researchers report.

The earth's crust is made up of eight large tectonic plates that have been moving and grinding against each other for millions of years, and the largest — the Pacific Plate — dips under the slab of rock underneath Japan's main island, Honshu.

An etching on a slab of stone in Spain seems to show a group of seven huts forming a campsite or village that would have been inhabited 13,800 years ago

It is about two inches thick and more than four feet wide, a precisely carved slab of beryllium that gleams in the low light of this optics laboratory near San Francisco Bay.

Weirder still, if the slab of semiconductor is made very pure and cold, then the electrons can gang up to act like «quasiparticles» with fractional charges — say, 1/3 of an electron's charge — adding more steps to the Hall - voltage stairway.

Below, a gray - scale image of a slab of the stalagmite after it was prepared for analysis.

Here, a slab of the Pacific Ocean floor called the Juan de Fuca plate slides eastward and downward, «subducting» underneath the continental plate of North America.

IF YOU like a tasty slab of meat, make sure you place your orders soon.

A half - inch (1.27 - centimeter) drill bit whirs to life and slices through a slab of aluminum.

Fashioned out of a single, U-shaped slab of glass, it's a lovely piece that needs no assembly or accessories.

The 29 exceptionally well - preserved lizard tracks, found in a slab of rock from an abandoned quarry in Hadong County, South Korea, include back feet with curved digits and front feet with a slightly longer third digit.

In 2012, an amateur fossil hunter found a slab of rock covered in ancient footprints on the campus of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, The Washington Post reports.

And this spring, the final slab of concrete was laid on a new five - and - a-half-mile boardwalk, with Mayor Bill de Blasio proclaiming its completion a symbol of the area's resiliency.

That Sunday, in a car park in Hastings, Miliband unveiled an 8ft 6in slab of limestone, into which had been carved Labour's six election pledges.

A slab of artery - clogging beef.

Her cart was full with interesting appetizers, asparagus, the good olive oil and teetering on the top was a giant slab of salmon.

Cover a slab of salmon with some pesto sauce or olive oil, salt, and pepper, and cook in the microwave for about 3 to 5 minutes or the oven for 12 to 15 minutes at 450 degrees.

I start off by rolling out a slab of white earthenware clay on a cloth base between two wooden sticks, so that my slab of clay is nice and even.

«I was just hoping I didn't go out to the first tee and take a big ol' slab of sod,» he said with a kind of pea - mouth fried - chicken charm.

Just get on the slab of metal and point it downhill.

(In Diamond's business, «the counter» is more than a slab of Formica, it's the invisible barrier that separates bettors from bookmakers.)

The Wankel rotor, which takes the place of the piston in a reciprocal engine, is a thick, three - cornered slab of machined metal shaped rather like a Valentine's Day heart except that all three of its sides are identical.

Glavine, who gives up the ball about as easily as a Doberman does its bite on a bloody slab of beef, threw Mazzone a look of disgust.

At first, Maradona places his hand on his temple as to not look directly at the beauty that Salt Bae is about to project via a slab of meat.

Aaron Judge — what happens when a slab of granite loves a physical manifestation of a long home run very, very much — is being honored with his own section at Yankee Stadium.

A night market specialty of Tainan and Taipei since the 1940s, coffin bread consists of a thick slab of white bread that's hollowed out and toasted or fried to make a crunchy little box.

This gorgeous slab of heaven is a meal in itself.