Sentences with phrase «smaller than sand»

The walk out to Pluto, a speck of dust ten times smaller than our sand - grain Earth, would be nearly a half - kilometer, and along the way you'd be lucky to encounter any of the planets: Even the largest, Jupiter, would be no bigger than a small marble.

For decades, paleontologists have puzzled over the microscopic fossils of Pseudooides, which are smaller than sand grains.

Not exact matches

Is a multi-well horizontal drilling project off of a single surface location materially different than a small - scale oil sands project?

The boom in unconventional fuels — such as bitumen extracted from Alberta's tar sands and oil extracted from North Dakota's Bakken shale formation by hydraulic fracturing («fracking»)-- has swelled global reserves even as climate scientists issue ever - sterner warnings that burning more than a small fraction of these reserves would be suicidal.

However, their long - term contracts and the fact that greater use of frac sand is one way for oil and gas companies to maximize productivity from each well means that demand declines might prove smaller than those of other oil services companies.

From afar it had appeared to him, quite small, gliding over the sand, no bigger than the palm of a child's hand — as a pale, fleeting shadow like a wavering flight of quail over the blue sea before sunrise or a cloud of gnats dancing in the sun at evening or a whirlwind of dust at midday sweeping over the plain.

In that time more than 500 tons of limy sand and dead coral have been jetted away with hoses and sucked and resucked through the maws of dredges, each cubic foot of it tediously searched for the small trinkets and fragments of the wreck.

OLd sour cream tubs make fantastic sand castles and are much smaller and easier to pack than sand buckets.

Ancient riverbed deposits of mud rock — rocks containing bits of clay and silt smaller than grains of sand — began increasing around 458 million years ago, around the time that rootless plants became common across Earth, researchers say.

As the ice clusters were ten thousand times smaller than a grain of sand, the researchers couldn't merely watch them melt.

Earth also has smaller ripples — appearing in rows typically less than a foot (less than 30 centimeters) apart — that are formed by wind - carried sand grains colliding with other sand grains along the ground.

Because the snake essentially follows its own tracks through the sand, the amount of slip generated by its motion is small, allowing it to move through the sand using less energy than the sandfish (Scincus scincus), whose movement pattern generated a larger fluidized region of sand around its body.

A few structures, such as breakwaters built of rock, can be studied using miniature versions, but materials such as sand, clay, and grass behave differently in small - scale models than in the real world, van Gent says.

Some lichens they have uncovered are smaller than grains of sand.

Acha and iburu cereal grains are another name for them mostly consumed whole, perhaps because of their small size (Jideani and Akingbala 1993)-- each seed is only slightly larger than a grain of sand.

Early in each chapter you gain the ability to build a large chest that automatically stores more items than just your small starting inventory capacity, so you're never left worrying about carrying too much and having to drop something or return to base to drop off a load of blocks of sand.

The resources available to help anyone trying to make the effort are nearly nonexistant, and the ability of a small colony of ferals to pump out kittens faster than you can catch them is like pushing sand against the tide.

The eggs are white in color and a little bit smaller than a grain of sand.

The particles are small (slightly larger than sand) and are light so they are easily kicked out of the litter tray or «scattered» around, but these particles do not roll so where ever they land is where they remain.

Portals Vells Beach is quite small, more of a nature sanctuary than a surf and sand beach, and is a nesting spot for a number of sea birds.

The sandy shores and smaller wave options make Ucluelet a great place for amateurs to learn because the sand of the ocean floor is more forgiving to land on than most other beaches that have rocks or coral blanketing the floor below the water.

Smaller and less - developed than some of the islands but with 365 beaches, Antigua has room for everyone on its sands.

We couldn't blame him for joining us — once at Lopes Mendes it was clear to see why it frequently makes «Top 10» lists; the beach emerges suddenly from the jungle, a stark contrast from the trees, and the white sands stretch out further than you can see, blue waters bordering its edge, nothing but a small handful of people in sight — this was our first taste of Brazilian paradise and a world away from the commonplace beach experience we found in Rio, where Copacabana and Ipanema are equally beautiful but teeming with sunbathers and salesman.

Smaller than its neighbor, Baker Beach, this pocket of sand features a picnic area, sunbathing, good play spots for children, and spectacular views of the Marin Headlands and Golden Gate.

The port of Coralview Island is little more than a section of the beach whose crystalline shallows are enclosed by sand - banks that form a small rectangular inlet of the South Pacific Ocean.

Description: The Carpe Diem has two high standard cabins, SEA and SAND, which are a little smaller than the deluxe cabin on the upper deck and located on the main deck with queen size double beds and TV plus DVD / MP3 players.

Costa Teguise is probably the best for small children, as it's not as busy as Puerto del Carmen and has much more sand - frolicking potential than Playa Blanca.

Located 5 km south of Simons Town, the A Frame area consists of 3 shore dives — one of which is also called the A Frame, said to be named after the small cave entrance shaped in an A. Entering this dive site is considerably easier than the other dives mentioned, as you make your way from the white beach sand into the water, which makes this location a perfect spot for a night dive.

This very popular villa is located Coral Bay and is an ideal location for a holiday by the sea, less than 200 meters from a small, sand beaches and 650 meters from the main tourist area in Coral Bay, with lots of shops, cafes, restaurants, and taverns.

Tobago, as being considerably smaller than Trinidad, is an island characterized by beautiful white sand beaches surrounded by wonderful mountains and lush tropical vegetation.

Slightly different in personality than the other beaches, Pereybere is known for being popular with the younger crowd, including teens and twenty - somethings looking for fun in the sand, usually in the form of a volleyball or soccer game, though kite boarding and even some body boarding on the smaller waves found here are also favorite pastimes.

From highland cloud forests shadowed by looming volcanoes and crystal clear seas fringed by perfect white - sand beaches, you'll have it all in Panama with smaller crowds and fewer hassles than other countries in the region.

Generally speaking, upstream emissions are small relative to consumption emissions, but, in the case of the oil sands, emissions associated with the production of the bitumen are much higher than for conventional oils.

The Martu burn the grass and brush over small areas of less than 10 acres to look for holes where sand monitor lizards burrow.

$ 5.9 million means a lot more to (relatively) small solar and wind operations than it does to the likes of the tar sands giants.

Add a small white onion, cubed, and a little more than an inch of leek stalk, split (rinsed for removing sand).