Sentences with phrase «so excavating»

My idea was to open a crack — perhaps explosively, but not necessarily — so you excavate a wedge in the ground, and then pour liquid iron in it.

So I excavated a hillside and built partially underground.

Not exact matches

Entire towns can be excavated without so much as a road sign telling us where we are.

And you're excavating those triggers, so you don't get upset so often.

So one of the things we're trying to figure out is how deep did the impact really excavate.

So we began to excavate.

So in 2015, Junchang Lü of the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences in Beijing and colleagues returned to the site in China where the eggs were excavated.

So Joan patiently bided her time as she and her husband excavated the rich upper layers of the high mound.

So to really understand the ancients, you have to be able to understand how they approached the sea, and the only way to do that is to excavate shipwrecks.

The region's birth in a giant impact must have excavated so much ice from Pluto's surface that watery slush welled up from deeper within, plumping up to form a heavy, planetary - scale bruise beneath the thinner crust.

And the arduous work of excavating and plastering the fossil was not the end of the saga, Martill recalls: «Building plaster's got clay in it and takes ages to dry, so we looked for firewood — which is not easy to find in a desert — dug a trench on either side of the bone and lit fires to encourage it to dry.»

About 20 tombs have so far been excavated near the wall, whose elevated base apparently served as a cemetery.

We sought to bring new tools for chemical analysis with us into the field, so we can do obsidian sourcing as we excavate or survey an archaeological site, not wait until months or years later to learn the results.

(Tell Chuera is, however, older than the levels so far excavated at Tell Beydar, and so a direct comparison can not be made.)

We could not go into the whole story behind the misnamed Apatosaurus fossil excavated by Othniel Marsh in the 1870s, so one of our sources suggested we call it «the first named Brontosaurus» — which it certainly is, whatever the correct designation.

A third - century coin, recently excavated in southern England, has brought to light an unknown chapter of Roman history: the troubled reign of Domitianus, an emperor whose hold on power was so fleeting that the only other archaeological evidence of his existence is a similar coin found a century ago and dismissed as a hoax.

The fossils were quickly excavated, jacketed in plaster, and shipped to a nearby lab for ongoing cleaning and analysis so that construction could continue.

It is illegal to remove archaeological samples from Egypt, so the researchers dated items from museum collections in Europe and North America, as well as freshly excavated seed samples from Tell es - Sakan on the Gaza Strip, which was an outpost of ancient Egypt.

So researchers resorted to coprolites — fossilized feces excavated from the tribes» settlements.

To do so, they used new techniques to carefully cull chloroplast DNA from ancient rice 900 -2,800-years-old, which had been excavated from seven archaeological sites in Japan and Korea.

It was apparent that he'd been there for a long time, so the hikers notified archaeologists, who carefully excavated the body.

Keep it on the level — Your excavated area should be relatively flat or level so that water can disperse evenly over the surface.

At the time, funds for Caral were so scarce that Shady had to enlist soldiers from a nearby base to do her excavating.

But the details remain fuzzy, because so few researchers have excavated in Asia.

She also spends time excavating their past relationships to find unhealthy patterns and behaviors so she can help them forge new paths.

Disposal of surplus excavated material off - site is a very expensive business in these days of landfill tax so, if possible, retaining the materials on site should be an objective when designing the finished profile.

Schools (and teachers) can veer from that default, or build upon it, or excavate under it, if they have the interest, capacity, and drive to do so.

Yesterday, Luz's project had been to present Ray with a gift of herself swaddled like a chocolate in a fur coat she'd excavated from one of the cavernous hall closets, though she was not so dark as chocolate.

Alaskan's natural love to dig may result in completely dug backyard landscape so if you have a trimmed lawn or other «manicured» landscape design you may end up having it completely excavated in a matter of couple of hours.

There are literally thousands of sites in Mexico that haven't been excavated, and so much history and tradition that were lost.

We had excavated a burial with an offering inside two large dishes, one placed upsidedown on the other so that they were resting lip to lip.

Only about 177 square kilometers of the entire site have been excavated so far, but the parts that have been are very impressive.

Many of the ruins have been consumed by the jungle, so venturing from one excavated site to another will usually involve light hiking through patches of large trees.

Its name is derived from its prehistoric location at the Mayflower Bocawina National Park - a 7100 acre tropical haven of untouched jungles, waterfalls, and Mayan sites — in fact, so untouched that most of the Mayan archaeological sites have yet to be excavated.

It's about an hour from Tulum and is still being excavated, so the jungle is right there, a living part of the display.

We had arrived late so didn't get to spend as much time as we would have liked in the museum but we glimpsed the Big Hole, which is in fact, a really big hole and is alleged to be the largest pit ever excavated by hand.

Power moons can be hidden in the most brilliant of places, so constantly excavating every nook and cranny is heavily advised.

Spanning almost 11 by eight feet, it has a primordial - looking surface of oil paint mixed with wood and mica so heavily built up and excavated that it weighs more than a ton.

So Delahunty had to do the reverse, excavating through all that history to get to Pollock.

In doing so, he excavates a historical perspective that is psychologically and personally nuanced, asking history to retell its story, piece by piece, isolated from the often calcified narrative of our collective experience.

It's not clear where Poincheval found the dead bear, but the bear was «excavated» by the artist himself, and remade with plywood, plaster, foam and polystyrene tubes, so that all the water, food, and waste storage needed will be held within the bear's legs, allowing Poincheval to stay inside a space of half a square meter for almost two weeks.

Perhaps primary schools could bury this list in time capsules to be excavated in 2100, just so future generations will not forget what they did.

In the case of El Hierro, where the storage solution is a water reservoir purpose - excavated for the system, the easiest way to increase the duration of the storage would be to make the grid smarter, so that electricity is mostly consumed when wind is blowing.

This is particularly so in a society that has yet to excavate its own racism.

To make a long story short the plumber thought it may be a cracked septic tank so we had to hire another contractor to excavate the septic tank and weeping bed.»

They excavate root systems so extensively that plants topple over.

source So this Fall, the plan is to excavate the front and back yard, we are taking out all the railway ties and old plants in the backyard, everything but the two trees there are being pulled out.