Sentences with phrase «solid rock surface»

The paper also shows that planet c likely has a solid rock surface, and could have eruptions of silicate magmas on its surface driven by tidal heating, similar to Jupiter's moon Io.

Not exact matches

«It gives us some insight into the connection between the slow circulation of near - solid rock in Earth's mantle caused by convection currents carrying heat upwards from the planet's interior, and observed active plate tectonics at the surface.

And since its surface is icy and it has a penchant for spewing water and ammonia into space, researchers have concluded it probably has a crust of ice, a watery mantle and a core of solid rock.

Solid rock may not be liable to spring erosion, he says, but «who knows what's underneath» the lava - strewn surface of Mars?

When basalt — a volcanic rock that makes up roughly 70 percent of the earth's surface — is exposed to carbon dioxide and water, a chemical reaction occurs, converting the gas to a chalk - like solid material.

This cycle includes water beneath the Earth's surface and in rocks (lithosphere), the water in plants and animals (biosphere), the water covering the surface of the planet in liquid and solid forms, and the water in the atmosphere in the form of water vapor, clouds, and precipitation.

Considering that ferropericlase is much less viscous, or resistant to flowing, hot, yet solid, mantle rock would flow more easily, possibly having profound effects on volcanism and tectonics at the planetary surface, processes which have a significant impact on the habitability of Earth.

As magma approaches the Earth's surface, it either erupts or stalls in the crust, where it interacts with surrounding rocks, cools, and crystallizes into solid rock.

The terrestrial planets are composed primarily of rock and metal and have relatively high densities, slow rotation, solid surfaces, no rings and few satellites.

It just doesn't feature the same rock - solid, straight - line stability of the German and hunts around some over changing road surfaces.

The Navigator is rock - solid yet surprisingly agile and comfortable on the road, even on rough surfaces.

In fact, the suppleness doesn't come at the expense of stability and even at high speed on an undulating surface, the Nexon feels rock solid.

The frame and body has surface rust, still solid as a rock structurally.

It's great for inter-city travel (with it being rock solid in a straight line, no matter what speed or surface) or to spend time pondering over board meetings while the chauffeur battles rush hour traffic.

Carved into the rock is the imprint of the buttocks and heels of a person who has been sitting there for such a period of time to have reshaped the solid surface.

Miles below the surface rock there would be molten rock, but the gradient of heat in the solid rock inhibits the heat from reaching the surface [unless geological activity causes such things as volcanoes, which brings molten rock to surface.

We have some questionable «post modern» science built on shaky foundations that assumes we have a much greater knowledge of the historic record than we do, or assumes that the historic record - such as sea surface temperatures to 1850 - are a rock solid piece of science from which an edifice can be constructed.

Such temperature changes at the Earth's solid surface then propagate into the subsurface by heat conduction through the soil and rock.»

The sky equals about 10 meter liquid [or frozen solid] over entire surface - so rocks, lawns, dirt, sand, and have little heat capacity as compare to 30 feet worth of liquid air.

We had solid surface countertops, Shuler cabinets, built in cedar sauna, all wood t & g on the inside (no drywall), gas fireplace with nice rocked surround and lots of other nice amenities.

They found that, no matter what choices they made in dataset construction, their bottom - line finding - that the surface of our planet is warming - was rock solid.

Under the surface, year - round frozen temperatures keep the ground rock - solid.

Thus it was, said Darwin that a solid mass of coral rock could be found above the surface of the sea, and extend from there, through the waters in which it had been formed down to depths at which the coral had never lived.

One area where Dell took a step back is overall rigidity, with the newest model being a bit bendier than before, whereas the Surface Book 2 is solid as a rock.