Sentences with phrase «vast sheets of»

Decker Yeadon, who we've showcased previously, believe such a concept has particular application in contemporary office architecture that has become increasing more transparent, clad in vast sheets of glass.

His skies take on a particularly uncanny sheen, rendered in this medium, when overcast they are like vast sheets of something leaden and seamless, when they are post-sunset skies they take on the glow of sheets of copper or zinc.

Starting out with vast sheets of pure colour in huge trays on his studio floor, his finished works are something between painting and sculpture, a joyous celebration of colour and material.

Usually sent for recycling, the vast sheets of paper left with poppy - shaped holes now feature at the heart of internationally renowned artist, Cornelia Parker's solo exhibition.

In recent decades, people have come to recognize the many benefits of this vast sheet of wetlands, 100 miles long and 40 miles wide, which provides water to 7 million people.

A vast sheet of rose petals appears thin and frail, installed on the gallery floor.

Sitting atop a vast sheet of paper, the artist documents the areas in which her body comes into contact with it.

Not exact matches

That's according to MKM Partners» chief economist Mike Darda, who was referring to the Federal Reserve's efforts to unwind its $ 4.5 trillion balance sheet after it bought vast quantities of government bonds and mortgage - backed securities to mitigate the effects of the Great Recession.

Its balance sheet is strong with ample liquidity, the bank is run by a management team focused on maximizing returns, and it pays out the vast majority of its earnings to shareholders.

Big brewers such as Lion and Asahi are no longer part of the Craft Beer Industry Association, with the army of small micro-brewers that has sprung up deciding to exclude them because their vast balance sheets were deemed to give them an unfair advantage, which didn't sit well with the small business entrepreneurs driving most craft beer companies.

He then began signing a two - foot - tall stack of sheets rejecting thousands of appropriations — the vast majority of them member items, also known as pork.

Increasing numbers unable to afford dentists Post Offices wiped off the map Threatened closure of GP surgeries Vast debts in off balance sheet PFIs (at least one of my dwindling county police stations has to pay # hundreds just to put up a notice board) Servicemen being killed pointlessly because they don't have enough kit.

These vast ice sheets are made of the snow that has fallen in Antarctica over the past million years or so.

Temperatures soaring above 10 °C caused more than a tenth of the island's vast ice sheet to start melting last week — a month before significant melt usually begins.

Over hundreds or thousands of years, vast ice sheets can melt away, further decreasing the planet's reflectivity.

Evidence of past glacial advance and retreat is also more easily observed in the Dry Valleys, providing a window into the past behavior of the vast Antarctic ice sheets and their influence on global sea levels.

The sediments also hold clues to the tectonic evolution of East Antarctica, and a mountain range buried beneath the vast, thick ice sheet.

ITS vast ice sheets and monsoon run - off make the Tibetan plateau one of the largest sources of fresh water on an increasingly thirsty planet.

The Dark Zone of the Greenland ice sheet is vast and previously observed by satellites such as MODIS.

the south - bound expedition had cleared that vast plain of floating ice which flows down from the great mountains of the interior and covers the southern part of Ross Sea throughout an area above 20,000 square miles with an ice sheet approximately 800 feet in thickness, and had begun to climb the heights which form the mountainous embayment at the head of Ross Sea.

The Mandelbrot set broods in silent complexity at the center of a vast two - dimensional sheet of numbers called the complex plane.

Understanding Antarctic climate change is important not only because of the potential sea level rise locked up in the vast Antarctic ice sheet, but also the shift in the westerly winds has moved rainfall away from southern Australia.

Scientists have long wondered if the moon's vast subsurface ocean, sandwiched between a rocky mantle and a global sheet of ice, could prove as habitable as Earth's early oceans.

A dramatic gash in the surface of the Earth that could rival the majesty of the Grand Canyon has been discovered secreted beneath Antarctica's vast, featureless ice sheet.

As the vast ice sheets that covered much of the northern hemisphere receded, human civilization blossomed, making the most of the relatively mild conditions that we still enjoy today.

When projecting how sea levels could rise over the coming centuries, one of the most difficult factors for scientists to gauge is how much of the Earth's vast ice sheets will melt, and how quickly.

Zircons in rocks at the surface of the planet would not likely have survived in the vast melt sheets.

This study links a framework for global and local sea - level rise projections with simulations of two major mechanisms by which climate change can affect the vast Antarctic ice sheet.

Using satellite images and other data, the team studied the edge of the former Laurentide Ice Sheet, a vast expanse of ice that covered two - thirds of North America during the last ice age.

Now as vast areas of land which are currently forested, were covered by the glacial period ice sheets, the temperate forest is no longer using carbon dioxide which adds carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.

As there is a vast amount of fresh water in the glacial period, in the new ice sheets, the ocean becomes Salter (3 %).

Recent summers on the vast, white expanse of the Greenland ice sheet have featured some spectacular ice melt, including an alarming period in 2012 when nearly the whole surface showed signs of melt.

When an icy impact occurred, the impactor's kinetic energy became heat energy, instantly melted some ice, gouged out a crater, and kicked up into Mars» thin atmosphere large amounts of debris mixed with water (liquid, ice crystals, and vapor)-- and complex organic molecules that obviously came recently from life.127 Then, the dirt and salt - water mixture settled back to the surface in vast layers of thin sheets — strata — especially around the crater.

That included a moment in July of that year when in just a few days, the vast majority of the ice sheet's surface became awash in at least some surface water, captured in this now iconic image from NASA:

Emerging from a winter that has had staggeringly warm Arctic temperatures, scientists monitoring the vast Greenland ice sheet announced Tuesday that it is experiencing a record - breaking level of melt for so early in the season.

Instead, for the vast majority of the run time, we see a white sheet covered Casey Affleck (at least we are told it's him) standing in static melancholic repose.

The 1963 Corvette was designed from a clean sheet of paper to fit Chevrolet's and General Motors concept of the two - seat sports car desired by American drivers and Stticed to their driving styles and the vast distances they covered.

• The king bed was wonderfully firm, with my choice of Balinese linen or Egyptian cotton sheets (I preferred the silkier cotton) • The Bose sound system was one of the best I've ever encountered in a hotel room • The intelligently configured closet took up the entire entrance corridor wall, with vast amounts of drawer, hanging, and shelf space, a safe, and this unique touch: hangers made of wood that matches the closet • The indoor - outdoor living room was enormous, with a wall - length divan that made working on my laptop a tropical indulgence • The bathroom was like a private spa, with two complete sink units, a super-deep soaking tub, a walk - in stone shower, and more

It offers divers a great opportunity to see geological wonders like giant stalactites, dripstone sheets and amazing marine life such as nurse sharks, groupers and a vast array of fishes and Caribbean sharks.

Papering the walls with large hand - printed sheets, she has created a vast picture of layers of images in various stages of dissipation.

Spanning a vast emotional, technical and narrative range, this rarely - seen selection of sheets from Botticelli's most ambitious and enigmatic work represent an absolute embodiment of Renaissance achievement.

The scene inside the vast garage - like gallery space resembled an (albeit very hip) children's birthday party, as toddlers and adults alike wandered Ms. Kusama's large - scale model of a suburban home with sheets of bright polka - dot stickers.

Genger's work is rooted in traditional crafts of knitting and crochet, but the scale and physical presence of her work have drawn comparisons to Richard Serra and Robert Smithson, celebrated American artists known for vast land art and large - scale sheet metal sculptures.

Desmarais writes: «Papering the walls with large hand - printed sheets, she has created a vast picture of layers of images in various stages of dissipation.

A huge rectangle of blue yarn, nailed invisibly to the concrete floor at an angle to its insertion in the wall, becomes a vast and flawless sheet of glass, leaning gently, worryingly.

The newly concentrated dimensions of his canvases and sheets of paper, now being made in a studio measuring just 12 x 14 feet, stand in marked contrast to the vast colour fields and poured monoliths of the 1960s and»70s, demonstrating an artist committed to experimentation with both medium and scale.

These architectural boundaries become the empty, geometric spaces that interrupt the rhythms of painted stains that flow across the surface of these vast panoplies of 12 - foot high Mylar sheets.

I have a story coming tonight in print on a new paper tracking the impact over time of those iconic drainpipes for meltwater forming each summer on the warming flanks of the vast Greenland ice sheet.

By coincidence, Behar's death came just three days before publication of the latest study on which he is a co-author — a detailed analysis of the melt - water rivers and moulin drains across a 2,000 - square - mile portion of the vast Greenland ice sheet.

There are continuing major questions about the future of the great ice sheets of Greenland and West Antarctica; the thawing of vast deposits of frozen methane; changes in the circulation patterns of the North Atlantic; the potential for runaway warming; and the impacts of ocean carbonization and acidification.