Sentences with phrase «what ancients rocks»

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He will be reminded of what that simple old sage remarked in ancient times, «When they meet together, and the world sets down at an assembly, or in a court of law, or a theater, or a camp, or in any other popular resort, and there is a great uproar and they praise some things which are being said or done, and blame other things, equally exaggerating both, shouting and clapping their hands, and the echo of the rocks and the place in which they are assembled redoubles the sound of the praise or blame — at such a time will not a young man's heart, as they say, leap within him?

We can apply what we've learned about studying ancient rocks on Earth to Mars.

What they discovered stunned them: The meteorites showed evidence of ancient magnetic fields similar to those of rocks formed on Earth within the planet's magnetic field.

But in April, Egyptologists John Coleman Darnell and Deborah Darnell, a husband - and - wife team from Yale University, reported finding an ancient bulletin board there, a collection of notes carved in the rock face by travelers over the millennia — including what may be one of the world's oldest historical documents.

We have instruments on board which are expressly designed to seek evidence of ancient life - what we call «biosignatures» - and we have the capability to prepare samples, drill them out of a rock, seal them in a tube, so that a future mission could go and bring them up - we call that «caching.»

The age of the surrounding rock is what indicates just how ancient these animals were, but while the team is quick to call their find the «oldest mammals related to mankind,» the title is up for contention.

See what actions you would take to protect native wildlife and plants in an ancient redwood forest or to unravel the geologic mysteries of the rocks that lie above and beneath us.

Rather than ancient snow pack, only an empty rock - strewn riverbed remains: the glacier has lost 320 vertical feet of ice mass in the intervening years in what researchers describe as a striking effect of global warming.

She saw smooth lake, ranks of reeds to her left that marched out from the shore until the water rose over their knees, a fortress of ancient rock and conifers on the opposite shore fifty metres away, and dead ahead the Castle of Far Off Ease, the lodge where they were staying, tiny in what she thought Dante had once called a «giddy distance.»