Sentences with phrase «when ancient rocks»

Granite is formed when ancient rocks, made of basalt, are driven down into the planet by shifting continents, a process known as plate tectonics.

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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?

There's no way to be sure how long peanut butter has been around, but it's probably safe to assume that, at some point, an ancient South American discovered that roasted peanuts were pretty tasty, especially when you mashed them with a rock and made a nice paste from them.

So geologists William McMahon and Neil Davies, both of the University of Cambridge, decided to look for when amounts of mud rock began increasing in 704 ancient river deposits from 3.5 billion to 300 million years ago.

When they analysed the ancient tools, the team found changes in the rock suggesting they had been heated (Science, DOI: 10.1126 / science.1175028).

«The pore spaces, or tiny holes, in the rock remain filled with these ancient oceans, so when we drill wells today that water is produced to the surface,» Tinker says.

The metals» solubility depends strongly on the amount of oxygen present, so the amount and type of those metals in ancient sedimentary rocks reflect how much oxygen was in the water long ago, when the sediments formed.

Scientists had assumed that a series of ancient lakes once scattered from Kansas to North Dakota were largely alkaline, because of the large quantities of salt found in the area's sandy reddish rocks that were formed when the lake evaporated about 270 million years ago.

Archaeologists from Yale University and the Royal museums of art and history, Belgium have discovered ancient Egyptian rock inscriptions that can tell when a system of hieroglyphic writing began to attract broad layers of Egyptian society.

As Benedict Cumberbatch (Stephen Strange), Tilda Swinton (The Ancient One), Chiwetel Ejiofor (Baron Mordo) and Rachel McAdams (Strange's old medical pal Christine Palmer) relay here, New York surgeon Stephen Strange's world is rocked when he's badly hurt in a car accident.

(Seattle Post Intelligencer) An ancient legacy of terror is unleashed when the accursed mummy, Imhotep (Arnold Vosloo), is resurrected — along with a force even more powerful: The Scorpion King (The Rock).

He's overjoyed when he finds a remote mountain palace carved from sheer rock, only accessible by several ancient portals.

Driving across it is an epic experience you'll never forget, especially when you visit Uluru (Ayer's Rock), an ancient, eerie monolith almost in the centre of the country.

Rocks that were left behind by the ancient glacier were analyzed to determine when the glacier retreated.