Sentence examples for a rock less from inspiring English sources

If a sizable one were to strike the planet, it would do catastrophic damage: it is generally believed that in 1908, a rock less than two hundred feet across exploded over a desolate area of Siberia with the force of a hundred and eighty of the bombs used at Hiroshima; an asteroid that size hits Earth about once every three hundred years, according to astronomers.

To ensure an accurate chemical analysis, the selected sample, which might include several minerals, is often made into a thin section (a section of rock less than 1 mm thick cemented for study between clear glass plates).

Few know that both raisings, at the time, were only momentarily noted by Marines fighting for survival in a bitter five-week battle for an island of volcanic rock less than nine square miles in size.

A band may always rock less than they're capable of, including at the band's inception where their rock capability is at its highest possible.

Ever since the first person who found that banging with a rock hurt less and was more effective than banging with a bare hand, people have acclimated to many technologies that help us work better.

If a rock is less permeable, the lesser is the infiltration of rainfall, which conversely means high surface run-off.

Rock-Eval pyrolysis data reveal that Gadvan Formation is poor source rock (less than 0.5%).

andesite -- Igneous volcanic rock, less mafic than basalt, but more mafic than dacite; rough volcanic equivalent of diorite.

dacite -- Igneous volcanic rock, less mafic than andesite, typically fine-grained and light in color; rough volcanic equivalent of granodiorite.

diorite -- Igneous plutonic rock, less mafic than gabbro, but more mafic than granite and granodiorite; rough plutonic equivalent of andesite.

granodiorite -- Igneous plutonic rock, less felsic than granite, typically light in color; rough plutonic equivalent of dacite.