Sentence examples for barren surface from inspiring English sources

Or maybe these images anticipate the end of history, a time when the earth returns to moonlike desolation, its skies black and its barren surface gouged.

The never-before-seen views of Earth floating in the blackness, Scott and Jurek write, "made many wonder why we were spending so much effort and money to examine the cold, dead, and barren surface of the Moon when our gaze might be better focused on our home planet and what we were doing to it".

The accretionary system operates in two modes: A) episodic formation of a stone pavement by lateral processes once a vesicular horizon has formed on a barren surface; and B) accretion of dust and eventual burial of the clast layer.

In contrast to the theoretical calculations and model simulations of previous studies, parallel observations derived from in situ experiments spanning two contrasting land surfaces in Gonghe, consisting of a natural barren surface and one covered with PV panel, provide new insight into the potential impact of large-scale PV plants on the surface radiation and temperature.

While investigating the barren surface, the crew are puzzled to encounter strange rock formations arranged into coils.

As melting ice exposes raw bedrock, witness the progression of pioneering plant life as it takes hold on the barren surface.

Layers of snow falling on its barren, windswept surface become compressed into ice layers, which constantly move outward to the peripheral glaciers; the Jakobshavn Glacier, often moving 100 feet (30 metres) a day, is among the world's fastest glaciers.

The Prometheus lands on the barren, mountainous surface near a large artificial structure, which a team explores.

The barren desert surface of Ceti Alpha V was simulated on stage 8, the largest sound stage at Paramount's studio.

Contrasting spatial distributions of the two kinds of plant scars indicate that vegetation on alluvial fans has progressively contracted from a more diffuse, former vegetation cover, yielding the wide, barren pavement surfaces present today.

This study identifies anthropogenically disturbed areas and barren playa surfaces as the two primary dust source types that repeatedly contribute to dust storm events in the eastern Great Basin of western Utah, U.S.A.