Sentence examples for bits of mineral from inspiring English sources

Found in rocks throughout Earth's crust, zircons are some of the oldest bits of mineral on Earth.

Sometime after the zircons crystallized, possibly millions of years later, these bits of mineral eroded out of their parent rock and ultimately ended up being washed or blown into what is now central Colorado.

These zircons ended up in the Jack Hills rocks after eroding from rocks that were even more ancient, and the researchers painstakingly sorted the individual crystals from other bits of minerals.

These tiny crystals are so durable and some are so ancient, dating to just 150 million years or so after our world formed that geologists have long viewed the tiny bits of minerals embedded within them as a kind of time capsule, offering a peek at conditions on the early Earth.

There's something peculiar about the idea that glueing bits of shiny mineral to a phone increases its worth by 25x.

A younger volcanic deposit lying in the rock above these fossils includes zircons, tiny bits of silicate mineral that often contain trace amounts of uranium.

And more than 300 vendors will hawk all sorts of mineral-related wares: piles of colorful gems and minerals, bits of meteorites, African beads, fossilized dinosaur dung (called coprolite), gold nuggets.

Last week, researchers brought up a 3-meter core section from a depth of 670 meters that contained bits of granite along with minerals originally deposited in hot, fluid-filled cracks the first sign that the team had entered the peak ring.

Wine pairing: Water Resources Development Act, lots of minerals.

Geochemists have dissolved bits of two meteorites to extract mineral grains spawned by stars before our solar system was born.

Using the "Cambridge Guide to Minerals, Rocks and Fossils," we determined that the schist contained the following minerals: flashing bits of muscovite, a white mica that gives almost all of Central Park's outcrops a glittering sheen; and biotite, a black mica that gives the rocks their dark color.