Among other research, the scientists are trying to find out whether there are major sources of oil and gas and methane produced by chemical reactions deep in the Earth, rather than from the well-understood process of ancient surface vegetation being buried and crushed under high pressure.
To them, I point to "the clear value" of all those without homes, and buried under crushing debt, after the housing bubble collapsed.
Don't tip out the water in case the gravel will bury or crush the eggs.
Over the last two decades, city officials have opened scores of smaller high schools so that young people would not get buried under the crushing impersonality of the old factory-style schools.
I've been thinking: Buried under the crushing, exhausting weight of all the assorted indignities of the current war on women, maybe it's time to flip the script and go back to the basics.
Others have been buried in cave-ins, crushed by falling rocks and fallen down shafts.
When the quake struck, much of the Grand Rue was flattened, and unknown numbers of Atis Rezistans sculptures are likely to have been crushed and buried.
At one point, the narrator, buried in a house crushed by a falling Martian cylinder, is trapped for two weeks there, missing much of the action.
But with Mr. Zhang in charge, backhoes crushed and buried a wrecked train car at the site -- and provoked a national outcry from bloggers who accused the government of a cover-up.
Historically, more Everest climbers have perished from severe weather, HACE, HAPE, exhaustion, falling from steep terrain, or some combination of these hazards than from being crushed or buried in the Khumbu Icefall.
