Sentence examples for dense minerals from inspiring English sources

So drillers started adding dense minerals and substituting oil for water.

As a result, geologists long held the opinion that cumulates of chromite and other dense minerals formed only by sinking.

For example, the gravity would be stronger when the spacecraft passed over a mountain field or a clump of dense minerals.

In such conditions, the material that solidified on the underside of that crust would have been rich in dense minerals (dark red blobs in lower video) such as magnesium oxides.

Rosetta analyzed many of these particles as they launched off the surface, and most were made of compact, dense minerals that require the heat of the inner solar system to form.

In one possible scenario, the dense minerals that formed atop a relatively frothy bit of the moon's primordial crust, still floating on a sea of molten rock, could have rendered the island unstable.

In general, increasing pressure favours denser mineral structures, whereas increasing temperature favours anhydrous and less dense mineral phases.

The exchange does not occur molecule for molecule, but volume for volume; hence, fewer molecules of a less dense mineral will replace those of a more dense mineral.

These have a third layer, consisting of a fine-grained dense mineral called garnet, at the bottom of the bed.

Gases are lost (hydrous minerals lose water, carbonates lose carbon dioxide), and mineral phases undergo polymorphic or other structural changes; low-volume, dense mineral species are formed by high pressures, and less dense phases are favoured by high temperatures.

The crude here lies trapped at the bottom of the ocean in fields capped by dense mineral layers that scatter seismographic waves, making them difficult to map and measure.