The students also made fudge with marshmallows and nuts to simulate rock fragments caught up in the lava.
In Asia rocks of Archean age are found in the Angaran and Indian platforms, in the North China and the Yangtze paraplatforms, and in smaller fragments caught up in younger orogenic belts such as the North Tarim fragment.
Such phenomena are known as 'memes' - cultural fragments that catch someone's eye, get forwarded to friends and spread like a virus.
On others, by working with microscopes and continually moving the fragments to catch the light in different ways, some few letters can be made out.
Organize them into categories you'll be able to remember and start making music with song fragments that catch your ear.
As it happened, this was right around the time that Darwin published "On the Origin of Species," and the fragments soon got caught up in the debate over the origin of humans.
Through a series of short, elliptical scenes, fragments of beauty caught as if on the fly, you learn that James lives in a cramped trailer with his single, hard-working mother, Marlee (Tarra Riggs), though mostly what he does is drift.
In a second film, a hi-tech motion-control camera focuses and refocuses on a glutinous mass of 30m-year-old amber, finding fragments of insects caught in the globs of fossilised sap, including what is apparently the oldest known example of copulating mosquitos, all to an amplified soundtrack of whirrs and jolts from the camera's servos.
The sampler has three projectors which can launch small projectiles onto the asteroid surface, and the ejected fragments are passively caught into the canister through the funnel-shaped cylinder.
I caught a fragment of a conversation between two older Hispanic women in the elevator: "Just two ounces!
