Sentence examples for melt rock from inspiring English sources

There, in the Earth's upper mantle, temperatures are high enough to melt rock and form magma.

For the study we collected samples from natural outcrops at banks of the rivers: Kara (suevite, melt rock, vein-like UHPHT glass), Anaroga (clast-poor melt rock) and Sopchau (suevite) at the southern part of the Kara astrobleme close to the outer rim of the impact structure (SM 1).

Tell people that nuclear waste will be buried in concentrations hot enough to melt rock, he says, and some will worry that it might explode like a volcano.Some say the stuff should not be permanently buried at all.

It's no secret that earthquakes can melt rock: The resulting glassy layer of stone--called pseudotachylyte--rises to the surface when mountains form, allowing geologists a look.

Analyses of iron meteorites clearly show that asteroids got hot enough to melt rock, perhaps enabling the constituent material to become denser.

During formation of granite it is buried below kilometers of rock and sediment necessary to produce enough heat to melt rock.

Osinski, G. R. Impact melt rocks from the Ries structure, Germany: an origin as impact melt flows?

By imparting heat and relieving pressure, the impact of the meteoroid that formed the crater may have helped melt rocks that were already close to melting point.

Reimold, W. U. et al. Isotope Analysis of crystalline impact melt rocks from Apollo 16 station 11 and 13, North Ray Crater.

(//www.learner.org/exhibits/volcanoes/) is an interactive exhibit that invites visitors to melt rocks, locate famous volcanoes, and play the role of a volcanologist.

Zlobin and others have used tree ring evidence to estimate the temperatures that the blast created on the ground and says that these were not high enough to melt rocks on the surface.