Sentence examples for melted rocks from inspiring English sources

Zircons are formed at high temperatures, from melted rocks.

An impact should also have left remnants of melted rocks and shocked minerals, Dr. Koeberl said.

Heat from such high levels of radioactivity could have melted rocks in the early solar system, making them more likely to stick together and form planets, he said.

It is composed of low-density, easily melted rocks; the continental crust is predominantly granitic rock (see granite), while composition of the oceanic crust corresponds mainly to that of basalt and gabbro.

Not only is there apparently a small molten core, but a large layer of partly melted rock around it.

Each explosion consumed between 1 and 30 percent of the device's fissile material, leaving the remaining fuel mixed with debris and melted rock underground, according to the study.

Ever since Apollo days, scientists have suspected that Earth's closest neighbor may harbor a core or zone of melted rock.

But others believe the melted rock is so thick that it gums up the moving fault, possibly preventing more dangerous earthquakes.

To her, the ridges look suspiciously like Earth's volcanic midocean ridges, where melted rock wells up to form new crust that spreads away from the ridge.

Now, a team of geologists has shown that this melted rock seems to grease faults as they slide past each other, letting quakes really shake their thing.

That, in turn, would vary the amount of ocean crust that solidifies from the melted rock, changing the thickness of new crust by as much as a kilometer as it slides down either side of a midocean ridge.