Sentence examples for plumes like from inspiring English sources

To one side are several drop-dead vitrines in which crystallized gold erupts from quartz in fan-shaped flares or coiling plumes, like slightly rough-edged Art Nouveau bric-a-brac.

It is very difficult to know whether the bubbles are a brand-new methane source caused by global warming, or a response to warming that has happened over the past 100 years, or whether plumes like this happen all the time.

The first pattern is the unification of two thermal plumes like one for short pitch.

It's not clear whether Europa's plumes, like those on Enceladus, are triggered by icy surfaces of a surface fracture rubbing together somewhat akin to the sides of a tectonic fault scraping past one another or whether they represent water vapor spewing from Europa's subsurface ocean through narrow cracks in the moon's polar ice at supersonic speeds, Roth says.

Plumes like the one over Iraq can travel around the world on wind currents, NASA said.

The focal point of the room is the terrific view of the five-acre man-made lake, complete with plume-like fountains.

As a result, it was hit quite hard by the rising prices of everything from feathers to beads — a pound of plume-like ostrich feathers has gone up by about 15percentthis yearar.

At their best, the pieces in the show feel pregnant with history, as with a late 18th century aigrette, or plume-like ornament, composed of chrysoberyl and tawny topaz discovered during Portugal's mid-century foray into the mineral-rich Brazilian interior.

This is consistent with both a tangent cylinder rim effect and a plume-like effect.

In contrast, the generally lower δ?? for LN and LR is suggestive of more plume-like dynamics at low latitudes.

Previous numerical mantle convection studies are supportive of the hypothesis that the subducted slab causes plume-like upwelling (Tan et al. 2002; Tackley 2011; Bower et al. 2013).