Bryce, a tourist honeypot in summer, was empty when we trekked in the next day: the only sounds were the drip-drip of melting snow and the tinkle of falling rock shards.
Harvard College student Matthew DeShaw participated in the 10th annual Harvard Yard dig (photo 1), alongside Jeffrey Zhao '16 and Matthew C. Gschwend '16 (photo 2), which DeShaw said turned up "a few pieces of coal, aggregates of rock, shards of glass, and an MBTA token" (photo 3).
Pluto's atmosphere is currently too thin for any wind to shape dunes from the world's open plains, meaning the origin of the fields – which could be made of volatile ice, sediment, tiny rock shards or something else – remains unknown.
With this in mind, Watson and geochemist Mark Harrison of the Australian National University in Canberra re-examined the ancient rock shards.
The Trouser Press Guide to '90s Rock called the album a "surly milkshake of broken rock shards... from the artistic misspellings of song titles to the lyric collage on the inner sleeve and the abrasive, abstract guitar noises on the songs, Pretty on the Inside reveals the band's fascination with the New York no wave art and music scene of the '80s".
There have been concerns as well that radiation so prominent in deep shales that one of the ways prospectors identify potential gas sources is to look for a spike in underground gamma-ray emissions could be carried to the surface with the rock shards churned up by the drilling, by the frack water flowing back up the wellbore, or up with the gas itself.
Be mindful of any folks (or animals) observing you cracking open your geode, as rock shards you create may fly towards the onlookers, and injure them.
The Fortnite crater, now "Dusty Divot," also has a new item called "Hop Rocks," shards of the comet that allow players to jump higher for a limited time, reducing the pull of gravity.
See why placing a rock or shard over the hole when potting helps later on when you want to repot?
Hint: to make repotting easier in the future place a rock or shard directly over the drainage hole.
The rock or shard provides a hard surface to push against and this will distribute the force over a greater area, assisting you in getting the plant out of its pot.
