Sentence examples for rocky layer from inspiring English sources

Earth's outermost, rigid, rocky layer is called the crust.

Is the protective rocky layer thin enough to be negligible with respect to the lubrication effect?

A new study suggests that a previously unknown rocky layer may be lurking about 930 miles beneath our feet -- and evidence suggests that it's significantly stiffer than similar layers, which could help explain earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

For each channel, we surveyed ground and water surface, and ALD or depth to till or other coarse rocky layer, using a total station (Nikon DTM-352) and prism rod, with an emphasis on measuring the longitudinal and cross-sectional form of each channel from above the point of channel initiation, across the trail, and up to 100 m downstream.

A. The pressure comes from the heavier rocky layers that lie above oil and gas reservoirs.

Veins of quartz are frozen lightning; the rocky layers of the Alps are badly tossed pancakes.

Related events led to the formation of rocky layers that were the precursors of Earth's present-day mantle and crust.

Other images of rocky layers in the Valles Marineris canyon point to extensive volcanism during the first billion years on Mars, says planetary geologist Alfred McEwen of the University of Arizona in Tucson.

Amid the wobbly, pitch-bending backing track on "Better Things," Rocky layers his voice, octaves piled like Dalian dreamscapes, while he explores addiction, gluttony and loss.

Lithosphere, Rigid, rocky outer layer of the Earth, consisting of the crust and the solid outermost layer of the upper mantle.

The cycle consists of large annual exchanges between the carbon reservoirs of the atmosphere, the land biosphere, the lithosphere (the rocky surface layer of the planet) and the ocean.