Sentence examples for rocky layers from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

One of the ideas was that maybe there was a giant impact that stripped off much of the rocky outer layers and left you with unusually high proportion of iron in the core," said Blewett.

A very thin layer of soil on top of the rocky base layer, mainly sandstone, underlies the grass community.