Sentence examples for rocky material from inspiring English sources

The Moon, for example, consists almost entirely of rocky material.

Or was it more like an asteroid, made of rocky material?

Stony iron meteorite, any meteorite containing substantial amounts of both rocky material (silicates) and nickel-iron metal.

Its burned-out remnant of rocky material would presently have more physical characteristics in common with asteroids than with other comets.

Sands, sandy or gravelly loams, shallow stony soils, and alluvium (material deposited by rivers and streams) and scree-derived deposits (rocky material at the base of cliffs) predominate.

The moon appears to be composed of equal parts water ice and rocky material, intermixed with small amounts of frozen methane.

It is made from a mix of kaolin clay and rocky materials like feldspar, quartz or alabaster, and fired at high temperatures.

We now move more than three times as much sediment and rocky materials than all the world's rivers, glaciers, wind and rain combined, according to sedimentary geologist James Syvitski of Instaar, University of Colorado, Boulder.

Initial investigations of the rocky materials have confirmed that they are asteroid samples, and the petrographic type of Itokawa is 4 to 6 in the LL or L ordinary chondrite group through mineralogical and isotopic studies (Nakamura et al.2011; Yurimoto et al.2011).2011

If the 2011 occultation results are used, then Eris has a density of, substantially denser than Pluto, and thus must be composed largely of rocky materials.

According to Sikrikar et al. (1998) and as observed in the south-west of the Phewa watershed, the quartzite formation is prone to deep gully formation, rock fall, rock slides and wedge failures involving rather rough material (rocky deposits, as gravels and boulders).