Sentence examples for rocky remnants from inspiring English sources

In this episode they shun metal detectors and use their eyes alone to try to find the rocky remnants of a meteor shower.

There is also reason to believe that some are fragments of the rocky remnants of comets, although that remains to be firmly established.

As Jupiter retreated from its closest approach to the sun (about the distance of Mars's orbit today), it left behind the mostly rocky remnants that later coalesced into our solar system's inner planets, including Earth.

Available evidence indicates that the asteroids, which orbit the Sun mainly in a belt between Mars and Jupiter, are remnants of rocky planetesimals that were prevented by Jupiter's gravity from consolidating into a planet at that location.

There are other remnants.

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

This species is a habitat specialist and remnant populations are found in rocky gorge country with an abundance of riffles and where water quality is good (Bruce et al., 2008; Gilligan et al. 2010).

These areas have since been almost entirely converted to agricultural and urban areas, leaving remnant oak savannas largely on steep, rocky hilltops, where the habitat is maintained by shallow soils.

But the star of the book is the island itself, San Miguel, in all its glorious barrenness, its guano-­coated cliffs and its pounding waves that cough up remnants of the frequent shipwrecks around the rocky shore.

This fluvial sensitivity to the meteorological conditions induced temporal variations in sedimentary supply originating from either direct input from remnants of periglacial alluvial sheets or local rocky outcrops and/or from indirect input from the erosion of alluvial and colluvial deposits.

Discovery in Kuiper Belt If the moon situation seems out of control, consider what's going on with the Kuiper Belt, that band of rocky objects beyond Neptune that are believed to be the remnants of the solar system's birth.