Sentence examples for stony material from inspiring English sources

Examining the stony material with computerized imaging technology, scientists came upon an even bigger surprise, one that could profoundly change theories of dinosaur physiology and the place of at least some of these creatures in the evolutionary history of life.

It is a stony material that is easy to crush for use as aggregate in concrete mixes.

But asteroids measuring less than 100m across - and made of stony material - are liable to break up high in the atmosphere.

Revetment is a protective structure for a shoreline with stony material, usually natural stone or concrete, with a thickness of only one layer of elements and of which the elements are placed in a pattern.

The meteor was likely made of stony materials and not solid metal, so as pressure from the atmosphere increased, it exploded at an altitude of 12 to 15 miles above the surface.

Following this approach a formula is proposed as a screening tools for stony materials.

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

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.

Simultaneously, it would reduce the impact of new quarries, since it contributes to save stony raw materials.

Smaller than the observed asteroids and comets are the meteoroids (see meteor and meteoroid), lumps of stony or metallic material believed to be mostly fragments of asteroids and comets.

Here, the colluvial soils, though stony, comprise loosely aggregated materials derived from earlier landslide failures, and as such contained no impediments to root development.