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Here's a pile of rocks.
Mud walls need speed breakers so that the rainwater cannot run down the wall fast, and these speed breakers could be lines of bamboo or stones or straw mixed into the mud, just like a hill needs trees or rocks in order to prevent erosion.
Pressurized fluids fracture rocks.
This guy was breaking rocks with a hammer in the hot sunlight, but he just wanted to spend his life as a farmer.
Now, we had to convince our clients that this was a good idea; but foremost, we had to come up with a design process to reuse these randomly shaped rocks, and we had not done this before.
I can see the rocks are over here.
He'll find Jamie wherever he is, you know, wherever kids are, crushing rocks by a stream or something, and take him a little message that says, "Hey, dinner's ready.
And we have these huge rocks, you know, killer-sized rocks in the hundreds of thousands or millions out there, and while the probability is very small, the impact, figured in literally, of one of these hitting the Earth is so huge that to spend a small fraction looking, searching, preparing to defend, is not unreasonable.
If you think about these other asteroids, there's a class of the nickel iron, which in platinum-group metal markets alone are worth something like 20 trillion dollars, if you can go out and grab one of these rocks.
And they swagger and they throw rocks.
There's a story in the sea, in the waters of the sea, in the sediments and the rocks of the sea floor.
What we see when we look back in time, in those sediments and rocks, is a record of Earth history.
In my lab, I can shoot at rocks using cannons like this one.
Different fault lines juxtapose different rocks– some of which are stronger–or weaker– under pressure.
Diverse rocks also react differently to friction and high temperatures.
And all these faults are subject to varying gravitational forces, as well as the currents of hot rocks moving throughout Earth’s mantle.
So what you are seeing here are the layers on the wall of that crater, and the Rover is going down now, measuring, you know, the properties and analyzing the rocks as it's going down, you know, that canyon.
What we are going to be doing with that Rover as it drives around, it's going to go and analyze the chemical composition of rocks.
Some of the scientists believe that the way the Solar System formed, that the Sun when it collapsed and actually created the Sun, a lot of the dust around it created rings and then the particles in those rings accumulated together, and they formed bigger rocks, and then that's how the planets, you know, were formed.
Sunning themselves on rocks or waddling awkwardly across the beach, it’s easy to think of these immobile mammals less as sea lions, and more as sea house cats.
These rocks have been hitting our earth for about three billion years, and are responsible for much of what’s gone on on our planet.
There's clearly sedimentary rocks all over the place – one of the landers is sitting in the middle of an ancient seabed, and there are these amazing structures called blueberries, which are these little, rocky concretions that we are busy making biologically in my lab right now.
some rocks are twins separated at birth.
As the magma moves towards the Earth’s surface, it crystallizes to form young, hot igneous rocks.
The heat from these rocks drives groundwater towards the surface.
Rocks like granite are full of crystals, but none have recognizable shapes.
We find microbial life in every part of the planet: in ice, in coal, in rocks, in volcanic vents; it's an amazing thing.
All along it was thought to be either an act of God or perhaps long, slow climate change, and that really changed in 1980, in this rocky outcrop near Gubbio, where Walter Alvarez, trying to figure out what was the time difference between these white rocks, which held creatures of the Cretaceous period, and the pink rocks above, which held Tertiary fossils.
The electrostatic forces from before are too weak, and small rocks can’t be held together by gravity either.
Eventually the chondrule pellets get cemented together inside larger rocks, which at about 1 kilometer across are finally large enough to hold themselves together through gravity.
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