Rocks in sentence

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While the clan welcomed the Argonauts with open arms, the monsters surged down from the mountains and hurled rocks at the docked ship.

In return, the seer told them how to overcome the terrifying trial that lay ahead: the Symplegades, a pair clashing rocks that reduced ships to splinters.

Upon reaching the clashing rocks, the exhausted crew quaked with fear.

But this has not always been the case, and we know this because ancient rocks have recorded the pivotal moments in Earth's planetary evolution.

And one of the best places to observe those ancient rocks is in the Pilbara of Western Australia.

The rocks here are 3.5 billion years old, and they contain some of the oldest evidence for life on the planet.

The rocks older than this have been either destroyed or highly deformed through plate tectonics.

Now, what probably looks like a bunch of wrinkly old rocks are actually stromatolites.

In these environments, you have hot water dissolving minerals from the underlying rocks.

It is implied from rocks called banded iron formations, many of which can be observed as hundreds-of-meter-thick packages of rock which are exposed in gorges that carve their way through the Karijini National Park in Western Australia.

If the rocks could talk, I suspect they might say this: life on Earth is precious.

And these cameras are positioned on rocks on the sides of the glaciers, and they look in on the glacier from permanent, bedrock positions, and they watch the evolution of the landscape.

Some rocks and some finches.

Who do you think was making needles and making nests and dripping on rocks for you, mister dense?" (Laughter) "Looking for the Buddha in person," he said.

He has his little ears and he smiles and he rocks you in his arms.

As rocks and mountains die, grains of sand are born.

These are the rocks Kanzi used and these are the flakes he made.

And the climbers stood around on the high rocks and spoke of the climbers who were lost up near the summit, turning to the mountain, actually, to talk to them directly.

Why is it that we don't have ethical obligations toward rocks?

Why don't we feel compassion for rocks?

It's because we don't think rocks can suffer.

Then you realize that these animals all have different personalities: Some of them would hold their ground, others would slink into the back of the tank and disappear in the rocks, and one in particular, this amazing animal ... I went up to the front of the tank, and he's just staring at me, and he had little horns come up above his eyes.

In this case, chimpanzees teaching each other how to crack nuts with rocks.

And we do care about planets like the Earth because by now we understood that life as a chemical system really needs a smaller planet with water and with rocks and with a lot of complex chemistry to originate, to emerge, to survive.

What looks like moss covering rocks is actually a shrub comprised of thousands of branches, each containing clusters of tiny green leaves at the end and so densely packed together that you could actually stand on top of it.

Science has taught us, against all intuition, that apparently solid things, like crystals and rocks, are really almost entirely composed of empty space.

Why, then, do rocks look and feel solid and hard and impenetrable?

If we had, our brains probably would perceive rocks as full of empty space.

Rocks feel hard and impenetrable to our hands, precisely because objects like rocks and hands cannot penetrate each other.

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