Some geologists falsely believed heat from the waste could melt surrounding rock and form a radioactive volcano.
Now, however, it seems that the water in many of these wells has been contaminated by arsenic in the surrounding rock.
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The air exiting the cave would be cooled by the thermal mass of the surrounding rock to within a degree or two of the yearly average temperature.
Anything but a neutrino is likely to be screened out by the surrounding rock, so the flashes of light created when a neutrino hits a water molecule are not swamped by background glare.
Some of the factories are built into the rock surrounding the walled city.
Another early beneficiary might be Carbo Ceramics, which sells ceramic pellets the size of grains of sand that are pumped into the rock surrounding the wells to prop open the tiny cracks through which oil and gas flow.
These wranglers double as tour guides, leading horseback rides through the surrounding arid lands, with views of the red rock mountains of nearby Sedona.
Police are continuing to investigate the cause of the explosion, which leveled the house, scattered lumber, sheet rock and insulation and shattered windows at surrounding homes.
As I explained in my piece on the Melvan, part of the fervor surrounding the Melvan is due to some curious graffiti of rock group KISS drawn by the late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain.
And like many a fellow environmentalist, she is concerned that urban sprawl is now encroaching on surrounding conservation areas like Lake Mead, Spring Mountain and Red Rock Canyon.
Looking out on the surrounding scenery, he has high hopes, envisioning a day when tourists come to enjoy the red rock canyons that once served as insurgent sanctuaries.
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By the end of the 1960s the trend was for pop and rock groups to write their own music, instilled with their own essence yet mindful of the world surrounding them, and The Beatles, along with other artists such as Bob Dylan, were perhaps the most influential to that end.
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