At Goliad the uranium ore is located just 400 feet deep within the same rock as a groundwater reservoir that ranchers tap for drinking water, both for themselves and their livestock.
When the ocean plates sink deep enough, portions are melted by the intense heat generated within the mantle, turning the solid rock into molten magma.
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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.
To be honest, unless you're within touching distance, the rock in its current position gets dwarfed by the mammoth red-and-white transporter.
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Beachrock: ledges of rock formed within the body of the beach consisting of sand grains cemented by calcium carbonate and formed by chemical processes.
Drillers also use sensors to detect particularly promising rock intervals within the formation, and are able to move the drill string up or down, left or right as they drill through the horizontal section to target those intervals.
The CheMin instrument will use X-rays to determine how the atoms in the rock are arranged within its structure.
The goal is to extract metals, water and compounds that can be used to make spacecraft fuel from the chunks of rock that float within about 50 million kilometers (31 million miles) of Earth.
The big growth in oil extracted from shale rock means the US will not need to import any crude within two decades, the former boss of BP has said.
At the same time Yury Boiko, the Ukrainian energy minister, has high hopes that shale gas -- formed deep underground within large shale rock formations -- could also be a major alternative source of power in the decades to come.
At the same time, failing to recognize gender difference within marriage and the family would be a "deceit" that would rock the foundations of society and lead to discrimination between children, he said.
Even though I grew up on metal, punk and hard rock and the majority of my listening to this day takes place within those genres, I still keep a heavy dose of pop music in rotation.
Fracking is the process of blasting water at high pressure into shale rock to release oil or gas held within it.
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