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The bluish pools bear a salty crust that reflects the sky.
And below the crust in these volcanic parts micro-organisms have been discovered that may offer clues to the origins of life.
It was made with duck, and the crust had a cute little duck cut-out on top.
The oceanic crust rides low and is mostly submerged because it is thin and made of denser material than the continents.
And some of it flows underneath the oceanic crust to fill the space being created by that lightening, rising continental crust.
Such a process could have powered not only the jets but may have produced enough heat to cause the crust to begin spreading.
His storefront-of-a-parlor has folks clamoring for his thin, stretchy crust.
The vagaries of currents within the mantle mean that the crust and core can and do rotate at slightly different rates.
Students learn the structure and composition of oceanic and continental crust and the theory of plate tectonics.
If you want the crust to be crunchy, you can leave the pizza on the stone for a few minutes.
Pull off the parchment paper and let the crust cook.
Choose a sweet baguette with a light, slightly soft interior and thin, crisp crust.
The high heat of the oven beautifully blisters the crust, which emerges crisp yet tender.
But it's still hot after all this time because the crust is a decent insulator.
When a fault ruptures, the sudden motion stresses the surrounding crust.
Using the speed and direction of the waves, they compiled an image of the crust under the volcano.
The pale crust at left is from newly made dough while the crust at right is made with the same dough, aged a day.
White panko comes from bread that has had the crust removed.
The flavor of the hill stations was decidedly upper crust.
Notice the random, low wall peeking out of the crust.
These include numerous species of corals, marine snails, and crust-building algae.
The best explanation for the rapid rise, he added, is delamination-the loss of dense rock at the base of the crust.
The simple and tasty salt-and-pepper crust of this tart is worth making from scratch.
These consist of cancellous tissue covered by a thin crust of compact substance.
The lesions eventually dry out, develop a crust, and heal rapidly without leaving a scar.
There's no need to chill a pie crust for three hours.
As the crust bakes, the fat melts, and the steam it gives off creates little air pockets that cause flakiness.
The charring gave them an alluring crust and tasty grilled flavor.
Cracks in the planet's crust imply a contracting world.
Pour contents of pan into crust and top with crumbs.
With each step, their hooves press lightly, then break through the icy crust atop the shallow snow.
At the plate boundaries, the crust bends until the strain becomes too great.
The sheet of lava then grows a solid crust on its upper surface while the lava remains molten for a time in the flow's interior.
According to the new simulation, the impactor would have thrown clear enough of the crust to leave a marked depression.
But layers of iron sulfate minerals, which do dissolve easily, lie centimeters below the crust.
What if the moons crust is stronger in areas where craters proliferate and faults naturally occur where craters are scarce.
Some of these designs aren't too far off from what's still used today to get a deliciously crisp pizza crust.
Seafloor spreading is the process of new crust forming between two plates that are moving apart.
The cheese on the outside acts as a lubricant and protects the roof of your mouth from the abrasive crust.
IF you think of crackers as little bits of pie crust, or fast-cooking bread, you quickly comprehend why they're so easy to make.
It was a textural marvel, combining the fluffiness of a meringue on the inside with the chewy crust of the best brownies on top.
The crust is light, with a puffy edge and yeasty chew.
Taping into crust will cool some of the rocks surrounding it which might pose a problem in its self.
The reason is butter: butter in the crust and butter in the filling.
Earthquakes result when the subducting crust gets stuck, then lurches back into motion.
Water seeps into the cracked crust, picks up minerals and heat, and spews out of the vents.
The two huge boulders he'd pointed out were speckled gray on the outside, but where the crust had eroded the rock was flame-red.
Here it keeps the crust from getting soggy and letting the fruity goodness leak out.
The sheer chance shearing of the bulk of our crust into an orbiting body has to be a minimal.
The jelly will protect the pie crust from absorbing too much of the apple juice and getting soggy.
Yet beneath this upper crust of high culture there simmers a less appetizing stew.
Gently pour the sugar and butter liquid over the crust.
The paucity of craters indicates that the crust is continually resurfaced.
The barbecued pork bun comes topped with a crackling sugar crust.
When the two come together, the ocean crust goes down, and those two plates really grind against each other.
Thick crust is displayed in green shades, and thin crust is displayed in pink shades.
The photographer's time-lapse exposure captures magma flying through fissures in the dome's thin crust.
It's time to think outside the pie crust and consider other ways you can put pumpkin on your table.
All wear a crust of filth over their shawls and trousers.
Bread shredded with its crust gives tan or golden panko.
All that cracked, unstable crust seethes with stress.
Neutrons that leave the crust and go directly into space as high-energy particles are called fast, or hot, neutrons.
We tried the cheese and got a pizza with a sturdy, slightly sweet tomato sauce on a hand-stretched crust.
Likewise, pumpkin pie went missing due to a lack of crust ingredients.
Scientists believe this line is liquid lava that becomes exposed as the solidifying crust breaks up along the caldera's walls.
Mountains are formed when two continental plates smash together, thrusting the crust upward.
It got me thinking about the importance of the crust to a great pasty.
Scientists could learn a lot about the structure of the planet, what it's made of, and where the crust is thick or thin.

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