Word: lavas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gold has also demonstrated the possibility that dark regions on the moon are great dust layers, rather than massive flows of lava and has advanced an explanation of their origin. These dust clouds could have been formed, he said, by the constant bombardment of meteors pulverizing the surface...
...most explosive emotional actress of her generation had. in fact, erupted over filmland and was filling the vicinity with temperamental lava, flaming ash and general consternation. Soon after her arrival in the U.S., Magnani banished the TV set from her hotel room and ordered a grand piano, on which she battered tempestuously when the mood was on her. Bored with the chef's chef-d'oeuvres. she was seen marching up to her suite with $50 worth of groceries in tow. She gave interviews from her bed, her hair like a black dustmop, her bag-rimmed eyes like...
...moon, many space enthusiasts assume that they will find suitable landing gronds on the moon's vast, level plains. This assumptions is based on the view that the lunar plains, which are made of some darker material than the rest of the moon's surface, are actually lava beds poured out from once-active volcanoes whose craters now it the moon's surface. Recent observations, however, suggest that the moon has been a cold planet for so long that volcanic activity is not a satisfactory explanation of its topography. Instead, the belief is growing that its craters...
...thermal or electrical disturbances. If such is the case, says gold, the dust could "flow over the surface like a liquid, running down the sides of cold craters to fill in the bottoms." Gold therefore believes that the moon's vast plains are not exposed layers of lava but oceans of fine-powdered dust that may be anything from 100 ft. to two miles in depth...
...most successful is The Crater (see cut), dominated by lava-black swirls in which prehistoric reptiles, ghostly riders and a whole flotsam of humanity are discovered like fossil imprints in a violently sheared rock...