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rises and heats
The humidity from the steam that rises as the water heats helps keep the top of the custard from becoming too dry.
Due to divergent movement, the lithosphere is stretched and thinned, so that the hot asthenosphere rises and heats the overlying rift basin.
During warmer months sunlight heats the surfaces of both the land and the oceans, but the land temperature rises faster.
In such an eruption, the material ejected from the vent heats the surrounding air and the turbulent mixture rises, through convection, for many kilometres.
As the temperature of the surface of the land rises, the land heats the air above it.
' This is such a powerful idea that as the Sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, it's still frantically hanging on to the notion that everything's going to be all right, because this World was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it ; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise.
As the temperature of the surface of the land rises, the land heats the air above it.
As molten magma rises at a mid-ocean ridge it heats the rocks around it.

rises and wall
Crossing the Aniene and turning to the right, the path rises along the left face off the ravine and soon reaches the site of Nero's villa and of the huge mole which formed the lower end of the middle lake ; across the valley were ruins of the Roman baths, of which a few great arches and detached masses of wall still stand.
Kenilworth's inner court consists of a number of buildings set against a bailey wall, originally of Norman origin, exploiting the defensive value of a natural knoll that rises up steeply from the surrounding area.
The elevation of the caldera walls reach, except in the east, where the wall rises only to an elevation of.
The wall on which The Last Judgment is painted looms out slightly over the viewer as it rises, and is meant to be somewhat fearful and to instill piety and respect for God's power.
About 13 km NNE, on the opposite side of the Pulwar, rises a perpendicular wall of rock, in which four similar tombs are cut at a considerable height from the bottom of the valley.
It gradually rises to a rather steep hillside in the west that forms a natural wall.
Each time the water rises above a certain level, citizens must join to build a sandbag wall that stretches six city blocks and can be as high as five feet tall.
The room today has a wall covering of vertically sriped red and gold fabric with a padded backing, which rises to meet the same fabric hung in a swag fashion outwards from a single coffer in the centre of the ceiling and trimmed around the perimeter of the room with a scallop edged valence of simple passementerie and tassels.
On the side wall, under the windows, the marble dado rises to but little more than half this height.
Rather than considering it as an adjunct to the main body of the building, he constructed it within its west wall, so that it rises above the roof, immediately behind the portico, an arrangement previously used by John James at St George, Hanover Square ( 1712 – 24 ), though James ’ steeple was much less ambitious.
The nave and aisles are separated by columns or piers, above which rises a wall pierced by clerestory windows.
On the outside, the mosque rises high, with its east wall pierced by four tiers of windows.
Climbing the slope of the Sixth Hill, the wall then rises up to the Gate of Charisius or Gate of Adrianople, at some 76 m height.
In the southwest and west, the wall has been levelled, through which the tower on the building ’ s western edge rises.
A much more serious and challenging climb is the famous East Face ( Watzmann-Ostwand ), which rises from the Hirschau peninsula at lake Königssee to the main peaks in a vertical ascent of around 1800m ( the longest wall in the Eastern Alps ).
The crown of the wall then rises above the spandrels, to a strongly projecting painted cornice that runs right around the ceiling, separating the pictorial areas of the biblical scenes from the figures of Prophets, Sibyls and Ancestors, who literally and figuratively support the narratives.
On the east side the hollow wall rises directly from the road.
The inner wall is about 5ft thick and 4ft high and rises 12 to 14 feet above the cliff.
At the building drain system's lowest point, the drain-waste vent is attached, and rises ( usually inside a wall ) to and out of the roof.
On the ground level are two vaulted apartments divided by a wall nearly thick which rises to the full height of the castle.
The interior wall displays some slumping, and the floor is uneven with a few small rises from slump blocks.
The crater rim of Triesnecker is somewhat distorted from a circular shape, having a notable bulge in the western wall, and lesser rises in the southeastern and northeastern rims.
Much of the wall now rises only slightly above the surrounding terrain, with the lowest sections to the north and south.
However the northern wall rises to a maximum elevation of 3. 5 km.

rises and rocks
The geothermally heated water then rises back toward the surface by convection through porous and fractured rocks.
They usually bask on the rocks on the ebb ( falling ) tide since it saves them having to move as the water rises.
In despair, Jason calls upon the end of the gods and throws Phineas ' gift into the water ; whereupon the god Triton rises from sea foam and holds the rocks in place long enough for the Argo to pass.
Where the land rises to the sea there are several parallel strata of Jurassic rocks, including Portland limestone and the Purbeck beds.
The Three Kings group falls into two subgroups with four main inhospitable islands and a number of smaller rocks on a submarine plateau called King Bank which rises out of extremely deep water.
The River Dargle (, so called with reference to the prevailing tint of its rocks ) rises in the Wicklow Mountains of Ireland on the northern slopes of Djouce Mountain and flows over the highest waterfall in Ireland, falling 121m ( 398 feet ) at Powerscourt Waterfall.
Parts of Mer are continually in flux, like a river of spiked rocks that rises out of the ocean in the first episode and appears to defy physics ( none of the characters are bewildered by the spectacle aside from its danger ), but whether this is the Dark Water's doing or just the nature of the geologically hyperactive planet is unknown.
The Little Obed rises east of Crossville and from near its source flows in a deep gorge that it has cut into the rocks capping the plateau, primarily sandstones of the Pennsylvanian Period.
Above the broad and deep accumulations of the products of denudation which have been brought down by the rivers from the Tian Shan ranges ( e. g. the Karlyk-tagh ) on the north and from the Nanshan on the south, and have filled up the cauldron-shaped valleys, there rises a broad swelling, built up of granitic rocks, crystalline schists and metamorphosed sedimentary rocks of both Archaic and Palaeozoic age, all greatly folded and tilted up, and shot through with numerous irruptions of volcanic rocks, predominantly porphyritic and dioritic.
The place of his Sun's rising is over the sea, and the people who dwell there, when he is about to rise, flee away and hide themselves in the sea, that they be not burnt by his rays ; and he passes through the midst of heaven to the place where he enters the window of heaven ; and wherever he passes there are terrible mountains, and those who dwell there have caves hollowed out in the rocks, and as soon as they see the Sun passing them, men and birds flee away from before him and hide in the caves ... And when the Sun enters the window of heaven, he straight away bows down and makes obeisance before God his Creator ; and he travels and descends the whole night through the heavens, until at length he finds himself where he Sun rises ...
These volcanic explosion craters are formed when magma rises through water-saturated rocks and causes a phreatic eruption.
A more recent theory is that ice collars form around rocks and when the local water level rises, the rocks are buoyantly floated off the soft bed.
Crustal rocks are thrust faulted over the sediments and the mountain belt broadens as it rises in height.

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