"dead" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The Apollo astronauts found the Moon to be geologically dead.
- With only one-eightieth Earth's mass, the Moon long ago cooled to the core, leaving it geologically dead.
- It has a higher density than the geologically dead Rhea, the largest inner moon, but lower than that of active Enceladus.
- The observations of plasma in the vicinity of Tethys demonstrated that it is a geologically dead body producing no new plasma in the Saturnian magnetosphere.
- Mercury and Mars have no significant internal heating because they are only 5 and 11% the mass of Earth respectively; they are "geologically dead".
- Without such internal ferment the planet would be geologically dead, featureless and uniformly covered with water.
- Added to other recent discoveries, the finding reinforces the idea that, far from being geologically dead, the planet may harbor volcanoes, liquid water and possibly life.
- Scientists had seen no signs of contemporary magnetic fields in data from Mars, leading them to write off the planet as geologically dead.
- Without this tidal heating, Io might have been similar to the Earth's moon, a world of similar size and mass, geologically dead and covered with numerous impact craters.
- The deep was once thought of as geologically dead and having only a thin population of bizarre fish, mainly scavengers living off a drizzle of detritus from above.
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