| And my third is a mountain massif just about rugged enough to match its inhabitants. |
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| If the dissolution process has operated efficiently through time, then extensive caves will be found in a limestone massif. |
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| However, it extends across the mountain massif to include part of the western flowing Dyfi drainage. |
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| It is as if the great ice field had finally run out of energy when it reached the immovable mass of the Paine massif. |
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| The massif comprises low-grade, mainly fine-grained, siliciclastic deposits, ranging from the lowermost Cambrian to the upper Silurian in age. |
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| From this elevated viewpoint the peaks of the Paine massif appeared as tightly packed turrets in some fairyland castle. |
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| This cave is set in a limestone massif on the left bank of the river Verdouble. |
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| Collected here in 1945, the tailorbirds remained ignored until a 2001 expedition revisited the massif. |
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| It is at least another day's drive to el Geneina, if the road is not cut by wadis carrying rainwater from the massif of Jebel Marra. |
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| Turning north Michael passes through the dramatic mountains of the Hoggar massif before he pauses in the oil and gas fields of central Algeria. |
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| This great, dark mountain massif formed an island in the surrounding sand sea. |
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| Beyond, out of sight, rise the peaks of the Grampian massif, the high heart of Scotland with its austere tracks leading to lonely places. |
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| This transport policy has to be oriented to a massif, on-going and perceivable transfer from the road to the rail. |
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| The main-phase foliation is subparallel to the nappe contact of the Gran Paradiso massif with the overlying Zermatt-Saas zone and defines a broad regional dome structure. |
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| No sky alight with revelation crowns this picture, only a small triangle congested greeny-yellow by the monsoon, crammed against the top of the frame by the massif. |
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| The Kirsehir-Nigde massif formed a promontory of this continental margin. |
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| Ductile fabrics and tectonic boundaries in the southern part of the Cine massif outline a large-scale monocline, the tectonic significance of which is not known. |
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| Strongly foliated porphyroblastic politic gneiss forms a selvedge up to 100 m thick in sharp contact with peridotite on the northern margin of the Carratraca massif. |
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| The following morning, the sort of black cloud that lours over Mordor had swallowed the Cairngorm massif completely and a bitter wind kept the punters away. |
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| He is named after a mountain in the Pirin massif and dad's an alpinist. |
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| In the movement of the crust, a massif tends to retain its internal structure while being displaced as a whole. |
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| In mountaineering and climbing literature, a massif is frequently used to denote the main mass of an individual mountain. |
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| The massif is a smaller structural unit of the crust than a tectonic plate and is considered the fourth largest driving force in geomorphology. |
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| One of the most notable European examples of a massif is the Massif Central of the Auvergne region of France. |
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| From here, the urban area of Bergen extends to the north, west and south, and to its east is a large mountain massif. |
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| On the heights of Ouarzazate the massif is cut through by the Draa Valley which opens southward. |
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| Glaciers no longer exist in the Apennines outside the Gran Sasso d'Italia massif. |
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| Stages of deformation and displacement of an undermined massif can be schematized within the framework of the model shown in Fig. |
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| Nature has been generous with Ribadesella. We have a beautiful river, steep mountains close to the sea, a Karstic massif which the potholers really enjoy and a coast which has Sandy beaches, stony beaches, meadows and cliffs. |
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| Öræfajökull, ice-covered volcanic massif, southeastern Iceland. |
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| From the village of El Chaltén trails leads through the stunning FitzRoy massif, the granite pinnacles of which offer some of the world's toughest climbing, and from there on to the icecap. |
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| The elegant symmetrical pyramids of striated metamorphic rock, laced with icy runnels, grow in stature towards the heart of the range, culminating at the centre in the complex high-glacial massif of Vinson. |
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| As long as there is no land route to the Otish Mountains massif, access to the sites offering accommodation will be something of a hit-or-miss proposition. |
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| The gipsy cravan is put in front of the rose garden and of the massif of the forest of Saoû, in a space semi-closed in low walls of dry stones which make the beauty of gardens and terraces of our region. |
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| Magnificent composition of a big couple of aluminum polite massif where the man, to soil, nearly scared, is dominated by a horsewoman conquérante. |
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| The expedition team will also place a survey monument close to the summit, and perhaps several more on either side of a fault which bisects the massif. |
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| You'll need ice axes and crampons to attempt them during winter, though there is a bridleway across the Helvellyn massif if you don't fancy the arête walk. |
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| The avalanche of snow hit on the dome of the Ecrins massif, which reaches 4,000 metres, near the town of Pelvoux. |
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| At the start of the 20th century, as farmhouse production declined on the high summer pastures, dairies were set up in the region, on the eastern side of the massif in particular. |
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| They also occur as small isolated clusters arising from the surrounding plain and studding the eastern summit of the massif, the latter possibly relict from an earlier tower-forming period. |
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| This remarkable architectural complex of rock-cut houses in the Kerman massif is surrounded by carefully tended gardens and cultivated fields, some terraced, strung out along seasonal watercourses. |
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| The surplus heat of the mountain massif runs in a small stream from the new basis tunnel and is used to heat a tropical plantation and to rear sturgeon. |
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| The 7,900ft Gran Sasso massif is the highest mountain in the Appennine ridge, which runs along the Italian peninsula. |
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| Bassenthwaite Lake occupies the valley between this massif and the North Western Fells. |
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| The Armorican massif straightened and flattened several times during the formation of the Pyrenees and the Alps. |
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| In New Guinea, small, rapidly diminishing, glaciers are located on its highest summit massif of Puncak Jaya. |
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| The peak is a major objective in the Beacons Way, a long distance footpath which passes from east to west across the massif. |
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| The risk increased with serpentinite surface, proximity to serpentinite quarries and distance to the peridotite massif. |
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| The highest totals were recorded on the western upslopes of the Cambrian Mountains immediately east of Aberystwyth as moist air was lifted over the Plynlimon massif. |
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| At this point the ridge connects with the main Helvellyn massif. |
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| He achieved this by joining two of these rivers' tributaries, the Si and the Ji respectively, at their closest point, across a low watershed of the Shandong massif. |
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| Hill fort defences are visible round the main massif of Arthur's Seat at Dunsapie Hill and above Samson's Ribs, in the latter cases certainly of prehistoric date. |
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| The Face on Mars is an example of an extraterrestrial massif. |
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| It is a massif that dominates the countryside of northern Ceredigion. |
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| The Coniston Fells are separated from the Scafell and Bowfell massif to their north by Wrynose Pass, and are surrounded on all other sides by lower ground. |
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