| In an attempt to look enthusiastic, he smiled, but only managed to accentuate his lined face with its moonscape of pockmarks. |
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| The best way to describe that area is to say that it is like a moonscape of mud. |
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| As you drift northwards and deeper, the spurs and gullies give way to a moonscape of boulders. |
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| The region's slickrock, sandstone from long-gone seabeds, is a moonscape of crinkles and undulations that make for exhilarating riding. |
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| We clamber up over rocks onto a barren, boulder-strewn moonscape where we pick up speed. |
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| With the forest kaput, erosion creates a tropic moonscape of barren hillsides. |
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| Where Charles used to operate a small ferry the Salt River is now vacant land, a moonscape of cobbles and sand. |
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| Up to 90 percent of the coral island is unusable, resembling a moonscape, after mining stripped away its lucrative phosphate deposits. |
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| The Rangers now advance through a moonscape of craters and smashed gun positions. |
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| The ancient rivers and lakes were teeming with life, a far cry from the dry moonscape of the site today. |
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| The landscape changes from lush, tree-covered mountains to a barren moonscape, the result of a mining practice called mountaintop removal. |
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| Fish and whole forests died and water became non-potable, turning 30 kilometres of the river system into a moonscape. |
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| At low tide it's empty, a desolate moonscape of gray glacial silt dotted by glistening tide pools. |
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| From the hut, hike up through the barren moonscape of the lower mountain, past ancient aqueducts and cliff bands. |
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| You will reach the misty summit of Mont Ventoux via its famous moonscape, which a challenge even for well-trained riders. |
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| Losing half its volume and retreating more than 1.5 kms, the shrinking glacier has left a moonscape of rocky moraines in its wake. |
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| From its porch, you see a snow-covered moonscape of ridges and saddles. |
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| It was one of the worst horrors of my life, for the forests through which I had walked were totally gone, replaced by a bare and barren moonscape without a tree. |
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| From 1987 to 1991, drought turned much of the plain into a moonscape. |
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| I expect that of the 17,000 people of the Westbury region only a few have seen the moonscape left by planners and company extractors, in the existing quarry. |
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| And the broad highway that slices from Tehran to Qom through a moonscape of scrubby desert and salt lakes is a clue to the city's importance. |
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| After the war, returning locals were shocked to find Chinese in the shattered, treeless moonscape of Flanders. |
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| There are found the famous Badlands, clay ravines and gullies created by centuries of erosion, almost a moonscape. |
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| The moonscape rocks dotting the trail offer a history lesson stretching back billions of years. |
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| Don't miss the moonscape landscapes of Moon Plain, Dog Fence and the Breakaways where Mad Max III was filmed. |
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| Departing Cape Reinga we fly over the almost moonscape sand dunes of the Parengarenga Harbour and over some of the most pristine white sands of the East Coast and Doubtless. |
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| A horseman keeping a herd of camels and a yurt are signs of humanity in the endless space, sparsely covered with grass in midsummer, a moonscape from November to spring. |
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| Landscapes that other times of the year remind one of the arid, forbidding moonscape burst into such prodigious and unexpected bloom as to surpass even the highest flights of fantasy. |
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| On the wall above the volcano looks like a moonscape, and the ground beneath their feet from time to time will be black, gray or red depending on the lava. |
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| Together, they've created an eerie interplanetary moonscape that's as epic as it is requisitely foreboding. |
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| Much of the oceanic crustal material has eroded to expose the serpentine tableland, an unusual area of dark green rock which, because of its high magnesium content, stymies plant growth, creating a moonscape devoid of life. |
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| It took me an hour to hike across this cratered, rock-strewn moonscape. |
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| So a data-minded commentator like Nate Cohn is able to look out over the blasted moonscape of Appalachia and conclude that a party of the left has nothing it might conceivably offer the people there. |
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| Prairies of wild flowers of mountain such as the Immortal, the Dombeya leiomacrantha, rare orchids such as the Jumellea rigida, a moonscape and in front of us, mountains as far as visible in a soothing silence. |
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