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Sentence Examples After a quarter mile, we turn off into a steep hillside broken by blocky outcrops of granite interspersed with snowfields and patches of green. The walking leaf species is found mostly in shady areas on moist, mossy boulders and rock crevices often associated with limestone outcrops. Why wasn't the granite washed clean like the rock outcrops we see jutting into the sea at the coast? Getting up Mt. Gudmundson didn't look so easy as there was a very steep ice and snow bank forming a razorback up to the rocky outcrops. In the hills are the nimble klipspringers which explore these hilly rocky outcrops. However, current field analyses of the flow structures suggest the outcrops are individual lava domes. They were only cobbles and small, irregular outcrops, not large ledges of obviously layered strata. Although they seem barren, the flat rock outcrops, known as pavement rock, support some lichens and mosses. Sporadic outcrops of ophiolite lithologies are surrounded by shale and limestone. Traces of these explorations are still visible in the rocky outcrops on the ridge. After the child goes missing, time-lapse photography depicts the clouds rapidly rolling in and nestling on the horizon above the rocky outcrops. There are 13 main islands in the archipelago, plus four islets and some 40 outcrops of jagged rocks. The area features generally runnable deciduous woodland with some steep slopes and craggy outcrops and a reasonable path network. Gabbro Rock outcrops were scattered throughout the preserve but were not mapped because of their small area. Much of their ground stone came from either glacial drift or outcrops of Dakota sandstone, both sources occurring to the east of the site. We sped along a busy dual carriageway, lined with thick bushes and rocky outcrops. The landscape of coastal Massachusetts is a mixture of wooded uplands, rocky outcrops, and long, low meadows that sweep down to the sea. The Pre-Cambrian granite bedrock is exposed at higher elevations as outcrops or low cliffs. It is underlain by schist, phyllite, and quartzite, although outcrops of serpentine are common in the area. Bell pits were shallow, unsupported shafts dug on vein outcrops that widened into bell-like shapes as they were sunk. Show More Sentences The abbey buildings, huddled round the squat tower of the church, stood out sharp and clear against the pale outcrops of Dun-I hill. He explained that they were the sites where millstones were cut from the outcrops of Millstone Grit. Their principal outcrops constitute the great Precambrian shields of continental crust upon which later formations were deposited. Just off the road, the Aztec sandstone outcrops at Redstone Picnic Area are actually petrified sand dunes. The composition of these minerals is known from a handful of outcrops containing inclusions of mantle material. To continue the walk from the rock outcrops simply head straight on along the ridge. However, quarry outcrops of mainly white halitic mylonites display isoclinal folds that suggest a more impressive past. The organisation said the most numerous relics were rock carvings found on boulders and outcrops. Sandy flats with occasional coralline outcrops dominate the bottom topography. A little to the south-east of this summit lies a curious constellation of rock tors, three individual outcrops of fine-grained granite. The smallest spurfowl, the Hartlaub is found around stony outcrops and in sandy areas. Carboniferous to Cretaceous strata are exposed in an extensive series of outcrops along the east coast of Greenland. The main outcrops of the Orcadian sedimentary basin occur in Caithness and the Orkneys. In western Thailand and eastern Myanmar, Mesozoic rocks are scattered and discontinuous, and outcrops of Palaeogene rocks are very rare. The main outcrops of this rock suite underlie the two steep-sided hills of the Boesmanskop to the immediate north of the main escarpment. Around 110 km north of Arming there is a series of further outcrops of Lower Cambrian rocks. The northernmost outcrops consist of Ordovician chloritic slates, phyllitic metavolcanic rocks and slatey metapelitic rocks. Vistas of mountains and valleys with interesting weathered limestone outcrops are everywhere, and there are numerous small mines. Inselbergs are rock outcrops, several tens to several hundreds of metres high, emerging from savannas or rain forests. Paleocene fossil outcrops abound in the glauconite rich gray clay substrata of the creek banks exposed beneath the deep rich surface soils. Show More Sentences The path features giant petrified redwood stumps and outcrops of fossil-bearing shale. Groves of golden aspen, flowery meadows, ponds, and outcrops of limestone break up the dominance of the regal coniferous forest. We looked at outcrops by the open pit and saw vugs everywhere with remnants of fluorite and barite crystals. The Helford river estuary has a rocky foreshore of granite and shale extending as reef outcrops into the estuary. The rolling hills of deciduous forest gave way to cragginess, with bare outcrops, rocky islands, and a boreal forest of spruce. Rocky outcrops of basalt lava dot the landscape, which climbs gently from 1,200 feet to peaks nearly 5,000 feet high. There are steep drop-offs, caverns, tunnels, rocky slopes, offshore outcrops and reefs. As a boy, he loved to explore the teeming streets of Manhattan and South Bronx, checking out street excavations and rock outcrops in public parks for minerals. Dumps and outcrops in the vicinity have produced hand specimens of antigorite, chrysotile, and impressive crystals of grass-green talc with snow-white dolomite. The rocky forest and rock outcrops near the falls provide the perfect habitat for the Guianan cock-of-the-rock, a medium-sized, flaming orange bird. Most carved stones are flat-topped outcrops of the local millstone grit. Some are just mudflats, some just sandbanks, many are rocky outcrops and skerries known only to seals, albatrosses, and retired lighthouse-keepers. Moving back up the other side of the finger to about 15m, the fun began as the current cut in and we headed rapidly over a seascape of hard and soft coral outcrops. He has also gone further afield including BC and Alberta in Canada, Utah, and Britain but his local crags are the limestone outcrops of the Niagara escarpment. Regardless of the distribution of rock outcrops, however, all stalked crinoids and most dense ophiuroid populations now live only in deep, offshore habitats. Scattered throughout the Mojave Desert, outcrops of Proterozoic sedimentary rock make up parts of the mountain ranges that divide this region into basins. Although variations in relief on the rocky outcrops provide a myriad of microhabitats, habitat preference of these geophytes is dependent upon the mat species. The lower part of the section consists of natural outcrops at the hillside, whereas the higher, more fossiliferous strata are exposed by artificial trenches. Native populations are found in loam or clay depressions containing moderately saline soils and a temporary water-table, and also on outcrops of gypso-saline marls. The chestnut groves are carpeted with drifts of western peony, pink, blue and yellow lupins, Spanish bluebell and Barbary nut iris, while rocky outcrops harbour man orchids. Show More Sentences Although there are no outcrops of Devonian extrusive volcanic rocks in NW Scotland, they can be found in southern and central Scotland and the Orkney Islands. The steep contacts and elongate outcrops of the Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous complexes do not, therefore, rule out gently dipping, tabular form per se. The raw material, a black palaeozoic bituminous sideritic claystone, comes from the Kounov coal seam, which outcrops in an area about 7 x I kin. Large fixed outcrops were also widely used for polishing, and there are numerous examples across Europe, but relatively few in Britain. As is usual in these types of areas, the settlements tend to be on any available hill, many formed by sandstone outcrops. The great expanses of moorland around Bleaklow and Black Hill and fringed with broken outcrops of gritstone are characteristic of the area. Its use in the construction of dry stone walls across the areas where it outcrops is considerable. The Millstone Grit outcrops at the Cow and Calf Rocks near Ilkley form a rolling dissected plateau. To honor the spirits that take form as mountains, the Inca stoneworkers carved rock outcrops to replicate their shapes. In the lower part of the study area, shelly limestone outcrops with abundant karstic voids are observed. The Horseshoe Bend Shale is evaporitic and outcrops fringe almost all salt lakes. The property contains significant outcrops of the uranium mineral autunite in small fractures in many areas. The Laotians who live near the creature's rocky outcrops know of the animals. Most plants, even those that grow on bedrock outcrops and limestone pavements, require 15 cm of soil, so planting choices were limited. Granitic and gneissic outcrops as centers of diversity for desiccation-tolerant vascular plants. Some of these bodies form prominent ridges, others are more subtle and form bouldery outcrops. Spine of a creature long extinct, landscape of brushfire and heat lightning, outcrops and draws of an exhausted sea. Dingoes roam the rocky outcrops as the calls of shore birds echo behind the heath-covered dunes. In contrast, the North American Jurassic record is the poorest of the Mesozoic, with few outcrops at the surface. There are extensive Liassic outcrops around the coast of the United Kingdom, in particular in Glamorgan, North Yorkshire and Dorset. Show More Sentences In Lebanon, more than 450 outcrops of Lower Cretaceous amber were discovered by Dany Azar, a Lebanese paleontologist and entomologist. The main outcrops of the Lewisian complex are on the islands of the Outer Hebrides, including Lewis, from which the complex takes its name. The habitat of a species affects the structure of territories, for example, rock lizards have territories atop rocky outcrops. Both Upper and Lower Greensand outcrops appear in the scarp slopes surrounding the London Basin and the Weald. In Langdale, there many outcrops of the greenstone were exploited, and knapped where the stone was extracted. Much of the Mesozoic Era is represented by exposed outcrops in the many arid regions of the continent. On the northern flanks are outcrops of the Buttermere Formation, olistostrome of disrupted sheared mudstone, siltstone and sandstone. The top is rounded and mainly of grass, but there are two low outcrops of rock with loose stones between. This tuff, lapilli tuff and breccia outcrops a little to the west of the summit. Above the Bleng are large areas of diorite, while around Buckbarrow there are outcrops of the andesite Birker Fell Formation. The western flanks are also rough, mainly grassy with some rock outcrops, rising steeply from Scandale and from Caiston Glen. The Machinchang Formation outcrops in the Langkawi islands off the coast of northwestern Malaysia. There are a few outcrops in Shropshire such as Titterstone Clee Hill and at Little Wenlock. Geological mapping has established that the volcanic tuff used for the axes outcrops along a narrow range of the highest peaks in the locality. The summit is all rock with many loose stones lying amid the small outcrops. A gold-bearing, siliceous, chloritic breccia zone is exposed in the margin and footwall of the intrusion in surface outcrops. Clastic facies consists of marls, but most outcrops are erroded or covered by alluvium deposits in some areas. As you cruise into Nelly Bay, on Magnetic Island, granite outcrops tower over the harbour and tall, emerald-green hoop pines sway in the breeze. A series of outcrops occur from East Lothian southwards through Berwickshire. The Old Red Sandstone has been widely used as a building stone across those regions where it outcrops. Show More Sentences The species is mainly found on poorer, sandy soils, rocky outcrops, peat bogs or close to the forest limit. Early activity was mainly by levels or adits driven into coal seams from outcrops in the valley sides. Later intrusions have formed individual outcrops of igneous rock in each of these groups. The coal was often called sea coal because it was washed up from undersea outcrops on the Northumbrian coast. Bands of limestone emerge from the Earth's surface in often spectacular rocky outcrops and islands. In addition there are infrequent outcrops of igneous rocks including lavas, tuffs and volcanic vent agglomerates. The remains of these islands underlie much of central England with small outcrops visible in many places. It is in effect the eroded outer edges of the High Weald, revealing a mixture of sandstone outcrops within the underlying clay. Otherwise the Low Weald retains its historic settlement pattern, where the villages and small towns occupy harder outcrops of rocks. By the Triassic, Scotland was a desert, the origin of large sandstone outcrops of the southwest. There are relatively small outcrops of Triassic sandstone at Broad Bay near Stornoway. A more disconnected series of outcrops occur along the line of the Southern Uplands Fault from Edinburgh to Girvan. Examples of contact soil layers include sand bottoms, rocky outcrops, coral, and bay mud. An example of this is Enallaster, which exists by the thousands in certain outcrops of limestone from the Cretaceous period in Texas. A characterization of the fish assemblage of deep photic zone rock outcrops in the Anacapa Passage, Southern California, 1995 to 2004, with evidence of a regime shift. There are limited outcrops on the coasts of East Lothian and Berwickshire, isolated outcrops in Fife and Stirlingshire and further occurrences around Greenock and Dumbarton. I gave it a swerve and went for Roquefort sauce, walnuts and green salad, all on a galette as thin as lace and brown as those Breton rocky outcrops. The western side of the region is the Kgalagadi desert, an expanse of undulating sandbelts and limestone outcrops, with a cover of grass and thorn scrub. In cases where the mineral vein outcrops at the surface, the adit may follow the lode or vein until it is worked out, in which case the adit is rarely straight. In these outcrops the coral Palaeocyclus porpita Lamark has been found. Show More Sentences Among these outcrops, 20 have yielded biological inclusions comprising the oldest representatives of several recent families of terrestrial arthropods. The nest is a large heap of sticks, driftwood, turf or seaweed built in forks of trees, rocky outcrops, utility poles, artificial platforms or offshore islets. There are limited outcrops on the Isle of Man and more extensive ones in Anglesey notably along the Menai Strait, around Benllech and towards Puffin Island. A variety of scenery is found on the island, including rugged granite outcrops, heathland of the exposed north coast and mainly shell beaches in the east and south. Numerous granite intrusions and outcrops of rhyolite form prominent hills such as Yr Eifl, whilst gabbro is found at the west end of Porth Neigwl. The bay is rather shallow with many sandbanks and rocky outcrops, and was notorious in the past for shipwrecks, especially when the wind was from the east. Dry stone walls are characteristic of upland areas of Britain and Ireland where rock outcrops naturally or large stones exist in quantity in the soil. There are scattered outcrops along the north coast of the Solway Firth. The eastern slopes are relatively flat, with some hills and rocky outcrops and contain alternating volcanic and sedimentary layers dated to the middle Paleozoic Era. The earliest mining took place at and close to outcrops and miners eventually followed the seams deeper underground as the beds dipped beneath hillsides. Quartz and iron mineralisation can be detected in outcrops and subsoil. Examples from Classical Literature The aquifer dips toward the region of the wells from higher ground, where it outcrops and receives its water. Also many large elms grow along the upper slopes, especially along the outcrops of the two main strata of the oread Limestone. The ore outcrops on the sidehills, and the mining is in the nature of quarrying. Factors responsible for the co-occurrence of forested and unforested rock outcrops in the boreal forest. The claims cover outcrops with visible malachite, azurite and chalcocite. Silicified and brecciated outcrops on White Goat range up to 30 m wide. Find more words! 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