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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The giant sandstone monolith reaches a height of 335 metres and measures 8.8 kilometres in circumference. |
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Stancliffe Stone wants to re-open the quarries to extract the high-quality sandstone they contain. |
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Consequently, the foundation stone was quarried in Deadwood, and the sandstone for the walls came from nearby Hot Springs. |
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In addition to the volcanogenic sedimentary rocks, there are lenses of limestone, quartzite, shale and sandstone. |
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The cobbles are dominated by pink quartzite, red sandstone and vein quartz, with minor granite clasts near the contact and rare green clasts. |
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The Quinkan rock art is found within 230,000 hectares of sandstone and depicts images from the Dreamtime. |
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For miles around, the terrain is made up of strange wave-like formations of sandstone, dotted with caves and pockmarked with craters. |
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The Haluut Bulag melange contains lenses of limestone, sandstone, chert, tuff, minor acid volcanic material, and vesicular basalt. |
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Much of their ground stone came from either glacial drift or outcrops of Dakota sandstone, both sources occurring to the east of the site. |
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At Kimmeridge 3, the sandstone body maintains its thickness before thinning rapidly toward Southard Quarry. |
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The sediment matrix of the specimen consists of crudely bedded very fine sandstone with Ophiomorpha burrows. |
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It wasn't until I got shipped out to the cold sandstone mansion that the tenets of religion were spooned into his unwilling thrapple. |
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It is represented by the E-Lert Formation of the Ratburi Group, consisting of mudstone, shale, sandstone, and limestone with a few bedded cherts. |
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The unit comprises a thinly laminated heterolith of mudstone and fine-grained sandstone. |
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The underlying Dosados sandstone member, 80 m below, is the source bed for the intrusions. |
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Some of the sandstone beds are c.1.5 m thick with some cross bedding and burrows. |
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It is characterized by a permanent stream meandering through steep sandstone bluffs. |
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As a result the water welled up, forming a vertical column through the sandstone. |
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About a day's walk upstream from the confluence of the Shields and Yellowstone rivers, a sandstone bluff looms above the willow bottomland. |
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The depth and sinuosity of sandstone deposits reveal the original dimensions and course of ancient river channels. |
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The house is built of local sandstone with tall chimneys, pointed gables and mullioned and transomed windows. |
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Natural New Jersey sandstone walls, some dry-laid and others mortared, frame the plantings. |
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Permian shale, sandstone, siltstone, limestone, sands, marls, and dolostones were deposited by sea-level fluctuations. |
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The Caister Coal Formation contains a significant proportion of sandstone, with mudstone and coal arranged in cyclical units. |
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The upper Gotham Member also comprises thinly interbedded mudstone, siltstone, and fine-grained calcareous sandstone. |
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The mountains are massive red sandstone lumps, their vertical faces rising to table-tops or dropping sheer into canyons. |
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This facies consists of distinctly laminated mudstone, with a minor component of siltstone and very fine-grained sandstone. |
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The soils are developed on weathered materials derived from sandstone, shale, and limestone. |
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Production procedures across granite, marble, sandstone and soapstone, along with case studies complete the picture. |
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The ground floor is dominated by the open-plan sitting room, with sandstone flags incorporating a zoned, controlled underfloor heating system. |
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The buildings are all made of either sandstone blocks or mortar with heavy sand content. |
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Most of its buildings are made from soft unbaked sandstone, clay, straw and palm-tree trunks. |
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The port also serves as the ideal base for visiting Petra, the ancient Nabatean city carved into the russet sandstone hills. |
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The castle was a pure sandstone building with enormous towering pillars and high arches and courtyards. |
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The sandstone abraders were small, the largest being 8.23 cm in length and the smaller 3.94 cm. |
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The gentler lower slopes, derived from the Rhine delta bed, have deeper topsoils, over subsoils of clay, marl, limestone, and sandstone. |
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Almost as soon as work began above ground, work also began on driving a tunnel northwards towards the sandstone face of Worsley Delph. |
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The sandstone buildings date back to the turn of the century when terraced houses first became popular in Glasgow. |
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Wonderful period detailing, including gothic windows, sandstone quoins and pillars, with access to the clock in the bell tower via a hatch. |
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Monart House is an 18th century sandstone house with limestone quoins and dressings, extending to three storeys over basement. |
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The bluff's golden sandstone has been worn down by water and wind into stunning sculptures and patterns. |
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The buildings are tall, weather-beaten grey sandstone, a pleasing jumble of medieval and modern. |
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Lower Calf Creek spills over a sheer, mineral-rich sandstone, resulting in a rainbow-like stain. |
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By the mid-19th century there were 15 quarries working slate, flags, sandstone and limestone. |
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These towers, called La Guaita, La Cesta, and Il Montale, are still linked by ramparts and walls constructed from the local sandstone. |
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In 1998 it recommenced extraction of sandstone from a quarry at Stancliffe in Derbyshire. |
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These include the attractive, symmetrical sandstone facade, well proportion rooms, working shutters and astragal windows, to name but a few. |
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This rock unit consists chiefly of Silurian shale and sandstone that have been metamorphosed to high-grade schist and migmatite. |
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In Sodalen the exposed succession is c.40 m of laminated dark grey mudstones with intercalated fine-grained sandstone layers. |
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The laminated character and the association with sandstone suggest deposition from suspension in abandoned channels or ox-bow lakes. |
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Eighteen analyses of detrital zircon and one of monazite were carried out for the late Silurian sandstone. |
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After a certain amount of toing and froing with the national park, we agreed on sandstone for the new window openings. |
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The Elgee Siltstone consists of massive red siltstone, sandstone and green mudstone. |
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The other key aspect of the restoration involved repointing the exterior masonry, in the facades of limestone, sandstone, and granite. |
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A bench overlooks islands in the Esk and by a pretty white latticework bridge are sandstone stepping stones. |
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The sedimentary lenses are composed of limestone, sandstone, siltstone, mudstone, shale, chert and well-bedded calci-turbidite. |
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The sequence includes tuffaceous sandstone, andesitic sandstone and radiolarian chert. |
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There's an imposing sandstone detached residence, in an exclusive cul-de-sac, with an extensive refurbishment completed. |
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Middle Triassic anhydrite and dolomite form a sequence of strong reflectors, as does Lower Cretaceous sandstone. |
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The main building boasts an impressive 13-bay frontage constructed of local pink sandstone, with an octagonal lecture hall adjoining the rear. |
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All the stones are local sandstone, undressed, and, in common with other circles on Exmoor, are fairly small in size, the largest only 1m long. |
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A bitter gust of wind swept over the two figures sitting on the shadowed sandstone steps in front of the town hall. |
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Red sandstone mesas stretched on either side of Interstate 15, reaching upwards of a couple hundred feet. |
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The park shows off some of the most striking landscapes of sandstone buttes, mesas, and spires in the entire Southwest. |
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Saul reported that based on the mollusks, the maximum water depth of the sandstone was 35 meters. |
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It is capped by the above mentioned sandstone unit and grades into lignitic clay below. |
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Geologists will thrill to the revelation of the layers of limestone, shale and sandstone. |
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To the east is a range of hills with limestone and sandstone plateaux, and on the east bank of the Gulf of Suez is the Sinai desert. |
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The stone that makes up the cliff face is known as limy sandstone, a sedimentary rock. |
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A seated Buddha carved of sandstone in Cave 8 at Yungang also has rounded forms of head and body, similarly wrapped in the monk's robe. |
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There are two rock gardens, limestone and sandstone, a scented garden, a stream garden, a woodland garden, a bog garden and a dry garden. |
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When the sandstone contains appreciable quantities of feldspar the rock is called arkose. |
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The matrix ranges from sandstone to arkose, and is frequently just fine-grained conglomerate. |
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One such stone that played an important role in American culture was brownstone, an arkosic sandstone. |
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There is a rose garden dotted with pink, red and yellow roses, as well as an outcrop of red sandstone which enjoys a commanding view. |
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Thin sandstone lenses, which showed bleaching and epidotization, were present within the lode. |
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Some of the bedded sandstone inclusions were folded prior to inclusion within the melange. |
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The canyon fill passes conformably upward into limestone and calcareous siltstone and sandstone of the Wonoka Formation. |
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Thermal sag of this rift permitted accumulation of thick Triassic-Jurassic sandstone sequences. |
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We're parked atop a vertigo-inducing earthen dam in the San Juan Basin, in northwestern New Mexico's arid sandstone and sagebrush country. |
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The auriferous veins there are usually interbedded sandstone mudstone varieties metamorphosed into greenschist facies. |
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The second Salian emperor, Henry III, apparently founded a castle on the sandstone rock. |
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Excellent pale yellow groups of autunite crystals to 1 cm occur in joints cutting sandstone at Novoveska Huta, Slovakia. |
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The miles of sand, and yellowed sandstone passed by him like a sea of golden-yellow waves. |
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The plaque is made from fine grained sandstone, probably derived from a skerry bed in local Mercia mudstone deposits. |
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The coastline to their right was an endless sea of sand and tan-coloured sandstone. |
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Majestic figures appear as if by magic from blocks of apple wood, hawthorn, sandstone, limestone, bronze and marble. |
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I have used granite, sandstone and quartz type rocks and am continually placing rocks in various parts of the gardens to harness energies. |
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Today he was sporting a relaxed suit of sandstone brown, with blinding white shirt underneath his jacket. |
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Higher, steeper slopes of the Vosges have thin topsoil, with subsoils of weathered gneiss, granite, sandstone, schist, and volcanic sediments. |
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These are relatively soft rocks with a distinctive brick red colour and are composed mainly of sandstone and mudstone. |
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Riders maneuver through a wilderness of rough terrain, brilliant sandstone formations, sand dunes, and wildlife. |
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Hydrogen sulfide often is present in wells drilled in shale or sandstone, or near coal or peat deposits or oil fields. |
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The choices when it comes to real stone are generally traditional York stone, sandstone, limestone or slate. |
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Even after the site was scavenged by locals, tons of debris and some sections of the lower-story sandstone walls remained above ground. |
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They only had only sandstone and chalk in the area, but they imported metals to temper, smelt, and forge. |
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The deformation bands found in sandstone dykes and sills are true cataclastic deformation bands. |
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A sandstone dyke-sill complex was intruded into a sequence of black mudstones and decimetre-thick bands of limestone. |
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Alluvial, colluvial or chemically formed gravel, clayey gravel, sandstone, limestone, tuff, scoria are examples of marginal materials. |
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Softer limestone is not dense enough to withstand a full polish and like sandstone is left with a subtle honed surface. |
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Safdie found the rich red brick and chocolaty sandstone for the banding in England and Scotland, respectively. |
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Then, like a magic trick, you see its massive ramparts and golden sandstone towers, exotic and beautiful. |
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Eventually the eucalyptus and green fields of the valley bottom give way again to the lush sub-tropical rainforest that grows on the surrounding sandstone escarpments. |
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The origin of the lenticular sandstone dykelets is more problematic. |
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The ground or basement story of the Alabama capitol was constructed of traditional masonry consisting of ashlar walls made of locally quarried sandstone. |
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On his forearm was a black coloured sandstone wrist-guard, or bracer. |
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About 1340 Sir John de Pulteney, a London merchant and financier and four times mayor of London, constructed a splendid house of Wealden sandstone. |
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The Haluut Bulag melange is dominantly sedimentary with lenses of bedded limestone, sandstone, siltstone, and locally vesicular basalt, enclosed in a matrix of pelitic schist. |
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The track follows closely beside the concrete channel and takes you round the side of a steep hill of sandstone and pebbles covered with red tree lupins in late spring. |
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The sandstone beds have sharp bases, fine upwards, and have rippled tops. |
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The lithology of the bedrock can vary from basalt to sandstone and various carbonate rocks, but most caves form through the dissolution of limestone. |
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Ordovician strata are characterized by numerous and diverse trilobites and conodonts found in sequences of shale, limestone, dolostone, and sandstone. |
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The upper contacts are mostly sharp and overlain by interbedded mudstone, dark brown mudstone, laminated mudstone and occasionally fine-grained sandstone. |
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The stand is surrounded on both sides by steep slopes of sandstone talus. |
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Each of these units shows an amalgamated upper-shoreface sandstone section over 20 m thick, sharply overlain by transgressive sheltal shales about 50 m thick. |
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Inherited oil-bearing fluid inclusions identified in those samples are hosted in a well-cemented and partially recrystallized, rounded pebble of sandstone. |
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Just ahead, he must pass between a yellow peak of sandstone, and a reddish one, perhaps containing iron ore like the stones used in the Krelling forge. |
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It's an hour before sunset, and the late light reveals the colours and beauty of the monumental sandstone faces, which glow red and pink and cast long purple shadows. |
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Another half mile, and with an eye on the weather, and tiny twinges in rusty legs, we took a convenient track that arced down to cross the valley to fords of flat sandstone. |
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Reddish-brown siltstone and fine-grained sandstone of the Organ Rock Tongue form the lower slopes of the hill and part of the nearly vertical wall above the lower slopes. |
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Straddled between Utah and Arizona in the Navaho Indian Reservation are the sandstone buttes, mesas and cliffs of Monument Valley, the setting for countless westerns. |
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Up ahead was a topping of pine trees and somewhere in this was Highcliff Nab, a great nose of sandstone which is a focus for paths and a magnet for travellers. |
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Made of the local red sandstone, set on raised ground, and having the highest interior of all English cathedrals, it dominates the Merseyside skyline and awes worshippers. |
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Nice places to live, where the kids can run through the hilly yards behind sandstone apartment blocs. |
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The three conical mounds are, apparently, the remains of a volcanic lava flow that, millions of years ago, intruded into the underground sandstone. |
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During this study, however, chlorite associated with the final stages of deformation has been identified in the limestone and arkosic sandstone of the Timirovo thrust system. |
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Made of sand-like quartz, sandstone comes in a variety of colors. |
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The outer walls are striking with their elegant green and red and yellow sandstone, and the whole is as Italian and un-Gothic as any building in Italy. |
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These soils are moderately deep to deep, well-drained loam or silt loam surface soils with loam or silty clay loam subsoils, formed primarily in sandstone residuum. |
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Extremely steep slopes encircle the northwestern terminus of the ravine and conglomeratic sandstone slump boulders lie on the lower elevations of the ravine. |
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On our mountain safari we ascend spectacular mountain passes, traverse hairpin bends, rolling green hills and dramatic and awe-inspiring sandstone cliffs. |
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In the lower reaches of the river valley the water flows over bunter sandstone and pebble beds. |
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Above these shales we find a light, soft sandstone, sometimes of conglomeratic or breccioid structure, in moderately thick layers. |
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The joints which divide the sandstone contrast finely with the divisional planes which separate the basalt into pillars. |
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Their geological composition includes, among others, sandstone and limestone, and also coal. |
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Most sandstone is composed of quartz or feldspar because these are the most common minerals in the Earth's crust. |
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Like sand, sandstone may be any color, but the most common colors are tan, brown, yellow, red, grey, pink, white, and black. |
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One is to call the sandstone an arenite, and the other is to call it a wacke. |
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Cement is a secondary mineral that forms after deposition and during burial of the sandstone. |
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Visual aids are diagrams that allow geologists to interpret different characteristics about a sandstone. |
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The stage of textural maturity chart illustrates the different stages that a sandstone goes through. |
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This makes sandstone a common building and paving material including in asphalt concrete. |
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Typically this will involve a cover of sandstone overlying limestone strata undergoing solution. |
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Nottingham Castle was constructed in 1068 on a sandstone outcrop by the River Leen. |
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The tunnel under Gateshead, was bored through sandstone and excavated coal seams. |
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Alternating sandstone and limestone created a most pleasing decorative effect. |
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Warwick Castle is situated in the town of Warwick, on a sandstone bluff at a bend of the River Avon. |
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Further east at Ladram Bay, more sandstone cliffs give rise to spectacular red sandstone stacks. |
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Anish Kapoor received the prize for an untitled piece in sandstone and pigment. |
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Building them provided the engineers with difficulties in crossing the terrain, with the hard sandstone adding to their problems. |
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It is in effect the eroded outer edges of the High Weald, revealing a mixture of sandstone outcrops within the underlying clay. |
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The overlying rocks of the Torridonian sandstone form mountains in the Torridon Hills such as Liathach and Beinn Eighe in Wester Ross. |
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By the Triassic, Scotland was a desert, the origin of large sandstone outcrops of the southwest. |
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Within the central complex are subsided blocks of Triassic sandstone and marl, Jurassic shale, and even a rare example of Cretaceous chalk. |
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Elasmobranchii from limonitic sandstone of Siadlo G6rne near Szczecin, Poland. |
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There are many areas containing a high concentration of sandstone tenements, examples being Battlefield, Govanhill, Mount Florida and Shawlands. |
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The inland area is covered by large swathes of grassland common overlooked by sandstone heath ridges including the prominent Cefn Bryn. |
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The mountains are granite, sandstone, limestone with karst areas, and basalt formations. |
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There are relatively small outcrops of Triassic sandstone at Broad Bay near Stornoway. |
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The sandstone at Broad Bay was once thought to be Torridonian or Old Red Sandstone. |
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Stone walls are usually made of local materials varying from limestone and flint to granite and sandstone. |
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The underlying geology of most of Caithness is old red sandstone to an estimated depth of over 4,000 metres. |
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There are many buildings in Dumfries made from sandstone of the local Locharbriggs quarry. |
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One of the most discussed Roman finds from Cumbernauld is a sandstone slab depicting Triton and a naked, kneeling captive. |
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This sandstone was more colourful than the local grey stone, and was probably deliberately chosen for its appearance. |
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The beds of sandstone dip gently southwards towards the South Wales Coalfield basin. |
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It was rebuilt in 1613 using red sandstone from the castle and became home to the Constable of the castle. |
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In nearby Cefn Mawr a high quartz content sandstone was discovered at the location where the New Cefn Druids football stadium has been built. |
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Know locally as 'The Rock' the sandstone was extracted and worked here into the many numerous shapes as required by the architects. |
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Park Hall Country Park in Weston Coyney is a national nature reserve, and its sandstone canyons are a Site of Special Scientific Interest. |
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There are sandstone lodges at the three entrances, each with a different style of architecture, Gothic, Norman and Italianate. |
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The erosive force of the ice moved across the land, removing the soft sandstone and leaving behind the harder rocks. |
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Two approximately parallel Triassic sandstone ridges run down the length of the peninsula. |
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Many villages of the Wirral such as Burton also well preserved with their characteristic red sandstone buildings and walls. |
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Carboniferous rocks in Europe and eastern North America largely consist of a repeated sequence of limestone, sandstone, shale and coal beds. |
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Exeter sits predominantly on sandstone and conglomerate geology, although the structure of the surrounding areas is varied. |
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In other places more greenish volcanic extrusions are evident as harder veins within the sandstone bluffs. |
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Craiglethy is composed only of sandstone and volcanic material, any original overlying conglomerate material having been long eroded. |
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The church is built of coloured sandstone which has had the Victorian plaster removed from it. |
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The Armorican sandstone of the Montagne du Roule is used for rubble and rockfill. |
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The ridges and valleys formed when the exposed clay eroded faster than the exposed chalk, greensand, or sandstone. |
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Sevenoaks, Maidstone, Ashford, and Folkestone are built on greensand, while Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells are built on sandstone. |
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Unusually the boat still had a cargo of Bromsgrove sandstone which had been quarried at Kings Mills nearby. |
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In Eastern Antarctica, seed ferns or pteridosperms became abundant and large amounts of sandstone and shale were laid down at this time. |
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The rocks that form Cape Agulhas belong to the Table Mountain Group, often loosely termed the Table Mountain sandstone. |
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The modern architecture stands in sharp contrast to the red sandstone of buildings that survived the Blitz. |
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Over time the slate and sandstone rocks covering the granite were eroded exposing the granite in areas such as Dartmoor and Bodmin Moor. |
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The rock in the cliffs the stacks are being cut from are arkosic sandstone and coarse poorly sorted conglomerates. |
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In the southern midlands as far south as Hobart, the dolerite is underlaid by sandstone and similar sedimentary stones. |
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The sediments to the west of the Ural Mountains are formed of limestone, dolomite and sandstone left from ancient shallow seas. |
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The land also produces building materials such as tezontle and black sandstone. |
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Basement rocks consist of Ordovician clastic sediments consisting of phyllite with some sandstone interbedding. |
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Accrington brick was used from 1890, decorated with yellow sandstone with moulded brick and terracotta features. |
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Beneath these soils is a sandstone bedrock, from which many of the town's older buildings are constructed. |
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The rearward slopes show evidence of the Pavey Ark Member, pebbly sandstone and breccia. |
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This Ordovician rock is composed of laminated mudstone and siltstone with greywacke sandstone. |
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This is composed of laminated mudstone and siltstone with greywacke sandstone and is of Ordovician age. |
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On the northern flanks are outcrops of the Buttermere Formation, olistostrome of disrupted sheared mudstone, siltstone and sandstone. |
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This is an olistostrome of disrupted, sheared and folded mudstone, siltstone and sandstone. |
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This comprises large olistoliths of greywacke sandstone, with interbedded mudstone and siltstone. |
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To the west the Round Hows are examples of bedded breccias sandstone and tuffs. |
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In any case more storage could be provided in Longendale and the Derwent headwaters, and more water could be extracted from the sandstone. |
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Sedimentary rocks most likely to form cliffs include sandstone, limestone, chalk, and dolomite. |
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The pebbly sandstone and breccias of the Pavey Ark Member also cross the fell. |
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The low rolling hills of Low Furness are formed of glacial deposits, mainly boulder clay, above Triassic sandstone and Carboniferous limestone. |
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Siltstone is a sedimentary rock which has a grain size in the silt range, finer than sandstone and coarser than claystones. |
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The remains of Iron Age hill forts are found on sandstone ridges at several locations in Cheshire. |
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Separating this area from Lower Triassic Sherwood Sandstone to the west is a prominent sandstone ridge known as the Mid Cheshire Ridge. |
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As is usual in these types of areas, the settlements tend to be on any available hill, many formed by sandstone outcrops. |
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These new collieries suffered many problems during the sinking of their shafts through wet sandstone and quicksand. |
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The most important in terms of the river are the extensive sandstone and limestone aquifers that underlie many of the tributary catchments. |
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This plunging anticline is made up of Petrified Forest mudstones and sandstone and its caprock is made of Pleistocene and Holocene travertine. |
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The anticline is composed of a series of sandstone rock beds and an impermeable rock cap under which vast reserves of oil and gas are trapped. |
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It is succeeded by the sandstone known variously as the Brennand Grit, Warley Wise Grit and Grassington Grit. |
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Various of the sandstone beds of the Millstone Grit have been quarried for building stone, paving flags and roofing material. |
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To the north parts are built on older sandstone and gritstones and to the east it extends into the magnesian limestone belt. |
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Many quarry stones such as marble, granite, limestone, and sandstone are cut into larger slabs and removed from the quarry. |
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The fine font of red sandstone is late 12th century and is similar in style to others in neighbouring churches. |
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That claim of mine, which was yours, has got a seventeen-foot vein and a sandstone roof, and not a smither of slate or bone in it. |
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Several sandstone abraders, pieces of a very abrasive red sandstone, that were ground square on one edge. |
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The middle clastic interval is characterized by shale, siltstone, wacke, and lesser sandstone and breccia, and is tuffaceous in places. |
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The sandstone fill is organized into cross-beds and ripple cross-laminae that formed part of downstream accretionary or sandy barforms. |
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As you head up it, you'll see how South Boulder Creek sliced the alluvial fans of red sandstone into a narrow canyon. |
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Small wonder that the Gothic style sandstone mill which has a cast iron frame and brick jack arches, was called Fort Pendlestone. |
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Crystalline silica is found in granite, sandstone, quartzite, various other rocks and sand. |
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In pride of place here is the 114cm-high sandstone Jina Parsvanatha, dated to the 12th century and from either Rajasthan or Madya Pradesh. |
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Where kaolinised sandstone lenses lay within and between Zone A and Zone B, the lenses were wire framed separately as internal waste. |
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The member was composed predominantly of coarse-grained, light-colored, cross-bedded arkosic sandstone and minor boulder beds. |
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Mytton Hall's imposing entrance has a grey sandstone ashlar Ionic porch, with paired column. |
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Ripple marks on the sandstone indicate the creature was struggling to swim against a current. |
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Ripple marks left by the sea can still be seen in the sandstone on the summit of Pen y Fan. |
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On the relations of the fossil fishes of the sandstone of Connecticut and the Atlantic States to the Liassic and Oolitic periods. |
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Lithologic variability within the sandstone, specifically a finer-grained and mica-rich shallow zone, likely generates confined behavior. |
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Unlike the Lumsden Dam Formation this unit lacks cross-laminated siltstone and sandstone beds, but is mildly bioturbated. |
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Ninety stones, which may be sarsen sandstone like Stonehenge, have been found. |
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The ME is built up from dark-brown clays, bituminiferous marls and slates with sandstone inter-layers. |
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The UE consists of greenish marlaceous clays with silicon sandstone inter-layers, foraminifers, shales of ostracordes. |
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By the contact of the formations shaley layers are interbedded with lenses of sandstone. |
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The Company sold in late December 2012 the first shipment of 95 bbls of oil produced from the Temblor sandstone reservoir. |
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Ahead, a large sandstone boulder creates a pulpit on the hill, and in the shadows is a large painted figure, red from mountain mahogany. |
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The Cretaceous Winton and Mackunda Formations are composed of interbedded mudrock, sandstone, coal and carbon-bearing mudrock. |
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Shale clasts occur within this sandstone unit, and very small, deformed shale clasts between sand grains may have been identified as matrix. |
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The sequence in the area consists of alternating claystone, siltstone and sandstone. |
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The Granite Wash oil patch is located in the Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle and comprises liquid-rich sandstone. |
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Anyway, folks, located within an old red sandstone church, you'll find Ayr Spice just five miles south of Ayr in the tiny village of Minishant. |
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Rock from this period is called old red sandstone and was the main stone used in the mediaeval buildings of north Warwickshire. |
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The figures are carved and incised into reddish-brown slate, sandstone and volcanite. |
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Subordinate units of rhyolitic volcaniclastics with interbedded volcanogenic sandstone and siltstone comprise much of the exposed stratigraphy. |
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Indeed, a parallelepiped or a brick, thin and long, consisting of rock, sandstone and air mixture is more appropriate. |
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Controls on hydrocarbon accumulation in glauconitic sandstone, Suffield heavy oil sands, southern Alberta. |
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The Anasazi, Fremont, Navajo, and Paiute etched these human, animal, and abstract images into the desert varnish on the smooth sandstone. |
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Riding along the bottom of the canyon, you pass under Gooney Bird Rock, a sandstone pillar. |
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In this deposit, rounded fragments of pelites, siltstone and sandstone were well represented. |
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Lithology from sample descriptions is a very fine grained to upper coarse grained sandstone with dolomitic cement. |
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The most significant was Anoa Deep well WL-5X, which found gas in a new play beneath the Anoa field, testing at 17 mcfd from fractured Lama Formation sandstone reservoirs. |
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The pegmatitic origin of the main host to the Mont-Laurier mineralization resulted from anatexis of sandstone units during high-grade metamorphism. |
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The design, by Lab Architecture Studio and Bates Smart, has shardlike clusters of buildings with fractal triangular designs on the facade in glass, zinc and sandstone. |
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It was driven through mostly Millstone Grit, interspersed in places by patches of argillaceous shale and softer sandstone on a gradient of 1 in 201, rising toward the east. |
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Geology 101 tells us that you can't build a reservoir on sandstone. |
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The thickest bed of sandstone within it was known as the Basal Grit. |
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The Misk Hills consist of a gently undulating sandstone plateau between Hucknall and Annesley in the county of Nottinghamshire in the North East Midlands of England. |
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Beneath the drift deposits of the Vale of York lie Triassic sandstone and mudstone, and lower Jurassic mudstone but these are completely masked by the surface deposits. |
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It includes bedded limestone, dolomite, shale, slate, sandstone, marble, flagstone banded gneiss, massive white to red granite and black anorthsite. |
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It is bounded by cliffs of old red sandstone that rise from 70ft in the north east to 160ft in the south-west and it is frequently battered by storms. |
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I seem to remember the old red sandstone rock on geology maps at school. |
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Field reports indicate that the new cutting edge here pictured performs exceptionally well in rock, shale, limestone, hardpack clay, sandstone and other tight formations. |
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Drill hole CRE084 has only minor overlying sandstone alteration, but there is significant alteration in the basement within graphitic pelite units. |
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Limestone to the west and north of the old red sandstone of the Hereford Plain has given rise to exceptionally attractive hilly country with delightful, narrow valleys. |
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The hillfort itself is an outlier of a Jurassic ridge which dominates the eastern part of the study area, with light calcareous soils on an Inferior Oolite cap over sandstone. |
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Horse Hill-1 will test a number of conventional stacked oil targets at the proven productive Portland sandstone, Great Oolite limestone and Corallian sandstone levels. |
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The sloping plateau summit of Pendle Hill is formed from the Pendle Grit, a coarse Carboniferous age sandstone assigned to the Millstone Grit Group. |
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The Cat Bells ridge is an example of the Buttermere Formation, an olistostrome of disrupted, sheared and folded mudstone, siltstone and sandstone. |
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Interbeds of thin tuff and of volcaniclastic sandstone occur. |
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This consists mainly of deposits of bedded volcaniclastic sandstone and siltstone, deposited rapidly in shallow water at a late stage during the volcanic activity. |
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Bands of volcaniclastic sandstone and andesite sills are also present. |
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The northern slopes display the underlying olistostrome of disrupted, sheared and folded mudstone, siltstone and sandstone of the Buttermere Formation. |
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Much of the summit is overlain with peat and there is a fault to the south west, beyond which are greywacke sandstone turbidities of the Loweswater Formation. |
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A number of Barrow's landmark buildings were constructed from locally sourced sandstone, evident from the high number of brown and red coloured stone buildings in the town. |
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It is made of local materials like sandstone, blue stone and brick. |
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Eleven to ten million years ago, waters worked through the sandstone from the west and the Amazon began to flow eastward, leading to the emergence of the Amazon rainforest. |
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Greensand or green sand is a sand or sandstone which has a greenish color. |
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This dome consists of an upper layer of chalk above successive layers of Upper Greensand, Gault Clay, Lower Greensand, Weald Clay, and Wealden sandstone. |
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The lengthy history of the island's occupation has provided numerous important archaeological sites and the sandstone bedrock provides a platform for fertile farmland. |
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Neogene sediments in the basin consist mainly of a series of fluviolacustrine mudstone, siltstone, sandstone and conglomerate with about 800 m maximum thickness. |
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Since sandstone beds often form highly visible cliffs and other topographic features, certain colors of sandstone have been strongly identified with certain regions. |
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Noto, Caltagirone, Catania, Ragusa, Modica, Scicli and particularly Acireale contain some of Italy's best examples of Baroque architecture, carved in the local red sandstone. |
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The North and East sides are faced in red sandstone, and the West and South sides are clad in the predominant stone of the region, white limestone. |
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The haybarn is built of squared limestone and sandstone with brick arches. |
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Between the Cadomian and Hercynian periods, the region was submerged several times and the sea left fossils and sedimentary rocks, mostly schist and sandstone. |
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His home was the imposing red sandstone mansion Netherhall, in Largs. |
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It is the sandstone used in the Queen Alexandra Bridge in Sunderland, the Manchester International Convention Centre and the base of the Statue of Liberty. |
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It is very common in sedimentary rocks such as sandstone and shale. |
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The oldest occurring rocks in the area surrounding the city originate from the Devonian period and include carboniferous sandstone, greywacke, claystone and limestone. |
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The land is mostly made of hard granite and gneiss rock, but slate, sandstone, and limestone are also common, and the lowest elevations contain marine deposits. |
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Unlike other Scottish cities where sandstone has been used, the buildings are not weathering and need very little structural maintenance on their masonry. |
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The thin-toed tracks in fluvial sandstone were likely made by two individual birds that were about the size of a great egret or a small heron, Martin says. |
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Maryhill consists of well maintained traditional sandstone tenements. |
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Many of the original sandstone tenements remain in this district. |
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It is based on correlations between permeabilities and mercury capillary pressure measurements on samples from carbonates and sandstone formations. |
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