It wound around hillocks and between upthrust boulders, even the trees they passed were mightier of girth. |
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He swore and kicked at the trunk as it caught on an upthrust root, then swore again as it jerked free and slammed into his shin. |
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The image is freshened by a sky blue ground framing the darker silhouette and accenting the yellow-gold braid of the uniform and Roulin's upthrust bearded face. |
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A structural high area in the crust, produced by positive movements that raise or upthrust the rocks. |
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As it travels further, the buoyancy increases and the upthrust of the ways decreases, with the weight remaining constant. |
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The Appalachians were upthrust during the early Palaeozoic when North America collided with Europe and North Africa. |
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Mountains are mostly parts of the upthrust rims of ancient impact basins. |
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As the swimmer progresses, particularly with breathing control, submersion activities facilitate an understanding of upthrust. |
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In determining the existence of upthrust zones in the PPZ, our modelling encountered some difficulties and uncertainties. |
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From a geologist's point of view, an upthrust of an inch or two a year is a big deal. |
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The eastern ridge of Pillar stretches for about a mile, gradually descending before the final upthrust of Looking Stead. |
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About half way down along the ridge-top, a great and cylindrical outcrop presents its upthrust. |
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In the west is the Silesian-Kraków upthrust, with rich deposits of coal. |
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But the Rockefellers live in a different world, a world where anything is possible: yellow shades at the window, yellow beams in the sky, the fresh and frisky upthrust of steel. |
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At a time when the sea covered the land as far north as Lyon, the first upthrust of the Alps and the Jura mountains pushed the first river westward along the edge of the Massif Central. |
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Two years later Jones, having learnt Sanskrit, revealed India's cultural elevation though the revolutionary upthrust of comparative philology. |
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The tremendous upthrust from the seafloor unleashed a series of enormous tsunami waves, the first of which struck the coast within an hour. |
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Many boats from San Carlos make a beeline to the rugged upthrust of San Pedro Nolasco Island, where the phenomenon brings sierra, dorado, and snapper to the surface. |
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Abu Dhabi lies in a broad synclinal area between the basement shield of the Arabian Peninsula and the upthrust mountains of Oman's Musandam Peninsula. |
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