Sentences with phrase «ferrassie cave floor»

More planks had been reused as ramps, and the cave floor was covered in wood chips left by ancient shipwrights.

A ladder takes us down to the cave floor, which drops steeply away from us, transforming into a glorious cavern.

Someone could have urinated on the cave floor, for example, and their DNA could have seeped into the fossilised faeces.

It takes a moment to see that almost the entire cave floor is man - made.

They carefully extracted samples of the artifacts and pieces of charcoal from the cave floor to be carbon - dated.

Schmittner dropped a bottle of Moët & Chandon champagne to the cave floor to mark their arrival at that special juncture in one of the world's greatest (yet least heralded) natural wonders.

Further, carbon - dating charcoal bits unearthed from the cave floor suggests the cave was occupied — or at the very least visited — by humans as much as 37,000 years ago, researchers report online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Stalagmites and stalactites — the stony projections that grow from the cave floor and ceiling, respectively — carry a record of precipitation because they grow as a result of dripping water.

Mineral deposits in water dripping from the roof of the limestone cave splashed onto the cave floor, and mist from those drip water impacts formed delicate rosette - looking speleothems (cave formations) that the divers called «florets.»

One noteworthy burial site was a natural cavity in the cave floor where hundreds of bodies were laid to rest.

Rings of stalagmites on a cave floor were arranged by our extinct human relatives, hinting at their sophistication and intelligence

Adult male individual of the new cave planthopper species Iuiuia caeca photographed on cave floor.

But the researchers did find one hole in the cave floor where a stalagmite had been wrenched up and carried away.

The middle ear bones (malleus, incus and stapes) were identified in the scans, held in place inside the skull by sediments from the La Ferrassie cave floor.

They eventually found 1,550 H. naledi fossils on the cave floor and buried in the soil.

«Barsoom Bloopers» (2 mins., HD) shows that Disney money being put to good use on an impromptu dance number that Stanton starts by programming the illuminated cave floor to light up like the «Billie Jean» video; much moneymaker - shaking ensues.

The coastline's standout feature is the Chikura Cavern, an enormous stone cave floored with gorgeous white sand which can be further explored at low tide.

The caves form in limestone although there may be bands of shale or chert visible in the cave walls along with mud, sand and boulder deposits on the cave floor.

Flour Camp Cave is actually a number of caves with several entrances and exits that is filled with Maya pottery and awesome stalagmites (from cave floor) and stalactites (from cave roof).

The Grotto could not be more aptly named as this unique venue is set inside a stunning limestone cave floored with fine - powdered sand and opening on the beach.

(Some visitors may think they see snakes on the paths, but these are only roots that wind along the cave floor.)

There are also many ceramic remains at the site, many of which are calcified to the cave floor, and the natural formations of the cave have been artistically modified by the mayans to create altars, faces and animals, some of which cast animal - shaped shadows into the cave.

A thick layer of slippery, sickly sweet bat droppings carpets the cave floor, through which bat - gorged pythons ooze in a state of surfeit.

Many of the Mayan artifacts and remains are completely calcified to the cave floor.

As you reach «The Cathedral», named because of its scale, magnificence and sacredness, you can see giant stalactites hanging from the ceiling, and ancient Maya artifacts including pottery and human bones littering the cave floor.

Once free, our young hero plummeted to the cave floor and ended up with a barb shoved through her side.

Also, our game character is blockier than his gem or the cave floor.

Stalagmites form slowly over thousands of years, as calcium, carbon and oxygen from water slowly dripping through the soil and rock above the cave builds up into the cone - shaped rocks seen on the cave floor.

Not exact matches

Always in this momentary rebirth there must be a rescuer or a rescuing agent: Ariadne's thread, Dante's Virgil, the pattern traced on the floor of the palace at Knossos for ritual dancing, the emblem on the doorway of the temple, the design in the ground outside the sacred cave, the ritual solution of a puzzle, etc..

But we had something else as well, something that turned us away in an odd distaste on Christmas afternoon from the explosion of opened presents, ribbons spread across the floor, and bright balls of crumpled wrapping paper, red and green — the living room transformed into Ali Baba's cave or Hollywood's vision of a bandits» lair.

And a giant cave with a watery floor — why, you're right, that is like an underground lake.

I was really surprised, and impressed by the way the caves have been pretty much left alone — the «walkways» are mostly just routes over the natural, existing cavern floors.

ALBANY — The speaker's office on the third floor of the Capitol is dark «like a cave,» said Carl Heastie, its inhabitant since last February.

When Donald McAlpine and his colleagues broke through a snow barricade at the entrance to a cave in New Brunswick this March, bat carcasses covered the floor.

A stalagmite is a type of speleothem that rises from the floor of a limestone cave due to the dripping of mineralized solutions and the deposition of calcium carbonate.

But since the cave has a gaping mouth and a downward - sloping floor, naysayers argue that the objects might have washed in later after being burned outside.

Where once healthy animals hung in slumber from the cave roof, now there is a mass grave on the floor.

Scattered bear skulls, including one with a stalagmite growing from its top, litter the floor of the cave.

A team led by Lyn Wadley of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, has now found layers of grasses, sedges and rushes on the floor of the cave, dating from 77,000 years ago onwards.

After the eruption stops, the tube empties; the resulting caves, sometimes miles long, shelter fragile songbird bones that wash into the porous floors.

During long hours underground, Moyes helped map the cave and scour the floor for traces of the Maya.

Our earliest date comes from a Namibian cave, where excavated floors contained painted slabs between 19,000 and 26,000 years old.

Rounded with smooth floors and claw marks along the wall, the caves may have been dug out by elephant - sized giant ground sloths or maybe a species of enormous armadillos, both now long extinct, Discover Magazine reports.

The study, where scientists, led by Sarah Martin - Solano, Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas, ESPE, Ecuador, record a rainbow boa catching the bat, is the first known such case to have taken place on a cave's floor.

Stalagmites, which crystallize from water dropping onto the floors of caves, millimeter by millimeter, over thousands of years, leave behind a record of climate change encased in stone.

The water stirred up the sediment and when the water receded, the mud coated everything in the cave — the floor, the walls, and the stalagmites.

More than 40,000 years ago, a Neanderthal scratched a pattern into the floor of a cave in Gibraltar.

As the cave divers drifted down through the dark waters of the Mexican sinkhole, they first spotted large boulders piled on the floor.

He described a scenario in which a bug latching onto a bat just fell to the floor of the cave as the bat flew off.

Snow and cold air enter the caves through openings at the top and are then unable to escape, creating a refrigerated environment in which some of the walls and floors become covered in solid ice.