Sentences with phrase «by boulder»

Early on, the young hero wanders into these caverns, where he discovers Mr. Rockefeller was caught by a boulder, and helps free him.

This is somehow comforting; no matter how many times Lara misses a ledge, is crushed by a boulder or dies in a hail of bullets, you feel she will always be there for you.

According to game informer, a couple of examples of ways Lara can die on the island she has been stranded on are being stabbed in the chest by a «deranged» knife - wielding man, and another is having a boulder land on Lara's leg to trap her, followed by another boulder landing on and crushing her head.

Much of the deep reef is built by boulder, lettuce and large - cupped boulder coral and adorned by a variety of deepwater sea whips and rods.

The hike out of the park from Angelus Hut across Robert's Ridge involved a scramble up a steep face, followed by boulder hopping on a goat trail, to reach an undulating easy romp across the top of the world.

Franco plays Aron Ralston, an outdoorsman who goes solo for his weekend thrills and ends up trapped and alone in a crevice, his arm pinned by a boulder and his existence suddenly reduced to a sliver of a world.

Based on the true story of professional adventurer Aron Ralston (James Franco) who, while hiking in the mountains of Utah, falls into a crevice, where his right arm is crushed and trapped by a boulder.

If James Franco thought it was bad having his arm pinned by a boulder in 127 Hours, wait until he has to elbow his way through his living room, filled as it will be with plaques and trophies and statuettes.

The harrowing true story of James Franco, a rock climber whose arm was pinned to a Utah canyon wall by a boulder.

For someone who turned the story of a man trapped by a boulder into something cinematic (127 Hours) and organized the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony, however, this was manna.

Hours tells the true story of Aron Ralston (James Franco) who finds his hand trapped by a boulder in the middle of nowhere which leaves him very few choices if he wants to survive.

Boyle's vibrant style never lags, even when Ralston gets pinned by the boulder.

Indeed, the researchers say that there is no evidence to suggest that the level of violence has changed in children's films since Snow White in 1937, when Snow White's stepmother, the evil queen, was struck by lightning, forced off a cliff, and crushed by a boulder while being chased by seven vengeful dwarves.

Xhaka has been pictured in a Arsenal shirt yet the club is not informing go his arrival when clearly Wenger wants to announce it himself or probably the marketing dept have been hit by a boulder wherein the new kit photo has been already leaked just like the 2014 kit and there can be no hype to create so therefore to launch the player with the kit launch.

The rock breaks the surface at low tide and drops to 18 - 22m, surrounded by boulders, staghorn corals and sand.

The rocky pinnacle is surrounded by boulders, with a sandy bottom starting at about 30m.

Likewise when naturally eroding cliffs are armored at their base by boulders, the lack of local erosion can starve adjacent beaches of needed replenishing sediments.

Not exact matches

If a person were on a remote island and found the words «John 1800» engraved on a boulder, would these words have arisen by accident, perhaps by wind or water erosion?

We measure the weight of the boulder by the effort and power required to remove it.

I also saw instances in which a farmer's olive trees had been uprooted, barriers put in his way of entry onto his land, and boulders rolled down on it by settlers on the hilltops above.

On a random Wednesday afternoon, I drove up the winding, narrow mountain roads edged by gigantic boulders threatening to fall at any second to visit my parents for the night.

Yet the scenery was fantastic and a professional photographer, determined not to miss capturing it, attempted to steady his shot by uncomfortably hugging a boulder while sitting on cold, hard stones.

The aptly named layout plunges in and out of canyons framed by cacti and boulders and while it lacks the in - your - face seaside interaction enjoyed by the Ocean course, the memorable long views of the Sea of Cortez occur early and often.

When architect Pete Dye told Hardy that the site he had chosen for the 6,900 - yard, par - 72 Mystic Rock course was too rocky, Hardy responded by ponying up $ 18 million to have Dye build the course despite the 300,000 boulders.

The Boulders, managed by former New York Yankee pitcher Dave LaPoint who was recently honored along with the rest -LSB-...]

BY GEORGE J. DACRE With about 19 games to play in their second season, the Rockland County Boulders of the Canadien - American League have a shot of getting into the leagues championships between the top two teams.

The day is additionally sponsored by News 12 Westchester and the Rockland Boulders.

«This work shows that boulder - sized particles could, indeed, be scattered around the disk by the formation of spiral arms and then avoid getting dragged into the protostar at the center of the developing system,» Boss explained.

Although the station is not exactly easy to access — the path to the station runs up steep slopes with no shade and plenty of boulders to stumble over — it cuts down the commute for safe water by 30 minutes for local families.

NASA is currently developing concepts for the redirect mission that will employ a robotic spacecraft, driven by an advanced solar electric propulsion system, to capture a small near - Earth asteroid or remove a boulder from the surface of a larger asteroid.

It includes everything from huge boulders to particles only a few nanometers in diameter, but most of it is a puree created by uncountable high - speed micrometeorites that have been crashing into the moon unimpeded by atmosphere for more than 3billion years.

Features like giant gravel current ripples and displaced 65 - foot - wide boulders in the Scablands could not be explained by changes in the nearby Columbia River, he wrote — the flow and volume of whatever water source formed them would have to be exponentially larger.

One site Fritz visited was the town of Jacmel, on the southern coast of Haiti, where he found boats and boulders washed ashore and walls knocked down by the water.

Sandstone Boulder in Central Beacon Valley: This large sandstone boulder was sculpted by strong Antarctic winds over thousands of years.

It takes millions of years for boulders to be whittled down to small rocks by wind, snow and sublimation.

The boulders, they report in the 5 October issue of Science, were deposited by glaciers 1000 years after the end of the Younger Dryas.

They studied boulders from the New Zealand site where the glacial wood had been found, measuring the concentrations in the rocks of radioactive isotopes beryllium - 10 and chlorine - 36, which are produced by nuclear reactions between minerals and cosmic rays.

A computer model developed by the team suggests that the grains must reach the size of boulders within a million years; otherwise, the dust particles and circumstellar gases will be blown apart by fierce ultraviolet radiation from the nebula's hottest, most massive young stars.

Researchers speculate that the comet's boulders might have been relocated by surface material slipping and sliding after being heated by the sun.

Three boulders (shown) balance precariously on comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko in this Sept. 16 image taken 29 kilometers above the surface by the Rosetta spacecraft

Balancing boulders on Earth are either deposited by glaciers or carved by wind and water erosion — none of which exist on a comet.

For one thing, a boulder could pin me down in the backcountry, leaving me unable to get through my Kevlar shirt to free myself by gnawing off my arm.

They piled boulders left by ancient glaciers into two large rings, put black amphibolite rocks on top, layered the wall with charcoal and burned it.

«Boulders as large as a football can only be entrained by strong torrents during floods.»

By studying the forces required to round off the sharp edges of rocks, researchers came up with a model that predicts the maximum collision speeds needed for boulder - surfacing.

To ascertain the age of the boulders strewn by the glaciers and thus come up with a date when glaciers were at their greatest extent, Willenbring and colleagues used a technique known as cosmogenic nuclide exposure dating, which measures the chemical residue of supernova explosions.

Scientists have discovered three new species of animals in a rainforest «lost world» in Australia, protected for millions of years by almost impenetrable stacks of granite boulders.

By conventional thinking, the spring had ever so slowly weakened the head - wall rock, which fell as boulders and debris that the seepage eventually eroded away.

New Horizons» flyby of the dwarf planet and its five known moons is providing an up - close introduction to the solar system's Kuiper Belt, an outer region populated by icy objects ranging in size from boulders to dwarf planets.

In September 2014, the same international team of researchers, guided by Giovanni Bianucci from Pisa University (Italy), found a partial skeleton of a mysticete whale in a rock boulder.