Sentences with phrase «by sandstone»

The gardens of Starr Cottage are surrounded by sandstone courtyard and feature a child friendly lawn area.

The southern channel is hollowed out of the rock and was originally covered by sandstone and limestone to prevent evaporation and contamination.

They almost surround the compact old town whose quaint winding roads are hemmed by sandstone architecture that look prettiest in the golden - hued late afternoon sunlight.

The Algarve, at Portugal's foot, is renowned for its unspoilt beaches backed by sandstone cliffs and is a key destination for holidaymakers.

Moira Forsyth's fifth novel A Message from the Other Side will be published by Sandstone Press on 20 July 2017.

Not exact matches

EXPLORATION focussed on the Sandstone greenstone belt by Troy Resources NL is producing spectacular results which could broaden the gold miner's horizons.

HIGH - grade gold intersections by Troy Resources NL have extended mineralisation at the Bulchina prospect in the Sandstone region of WA.

Ordovician strata are characterized by numerous and diverse trilobites and conodonts (phosphatic fossils with a tooth - like appearance) found in sequences of shale, limestone, dolostone, and sandstone.

However, there are clear observations which contradict special creation / co-existence of all forms followed by a single massive annihilation via flood, e.g. the progressive order of the fossil record, the Coconino sandstone, etc, etc..

During Early Proterozoic times (from 1688 - 1600 million years ago) the area was covered by thick, flat - lying sandstones.

Prince Edward Island is surrounded by miles of sandy beaches and red sandstone cliffs and is sized just right for touring.

The smaller sandstone house, which sits on a knoll in the middle of the nine - acre tract, was built about 1723 by early Dutch settler Jacob Vanderbilt.

The researchers checked ripple textures preserved in sandstone more than 3 billion years old at sites investigated by Curiosity and by NASA's Opportunity Mars rover.

Across the species» range from Baja California, Mexico, to Alaska, bioerosion on urchin - covered sandstone reefs, the researchers report, produces sediment approximately equivalent to that delivered to the coast by a river — some 200 tons of sediment per hectare — suggesting that when you stroll along the beach, a not insignificant chunk of the sand is, in fact, sea urchin waste.

While on a field trip to southeastern Utah, microbiologist Harry Kurtz Jr. of Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, was intrigued by striped stains on eolian — or wind - formed — sandstone.

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Yardley's study gives hope that this technology is feasible now, and in a world whose coal lust is unlikely to diminish, quick reactions — in sandstone or by coal plants — may be just what is needed.

The rocks were of sandstone, siltstone, and shale: thin layers of sediment, each layer representing a year, or 10, or 100 — I had no idea — welded by time into varying degrees of solidity.

The fantastical arch shapes of sandstone formations have long been thought to be sculpted by wind and rain.

Led by vertebrate paleontologist Xiaolin Wang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, the scientists uncovered at least 215 eggs in a block of sandstone about 3 meters square.

Sometimes called hoodoos, the red - orange sandstone rocks have been sculpted over the past million years by wind and water erosion into spires, towers and pedestals.

The Antarctic ice, sculpted by wind into the layered texture of Monument Valley sandstone, flies past, and the snowmobile's shocks judder and clack over ice ridges called sastrugi.

Rather, they suspect the disposal of wastewater from those operations, done by pumping it back down into equally deep sandstone.

UNSW Australia study author and Ph.D. candidate Katarina David (left) preserves samples of moist rock collected by drilling a 300 - meter deep core through the layers of sandstone and claystone near Sydney, for later testing in the laboratory.

In response to a tax on greenhouse - gas emissions imposed by the Norwegian government, each year the company now removes about 1 million tons of CO2 captured as a waste product from the natural gas it recovers and pumps more than 99 percent of it 2,600 feet beneath the seafloor into a porous sandstone formation capped by impervious rock.

WATERY PAST Sandstone deposits laid down by ancient rivers on Mars, seen in this image from the Curiosity rover, indicate that Gale Crater was once a shallow lake.

The soft sandstone wall from which the grottoes are carved has been eroded in the past by sand blown into the caves.

Between the two pairs of footprints that have been preserved in sandstone is a gully gouged by the body of the amphibian as it crawled along.

Many sandstone formations show layers of some type, signs they were laid down over time in distinct episodes by wind or flowing water.

The cave is composed of limestone, covered by a layer of sandstone, making it extremely stable.

The enigmatic statues, 125 and 180 feet tall, were hewn directly into the face of a sandstone cliff around the fifth century A.D., possibly by the Buddhist rulers of the Kushan empire.

Paleontologists led by dinosaur curator Peter Makovichy of Chicago's Field Museum found the nearly complete skeleton of a 90 million - year - old, surprisingly bird - like dinosaur in the sandstone of Argentina's northern Patagonia, about 700 miles southwest of Buenos Aires.

Once FutureGen is up and running — now scheduled to happen in 2014 — the carbon dioxide gas it produces will be siphoned off, compressed into a near - liquid state, and piped at least a mile down into porous sandstone capped by a layer of impermeable shale.

The soft red sandstone Supai group is easily sculpted by wind and rain erosion; harder sections of the Coconino formation on top of the red sandstone can protect somewhat the underlying the softer rocks, leading to the characteristic columns and spires typical to Sedona.

Dated to 3.43 billion years ago in sandstone from the Strelley Pool Formation in Western Australia, the microstructures were found with micrometer - sized pyrite crystals (fool's gold, an iron - sulfur mineral), as would be expected as the metabolic by - products of sulfur - based life that employ «sulphate - reduction and sulphur - disproportionation pathways.»

If so, that could also provide a clue as to what extent olivine in ancient sandstones have been sorted by wind and not just water in the past.

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And by set, I mean a few structures which have been constructed on the grey dirt in the middle of these large brown hills made of sandstone.

When Gina (Michelle Williams) and her husband, Ryan (James Le Gros), sit down with a taciturn neighbor, Albert (Rene Auberjonois), in order to strike a deal with him for a pile of unused sandstone, Gina's silently exasperated struggle not to be made to feel small in polite, sitting - room conversation seems like nothing less than a reasonable update to the horrors borne by the wives and daughters who blazed the westward trail.

Moose, Kelly, and I snuggle up in a king - size bed before getting another early start to take a slight detour south and visit Arches National Park, a remarkable 120 square miles covered with elaborate entrada sandstone structures that have been eroded by rainwater over hundreds of millions of years.

The vertical slats are framed by seperate pieces, highlighted by copper and brown accents over the Sandstone metallic used throughout.

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The Xian municipality commissioned a red sandstone sculpture of twice life - size camels in commemoration, but the site is now engulfed by a supermarket - so the camels have been relocated to a traffic island!

The winner will receive: # 1,000 prize money; publication through Sandstone Press; author consideration by Diana Beaumont of Rupert Heath Literary Agency.

Join us for a unique, Aboriginal cultural experience, exploring the Quinkan Rock Art sites found among the sandstone escarpments around the small town of Laura, Nth QLD, Guided by friendly, Kuku Yalanji traditional owners.

Fantastic sandstone rocks formed by nature in perfect art pieces.

This wilderness is 71 000 hectares of rough, mountainous terrain dominated by spectacular sandstone rock formations like the Maltese Cross and Wolfberg Arch (both on well known hiking routes).

An intricate geometric pattern of green and white marble, sandstone and black granite ornaments the floor, while the antique finish bar is framed by an intricate Mewar arch.