Sentences with phrase «dunes along»

Similar 14C dates (3190 and 3490 yr BP) were obtained only from charcoal buried in sand dunes along the Rivière Boniface (Saint - Laurent & Filion 1992).

When I was a kid in the 1950s and 1960s, just about every summer we would make a day trip to Provincetown on the tip end of Cape Cod and on the way we would stop to play on the sand dunes along the side of the road in Truro and Provincetown.

Favourite subjects were the dunes along the western sea coast, rivers with their broad adjoining meadows where cattle grazed, often with the silhouette of a city in the distance.

The board features sand and dunes along with quicksand.

I don't know if I remember the first place, but I do remember our family's annual summer trips to the Baltic Sea, the tall pine trees and the dunes along the way to the beach, and the hot sand burning the soles of my feet.

Nestled amid the soaring sand dunes along the western shore of Lake Michigan, the twin resort communities of Saugatuck and Douglas have developed steadily over the years into the preeminent gay beach destination in the Midwest.

It offers great views, as well as large sand dunes along the beach.

In his 2004 photo Artificial Sand Dune, from his Artificial Arcadia series, Princen pictures a manmade dune along the Dutch coast where birds are often stranded during their annual migrations.

Not exact matches

The second is more along the lines of author Frank Herbert, who explored in his Byzantine * Dune * saga just about every major system of power dynamics from religious / mystical to technological to political to tribal to financial to ecological to physical.

Grazing along coastal sand dunes, grassy plains and high ridges, Niihau sheep roam in a relatively untouched environment.

Who doesn't long for a beautiful stretch of beach along a sandy dune with plenty of boats and water options?

The $ 833,372 deal with Car - Min Construction Co. of Waukegan calls for a dual - purpose band shell and picnic shelter, a concrete walkway, a boardwalk running along the beach's sand dunes, picnic tables, grills, landscaping, lighting, a fence along the harbor and a telescope.

And it persuaded the Chicago Park District to start a beach - cleaning program along the neighborhood's shoreline, allow deep - water swimming at Farwell and Pratt Beaches and put up fences to protect an emerging sand dune with native growth near Pratt Boulevard.

Further west, along the lake, workers are trying to save a 17 mile - long sand dune at Sandy Island Beach State Park in Pulaski.

On the right are thick beds with fenestral porosity, or «beach bubbles,» showing that massive waves ran up over older dunes exposed in a roadcut on Suzy Turn Road along the Atlantic Ocean east side of Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands, BWI.

Vast dune fields that look as if they were lifted from the Sahara sprawl along Titan's equator, yet the dark grains resemble ground asphalt rather than sand.

Officials along the East Coast are considering adaptive measures like dunes, revetments, stricter building standards and expensive flood gates following Sandy's $ 50 billion price tag.

Tikoo and colleagues analyzed fragments of a lunar rock collected along the southern rim of the moon's Dune Crater during the Apollo 15 mission in 1971.

The waves travel along the flume and crash onto whatever researchers have built at the other end — which could include a novel type of dike, an artificial sand dune or gravel beach, or a pylon used to hold up an offshore wind turbine.

The formation of sedimentary dunes requires the presence of grains and of winds that are strong enough to transport them along the ground.

The conditions required to allow the formation of dunes, namely winds able to transport the grains along the ground, are thus met on Chury's surface.

By FRED PEARCE When Nick Faldo and Greg Norman struggled over the final holes of golf's Open Championship at Royal St George's on Sandwich Bay in Kent in July, they, their fellow competitors, along with caddies, TV crews and thousands of spectators, were tramping across «the finest sand dune system in southeast England» with a -LSB-...]

Like kids building sandcastles below the tideline on the beach, scientists will let the walls of water travel along the flume and crash onto whatever researchers have built at the other end — which could include a novel type of dike, an artificial sand dune or gravel beach, or a pylon used to hold up an offshore wind turbine.

The scene from «Vera Rubin Ridge» looks back over the journey so far, including buttes, dunes and other features along the route.

This Madewell tote has been one of my favorite purchases this summer along with these Dune London sandals!

Now that the school year is officially over I'm looking forward to all the fun that summer brings with it — including playing the fun aunt and taking my nephew and niece to the beach, heading out of town for several weeks, sunning along the Indiana dunes, frequent visits to Lake Michigan and swimming in as many pools as I can find!

The leopard bag from Dune London looks way more expensive than it is with a top handle, gold detailing, and pops of red along the sides.

As dawn breaks on a bleary night out, Moll is walking along the Jersey coast with a sleazebag she met in a club: he makes an advance, she resists, and he presses on with increasing violence, until a stranger emerges from the dunes and levels a hunting rifle at his head.

In recent years, RatPac - Dune Entertainment helped finance «Wonder Woman,» along with most other movies from Warner Bros..

Along with Lost in La Mancha, about director Terry Gilliam's failed attempt to adapt Don Quixote, Jodorowsky's Dune ranks as one of the best documentaries about filmmaking ever made.

Brief production notes, cast & crew filmographies, and a trailer for the film along with trailers for Dr. T & The Women, Novocaine, Picking Up the Pieces, Van Wilder, The Rambo Trilogy, and the Special Edition DVD of the made - for - Sci - Fi Network Dune round out the disc.

The most obvious examples of this are found in two of the movies that, along with Dune, are usually considered outliers within his larger body of work: The Elephant Man and The Straight Story.

Each Spring and Autumn the birds travel along the sand dunes in search of better weather.

It's a love it or hate it color that goes along with the «look at me» vibe of the Dune.

As a child, I used to run barefoot along the sand dunes that snaked in and out of the Mississippi River like a benign creature of habit.

For instance, Rick Riordan includes This Dark Endeavor by Kenneth Oppel in his list of 44 «Favorites», along with Dune by Frank Herbert; L.J. Smith appears to be a huge Agatha Christie fan with over 50 books of hers shelved; and Khaled Hosseini gave Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain 5 stars.

He skirted around the fence and continued on in four - wheel drive along the sandy trail flanked by high, grass - covered dunes.

The presence of our unique fynbos (and the birds it attracts) is however everywhere to discover — on the sand dunes, in the gardens, along the gravel roads, along the river, on the mountain.

This, along with its unique collection of sand dunes, has made it a favourite for beach explorers.

The island's blue, fresh - water lakes are perched in the dunes and perfect to cool down on a hot Queensland Day; or you can wander along crystal - clear streams as they meander through the leafy greenness of the forest.

Rather it's where people walk their dogs and ride horses along the wide stretch of soft sand dunes with some of the most incredible scenery that includes the Kakapo ship wreck.

Because just in front of the lagoon and sand dunes are some five beaches that stretch six kilometres along sand perfect for strolling at low tide.

Highlights along the way include the famous multi-coloured cliffs known as the Coloured Sands, and Carlo Sandlblow, a massive slow - moving sand dune that towers over Rainbow Beach and is one of the largest piles of wind - blown sand on the Queensland coast.

Book an ATV tour in San Carlos for hours of thrills along open plains, sand dunes and up into the high desert.

The short trail to the monument runs along the side of a steep canyon leading from the sand dunes on the beach to the top of the cliffs.

The property is set along a vast stretch of white, dune - rimmed beach on the Cap Bon peninsula.

When Scott and I visited this area over five years ago, we were tempted to rent ATVs to ride around Oceano's dunes, but, instead, we decided to get my 2 - wheel drive 4 - Runner stuck in the sand as we drove along the beach.

012 — ride the Blue Train 013 — play Putt - Putt 014 — walk along the beachfront promenade 015 — scratch for gemstones at the Scratch Patch 016 — visit the Two Ocean Aquarium 017 — visit the play canyon at Santa Ana Spur 018 — see model ships at the SA Maritime Museum 019 — take a harbour cruise to see the seals 020 — go to the World of Birds 021 — stroll around the Hout Bay Harbour and Mariners Wharf 022 — hang out at Hout Bay beach 023 — enjoy fish «n chips on the rocks at Fish on The Rocks 024 — get creative at Clay Café 025 — sandboarding on the dunes at Hout Bay 026 — play at Scarecrows 027 — lunch and play in the children's playground at Dunes 028 — spend a day at Scarborough beach 029 — collect mussels off the rocks 030 — play with animals at Higgeldy Piggledy Farmyard 031 — ride a camel 032 — go snorkelling with the seals 033 — pony rides for little ones, horse riding for bigger kids 034 — visit Noordhoek Farm Village 035 — a day of fun at Long Beach

Namib - Naukluft Park is a mostly inaccessible dune landscape along the shore, of which a small part is open for tourists.

The water's treacherous along this coast but the cove, sand dunes, and crashing waves are secluded and beautiful.