Sentences with phrase «exposed rock outcrops»

A favorite loop trail brings visitors into the sanctuary past the power lines to heron rookery and then toward the exposed rock outcrops where porcupine live.

Tao Su, lead author on the paper and associate professor at Xishuangbanna Tropical Garden, discovered the fossils near his home in Kunming in southwest China when some road construction exposed a rock outcrop from the late Pliocene.

Not exact matches

They examined 130 outcrops on the flanks of the volcano, exposing sequences of pumice — ash hardened into rock — and other pyroclastic material.

Over time, as wind blows sand against the small cliffs, or scarps, that bound the Yellowknife outcrop, the scarps erode back, revealing new rock that previously was not exposed to cosmic rays.

But internal features of the slide, exposed in outcrops, yielded evidence such as jigsaw puzzle rock fractures and shear zones, along with the pseudotachylytes.

Many of the flow systems seem to start in the Antarctic mountains, near outcrops of exposed rock, or in places where fierce winds have scoured snow off the ice beneath.