Sentences with word «granitic»

But a wealth of other geochemical and geologic data — from rock assemblages within ancient continental crust to studies of varying chemical contents of granitic rocks — suggest that plate tectonics really went global about 2.7 billion to 3 billion years ago.

2014 Occam's Razor Shiraz «Emily's own wine, her 14th vintage, from a single granitic soil organic vineyard south of Heathcote.

Here nestled within the furthest reaches of the north arm of Lake Naknek, a one to hour motorized boat ride from Brooks Camp, stretches a happy geological accident of numerous granitic islands.

«The oldest rocks in the Koongarra area, domes of granitoids and granitic gneiss, are of Archaean age (ie to geologists this means they are older than 2500 million years).

The soils are created from decomposing granitic materials and are excellent for growing high quality grapes.

Temecula Valley soils consist primarily of decomposing granitic material.

They determined that these pale rocks are rich in feldspar, possibly with some quartz, and they are unexpectedly similar to Earth's granitic continental crust.

The soils are mostly granitic sandy loam and are of low fertility and water holding capacity - perfect for limiting excessive vine vigor and producing well balanced and varietally true wines.

The flinty domino players of Oklahoma play a stern, granitic game, giving no quarter and asking none, but their current champion is an Indian chief who didn't even plan to play

One line of evidence comes from hardy crystals called zircons, found primarily in granite — the formation of granite requires subduction, the sinking of a lithospheric slab into the mantle where it partially melts to produce so - called granitic magma.

Ecological and genomic profiling of anaerobic methane - oxidizing archaea in a deep granitic environment — Kohei Ino, ISME

This piece (Glacier White) has «sparkles» in it when the light shines just right (I HEART sparkles) and small red garnets imbedded within the metamorphosed granitic rock.

In «Infinity War,» Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman), Captain America (Chris Evans), Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and the others go up against Thanos (Josh Brolin), the implacable, granitic behemoth who seeks out the infinity stones that will give him infinite power.

Unlike most of our park sites, Montara Mountain and Rancho Corral de Tierra were formed by granitic rock.

Have you been dreaming of those beautiful granitic rocks in Yosemite?

Both areas are on shallow siliceous soils of low fertility and high erodibility formed on primarily granitic rocks.

Granitic soils are a light sandy loam.

The ChemCam laser instrument on NASA's Curiosity rover has turned its beam onto some unusually light - colored rocks on Mars, and the results are surprisingly similar to Earth's granitic continental crust rocks.

The granitic soils permit the water to drain through quite easily.

The granitic bedrock here was polished by glacier sliding during the Last Glacial Maximum.

In the years since, the Land Cruiser and its Lexus twin featured here has burnished a granitic reputation for itself, not only for off - road capability but for comfort, durability and reliability as well.

Like pilgrims in a fable swallowed up and lost among the inward parts of some granitic beast.

For rocks» sake — it's granitic!

Granitic soils, mild climate, high precipitation, geographic and coastal geographic situation naturally give the wine the freshness, lightness and alcohol content that characterize the entire range of the Region.

Hillside Villa 2 Bedrooms -(220 m ²), Overlooking the Port Launay Marine Park, the hillside villas two bedrooms feature their own private pool and have been constructed and adapted to the granitic rocks on the site creating a unique accommodation concept.

Hillside Villa 1 Bedroom -(120 m ²), Overlooking the Port Launay Marine Park, the hillside villas one bedroom feature their own private pool and have been constructed and adapted to the granitic rocks on the site creating a unique accommodation concept.

Maldives is known as beautiful coral islands, Seychelles on its part offers diversity through their granitic islands and large coral islands offering unique island hopping holidays, and La Reunion on its part remains known for its «Swiss Styled» mountains and its passive volcano.

The Island's beautifully decorated lounge and dining areas, scenically - located health spa and gym, library and dive centre, and a rim - flow swimming pool are all built into a granitic outcrop overlooking the iridescent ocean.