Sentences with phrase «high rampart»
It is surrounded by a mile - high rampart of material that was ejected from the crater — enough rock to bury the continental United States under a two - mile - deep layer.
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The 16 - mile - long river of ice, 3,000 feet deep at its center, was fed by the endless snows falling on the two - mile - high ramparts of the Aletschhorn, Jungfrau, Munch, and adjacent peaks.
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Down the road near Mammoth Lakes, the Devils Postpile National Monument is a rampart of basalt columns five stories high.
Never were desperate doings so blandly lighted up as by the two unforgettable months that I was to spend so much of in looking over from the old rampart of a little high - perched Sussex town at the bright blue streak of the Channel.»
During high tides, its slender towers and sky - scraping turrets, encircled by stout ramparts and battlements, appear to rise out of the middle of the bay.
The rock ramparts of the majestic Flinders Ranges pass high above as this steam adventure winds through the Pichi Richi Pass.