Sentences with phrase «into sandstone»

One active project funded by the Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) is attempting to take carbon dioxide produced during ethanol refining and inject it into sandstone reservoirs in Illinois.

Visitors typically arrive by ferry from the main city of Hobart before descending into a sandstone bunker where 1,500 works of art, spanning from antiquity to the present day, are on display across three dimly lit levels.

This expanse of 492 grottoes carved into the sandstone face of a nine - story - high cliff holds an unrivaled collection of Buddhist art, with more than 484,000 square feet of murals and 2,400 sculptures.

This awe - inspiring temple is stunning for both its grand scale and the incredible detail hewn into its sandstone blocks.

Located between Austin Point to the south and Hug Point to the north, a short walk north reveals a seasonal waterfall, caves carved into sandstone cliffs and tide pools accessible during low tide.

Before issuing the permit, commission officials studied mathematical models showing that waste could be safely injected into a sandstone layer about one - third of a mile beneath the farm.

When this natural plaster hardens into sandstone, the result is a set of «infill prints,» inside - out track marks that are often found beneath rock ledges like the one at Quality Creek.

More than 3,000 tombs, dwellings, and temples are etched into the sandstone cliffs surrounding Petra, and recent excavations have revealed a caravan of camels carved into the canyon walls.

Not exact matches

The soil structure falls into three main categories: rather naked and rough mountaintops; slopes that have been smoothed and covered with deposits of limestone, sandstone, or marly clay, and small alluvial plains.

In the wall behind the altar, two words have been carved into the red sandstone, their letters a foot high: FATHER FORGIVE.

I walk into the bombed - out nave, its windows empty of stained glass, only its roofless sandstone walls revealing the medieval cathedral that crumpled under Nazi explosions.

The stoops of my youth were long, sandstone flights, their balustrades ornamented with blind lions or terminal objects that looked like great pineapples or artichokes, and the rubber balls we threw against the steps into so many evenings were «spaldeens.»

In a study published today in PLOS ONE, scientists spent a year observing purple sea urchins (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, pictured above) growing on sections of sandstone, mudstone, and granite reefs that had been transported into a laboratory setting.

But how do we know if CO2 can be safely injected into spongy sandstone, and that once it is there, that it will stay there?

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.

Even though there is no natural cement binding the sand grains into rock, mining it requires blasting at the sandstone's face to break the sand loose, says Alan Mayo, a hydrogeologist at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, and a co-author of the study.

Like Abu Simbel, the Mut temple is hewn out of solid sandstone, carved right into the base of the pinnacle.

Over the eons, wind and water have carved this landscape into a maze of stunning red sandstone arches and spires.

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.

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.

The captured CO2 will be liquefied on site and pumped through a two - foot - diameter pipeline that will snake south through the waters of the Arthur Kill, turn eastward through Raritan Bay out into the Atlantic Ocean, and arrive, about 140 miles later, at a natural repository of Lower Cretaceous sandstone more than 8,000 feet below the seafloor.

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

The Tava sandstone is unusual for another reason: It may be the only large - scale deposit in the world where sedimentary rocks such as sandstone have been injected into crystalline rocks such as granite, Siddoway says.

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.

After that it's off to the storage wells where the fluid CO2 is further compressed to more than 2,000 psi and pumped a mile and a half underground where it's injected into the pores between grains of rock in a layer of sandstone laid down some 440 million years ago.

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.

What it found were layers of the same sulfate - rich sandstone that Opportunity had found at Endurance, with evidence that water had weathered away minerals in the rocks, then evaporated, leaving behind salts that eventually solidified into rock once again.

A slab of sandstone discovered a few years back provided a glimpse into the how dinosaurs and mammals interacted millions of years ago.

The vivid colors of the red sandstone and the blue skies blend into almost a «heat haze» color scheme.

The name «Zion» means «heavenly city,» and as I aim the Tacoma into the first few miles of park, it's like entering a natural cathedral: serrated peaks soaring straight up from the roadside, flying buttresses of red sandstone.

Huge sandstone mesas overlook winding desert canyons that spill into forever.

We 3D print the model of your pet into a full colour sandstone sculpture.

It takes you past huge basalt and sandstone rock formations, into sea caves and under natural rock arches.

Wander around to gawp at the lovely sandstone buildings, duck into the Fortune of War pub for a beer and a chicken schnitzel, and browse the souvenir shops that dot the precinct.

The confluence of these two river forces over eons eroded the red sandstone of the Blyde River Canyon into Bourke's Luck Potholes which now shimmers full of well - wishers tokens.

Finished in warm Indian Sandstone, and furnished with an antique cabinet, this washroom opens into a pretty walled garden.

As the first crops and houses come into view, the landscape changes quickly, the red sandstone formations give way to the carsten erosion of limestone.

Before you leave, be sure to visit nearby Wat Phu Tok, where a sheer sandstone outcrop has been precariously transformed into a clifftop meditation temple.

The heritage listed sandstone railway station has been converted into a museum.

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Red Feather Inn is a charming collection of historic sandstone buildings transformed into luxury accommodation, restaurant and cooking school in Hadspen.

Advocate's Manor is a 100 year old sandstone house, that has been changed into 7 en - suite rooms.

At the foot of a red sandstone cliff, an ideal starting point for excursions into the Sossusvlei region.

A red sandstone bungalow converted into a heritage hotel.

«We then spent the afternoon kayaking in the bay on a sea as smooth as glass, paddling past remarkable sandstone cliffs wind - carved and eroded into fantastic formations, many like ancient ruins.

But she can also make the chips fly, carving local sandstone into images related to the sea.

Jump into clear waterholes fed by impressive tumbling waterfalls, and admire the area's ancient sandstone escarpments weathered by the elements.

Using stones from quartz, to granite and sandstone, he carves soft twists, scoops or pinches into the hard surface, as if he were sculpting with clay.