Sentences with phrase «near outcrops»

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.

«The Archaean basement consists of domes of granitoids and granitic gneisses (the Nanambu Complex), the nearest outcrop being 5 km to the north.

Dig up the collection point near the outcrop.

Not exact matches

We looked coast to coast as one was pre-med (almost every school has a program) one in Geology (somewhere near good rock outcrops) and one is a competitive Dressage Horse rider (read business school while training for olympics so had to be near top trainers).

But new images provide the first up - close look at stacked layers of sediment exposed near the base of Mount Sharp, the roughly 5 - kilometer - high outcrop at the center of the crater.

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.

Many outcrops of the «Tava sandstone» — derived from a Native American name for Pikes Peak, a local landmark — are found along the Ute Pass fault, which runs along the Front Range near Colorado Springs.

Further south lies the rocky outcrop of Koh Bon Island with regular manta ray sightings especially between February and April when upwelling currents concentrate planktonic food near the surface.

This eco-resort is perched high up on a rocky outcrop above the ocean quite near the main T intersection along the main beach road in Tulum.

On the property that was nearest to the main access, there was a dip in the road going around a large rock outcrop.

In MacIssac, the owner of the property nearest to the public road, who'd claimed that the other owners had no right to use the dip around the large rock outcrop, might actually have known, before acquiring the property, that the other owners a right of way over the dip.