Sentences with phrase «of ancient mountains»

Running parallel to the east coast of North America are the Appalachians, a chain of ancient mountains once the size of the Rockies.

It is in the shadows of these ancient mountains that Dr Pia Viglietti, a post-doctoral fellow at the Evolutionary Studies Institute (ESI) at Wits University, found the secrets of one of the biggest mass extinction events that Earth has ever seen.

Over the course of several field trips to this wilderness, geologist Glassley and two colleagues went in search of evidence that the land is in fact the remnant of an ancient mountain chain and the site of tremendous geologic upheaval.

Scenic Flights over Wilpena Pound to gain an aerial perspective of this ancient mountain landscape

Stuck way out in the middle of the Indian Ocean, Christmas Island is essentially just the above - water tip of an ancient mountain.

Not exact matches

Sir Richard Branson's Kasbah Tamadot snuggled into the heart of Morocco's snow - capped Atlas Mountains, is a magical retreat surrounded by an ancient wall.

Perched atop a mountain, the Hanging Gardens of Bali sounds more like an ancient monastery than a luxury resort.

Since the beginning of October, I've been climbing mountains, exploring ancient ruins, and sipping pisco sours.

Marine fossils are found in mountains when ancient seabeds are thrust up and made into mountain ranges over many millions of years.

Use of the name Armageddon (Har — Magedon) can not mean that the war will be fought at a literal Mountain of Megiddo There is no literal Mountain of Megiddo; only a mound about 70 feet (21 m) high where ruins of ancient Megiddo are found.

As a Christian, I absolutely believe God began the human race in the Garden of Eden... as a discerning intelligent human being, I can not deny the facts found in carbon dating studies of ancient fossil remains... if God can creat man, he can also allow for investigation and confirmation of planet plant and animal life, the upheaval of mountains, and history of the sea.

It is as though a new and formidable mountain chain had arisen in the landscape of the soul, causing ancient categories to be reshuffled and uniting higgledy - piggledy on every slope the friends and enemies of yesterday: on one side the inflexible and sterile vision of a Universe composed of unalterable, juxtaposed parts, and on the other side the ardour, the faith, the contagion of a living truth emerging from all action and exercise of will.

The ancient prophet Elijah made a pilgrimage to the holy mountain of God and looked for God in the tornado, the earthquake and the fire.

Book of Mormon people did use ancient symbolic language when describing religiosity, (one of many mountains of evidences that it is an ancient book.)

The rugged terrain of northwest Arabia, of which Syria and Palestine, it has sometimes been remarked, may be regarded as merely the largest and richest oasis, the numerous mountain peaks, the volcanoes apparently active at some period in ancient history, the desert with its speaking silences, the uncertainties of the weather in a land where all is dependent on the annual rainfall — all these and much more of the same sort are reflected in Israel's religion.

The creation stories of the ancient inland Chinese also have nothing to do with water, again they choose the most natural dominate natural geography, mountains.

The great cultures of the ancient world lay at the two ends, Babylonia near where the sweep of the Zagros Mountains terminates its length of eastern bulwark and barrier to the Semitic world, and Egypt nestling among her brooding deserts at the northeast corner of Africa in the perennial delight of her sunny clime and her life - giving river.

Nothing is permanent, not even the mountains, which the ancient psalmists used to regard as symbols of enduring stability.

Now that those who are «with it» no longer look to the Old Man of the Mountain for his ancient help, everyone seems to experiment with some kind of substitute which he thinks will order the universe and bring happiness.

Many OT, NT and koran thu - mpers are actually thu - mping the rules and codes of the ancients like King Hammurabi and the Egyptians who wrote the Book of the Dead and who did NOT need revelations from angels or mountain voices to develop needed rules of conduct for us h - o - minids.

If it were conclusively demonstrable that tradition here preserves the eyewitness report of the sacred mountain under such violent natural seizure; and furthermore if such natural phenomena were unmistakably attributable to volcanic action (the strongest but still indecisive indication of this is the phrase in verse 18 «the smoke of it went up like the smoke of a kiln»), we could with some assurance locate Sinai Horeb in the only area within possible range where volcanic phenomena have existed - that is, in the territory of ancient Midian (present Arabia) east of the northern end of the Gulf of Aqabah.

Dr. Austin, the «scientist» in question, is a young earth creationist who went to the site with the stated purpose of finding «proof against evolution,» gathered material which was a mix of newly formed rock and ancient rock which had been ejected from the mountain, dated them with imprecise methods, and then skewed the results, as thousands of actual scientists have already reported.

Many OT, NT and koran thumpers are actually thumping the rules and codes of the ancients like King Hammurabi and the Egyptians who wrote the Book of the Dead and who did NOT need revelations from angels or mountain voices to develop needed rules of conduct for us hominids.

From the comforting ancient trees of the Texas Hill Country, flat nothingness of West Texas, smooth mini mountains in New Mexico, and the biggest boulders I've ever seen in my life in Eastern Arizona... -LCB- we keep reciting Donkey's line from Shrek movie: «that's a nice boulder.» -RCB-

«It was his lifelong dream to create the purest tea in China's, «said Muscaglione «He has spent 50 + years creating the ancient tea of Daba Mountain, a region rich In history and well as selenium, known for its cancer fighting properties.

Also adhering to a cultural enrichment protocol, this spa introduces and honors ancient healing techniques and shamanistic treatments and rituals from the Huichol Indians, a reclusive tribe living in the heart of the surrounding Sierra Madre Mountains.

The television follows a winged Mexican through Mexico's jungles, over rivers and mountains, to the ancient cities and into the mighty pyramids, where (as pictured above) the ancient peoples of Mexico can be found, along with their occupiers, artfully disporting themselves in front of wall paintings.

Blessed with a diverse variety, this ancient mystical land has it all - palm - studded white sand beaches, forested mountains cloaked in dawn mists, well - preserved ruins of historic civilizations, not to mention the excitement of Bangkok's modern metropolis.

Praasha Desire Praatika Image / Symbolic Pracheeta Origin / Starting point Pradyuta To begin to shine Pragnika Clever lady Praharsha Happy girl Prahasini Continues smiling girl Prajisha Morning Pramik Best / Fulfilling desires Pranal God Pranamya Offering obeisances Pranani Most beautiful Pranavee Goddess Parvati / The first sound of universe Aum (Alternate Spelling: Pranavi) Pranaya Leader Pranidhi Spy Pranika Goddess Parvati Pranisha Love to life Pranja Very cute Pranusha Prathama Usha — first rays of the morning Sun Pranvi Forgiveness / Goddess of life / Maa Parvati Pranvuta Praised Prasheila Ancient time Prashi Accomplishment / Fame Prashvita Parvati / Lord Shivas wife Prathulya Incomparable Prathusha Saisudha / Early morning / Dawn Prathysha Saisudha / Early morning / Dawn Prathyumna Victory Prathyusha Saisudha / Early morning / Dawn Prati One who appreciates and loves music Pratichi West Pratika Image / Beautiful / Symbol / Symbolic Pratitha Well known Prattusha Beautiful / soft Prattysha Morning Pratusha Saisudha / Early morning / Dawn Pratushya Morning Pratyaksha One who is real Pratyaya Perception / Thought / Intention Pratyusha Bright morning Pravara Eminent Prayukta Experimented Prayushi Pure Prayuta Mingled with Saadhvi Religious women / Courteous / Polite Saahana Raga Saarya Name of a pious woman Saatvika Goddess Durga / Calm (Alternate Spelling: Saatwika) Saavi Goddess Lakshmi / The Sun Saavini Pertaining to the month of Saavan / One who prepares Soma Sabrang Rainbow Sachita Consciousness Sadhvi Religious women / Courteous / Polite Saesha With great desire and wish / Truth of life Sagnika Fiery / Passionate / Married / With fire Sahuri War / Powerful / Victorious / The earth Sahya A mountain in india Saisha With great desire and wish / Truth of life (Alternate Spelling: Saiyeisha) Saketa Lord Krishna (Alternate Spelling: Saketha) Samanvi One who has all the best qualities Sambhwi Durga Samiha Generous Samika Peaceful Samiksha Analysis Samita Collected Samithra Good friend Sanchana Gathering of good habits Sanchaya Collection Sanha Skilful / Radiance / Elegance / Conciseness Sanheeta A compilation or a bunch of vedic hymns / Code (Alternate Spelling: Sanhitha) Sanmaya Equal / Removal of obstacles / Etc Sanmita Goddess Parvati / Prasanna Lakshmi Sanoja Eternal Sanrakta Red / Pleasant / Beautiful Sanwari Dusky Sanya Eminent / Distinguished / Born on saturday Sarasvi Water / Saraswathi Goddess Sarayu A holy river Sarisha Charming Sarit River Sarjena Creative Sarunati Nobleminded Sarvani Durga / Universal / Complete Sarvari Night

Ancient scholars and philosophers often hunted for wisdom in isolation at the top of mountains that supposedly brought them closer to God.

Hicks, Jennifer HIRKANI»S DAUGHTERS: Women Who Scale Modern Mountains to Combine Breastfeeding and Working La Leche League International, 2005 The title of this book was inspired by an ancient Indian tale about a young mother, Hirkani, who scaled down a 1,000 - foot vertical cliff in order to get to her baby to breastfeed.

In 2006, spelunkers stumbled across the ancient remains of two men in a cave in Spain's Cantabrian mountain range.

High mountains and latitudes were once thought far too bleak for ancient humans, but as icy patches melt they are revealing a rich world of human history

Famous for facilitating an incredible exchange of culture and goods between the East and the West, the ancient Silk Road is thought to have meandered across long horizontal distances in mountain foothills and the lowlands of the Gobi Desert.

It is one of the most evocative ancient corpses ever discovered: a 46 - year - old man with an arrow wound in his left shoulder, whose body and belongings came to rest in a high mountain pass some 5,000 years ago.

YICHANG, China — According to legend, one of China's ancient emperors — Da Yu, or Yu the Great — changed the course of Chinese history by placing a mountain in front of the Yangtze River, forcing it to flow east through the Middle Kingdom (instead of south like the other great rivers that rise in the same Yunnan region of southwest China).

Grzegorz Niedźwiedzki grew up wandering the mountains of central Poland, once a stomping ground for ancient reptiles and amphibians.

Home to an ancient Aztec outpost high in the mountains and inhabited with monkeylike creatures called coatis, it is the definition of quaint, picturesque Mexico.

Terrific animations show giant tectonic shifts; beautiful full - color paleogeographic maps reveal ancient mountain ranges and shorelines; new 3 - D images and animations depict the changing planes of Gaia's face.

The greater homogeneity of the Italians could be ascribed to their ancient common origin, but also to a greater mobility and gene exchange between the populations of the seven valleys considered (the Adige, Fersina, Fiemme, Giudicarie, Non, Primiero and Sole valleys), with this mobility favored by a less hostile mountain environment (i.e. lower altitudes and geographical proximity) compared to the Ladin populations of the Dolomites.

Rose's team of archaeologists and geologists gathered more than 800 artifacts from ancient riverbeds in the Dhofar Mountains of southern Oman.

Yet the unassuming fossil made it out of Denisova Cave in Siberia's Altai Mountains and into the Max Planck Institute's ancient DNA laboratory in Leipzig, Germany, where in 2010 it yielded a complete genome of a previously unknown type of human.

«Ancient, lost, mountains in the Karoo reveals the secrets of massive extinction event.»

The recent paper in Quaternary Science Reviews is the first to date ancient glaciers in the high mountains of Mongolia's Gobi Desert.

That mountain in the distance was simply a scaled - down version of another ancient, extinguished volcano called Olympus Mons.

The ancient Oxus culture may have arisen at sites like Anau, a settlement at the base of the Kopet - Dag mountains, which dates back to 6500 B.C.. Later settlements like Gonur, roughly 4,000 years old, may have been founded by people from the Kopet - Dag cultures.

Ancient rocks and mountain ranges show that the constant movement of Earth's crust has assembled and ripped apart supercontinents several times before, in a roughly half - billion - year cycle.

Dr. William Anderson, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, co-authored a paper published in the journal Physical Review E that explains the common Martian phenomenon of a mountain positioned downwind from the center of an ancient meteorite impact zone.

His research shows that turbulent wind vortices can produce the common Martian phenomenon of a mountain positioned downwind from the center of an ancient meteorite impact zone.

Created nearly 400 million years ago on the surface of a shallow inland sea, the Marcellus Shale formed as tectonic plates pushed up the landmasses that created the Appalachian and Catskill mountain ranges and buried the ancient sea under a layer of rock almost two miles thick.