Sentences with phrase «of ancient rock»

She saw smooth lake, ranks of reeds to her left that marched out from the shore until the water rose over their knees, a fortress of ancient rock and conifers on the opposite shore fifty metres away, and dead ahead the Castle of Far Off Ease, the lodge where they were staying, tiny in what she thought Dante had once called a «giddy distance.»

In addition to the beautiful landscape and wildlife, enjoy visiting sites of ancient rock art from the area's historic inhabitants.

This area abounds with many examples of ancient rock art and occupation sites with no fences or crowds, and their guide will introduce you to this special place.

Join us for a unique Irish cultural experience nestled in the shadow of the ancient Rock of Cashel.

Namibia, one of the world's least populated countries, is home to Twyfelfontein, a UNESCO World Heritage Site which has one of Africa's largest concentrations of ancient rock art.

, a UNESCO World Heritage Site which has one of Africa's largest concentrations of ancient rock art.

40 kilometres to the west of Uluru / Ayers Rock sits Kata Tjuta, also known as The Olgas - a massive pile of ancient rock domes.

This intimate boutique hotel has 11 rooms and suites, and clings to the side of the ancient rock walls of Eze, a thousand - year - old medieval village.

As I explained in my previous blog about the difference between the Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish Vikings, we know the most about the Danes because of the Finland's underlying structure is a huge worn - down shield composed of ancient rock, mainly granite, dating from Precambrian time (from about 4 billion to

In previous work, the research team analyzed samples of ancient rock collected from the Klamath Mountains of Northern California to find that the rocks and surrounding trees there held large amounts of nitrogen.

«New evidence of ancient rock art across Southeast Asia.»

Recent advances in the dating of ancient rocks lend strong support to the latter view

They analyzed the magnetism of ancient rocks to work out their locations on the globe over time, and measured how the material under Earth's crust, the mantle, moves the continents that float on its surface.

By tracking polar wander through time, the researchers were able to determine the longitudinal position of ancient rocks.

Those digs have exposed an abundance of ancient rocks across a land normally choked by jungle.

The problem was that theoretical models and analyses of ancient rocks eventually convinced scientists that Earth's earliest atmosphere was not rich in hydrogen.

Not exact matches

Geologically, Cathedral Rock is carved from the Permian Schnebly Hill formation, a redbeds sandstone formed from coastal sand dunes near the shoreline of the ancient Pedregosa Sea.

Three giants tower over their children; Tumbling rocks on an ancient river bed; Bright green moss connecting root and boulder; Branches reaching out in every direction to drink each drop of light; A spreading canopy over a pristine patch of forest.

Early in 1947, a Bedouin shepherd accidentally found fragments of ancient scrolls inside some earthenware jars in caves high up on the rock face near the Dead Sea.

The slides featured ancient stone buildings, panoramic views of Jerusalem, and sunglass - wearing Americans standing atop of the Mount of Olives with the golden Dome of the Rock in the background.

Here's some research: «Ancient rocks exceeding 3.5 billion years in age are found on all of Earth's continents.

Regarding the moon: - The ancient Greek philosopher Anaxagoras (d. 428 BC) reasoned that the Sun and Moon were both giant spherical rocks, and that the latter reflected the light of the former.

Every one of which has been empirically proven false but yet clings like moss to ancient rocks.

He will be reminded of what that simple old sage remarked in ancient times, «When they meet together, and the world sets down at an assembly, or in a court of law, or a theater, or a camp, or in any other popular resort, and there is a great uproar and they praise some things which are being said or done, and blame other things, equally exaggerating both, shouting and clapping their hands, and the echo of the rocks and the place in which they are assembled redoubles the sound of the praise or blame — at such a time will not a young man's heart, as they say, leap within him?

So, unless we uncover evidence of ancient transporter devices that could have placed 10,000 year old dinos within solid rock we'll just assume they died at the same time the rocks were formed, see?

The Gihon spring, outside the city wall — ancient Jerusalem's only unfailing source of water — is made inaccessible to attackers, and its waters channeled through a tunnel cut through the rock, into the city, for a distance of about 1700 feet.

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.

At the western edge of the rotunda, however, some ancient rock - hewn tombs are still to be seen, showing conclusively that the area was used as a burial ground before it was enclosed within the city wall.

«Music or singing at bedtime is a tradition that has been passed down since ancient times, across many cultures,» says Lisa Roth, founder of Rockabye Baby, a Los Angeles music company specializing in lullaby renditions of rock music.

Two swinging motions to assist soothe baby: rock baby region sort of a cradle or swing head - to - toe sort of an ancient Best Baby Swing

Are these abandoned heaps of rocks and bones part of an ancient civilization?

We enter an alcove, about the size of a squash court, and Cockell points out a honeycomb - like pattern on the rock salt walls, a possible haven for ancient forms of life.

Niccole Villa Cerveny teaches geology at Mesa Community College in Arizona, including a research course for which students rate the susceptibility of ancient Hopi rock art to erosion.

In 2012, an amateur fossil hunter found a slab of rock covered in ancient footprints on the campus of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, The Washington Post reports.

The island is one of the best places to peer into the history of Earth's magnetic field because its fluctuations are recorded in the ancient volcanic rock.

Ancient riverbed deposits of mud rock — rocks containing bits of clay and silt smaller than grains of sand — began increasing around 458 million years ago, around the time that rootless plants became common across Earth, researchers say.

So geologists William McMahon and Neil Davies, both of the University of Cambridge, decided to look for when amounts of mud rock began increasing in 704 ancient river deposits from 3.5 billion to 300 million years ago.

The elevated silica in halos was found over approximately 20 to 30 meters in elevation near a rock - layer of ancient lake sediments that had a high silica content.

Kauai's ancient rocks can reveal other pieces of planetary history, as well.

Not only does this mash - up of telepresence and VR promise to make long - distance communication more immersive and fun; it is already being applied to an archaeology project that could help reveal the ancient secrets of European rock art.

To work out the age of that recycled ancient crust, Rita Cabral of Boston University and her colleagues analysed the sulphur isotopes in Mangaia's basalt rocks (see picture).

Since its arrival on Mars in 2012, NASA's Curiosity rover has zapped and drilled ancient rocks in the hopes of finding evidence for past life.

Understanding the spatial distribution of chemical features preserved in ancient rocks is key to determining whether or not they were formed by life.

If comets were to blame, the team calculated, we would expect to see iridium levels of roughly 130 parts per trillion in ancient terrestrial rocks.

Because of Madagascar's diverse variety of rocks with different chemistries and ages — a result of the island's ancient history of colliding with other landmasses and then drifting apart — tracking animal mobility and migration patterns can be performed with confidence, explains Crowley.

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However, Gale crater, where the Curiosity rover landed, contains fragments of very ancient igneous rocks (around 4 billion years old) that are distinctly light in color, which were analyzed by the ChemCam instrument.

The tiny Japanese island of Yonaguni, near Taiwan, has become famous for the huge submerged rock structures found near its shores — the ancient city of a lost civilisation, some claim.

The metals» solubility depends strongly on the amount of oxygen present, so the amount and type of those metals in ancient sedimentary rocks reflect how much oxygen was in the water long ago, when the sediments formed.

In Namibia, China and other spots around the world, researchers have collected rocks that were once ancient seabeds, and analysed the amounts of iron, molybdenum and other metals in them.