Sentences with phrase «of sandstone»

One of their many acts of notoriety was the destruction of two sixth - century Buddha statues carved out of sandstone cliffs in Bamiyan in central Afghanistan.

Granted, the styling is pretty bland, almost Toyota Camry - like, though the last Camry with a manual transmission can be found in sedimentary layers of sandstone in the museum of natural history, next to the fossilized ducks.

An obelisk carved out of sandstone by a local craftsman marks the end of the hornbeam avenue at the far end of the garden.

Sometime between 9,000 and 7,000 years ago, African artisans carved this remarkable giraffe on a high wall of sandstone in the Sahara Desert of northeastern Niger.

It was carved onto a piece of sandstone above the front door.

A slab of sandstone discovered at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center contains at least 70 mammal and dinosaur tracks from more than 100 million years ago, according to a new paper published Jan. 31 in the journal Scientific Reports.

Semi trucks, trufis, motorcyclists, buses, and dogs alike hug the shoulder of the tight gravel that lines massive walls of sandstone and overlook the Rio Piaraí (river Piray).

Now I'm super happy with my earthy tones of Sandstone, Mojave and Cacti - I've also suggested that 100 % PURE make these shades in NON-matte lipsticks since I'm not a fan of matte (I wear plenty of lip gloss over these ones to get the glossy look I love).

Between the Dubai Creek and Bur Dubai sits a maze of sandstone buildings that plays host to the Bastakia Quarter.

I will say both the black buttons and red alert slider are a bit too reminiscent of the sandstone white 5T's past as a marketing tie - in with the new Star Wars movie.

Bruthans» insight came when he visited the Stralec Quarry in the Czech Republic, where a loosely packed form of sandstone known as «rock sand» is mined.

Led by vertebrate paleontologist Xiaolin Wang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, the scientists uncovered at least 215 eggs in a block of sandstone about 3 meters square.

The views are simply spectacular consisting of bushland & coast, including views of the sandstone cliffs towards the 12 Apostles.

And by set, I mean a few structures which have been constructed on the grey dirt in the middle of these large brown hills made of sandstone.

TROY Resources NL has opened up a new area of the Sandstone greenstone belt with its recent commissioning of the Bulchina gold mine.

The giant Buddhas of Bamiyan, once painted in bright colors, remained silent sentinels as they reacquired the hues of the sandstone cliffs from which they were carved.

The festival is held along the Saint Vrain River against a backdrop of sandstone cliffs.

Most of the cave's key fossils come from a thick band of sandstone called layer 11.

The Malaspina Galleries, one of the island's biggest natural attractions, are an amazing series of sandstone formations carved by the surf into unusual caves and caverns.

They came from a block of sandstone about 3 meters (10 feet) square.

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

The texture of the sandstone rocks in which the fossils were found suggests to Norell that the nesting parents were engulfed in a sudden desert sandstorm, one they were either too slow or too devoted to flee.

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.

Billions of tons of it lie dormant beneath permafrost, in the pores of sandstones or shrouded in silt.

The Maloti Route covers the distance between Rouxville and Fouriesburg in the Eastern Free State; a self - drive tarred road that hugs the Maluti Mountains - a series of sandstone cliffs that form the border...

A collection of sandstone tables form a centrepiece.

Where: Sandstone Estate, on the R26 roughly 14 km outside of Ficksburg When: any time, but best either for the Cherry Festival or Stars of Sandstone Contact: 051 933 2235 Tip: If you can, take advantage of the steam train, run by Reef Steamers, that transports people from Boksburg East to the Cherry Festival (their contact is the same as the Magaliesburg Express above).

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The view of these sandstone pillars along the coastline is one of the Great Ocean Road's most famous.

Second, few desert cities are so old and so large; making the maze of sandstone and TV satellites feel endless.

The gateway is made up of sandstone, decorated with black and white marbles inlay.

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OnePlus acknowledged this by sending out a tweet recently, containing an image of the Sandstone Edition OnePlus 5T, and a caption which says that the phone was sold out in less than two hours.

After two coats of «Wish» that took me two days to paint, I realized the color that I thought would be more of a sandstone according to the swatch was actually gray.

The Sandstone White OnePlus 5T sports a white - colored back, which comes with an overlay of Sandstone material, which is far grippier than the smooth metal that OnePlus usually includes on phones, and which is included on the back of the regular OnePlus 5T model.

The file name chosen to upload the album only in the usa in feb 1985, The tiny conceal itself is not a particularly great all - natural harbor and it's protected against swells using a breakwater that has been created with 1000s of huge hindrances of sandstone quarried from the facial area from the hill earlier mentioned.

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.

To be certain that this will not happen, NTNU Professors Martin Landrø and Ole Torsæter take X-rays of sandstone while it is being pumped full of CO2.

A pilot project in Ketzin, Germany, is monitoring the long - term storage of carbon in a porous layer of sandstone hundreds of meters underground.

The fantastical arch shapes of sandstone formations have long been thought to be sculpted by wind and rain.

Instead, dozens of sarsen stones, a type of sandstone that is also used for Neolithic stone circles like Stonehenge, are buried there.

«Long Ride West: Many western sediments came from Appalachians» (SN: 8/30/03, p. 131: Long Ride West: Many western sediments came from Appalachians) suggests that the most likely transportation system of the sandstone across the continent would have been a river system.

In front of the pyramid, they found a burial shaft containing the toppled head of a sandstone statue of a king.

And many experts say it could easily be the result of natural processes — such as the tendency of sandstone to break along planes, creating clean and symmetric edges that can appear human - made.

This reddish gray, sharp - edged, and erosion - resistant swath of sandstone stands in stark contrast to the crumbling, heavily weathered granites that lie on either side.

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.

The Curiosity Rover that is currently surveying the geological features of Mars has sent back images of what appears to be deposits of sandstone that turned into petrified sand dunes.

The Stimson unit's sandstone outcrops are still accessible to the Martian explorer, and the science team plans to make use of Curiosity in order to gather and analyze a sample of the sandstone drilled from the Stimson unit this month.