Sentences with word «outcropping»

You'll find a short trail that descending to the beach and leads to the opening of a lava tube, or continue to a rocky outcropping of lava where you'll find a large blowhole and a long lava arch.

Venture to the end of Crystal Pier for a stunning view of miles of beach, looking south to Mission Beach and north to the rocky outcropping of La Jolla.

The rhythms of the graded slope, punctuated by groups of rock outcroppings rendered in an olive green in the snow, were more secure from several feet away, revealing a graphic strategy that rewarded distance.

Austing found two pair of peregrines nesting on outcroppings in the Arctic plains.

It breaks over a rock outcropping on an otherwise sandy beach.

Wailea includes five main beaches of soft sand bordered with outcroppings of volcanic rock.

Today, as then, rolling surf collides against black lava outcroppings where pockets of water collect, evaporate and leave salt drying in the warm Hawaiian sun.

Topaz is clear or blue - tinted and are usually close to the surface near granite outcroppings in ditches or creek beds.

Another good snorkeling spot is around the protected coves and rocky outcroppings at La Posada beach, where you can swim to an underwater cave, or walk there at low tide.

Beautiful Phang Nga, located just north of Phuket Island, is famous for its rugged limestone outcroppings jutting from the sea and its haunting landscape.

Science journalist Brannen explores the unique story of each of these tumultuous endings by tagging along with fossil hunters and geologists, from the volcanic outcroppings of Palisades, N.Y., to the center of the 110 - mile - wide crater in Yucatán, Mexico.

Artisan Bruno Walter of Brazil creates a necklace with the earthy beauty of a stone outcropping on a mountain peak.

There are many small coral outcroppings just off the coast of Xcalak.

Expect a dramatic drop with large outcroppings covered in life.

Co-sleeping was a natural outcropping of breastfeeding and my desire for rest as well as our shared choice to not leave our babies to cry.

With more than half a dozen cafés, bars, and restaurants, this Marriott has an intimate vibe despite its size, and boasts great ocean views thanks to its spot on a peninsula - like outcropping of St. Thomas.

Nearby stands a more famous landmark, a smaller outcropping known as the Rope of God.

On the signature 17th hole, golfers must tee off from a cliff top and carry their ball over a sandy cove to a green surrounded by rock outcroppings from the Sea of Cortez.

Nice hike just half mile away took us to beautiful beaches and rocky outcroppings where the waves crashed beautifully.

Lois Dodd, Snow Covered Outcroppings, 1977, oil on panel, 15 x 15 3/4 inches, © Lois Dodd courtesy Alexandre Gallery, New York

From the meandering stream and gnarled trees in the foreground to the distant plains and mountains, the scene is dominated by the tawny rock outcropping rising at upper right.

The seats, however, leave a lot to be desired, what with their jutting outcroppings in the lower seatback and their extra-large side bolsters.

Eight - year - old Clara Bynum is dead, drowned in the Potomac River in the shadow of an apparently haunted rock outcropping known locally as the Three Sisters.

After dropping off Sheila at work one day in 2012, Stanford spotted an intriguing rock outcropping behind Shelia's building on a hillside.

For me and tens of thousands of veterinary healthcare professionals, embracing Fear Free has moved us to a high outcropping of solid rock, away from the sinking sand of things that tug at our hearts and purse strings.

The Ansel coat — named for Ansel Adams and made from a mill - end hemp / cotton blend — offers a canvas for an abstract depiction of Yosemite's jagged outcroppings in searing neon orange.

The Iao Needle is a green - mantled volcanic rock outcropping which towers over Iao Valley.

The almost vertical walls are carpeted with anemones and colourful sea fans and the numerous little caves, ledges, and rocky outcroppings provide shelter for virtually every underwater creature found in Southeast Asia.

After breakfast, proceed to Cameron Highlands, Today, we will depart from Kuala Lumpur to Cameron Highlands with en - route visit to Batu Caves — a towering limestone outcropping just 13 kilometres north of Kuala Lumpur.

As for increased sealife around oil rigs as a good thing (previous comment)-- please note that sea life congregates around outcroppings in the ocean — in the case of oil rigs though, the sea life ends up with dangerously high levels of mercury from mercury contaminated drilling muds.

The stripe motif is such a commanding element that at first it doesn't register that two of the canvases, «Touch» (2013), a mostly blue - and - white seascape adorned with loosely meandering charcoal lines, and «White Reach # 2» (2014), in which a large Guston-esque white outcropping collides with a set of scab - colored triangular shapes, don't contain the pattern at all.

Departing from the monumental forms Donovan produced of layered and heaped styrene cards suggesting stalagmites or wind - eroded outcroppings — which comprised part of her solo exhibition at Pace's 25th Street gallery in New York in 2014 — the new series inverts the sculptural logic of voluminous horizontal stacking by the use of the frame as a means to control the density and orientation of the styrene cards.

The fire started and first spread from the area of large rock outcropping off of Greenbush Road, known as «TZ Rock» because of its status as a favorite hang out spot for generations of students from nearby Tappan Zee High School.

He discovered an unusually heavy black rock among the gray outcroppings and, being a man of healthy scientific curiosity, sent a sample for analysis to Johan Gadolin, a prominent chemist at the Royal Academy of Turku in Finland.

The near - comical rear spoiler is aided by pointy little outcroppings at the rear of the roof, which break up airflow to generate real downforce.

It is probably the most photographed of all the Morros, and provides a unique outcropping to the entrance of Morro Bay.

His ship more than likely anchored at Ballast Point, just beside what is now the Navy Submarine dry dock (at the land outcropping at the left below).

Each bedroom provides a king sized bed, en - suite bathroom, dual vanity, walk - in closet, lounge area, television, desk, ceiling fan and a private balcony with outdoor furniture and sweeping views of Great Camanoe and the dramatic outcropping of Governor's Point.

A Geopacific Resources employee surveys mineralised outcropping at the Kou Sa project in Cambodia.

His ideas are so unpretentiously expressed in familiar language interwoven with biblical phraseology, God - talk and personal spiritual insights that the agnostic, radical outcroppings of his religious viewpoint are ignored.

Ivan Ivanov depicts Jesus standing on a bold, stony outcropping.

Morality I do tend to see as a religious outcropping, however, Ethics I do not.

Meru, with its weird, two - trunked doum palms and strange red outcroppings — decomposed lava boulders covered with red sandy soil — is excellent country for elephant - watching and, until recently, for rhinos as well.

There are scarcely enough baroque outcroppings left to accommodate the pigeons.

Lagoons and limestone outcroppings mimic primeval scenes from nature; Jensen even imagined the trickle of a waterfall to sound like Mendelssohn's «Spring Song.»

EAST RIVER — Most New Yorkers have probably never heard of U Thant Island — but it's likely many have spotted the tiny outcropping of rocks in the East River near the United Nations or at least have traveled underneath it.

The bright highlands are most likely outcroppings of water ice.