Sentences with phrase «outcrops in»

Glaciers that will not survive are identified by the retreat of their margins in their upper regions and new rock outcrops in these areas.

For outdoor adventures, you can trek the legendary Larapinta Trail in the rugged heart of the Red Centre, walk around Uluru, climb rocky outcrops in the Flinders Ranges, or uncover ancient Aboriginal dreamtime culture in Mutawintji or Mungo National Park.

Tutwa Desert Lodge, with its thatched profile reminiscent of the surrounding granite outcrops in a crisp unspoiled landscape, is set on a 16,000 - hectare private game reserve in the heart of the Green Kalahari.

Forty to fifty percent of the nests in this area have been found on rocky outcrops in the back dunes, about 490 to 980 feet (150 to 300 meters) from the shoreline (USFWS 1995).

While centered in Wyoming and Colorado, trhe formation also has outcrops in Montana, Saskatchewan, Alberta, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and Idaho.

But in late 2005, when the rover was still mobile, it had investigated a group of rock outcrops in a region of Gusev Crater known as the Columbia Hills.

Field portraits snapped at different periods show him progressing from a proud but youthful apprentice, sitting in a quarry with his first dinosaur find, to a bald yet dapper patriarch, confronting an outcrop in his full - length beaver - skin coat.

Geochemists explored the outcrop in a tiny submersible vehicle, hoping to collect samples of the warm fluids that emerge from cracks in the rocks; they didn't count on finding dozens of octopuses huddled around the cracks.

Basically, your taste buds don't know that Burger King exists; they still believe that we are starving on some rocky outcrop in the wilderness.

First, apply geologic laws to an outcrop in the order that they are.

Besides variety of flora and fauna species, this park also houses the famous Ranthambore Fort which is perched atop a rocky outcrop in the midst of forest.

Further views to the Suthover a Balinese temple set on a large rocky outcrop in the ocean to the Java coastline and the cloudy peaks of Gunung Agung to the north.

Simply a 40 - minute drive outside Cape Town, at the foot of the second - largest granite outcrop in the wo...

A paradise for seabirds, and an exceptional diving spot, this rocky outcrop in the middle of the Caribbean Sea has lived an eventful history.

I've always envisioned this as a future geologist, or whatever they might be called in the future, stumbling on an outcrop in a sequence of sedimentary rocks and thinking... well this is a bit strange...

the calling - card of an ancient ice - age - an outcrop in Namibia of ancient (Proterozoic) glaciogenic sediments, overlain by a dolomitic «cap - carbonate» sequence of marine origin, deposited in warmer post-glacial conditions.

Bald - Headed Bulbul Scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society and the University of Melbourne discovered pycnonotus hualon, this bald - headed, pink - faced songbird, while surveying a limestone outcrop in Laos.

above: the calling - card of an ancient ice - age - an outcrop in Namibia of an ancient (Proterozoic) tillite of glacial origin, overlain by a dolomitic «cap - carbonate» sequence of marine origin, deposited in warmer post-glacial conditions.

Not exact matches

Elsewhere we see a flat stone outcrop on an Alaskan roadside bearing in white paint or chalk the single name JESUS.

Such an impression will of course be misleading, the consequence of taking the printed record too seriously, and it will not be total: Here and there in the general excited buzz, there will be visible an outcrop of the unchanging reality beneath, some out - of - date old cleric still raising a stubborn voice about the love of God, the burden of sin, the pain of Christ, the love of our neighbor, the pilgrimage of this life, and the Four Last Things.

Slathered in peanut butter and apple butter, the whole wheat yeasted goodness was just what I wanted while I lounged on the edge of a rock outcrop and surveyed the Virginia valley.

A better price than this could doubtless be obtained for Zanzibar produce if a little more care and attention were devoted to its cultivation and harvesting, but up to the present time it has been allowed to grow almost wild on the coral outcrop which covers the eastern portion of the island, and the slight personal discomfort which attends the handling of pods prevents the native from exercising any care in its picking and subsequent preparation for market.

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).

In the 1960s, there were various reports of sightings of large stick insects on Balls Pyramid, a rat - free rocky outcrop 14 miles from Lord Howe Island, which is off the eastern coast of Australia.

At those outcrops, the researchers calculated the percent of mud rock in the overall deposit by measuring the thickness of the muddy layers compared with the thickness of layers containing larger grains such as sand.

The researchers searched through nearly 1,200 published papers for data on mud rock in river deposits, and collected new field data at 125 ancient river outcrops.

Because most of Antarctica is covered by ice and snow, scientists hunting for fossils are limited to rocky outcrops, generally in mountainous areas.

That's part of why the rover has already left the outcrops behind and is now heading first toward a spot called Glenelg, where three different rock types come together, and then full speed towards the mountain in the middle of the crater, alternately called Aeolis Mons or Mount Sharp.

The moment of transition from the Ediacaran to the Cambrian world is recorded in a series of stone outcrops rounded by ancient glaciers on the south edge of Newfoundland.

In 2001, scientists climbing Ball's Pyramid, a treacherous rocky outcrop southeast of Lord Howe Island, discovered three stick insects feeding on a lone bush.

Identifying bones from among rocks in an outcrop is something robots are not yet ready for, Anemone says.

The carbonates in Nili Fossae are found in rocky outcrops that each cover no more than 10 square kilometres across.

Carbonate minerals, which form in the presence of water and have previously been found only in trace amounts on Mars, have been spotted in outcrops of rock on the Red Planet, new observations reveal.

And then to arrive, to sit on this beautiful outcrop of old rocks, earlier than Cretaceous rocks — some are Precambrian, which means they're very old, very smooth, very black — and the water flows over these rocks in a special way so that it almost looks like the whole river is rising up and coming down.

Finally, they are back in the field, fanning out over Hell Creek outcrops.

In another outcrop, the rover found jarosite, which on Earth forms only in wateIn another outcrop, the rover found jarosite, which on Earth forms only in watein water.

The rover detected a high concentration of sulfate minerals together with chloride and bromide salts in one rock outcrop.

Union reenactors during a National Battlefield Park demonstration in the limestone outcrops at the center of the Union line at Stones River on the 152nd anniversary of the battle.

Paleontologist Harry Dowsett of the U.S. Geological Survey in Reston, Virginia, who was also not involved in the study, says that he sees evidence of Rowley's model in the distribution of surface rock outcrops.

Nearly two miles deep in the ocean, a hundred miles off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, scientists during two cruises a year apart used subsea vehicles to explore the Dorado Outcrop, a rocky patch of sea floor made of cooled and hardened lava from an underwater volcano.

It reached the base of Mount Sharp in 2014 after fruitfully investigating outcrops closer to its landing site and then trekking to the mountain.

But internal features of the slide, exposed in outcrops, yielded evidence such as jigsaw puzzle rock fractures and shear zones, along with the pseudotachylytes.

And this nursery was situated alongside the warm fluid issuing from the cracks in the outcrop.

By studying the variations of uranium isotopes recorded in carbonates, the team was able to infer global anoxia occurring throughout the ocean using samples from a single outcrop.

At the urging of planetary scientist Richard Morris of the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, who works on Spirit's Mössbauer gamma - ray spectrometer, Ruff's group went back to review its data from the Comanche outcrops.

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.

The two fossils were found over the past several years by farmers in the fossil - rich shale outcrops called the Tiaojishan Formation in northeast China and acquired by the Beijing Museum of Natural History in the form of shale slabs in which the delicate bones were embedded.

Curiosity that day was examining an outcrop called «Shaler,» the rover mission's final science target in the Glenelg area before commencing a many - month trek southwestward to an entry point for the lower layers of Mount Sharp.

Pluto's water ice «bedrock» was also mapped, with isolated outcrops occurring in a variety of settings.

Analysis of samples from the outcrop convinced the researchers that the «coal» was in fact a fossilized oil seep dating to the late Paleocene / early Eocene.