Sentences with phrase «outcrops where»

Scientists decided first to investigate closer outcrops where the mission quickly found signs of vigorous ancient stream flow.

A favorite loop trail brings visitors into the sanctuary past the power lines to heron rookery and then toward the exposed rock outcrops where porcupine live.

Reportedly built by a Franciscan friar after an apparition of the Virgin Mary appeared to him on the spot, the church boasts fantastic views over Locarno from the rocky outcrop where it rests.

Here you can find the freshwater Eli Creek; Indian Head, a rocky outcrop where you can spot tiger sharks, dolphins, and stingrays; and the Champagne Pools, natural rock pools named after Champagne - like bubbles that froth up from crashing waves.

On the other, the legacy of apartheid remains: Khayelitsha, a partially informal township on the Cape Flats and one of the poorest areas in Cape Town, is still home to 2.4 million people of whom nearly 100 percent are black and young, and some half of whom live in shacks; every day, tourists visiting the Robben Island Museum take a bare - bones bus from Nelson Mandela's onetime jail cell to a rocky outcrop where the gulls» squalls convey a feeling of intense loneliness.

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The researchers speculate that debris accumulates where ocean currents flow past rocky outcrops or other obstacles.

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.

Rocky outcrops create endless exploring opportunities at low tide, where the resulting tide pools are filled with ocean treasures and creatures.

We have many kilometres of unspoilt, surf fringed almost deserted beaches where you can take a walk to the rock outcrops and search for shells and mussels.

At the north, you'll find rocky outcrops and a rich macro-life, while the east offers vast sandy areas where you'll find unusual invertebrates hunting on night dives.

Deeper into the park is a large rocky outcrop with a raised lookout on top where we were able to both take in the setting sun and look out below for elephant herds, one of which which we luckily spotted further off down the road.

At the saddle, turn left and begin the trail, a thrilling ridge traverse where intrepid hikers navigate sections of rocky outcrops using a cable.

The low - lying mountains surround a rivercarved landscape, where rushing streams wind through the rich green forests, and rugged rocky outcrops rise up towards the towering mountain peaks above.

Before you leave, be sure to visit nearby Wat Phu Tok, where a sheer sandstone outcrop has been precariously transformed into a clifftop meditation temple.

Located right on the beach in Senggigi is Puri Bunga Beach Cottages in Senggigi where you will be able to enjoy this fabulous beach environment where there are not only white sands, clear waters and palm trees but also many features such as pays and points, cliffs and outcrops which make that area memorable and enjoyable to walk or cycle around.

Firstly the Nirwana Bali Golf Club which is based at Tanah Lot about 30 minutes north of the Kuta area and at the most photographed spot in Bali where one of the most holy and visually incredible temples is positioned just off the water on a outcrop of rock.

Pillarsteen provides a break from the colour and vast fish life of the park, by being a site where a series of caves, chimneys and rocky outcrops provide breathtaking swim - throughs.

Hence, pretty much anywhere where there is a rocky outcrop, a sheltered bay or something like a wreck — a reef will form and a whole reef's ecosystem will form around it.

These small, brown scorched - earth islands fringed with sandy beaches are lapped by the clear waves of the national park, where you may even see the dragons patrolling the beach or viewing you from a high rocky outcrop.

Jimbaran is ideal for a more secluded luxurious Bali seaside holiday at the foot of the Bukit where the long white sand beach meets the rocky forest outcrop of the Bukit producing picture perfect views and a truly tranquil atmosphere.

In general, hypothetical resources are in broad areas of coal fields where points of observation are absent and evidence is from distant outcrops, drill holes, or wells.

We need further field data from key areas of East Antarctica to reject some of the ice model scenarios — although there are fewer rock outcrops to sample geologically and geodetically in this region there are still large regions where outcrops exist but no, or few, data have been collected and / or results have been published.

Yes, and look where most tree ring series that are used in dendroclimatology come from: wind - swept high elevation rocky outcrops and ridges.

For example, trees that are especially responsive to drought conditions can usually be found where rainfall is limiting, such as rocky outcrops, or on ridgecrests of mountains.

There, it can loosen the ice's grip at locations, called grounding lines, where ice frozen to underlying outcrops of rock has long anchored the ice sheet to the land, Minzoni said.

Many of the flow systems seem to start in the Antarctic mountains, near outcrops of exposed rock, or in places where fierce winds have scoured snow off the ice beneath.

Thus the never - ending waves of part - timers continue to crash upon the beaches of rocky outcrops (where warm, smooth sandy beaches were held up by recruiters as being their rewards for taking the plunge, part - time or otherwise), only to become quickly spent and washed back out to sea from whence they came.