Sentences with phrase «piles of rocks»

Moraines - piles of rocks and debris that glaciers leave as they expand - yielded vital information.

The island has a desert - like theme, with giant piles of rocks on most of the island with a little sand in the middle.

Most of the buildings have indeed been reduced to piles of rocks by banyan tree roots.

Of all the small shaggy terriers from Scotland, the Cairn Terrier was the last to be named but might be closest to the original terriers working in the Scottish Highlands to ferret pests like otters and rats from the piles of rocks, called cairns, on farms.

DENVER — Glaciers may be hiding on Mars beneath piles of rocks that had been identified as a kind of landslide.

Before it's curly leaves unfurled the next spring I spotted my neighbor spraying it with Round - Up and then burying the evidence with piles of rocks.

Old Dragon is the local name of a pile of rocks near Woody Island.

The growing pile of rock is what's leftover when the company's excavators form the tunnels that will eventually transport vehicles at 125 mph using underground sleds.

But they did used to burn them at the stake, or crush them under a pile of rocks, or hang them, or drown them, etc, etc..

@ Steve - I guess what i meant with the rocks was... did this pile of rocks (which happens to be in the shape of a pyramid) happen on accident or on purpose?

Not to mention that I once came upon a whole pile of rocks, who knows what was going on there.

He is pressing himself up on a pile of rocks, blood gushing from his crown of thorns, with an enormous cross on his back that reads «The Sins of the World.»

Even a pile of rocks will have properties that none of the rocks individually possess — instability for example — but this is hardly a significant challenge to the reductionist goal.

Or climbing a pile of rocks or logs with a «you can't catch me you little silly chicken - chicken!».

Five gaping holes, created by giant impacts, dominate one side of Mathilde, and the asteroid is so lightweight, says Bell, that it must be either full of ice (but there's no sign of water) or a loosely packed pile of rocks held together by their own weak gravity.

One of the most contentious debates in geoscience has centred on whether piles of rock in the deep mantle — to which plumes are anchored — have remained stationary, unaffected by mantle flow over hundreds of millions of years.

Long piles of rock, stretching several kilometers, can be seen on the sides of many martian hills and mountains.

In 1976 the Viking orbiters imaged a formation resembling a human visage; many people believed the Mars «face» was created by intelligent beings even after newer pictures exposed the hill as an eroded pile of rocks.

[* Professor's note: A talus is a sloping pile of rock fragments at the foot of a cliff; a scree is an accumulation of pebbles or rock fragments at the base of a steep slope.]

And it will surprise no one to hear that the film's director, Taika Waititi, who also plays a hilarious motion - capture pile of rocks named «Korg,» is a comedy veteran who cut his teeth alongside fellow Kiwi Jemaine Clement.

Before she knows it, Lively's character has been attacked by a great white shark and is fighting for her life stranded on a pile of rocks barely jetting above the ocean.

A «making of» documentary shot for the movie's 25th anniversary provides plenty of tidbits, like Spacek's insistence that it be her hand grabbing Amy Irving from the grave, even though she had to lie for hours under a pile of rocks.

You can find the chest at the base of the largest boulder, under a pile of rocks in a narrow area, which can be reached by exploring the north side of Hanging Rock and following the narrow path such exploration reveals.

You can fly over a pile of rocks and press a button to pick up a boulder, then fly over an enemy archer tower and press that same button to bomb the tower with the rock.

Because of these generous angles, we found that there was always a way to pick a line up a given pile of rocks or set of stair - steps, without scuffing the front air dam or dragging the hitch.

Blend the station in with its surroundings, like placing it behind a pile of rocks in an open field or under a large board in an alley.

However, there are plenty of cute, plastic ornaments that serve the same purpose in an aquarium as a pile of rocks and some driftwood would in the wild.

A family of iguanas hang out on a pile of rocks at the entrance, and around the corner on the right side of the building there is a pen for land turtles.

By Andrew Post Jirisan, the highest mountain in continental South Korea, is a 6,284 - foot - high pile of rocks, trees, rivers, bushes, flowers, black bears, Buddhists and backpackers, located on the western fringe -LSB-...]

The park sits on what used to be a large pile of rocks and dirt.

Jirisan, the highest mountain in continental South Korea, is a 6,284 - foot - high pile of rocks, trees, rivers, bushes, flowers, black bears, Buddhists and backpackers, located on the western fringe of Gyeongsangnam - do Province, in the national park of the same name.

Upon reaching the push moraine (pile of rocks pushed by the glacier), we sink into deep boot - sucking mud, then haul ourselves out with the help of hiking poles handed out for each hike.

Stonehenge is an isolated pile of rocks in a usually muddy field marking the junction of the traffic - laden A303 and A344.

As the first trip of the season by ourselves, we were cautious and careful with every step as we continued on to the pile of rocks marking the true Mount Ollivier summit.

However, upon arrival, someone unfamiliar with Mayan history might take a look at the archeological site and think «huh — a pile of rocks.»

That «pile of rocks» is actually a work of pure genius.

The simple houses of more than 400 residents of this water village stand on wooden stilts or piles of rock and mostly with fish cages.

This massive pile of rock domes dates back 500 million years.

I could talk about the painful voice acting, the singularly cringe - worthy cut - scenes, the innumerable graphics glitches, or the moments in the game where you die for no apparent reason (especially in the snowboarding level, which is a particularly low point in gameplay terms as it even manages to feature checkpoints that you can miss by a whisker and then continue playing, only to be plonked right back at the start of the level when you inevitably die by running into a pile of rocks that you couldn't see because the camera was pointed the wrong way).

We've heard of consumers buying videogames and getting a pile of rocks, pornography and many other items you would never Continue Reading →

Returning to the ominously named planet Halfworld, Rocket finds a pile of rocks in the forest that kick - starts one of the finest flashback scenes Telltale Games has ever produced.

The performance began with two tweens sitting around a pile of rocks and detritus like a couple of mall rat witches.

Take Carlos Martiel's performance Ruins, in which assistants buried his curled up body in a pile of rocks as a representation of the physical oppression immigrant bodies and the building of walls.

Environmental art doesn't necessarily have to be restricted to a pile of rocks stacked together by Andy Goldsworthy — it can also take the form of wearable, fashionable and socially engaged garments too.

In the second phase, the vast piles of rock and soil debris this creates — larger in volume than mountaintops themselves, because of the extra space between all those boulders — are dumped in neighboring valleys, creating so - called «valley fills.»

Though size envy is chronic among Texicans when contemplating Alaska, there's 400 + miles and 2 mountain ranges each over a mile tall (not just altitude high, but piles of rock tall) between the Arctic and North Pacific climates.

After several minutes of running around, one of our party found our quarry, «a larger, lumbering pile of rocks» called a Skarn.

The YouTuber dropped the iPhone 8 on its back from a 6 - foot height on a pile of rocks and saw no damage.

Not exact matches

He stood up to greedy bankers, chastised corporations for sitting on piles of cash rather than investing, cracked wise with the media, and even managed to name - drop Down With Webster, a Canadian rap - rock group of questionable talent, without damaging his cred.

If rock»n' roll were an Olympic event, White would be Michael Phelps, amassing piles of gold medals with...