Sentences with phrase «quarry near»

In 1971, he completed «Broken Circle / Spiral Hill» at a quarry near Emmen, the Netherlands.

An Egyptian fruit bat flies in an abandoned quarry near the village of Mammari, Cyprus, in 2007.

Rauschenberg shooting at Grand Tir - séance Stockholm, anlässlich einer Tir - Session de Saint Phalles in a stone quarry near Stockholm, 1961.

We gave the Tiguan an off - road test in an abandoned quarry near the Austrian border, where the car's relatively tall stature was no impediment to carsickness - inducing descents, muddy fords, and climbs steep enough to spill the contents of all four cupholders.

«Our discovery suggests that the current scientific consensus is mistaken not only about when the first tetrapods evolved, but also about where they evolved,» says Grzegorz Niedźwiedzki of the Department of Palaeobiology and Evolution at the University of Warsaw in Poland, who discovered the footprints in 2002 in an old quarry near the town of Kielce.

Stein, of Binghamton University in New York, had been called in to assess the new fossil tree in a quarry near the small town of Gilboa in New York state, an area already famous for its enigmatic «stump» fossils.

Today, the site is a rock quarry near vineyards that lie between the cities of Bordeaux and Toulouse in France, but during the late Jurassic period about 150 million years ago, it was a lagoon with gentle tides that would have barely disturbed the beach's sand.

Twelve years ago, footprints of carnivorous dinosaurs were discovered and excavated in a quarry near Goslar.

• A global manufacturing and logistics hub, also known as an inland port, at an abandoned quarry near Jamesville.

He also continued to make large sculptures of lines and circles from slate, driftwood, footprints or stone, often sourced from quarries near the exhibition sites.

Not exact matches

The red skin: The exterior and some of the interior surfaces are made from 28,000 pieces of red Napoleon granite, quarried in northern Sweden, and cut and polished by craftsmen near Pisa, Italy, then imported to Canada in slabs.

We had lunch with friends who live near Old Granite Pier and after lunch we took a walk that led us under the old Stone Bridge (at Granite Street) to a beautiful quarry.

The Paddleboat Quarry: On the Riverwalk, near the corner of Jackson Avenue and Eagle Street, 630-848-5000.

Residents of Paebo, near Adoagyiri - Nsawam in the Eastern Region, are still counting their losses from last Wednesday's explosion from a defunct quarry in the area.

The first Neandertal fossils were discovered in 1829 in Engis, Belgium, and in 1848 at Forbes» Quarry, Gibraltar, but were not recognized as an early human species until after the 1856 discovery of «Neandertal 1» — a 40,000 - year - old specimen, including a skullcap and various bones, found at the Kleine Feldhofer Grotte in the Neander Valley near Düsseldorf, Germany.

The museum was built in 1889 with sandstone from Hermand Quarry, West Lothian — which in Carboniferous times was near the equator and covered in tropical swamp.

When a colleague told him that a group of masons had found ancient whale bones in a stone block near El Sheikh Fadl in Egypt, he resolved to find the quarry.

Instead of seeking the standard quarry of deer or wild boar, Schleper was in search of Lokiarchaeota, or Loki, a newly discovered group of organisms first identified near deep - sea vents off the coast of Norway.

The block Houston and colleagues studied was recovered a decade ago from a gravel quarry at Cascajal, part of Veracruz, near what was the Olmec capital.

This would also explain the unusual lack of typical pond fossils at the site, as well as the near lack of gnaw marks on bones and calcite and barite concretions found on bones excavated from the quarry.

They include an infamous bounty hunter who always brings his quarry in alive (Kurt Russell); his current «client,» a foul - mouthed lady gangster (Jennifer Jason Leigh); a proud and decrepit ex-Confederate general (Bruce Dern) searching for his lost son; a black Union officer who's also turned to the bounty hunting game (Samuel L. Jackson); a former rebel raider who claims to be the new sheriff at the closest town (Walton Goggins); a prissy British hangman (Tim Roth); a near - silent cow puncher (Michael Madsen); and Bob (Demián Bichir), a mysterious Mexican almost completely hidden by his coat, hat and beard.

This is, of course, an incredibly dickheaded thing to say, but after borrowing most of his Aliens cast for Near Dark, Bigelow — with Cameron aboard as executive producer — cribs the symbiosis between hero and quarry, shifting back and forth from prey to pursuer in the same quicksilver way as the simultaneously - shooting Terminator 2.

Mr. Huggins informed me that Tulsa has a contract with a waste management company that operates a landfill at 46th Street North near highway 169 referred to as the Quarry Landfill.

Sometimes you have little to go on beyond the name of a region - there's a mission to locate somebody near Red Mountain that plays out like a Hunter Thompson rewrite of Christ roaming the wilderness, in which you fend off screeching winged vermin while combing the dunes for your quarry.

Buys a house near the Carrara marble quarries in Forte dei Marmi, Italy prompting a resurgence in carved works in marble.

Frank Gohlke Boys in Dirt Quarry, near Forest Lake, Minnesota, 1977 Gelatin silver print; printed 1978 11 x 13 3/4 inches From an edition of 30 Selection by Alicia Colen

Except when my dad took us walking up by the old quarry pits, we were absolutely forbidden to go near them.

Amarillo, TX is near many lovely attractions, such as The Palo Duro Canyon State Park, Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument and Cadillac Ranch.

Backed up and migrated user data, replaced computers, peripherals and printers, provided technical support for MS Office 2010, MCAfee and Windows 7 for Lehigh Hanson offices near Miramar and Carrol Canyon quarry.