Sentences with phrase «rock outcrop»

Look for a small group of ruins in the Air Combat Academy and identify the large rock outcrop.

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.

Approximately 45 km off the Andaman coast, to the south east of the Surin Islands, this site somewhat resembles the form of a horse - shoe with a central limestone pinnacle and several smaller rock outcrops on either side.

The cove's soft sand, littered with rock outcrops and a variety of sea life, is often considered one of the most romantic beaches on the Island because of its intimate seclusion.

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.

Researchers have found signs of fault displacement at well - known rock outcrops in Colorado that mark the end - Cretaceous asteroid impact that may have hurried the extinction of the dinosaurs.

Opportunity initially examined sedimentary rock outcrops and sandy, windblown regolith within Eagle Crater.

Covering federal, state and county parks in the entire region, Sedona is an amazing natural wonderland of parks, hiking areas with red rock outcrops, bluffs, mountain ranges and spectacular views anywhere you go around Sedona's magnificent landscape.

The Samujana villas were designed by Gary Fell of GFAB Architects to be extensions of the landscapes, with covered terraces that blend into rock outcrops and groves of trees, and rooftops covered in planters and natural stone.

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).

Rutishauser believes that similar salty rock outcrops occur underneath other Canadian Arctic ice caps.

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.

At the beginning of each Martian day, scientists will choose a zone of interest, such as an intriguing rock outcrop, and instruct the rover to fire pulses around the area.

With the help of a tiny fragment of zircon extracted from a remote rock outcrop in Australia, the picture of how our planet became habitable to life about 4.4 billion years ago is coming into sharper focus.

Mission scientists have already picked out another interesting rock outcrop nearby, a pale patch that may contain tantalizing clay minerals, for possibly study after Opportunity completes its current analysis.

But it's for this reason that James Ross island becomes irresistible to paleontologists during the month of February, when a few patches of fossil - bearing rock thaw out, and the Antarctic dinosaur hunters start dreaming about complete dinosaur skeletons poking out of the sides of chilly rock outcrops.

Julian Rocks, a granite rock outcrop featuring Cod Hole, is favoured for its wide diversity of both tropical and temperate marine and reef life.

They include steep - walled canyons, inland valleys, large and small washes, isolated rock outcrops, and panoramic expanses of desert.

Some are just craggy rock outcrops jutting from the water while others are large.

The sun - dappled stone terrace is built into the natural rock outcrops and features a row of loungers, a pool and a hot tub, all facing the sea.

To see even more species, consider taking an unforgettable guided cruise to the remote, wildlife - rich Farallon Islands, a tiny chain of jagged rock outcrops 27 miles / 43 kilometres off San Francisco.

This villa has incorporated rock outcrops into its design with a spectacular feeling of being at one with nature.

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

These comments assume that the effect of the register was to show that the right of way went over the large rock outcrop, rather than over the dip in the road.

Oh surely you have entertained the notion of finding a little IC or microprocessor chip or the like lying amongst the brachiopods or trilobites every time you visit a sedimentary rock outcrop...

The beaches sprawl out with their black sands and rolling and changing amongst red rock outcrops and headlands.

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.

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

That actually would be a big advantage, as the falling climber would be less likely to collide with a rock outcrop.»

The Costa Concordia — carrying 4200 passengers and crew — was holed by a rock outcrop just off the island of Giglio, Italy, at 9.42 pm local time.

A new analysis of geologic data gathered by the rover nearly five years ago finds that a rock outcrop on Mars is rich in carbonates, which are minerals that form readily in watery, carbon - rich environments.

Bountiful carbonate minerals in a rock outcrop on the Red Planet could have formed under watery greenhouse conditions billions of years ago

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.

Or the rock outcrop tiny?

This photograph was taken by NASA's Spirit rover; Gusev crater can be seen on the horizon behind a rock outcrop called «Longhorn.»

This approximate true - color image taken by the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit shows a rock outcrop dubbed «Longhorn,» and behind it, the sweeping plains of Gusev Crater.

NASA's Opportunity rover tracks across the Meridiani Planum plains, where it has found evidence of past water, and its chemical makeup, in rock outcrops.

The new Mars photo by Opportunity shows a close - up of a rock outcrop called Kirkwood covered in blister - like bumps that mission scientists can't yet explain.

We never have seen such a dense accumulation of spherules in a rock outcrop on Mars.»

The month wasn't yet over when Opportunity discovered more evidence of water, this time from images of a rock outcrop that probably formed from a deposit of saltwater in the ancient past.

In early March, just six weeks after landing, Opportunity identified a rock outcrop that showed evidence of a liquid past.

It is used to find rock layers that are the same age by looking for the same rock types in rock outcrops..

Coral Crystal is a quite a rare drop from rock outcrops, so you'll probably have try a few times to collect the resources you need.

In the wild, some bird species, such as parrots, instinctively flock to rock outcrops, or clay licks, where they go to detoxify their digestive systems after consuming toxic food or to add missing nutrients to their diet.

Teluk KK is one of the more southernmost developed spots on Perhentian Besar — two beautiful stretches of beach which collide at a rock outcrop ideally situated for sunset.

Natural stone walls echo the rock outcrops just outside, and sculptural artwork adds an exotic touch.

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.

Impressively situated on a rock outcrop and dominating the valley, this 14th century castle is steeped in history and folklore.

Large waves can knock people off rock outcrops and severely injure them or knock them unconscious.