Sentences with phrase «rock 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.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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).

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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 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.»

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

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Although there are few primary sources of flint in the Massif Central (i.e. outcrops of rock containing flint), there are many different secondary sources.

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

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

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.

For nature lovers there is hiking at Schaapplaas with a chance to view Khoi San rock art, preserved on the rocky outcrops from centuries ago, as well as 4 x 4 trails in the Outeniqua Mountains and mountain biking on the Bonniedale nature farm.

Rock of Cashel is a group of Medieval buildings dated between 12th and 13th century set on an outcrop of limestone situated in the Golden Vale at the heart of Tipperary.

To fin along the edge towards the east, the reef pattern quite similar in its composition to boulder rocks, coral heads and bommies are extended until an outcrop, which is a mile away from the entry point.

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.

We then make our way to Remarkable Rocks for a leisurely stroll amongst the huge weather - sculptured granite outcrops, visit Admirals Arch at Cape du Couedic to watch the resident colony of New Zealand fur seals frolic in the ocean or bask in the sun and then break for lunch at Rocky River Headquarters, with time to check out the Information Centre.

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

French Landscape, 1953, a scheme of trees and interlocking rocks in blues, lavender - mauves, greys and browns grounded by a crescent of light gold - green, reveals a singular treatment of landscape — its hilly outcrops appearing simultaneously vast and somehow also intimate and accessible, a feat achieved through close colour harmony as much as Avery's distinct foreshortening of space.

Marcus Coates, a native Londoner, is the artist who has proposed the display resembling a great rocky outcrop — a precise replica of one of the gritstone formations of Brimham Rocks, in Yorkshire, which Henry Moore cited as an inspiration for his work.

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...

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.

But we also feel some pride in the role of our subject in piecing together this history from fossils and outcrops of rock.

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.

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.

In MacIssac v. Salo, an existing road dipped around a large rock outcrop.

On the property that was nearest to the main access, there was a dip in the road going around a large rock outcrop.

In MacIssac, the owner of the property nearest to the public road, who'd claimed that the other owners had no right to use the dip around the large rock outcrop, might actually have known, before acquiring the property, that the other owners a right of way over the dip.