Sentences with phrase «sandstone formations»

It's a place that they frequently visit, the site of a former Boy Scout camp, with hiking trails, a mixed deciduous and coniferous forest, sandstone formations, and a creek.

One must - do hike is Lobo Canyon, with its native flora, eroded sandstone formations and embedded pygmy mammoth fossils.

Santa Cruz Island has some 15 trails, Anacapa has a nice hike to a lighthouse (one of the few structures you'll see around here), and Santa Rosa Island has Lobo Canyon, with sandstone formations, pygmy mammoth fossils, and a good chance of seeing local island foxes.

You'll feel like a kid again as you play in Moab's postcard - perfect desert adorned with giant sandstone formations, canyon mazes, and thousands of natural arches.

Indian Sands (highway 101 milepost 348.6) is a unique section of the Boardman Corridor, with sculpted sandstone formations and dunes, wildflower meadows and a basalt sea arch.

The trek starts near the Ausangate Community; we will see the south face of the sacred Ausangate Mountain as we continue towards the red sandstone formations of the «Nevado del Inca».

As the first crops and houses come into view, the landscape changes quickly, the red sandstone formations give way to the carsten erosion of limestone.

Cove Rock, whilst not renowned for its swimming, is nonetheless one of the country's most remarkable sandstone formations that serves as a wonderful venue for breeding seabirds, a whale watching vantage point, a perfect fishing spot and a great place for observing nature and simply «being» on the beach.

East London Cove Rock, whilst not renowned for its swimming, is nonetheless one of the country's most remarkable sandstone formations that serves as a wonderful venue for breeding seabirds, a whale watching vantage point,...

Explore the craggy sandstone formations, vast gorges and tranquil waterholes of the magnificent West MacDonnell Ranges on this tour departing Alice Springs.

Famous for its sandstone formations that change as the sun...

Famous for its sandstone formations that change as the sun waxes and wanes, the Golden Gate National Park is awash with gullies, wooded ravines and grasslands, its sandstone rocks once home to the San who have left their paintings in the numerous caves of the area.

At Snow Canyon, you have the unique opportunity to ATV inside the park, but that's not all — canyoneering, rock climbing and horseback trail rides through the Navajo sandstone formations make for some cool out - of - the - box experiences.

See unusual sandstone formations, spectacular gorge and escarpment views, all offering excellent photographic opportunities.

Take in lush forest sights and sounds, beautiful waterfalls and dipping pools, canyon rims, cliffs and sandstone formations of all shapes and sizes.

Sandstone formations like this — located in Gale Crater at the Kimberley waypoint — are strongly indicative of prolonged, repeated flowing water cycles.

To help narrow the range of possible ages for the sandstone, Siddoway and Gehrels compared the age distributions of the Tava zircons with the age distributions of zircons found in other sandstone formations in Colorado, Utah, northern Arizona, and southern California.

Many sandstone formations show layers of some type, signs they were laid down over time in distinct episodes by wind or flowing water.

The fantastical arch shapes of sandstone formations have long been thought to be sculpted by wind and rain.

In addition to being the stunning backdrop for countless movies, for 125 years this sandstone formation has yielded a continuous line of important Triassic dinosaurs, like Coelophysis and Dromomeron.

Amherst College geologist Whitey Hagadorn came to this realization while studying imprints in a 500 - million - year - old sandstone formation in central Wisconsin.

Among the most popular locations in Vermilion Cliffs is the «Wave,» a sandstone formation located in the Coyote Buttes North.

In response to a tax on greenhouse - gas emissions imposed by the Norwegian government, each year the company now removes about 1 million tons of CO2 captured as a waste product from the natural gas it recovers and pumps more than 99 percent of it 2,600 feet beneath the seafloor into a porous sandstone formation capped by impervious rock.

According to NASA researchers, the sandstone formation is part of a layer of Martian soil that they have designated the Stimson unit.

Where better to start than a hiking trail to the Cederberg's most famous sandstone formation.

Our favorite stops include the Great Barrier Reef and Uluru (also known as Ayers Rock)-- a giant sandstone formation known to be one of Australia's most recognizable natural landmarks.

Not exact matches

Geologically, Cathedral Rock is carved from the Permian Schnebly Hill formation, a redbeds sandstone formed from coastal sand dunes near the shoreline of the ancient Pedregosa Sea.

Hardman managing director Ted Ellyard told Business News wireline logs have indicated a possible net thickness of gas bearing sandstones of about 12m within the Liguridi Flysch formation.

All contain sediments of the Dakota Sandstone, a geological formation laid down during the Cretaceous period, which stretched from about 145 million to 66 million years ago.

As CO2 levels in Earth's atmosphere top 400 parts per million, options such as storing the greenhouse gas in porous sandstone rock formations found in abundance on the sea floor are of increasing interest.

Equally astonishing is the time of formation of the Tava sandstone, determined from detrital zircon analysis: the Tava proves to be from a time period ~ 750 million years ago, which was not known to be represented in the Colorado Rockies: the Cryogenian Period.

These trials have mainly taken place in sandstone aquifers, however, the injected CO2 primarily remains present as a bubble that can return to the surface if is there are fracture in the capping formation.

On top of the Supai group is the whitish / grayish Coconino Formation — a younger, thick sandstone layer, deposited in the mid-Permian, in giant wind - blown dune fields (such locations are also known as erg, Arabic for sea of sand).

The soft red sandstone Supai group is easily sculpted by wind and rain erosion; harder sections of the Coconino formation on top of the red sandstone can protect somewhat the underlying the softer rocks, leading to the characteristic columns and spires typical to Sedona.

Dated to 3.43 billion years ago in sandstone from the Strelley Pool Formation in Western Australia, the microstructures were found with micrometer - sized pyrite crystals (fool's gold, an iron - sulfur mineral), as would be expected as the metabolic by - products of sulfur - based life that employ «sulphate - reduction and sulphur - disproportionation pathways.»

Sedona and the soft rocks of the Supai Formation (red), below the young Coconino sandstone.

The Morrison Formation comprises mudstone, sandstone, siltstone and limestone and is light grey, greenish gray, or red.

Detrital zircon U-Pb dating of Suining Formation sandstone from the Daba Mountains, northeastern Sichuan and its stratigraphic implications Zircon (/ ˈ z ɜːr k ɒ n / or / ˈ z ɜːr k ən /) is a mineral belonging to the group of nesosilicates.

My friend and I had been planning our trip to Uluru, a large sandstone rock formation that's considered a UNESCO World...

Between Scottsdale and the Grand Canyon, you'll see Arizona's Oak Creek Canyon, known as one of America's most beautiful drives and home to brilliantly hued cliffs and rugged spires of sandstone, and you'll stop in Sedona, with the massive red - rock formations that make the area famous.

My friend and I had been planning our trip to Uluru, a large sandstone rock formation that's considered a UNESCO World Heritage Site, for months; both exchange students, we felt compelled to visit this iconic piece of Australia.

It takes you past huge basalt and sandstone rock formations, into sea caves and under natural rock arches.

This wilderness is 71 000 hectares of rough, mountainous terrain dominated by spectacular sandstone rock formations like the Maltese Cross and Wolfberg Arch (both on well known hiking routes).

This hideaway on a renowned bouldering farm consists of three luxury safari tents in amongst red sandstone cliffs and typical Cederberg rock formations.

Smooth sandstone rock formations provide a great place for observers to sit and watch the surfers.

Sandstone rock formations, sea caves, a small waterfall and the remains of the old roadway that once skirted this scenic point are among the attractions at Hug Point.

The town earns its name as one of the most famous places in Australia as it serves as the starting point for many trips to Uluru, the large sandstone rock formation that is iconic to the Australian Outback.

See remote sandstone escarpments, weird rock formations and termite mounds.

Striking rock formations, sandy coves, rugged sandstone cliffs and prominent headlands.

«We then spent the afternoon kayaking in the bay on a sea as smooth as glass, paddling past remarkable sandstone cliffs wind - carved and eroded into fantastic formations, many like ancient ruins.