Sentences with phrase «sandstone outcrop»

Before you leave, be sure to visit nearby Wat Phu Tok, where a sheer sandstone outcrop has been precariously transformed into a clifftop meditation temple.

The Stimson unit's sandstone outcrops are still accessible to the Martian explorer, and the science team plans to make use of Curiosity in order to gather and analyze a sample of the sandstone drilled from the Stimson unit this month.

A medieval landscape of wooded, rolling hills studded with sandstone outcrops; small, irregular - shaped fields; scattered farmsteads; and ancient routeways.

Our private aircraft flies us directly to Mashatu Game Reserve, an enormous private reserve located in the remote eastern corner of Botswana that comprises a diverse wilderness of savanna, riverine forests, marshlands, open plains, and sandstone outcrops.

Not exact matches

Many outcrops of the «Tava sandstone» — derived from a Native American name for Pikes Peak, a local landmark — are found along the Ute Pass fault, which runs along the Front Range near Colorado Springs.

Making this epic road even more of an occasion was the sound of this hairy - chested V8 bouncing off the rocky sandstone and granite cuttings and outcrops.

Largely sandstone, with only a thin soil layer and frequent outcrops of bedrock, the shores of these islands are often eroded in bizarre, picturesque shapes.

Its main feature is the golden sandstone cliffs and outcrops on either side of the valley at the Golden Gate dam.