Sentences with word «schist»

Before drilling ended in 1994, the team hit a layer of 2.7 - billion - year - old rock, almost a billion years older than the Vishnu schist at the base of the Grand Canyon.

Top: Gandharan, Kneeling and Seated Mourners, circa 3rd to 4th century, Carved gray - green schist bas (low)- relief.

Among Catal Huyuk's treasures are schist plaques of the Goddess with consort and child» a sacred family.

Our wine label Judge Rock comes from the prominent schist landmark near Millers Flat where Paul grew up.

Rowland says that the granite and schist formed deep inside an ancient mountain range.

One striking find was the foundations of a fine mansion, paved with fancy purple schist and white limestone and designed around an airy central courtyard «of Knossian pretensions,» as MacGillivray puts it.

Still, at some point thousands of years hence, the last stone walls — perhaps chunks of St. Paul's Chapel on Wall Street, built in 1766 from Manhattan's own hard schist — would fall.

No, but the bedrock schist beneath them is studded with opal, beryl, chrysoberyl, garnet, and three kinds of tourmaline.

The story centers around a new sheriff near the Southeast US swamplands, Kyle Williams, who was selected due to his youth and perceived inexperience, which will make the oil development by a greedy magnate named Schist (Jack Thompson, The Assassination of Richard Nixon) much easier.

This evening, join a local archaeologist at Penascosa to examine ancient schist rocks.

A variety of chlorite talc schist associated with Alpine serpentinite is found in Val d'Anniviers, Switzerland and was used for making «ovenstones» (Ger.

Locally sourced schist stone, exposed wood beams and a grass covered roof not only pay tribute to the natural surroundings, they fully integrate themselves into it.

The sedimentary deposits include Ordovician schists, slates and quartzite.

White marble with black schist and brown mottled marble inlays.

Kovats» group of Schist sculptures — reminiscent of Lynda Benglis» Polyurethane pours — suggest rock strata, shifting ocean - floor sediment and crumbling cliff formations.

Stephen Rowland, a paleontologist in the UNLV department of geoscience, told me that the Precambrian granite and schist at the base are about 1.7 billion years old.

His decision was to produce high quality wines from the Schist soil, which reminded him of Chablis soil and Domaine Figuière has continued to be farmed organically to this day.

Schist is in the process of draining the swamp area for his own greedy purposes, and the only thing he sees standing in the way of him and untold millions are the local natives, namely, the Native Americans and environmentalists trying to protect the lands.

As we climbed up the green slopes, past grazing sheep and bony knuckles of schist and shale, we came to a pond.

Schist, clay, granite, limestone and clay - limestone suffuse your luxurious 5 Terres suite with the grandeur of minerals.

The oldest rocks are schists and other metamorphosed sedimentary rocks of pre-Cretaceous period, intruded by Cretaceous and Jurassic quartz diorites.

Lovitz mixes acrylic paint with sand and schist that he sources from the Wissahickon Creek to make small, modest paintings that harken back to old highway signs and self - taught artists in the manner of contemporary artists like Donald Baechler.