Sentences with phrase «shaped by erosion»

Over 1,500 mounds formed from coral deposits and shaped by erosion.
Lesson 3 - Processes of Glaciation Lesson 4 - Glacial landforms shaped by erosion.

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In addition to ruling out an untimely goring, the researchers also excluded infection, cancer, erosion, and gnawing by animals as the cause thanks to the uniform shape of the hole.
The Rosetta spacecraft's first look at comet 67P / Churyumov — Gerasimenko shows a diverse, complex world, shaped by eruptions and erosion, that may hint at what the solar system was like 4.6 billion years ago.
After breakfast, we travel to Bryce Canyon National Park, where the haunting rock formations known as Hoodoos have been shaped by wind and water erosion over the eons.
Like the dense rock spires that form from erosion in a windblown desert, the gaseous pillars in the Eagle nebula have been shaped and compressed by the stellar winds and energetic ultraviolet light from the nebula's massive stars.
DESTINATION SCIENCE: OTHER PARKS AND WILDERNESS AREAS Shaped by glaciers, seismic uplifts, erosion, and volcanoes, the great outdoors offers spectacular, unique ecosystems and adventure.
It's also not affected by some of the forces that have shaped the land above sea level, such as erosion.
Another kind of dome is shaped primarily by weathering and erosion, which cause curved sheets of rock to separate from a large rock mass.
A few kilometers south - east of Antequera lies the natural phenomenon of El Torcal: limestone mountains which have been shaped into bizarre formations by erosion.
An hour later, we make our last stop for seeing the stunning «Castillos de Callalli», which is a sort of castle - shaped rocky formation made by water and wind erosion.
Rocks are valued by the Chinese for the intricacy of their shape and the degree of natural erosion; the most intricately eroded rocks are considered perfect embodiments of the transformational processes of nature.
The paintings were not literal renderings of the mountainous and rugged terrain, but instead captured the spartan forms and sculpted surfaces like those shaped by centuries of erosion and movement of wind and water as well as upheavals from tectonic shifts deep within the earth.
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