raised above sea level about 30 meters, and is now a dolomite limestone outcrop which was eroded in classic karst style into pinnacles up to 20 meters high.

In moderately tall, isolated rock outcrops, mushroom shaped pillars of rock may form as the outcrop is eroded by saltating sand grains.

A number of lesser spurs projected from Russell's Top towards the beach ; the most prominent was a striking, eroded outcrop that was inevitably named " The Sphinx " by soldiers who had until recently been encamped near the Pyramids of Giza.

Only the young Mount Wrangell still shows its shield-like form ; the other, commonly older volcanoes have had much of their original form removed by glacial and other erosional processes, such as Rabbit Mountain and Felsite Peak, which are now eroded to form an outcrop.

The cretaceous rocks rest over eroded Jurassic and Triassic beds, with an outcrop of Rhaetian beds.

It is into this household, one eroded by irritations that have tortured the souls out of its people, that George Dillon enters at the beginning of the play.

These areas are eroded at a faster pace creating a hole or crevasse that, through time, by means of wave action and erosion, becomes a cave.

It was also the first full coalition in Britain since 1945, having been formed 70 years virtually to the day after the establishment of Winston Churchill's wartime coalition, although there had been the " Lib-Lab pact ", an agreement stopping short of a full coalition between the Labour and Liberal parties, from March 1977 until July 1978, when a series of by-election defeats had eroded Labour's majority of three seats which had been gained at the October 1974 election.

In his paper, he explained his theory that the Earth must be much older than had previously been supposed in order to allow enough time for mountains to be eroded and for sediments to form new rocks at the bottom of the sea, which in turn were raised up to become dry land.

The discovery of MacPherson Partners — whose very existence had not been known to the public at the time — seriously eroded Milken's credibility with the board.

Another distinguishing feature is the many eroded platforms that provide tableland at relatively high altitudes.

Since the electron is moving at a certain temperature ( Plank spectrum ) this noise source cannot be further eroded.

At this point, the team from Earth discovers the cartouche containing the symbols required to get back to Earth, but the seventh symbol at the bottom is eroded away.

The eroded Rochechouart crater in France has most recently been dated to 201 ± 2 million years ago ,< ref name = " Schmieder "> but at 25 km across ( possibly up to 50 km across originally ), appears to be too small.

He had read about angular unconformities as interpreted by Neptunists, and found an unconformity at Jedburgh where layers of greywacke in the lower layers of the cliff face have been tilted almost vertically before being eroded to form a level plane, under horizontal layers of Old Red Sandstone.

Because the only mountain-building since then has been of the Stirling Range with the rifting from Antarctica, the land is extremely eroded and ancient, with no part of the state above 1, 245 metres ( 4, 085 ft ) AHD ( at Mount Meharry in the Hamersley Range of the Pilbara region ).

The C horizon, which shows little evidence of being affected by soil forming processes ( weathering ), is close to the surface, and may be at the surface on an eroded drumlin.

Volcanic islands located beyond the warm water temperature requirements of reef building, or hermatypic, organisms become seamounts as they subside and are eroded away at the surface.

The formation called Home Plate at Gusev Crater on Mars which was examined by the Mars Exploration Rover ( MER ) Spirit is suspected to be the eroded remains of an ancient and extinct fumarole.

* A succession of different soils may have developed, eroded and / or regressed at any particular site, as soil genetic factors and site factors, e. g., vegetation, sedimentation, geomorphology, change.

Shales worldwide are, to a considerable extent, simply soil clays that have been formed in the pedosphere and eroded and deposited in the ocean basins, to become lithified at a later date.

After the Variscan orogeny raised Central Europe and the Galician area of Spain at the beginning of the Mesozoic, deposits were eroded away by rivers.

Although the team improved its record to 23 – 59 the following year, local support for the Cavs eroded which eventually bottomed out that year by averaging only 3, 900 fans a game at the cavernous Coliseum which seated more than 20, 000.

The gigantic remains of such a figure at Mount Sipylus, though lacking inscriptions and much eroded, are consistent with later representations of a seated Cybele, with a supporting or attendant lion beneath each arm.

The eroded rock-statue of Cybele at Mount Sipylus, in an early 20th century France | French postcard

By only gradually increasing the spin rate, torque is spread along a much longer section of barrel, rather than only at the throat where rifling is eroded through repeated rifling engagement.

( On the adjacent map, Gatwick Manor is at the northwest end of the racecourse ; its name is somewhat obscured by the map's paper being eroded over an old crease.

Although the river slowly eroded the land over this period of time, the most drastic changes took place at the end of the last Ice Age when the Missoula Floods cut the steep, dramatic walls that exist around Wishram today.

Geologically, the city lies on basalt flows that were heavily eroded by catastrophic flooding at the end of the Ice Age, so the city and environs is in the Channeled Scablands.

' Hutton's Unconformity ' at Siccar Point shows gently sloping Devonian Old Red Sandstone layers forming an eroded capping over much older vertically bedded Silurian greywacke rocks.

View of Manly Beacon from Zabriskie Point, showing convolutions, texture, and color contrasts in the eroded rock

To the east of the city lies Flagstaff Point, a rocky headland with eroded low cliffs topped by a grassy hill.

* Ardboe High Cross, a 10th century cross near Cookstown, eroded, showing 22 panels with scenes from the Old and New Testaments.

A woman is his enemy in their first appearance ( Metaphormosis, Four ), showing how Andrea Cramond has made her influence felt in Alex's very core, and how his love for her has been eroded and has transmuted into anger and contempt through the rift that has opened in their relationship.

In the 18th century, finds such as Hutton's Unconformity showing layers tilted, eroded, and overlaid, demonstrated the " abyss of time " in the Geologic time scale.

Venera 9 was the first probe to send back black and white television pictures from the Venusian surface showing shadows, no apparent dust in the air, and a variety of 30 to 40 cm rocks which were not eroded.

Waterpocket Fold cross section showing eroded part ( NPS ) media: Waterpocket Fold-Looking south from the Strike Valley Overlook. jpg | Photo of the fold looking south from the Strike Valley Overlook ( USGS )

However, there are also fewer of the large craters, and those appear relatively young ; they are rarely filled with lava, showing that they were formed after volcanic activity in the area ceased, and radar data indicates that they are rough and have not had time to be eroded down.

In some parts, however, the terrain is strongly sloping to severely eroded.

Those considering it to be a farmhouse and / or the tower of Shechem, argue that the paved areas are simply rooms, the sloping wall simply an eroded partition wall, and the infilled enclosure a room that was later changed into a tower-the foundation of the tower being the infill, and the rest of the tower now destroyed.

but in the north, south and west, there places less eroded by glaciers, and here Vosges Triassic and Permian red sandstone remains in large beds.

The red dot trail is highly eroded due to weather and large numbers of hikers.

The ground has eroded away around the roots of this young red pine tree .| Tree roots anchor the structure and provide water and nutrients.

The ground has eroded away around the roots of this young red pine tree.

Clastic red beds were laid down in shallow-water on top of the eroded Paleozoic surface early in the Triassic.

The strip of soil here, mostly red loam, has been eroded from the ranges.

Roof guttering and downpipes were added, badly eroded stone was replaced with squared blocks of old red sandstone and the cruciform arrow slit on the front, left, of the tower was restored to make it symmetrical.

As the Carlton Reach, Ord River experimental station site was river alluvium ( red soil ) and most of the surveyed agricultural land was " Cununurra Clay " ( blacksoil-Volcanic soil eroded from the Antrim Plateau Volcanics ), it was moved to a new site further down river and the new Kimberley Research Station ( KRS ) was established in 1946.