On the belief that this was due to the same geological forces operating in the past as the very slow geological forces seen operating at the present day, the thicknesses of exposed rock layers implied to him enormous stretches of time.

The purpose of the operation was to use peaceful nuclear explosions for moving and lifting enormous amounts of earth and rock during construction projects such as building reservoirs.

The plot focuses on a group of girls at an Australian women's college in the year 1900 who vanish during a Valentine's Day picnic at the site of an enormous rock formation.

" Glen Rock was settled around an enormous rock left by retreating glaciers in a small valley ( glen ).

That summer, MC5 toured the U. S. east coast, which generated an enormous response, with the group often overshadowing the more famous acts they opened up for: McLeese writes that when opening for Big Brother and the Holding Company audiences regularly demanded multiple encores of the MC5, and at a memorable series of concerts, Cream — one of the leading hard rock groups of the era — " left the stage vanquished " by the Detroit upstarts.

Among its dangers are its notorious weather conditions, stretches of technical climbing on rock and ice, marked cliff exposures, and enormous, high-altitude serac.

The ridge is an enormous bulk of ice and rock.

Courtemanche has internationally sold out enormous houses usually reserved for rock stars ( although such shows are quite commonplace for comedians in Quebec ).

The centerpiece of the Tinney additions is an enormous Imperial Russian-style chandelier, which holds 13, 000 rock crystal prisms and 105 lights.

Madagascar got its first supergroup in the 1970s with Mahaleo, whose members blended traditional Malagasy sounds with soft rock to enormous and enduring success.

12, 000, 000 tonnes of rock had to be moved from inside the mountain, creating tunnels wide enough for two lorries to pass comfortably, and an enormous cavern 51m tall, 180m long, and 23m wide known as " the concert hall ".

The outside of such grottoes might be architectural or designed like an enormous rock or a rustic porch or rocky overhang ; inside one found a temple or fountains, stalactites and even imitation gems and shells ( sometimes made in ceramic ); herms and mermaids, mythological subjects suited to the space: naiads, or river gods whose urns spilled water into pools.

When in 1975 dialect folk and rock bands such as Normaal and Boh Foi Toch became successful with their overt disapproval of what they experienced as " misplaced Dutch snobbery " and the western Dutch contempt for ( speakers of ) Low Saxon dialects, they quickly gained an enormous following among the more rurally oriented inhabitants of the Netherlands, launching Low Saxon as a vibrant sub-culture, which is very lively up until today.

The enormous rock moving process contributed heavily to the final € 83. 1 million cost, the fourth most expensive of the ten new stadia built for Euro 2004, after Estádio da Luz ( capacity: 65, 647 ) and Estádio José Alvalade ( capacity: 50, 049 ), both in Lisbon, and Estádio do Dragão ( capacity: 50, 399 ) in Porto.

Mount Roraima has been climbed on a few occasions from the Guyana and Brazil sides, but as the mountain is entirely bordered on both these sides by enormous sheer cliffs that include high overhanging ( negative-inclination ) stretches, these are extremely difficult and technical rock climbing routes.

Nonetheless, as with most of the rock forming Yosemite's features, El Capitan's granite is under enormous internal tension brought on by the compression experienced prior to the erosion which brought it to the surface.

Enchanted Rock ( 16710 Ranch Rd 965, Fredericksburg TX ) is an enormous pink granite pluton rock formation located in the Llano Uplift approximately north of Fredericksburg, Texas, USA and south of Llano, Texas.

The " Imbut ", also known as " Embut " or " Embucq " is a sort of funnel where the Verdon disappears underground, beneath enormous rock structures.

The space between the blast-chamber and the rock cavity walls was to be filled with concrete ; then the bolts were to be put under enormous tension to pre-stress the rock, concrete, and blast-chamber.

This culminated in the production of Double Negative in 1969 and 1970, a project for which he displaced 240, 000 tons of rock in the Nevada desert, cutting two enormous trenches — each one 50-feet-deep and 30-feet-wide and together spanning 1, 500 feet — at the eastern edge of Mormon Mesa near Overton, Nevada.

That the original creators of the movement were now passing the torch to another batch of bands and musicians was a historically enormous development: it would set Argentine rock apart.

Rodrigo Gonzalez had enormous influence on Mexican rock bands, such as El Tri and Botellita de Jerez ; his songs have been recorded many times, especially after his death.

A Coca Cola bottling plant, a rock quarry, and the enormous Atlanta Auto Auction ( open to car dealers only ) are here.

Vases of all kinds, carved in marble or other stones, cast or beaten in metals or fashioned in clay, the latter in enormous number and variety, richly ornamented with coloured schemes, and sometimes bearing moulded decoration.

Nebuchadnezzar has dreamed of an enormous idol made of four metals, with feet of mixed iron and clay.

* A large collection of cuneiform tablets of enormous importance approximately 22, 000 inscribed clay tablets

In January 1983, an amateur fossil hunter named William Walker came across an enormous claw sticking out of the side of a clay pit-Smokejacks Pit at Wallis Wood, Ockley near Dorking in Surrey ( United Kingdom ).

The construction produced a tremendous economic boom, as thousands of Paraguayans who had never before held a regular job went to work on the enormous dam.

An enormous dam is being constructed on the Rio Fuerte, which poses major environmental problems and may lead to massive losses of tropical forest and habitats.

To replace these wetland ecosystem services enormous amounts of money had to be spent on water purification plants, along with the remediation measures for controlling floods: dam and levee construction.

James W. Crawford bought the mill, use of the water and dam, and 20 surrounding hectares of land for $ 3400-an enormous amount of money for the time-in 1879.

Originally, after the dam was constructed, the State of California put filling the reservoir on hold because of enormous public opposition to what was being inundated: the limestone canyon behind the dam, the deepest of its kind in the United States, contained hundreds of archaeological and historic sites and one of California's best and most popular whitewater rafting runs.

The enormous concrete dam is the major feature of the Elephant Butte National Register Historic District.

On the same night, the nearby Möhne Reservoir dam was also attacked, causing enormous destruction and loss of life downstream ( the great majority of drowning victims were Ukrainian POWs in a labor camp just below the dam ).

Also present are fuel tanks, water storage, solar panels, a heliport, a water retention dam, and an enormous radio transmitter.

Daily alterations of water levels also hindered passage of some fish species, and Evenden even goes so far as to equate the slide to " an enormous dam ".

To reach the switching yard, visitors had to walk the spiraling passageway through the miniature landscape that expanded the basement to enormous size — a landscape filled with railroad stations ; houses ; bridges ; factories ; a cliff-side gravel road that ran under a concrete arch supporting a steel railroad bridge in front of a hydroelectric dam with a generating plant beside it topped with twin round chimneys and, above and behind it on a plateau, a solitary white two-story wood frame house ; railroad crossings ; shacks ; coal companies ; a three-story brick ' Central Light And Power Company ' with a brick smoke stack that dwarfed it, cars loaded with coal from the ' Ynysybwl Coal Company ' waiting out front, and high-tension power lines running up the mountainside behind ; small town streets lined with banks and stores ; and even a careful and detailed reconstruction of the diner in Edward Hopper's famous painting Nighthawks, complete with customers, nested up against a two-story beige brick building that had beside it an equally tall red brick building, upon the wall of which was mounted a billboard for an ' East End Hardware ' store with their slogan ' Nuts To You!

There was also a long wooden spear and a woomera, a spear-throwing device which gives the spear an enormous velocity and high accuracy.

It was amazing how they had herded together for protection: an enormous matriarch in a quilted silk wrapper, rising from the breakfast table ; ;

When he was bent over behind the wheel of the station wagon, feeling in his trouser cuffs for the ignition key which he had dropped a moment before, she came out of the house with an enormous Rumanian shawl over her head, which she had bought in that country during one of their trips abroad, and handed him a clean handkerchief through the window.

Then, she was back on her feet, winking and smiling that enormous smile ( she had lots of wonderful big teeth that you never would have suspected she had when she was not smiling ).

Even so, it was still not clear to many in the enormous horde of spectators -- unquestionably the largest golf crowd ever -- that this tournament was to be, essentially, a match between Palmer and Player.

Here was a man with an enormous gift for living as well as thinking.

And, somewhere in that enormous light, was his apartment.

but even more awesome was the fact that it was trailing an enormous comet's-tail of Angels.

The quantity of these suits was enormous: in effect the courts became a kind of upper house.

Amalric had an enormous curiosity, and William was reportedly astonished to find Amalric questioning, during an illness, the resurrection of the body.

It was unwieldy due to its enormous size: were it still considered a single constellation, it would be the largest of all.

Andrew Carnegie (, but commonly or ; November 25, 1835 – August 11, 1919 ) was a Scottish-American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century.

For according to them, there were seven islands in that sea in their time, sacred to Persephone, and also three others of enormous size, one of which was sacred to Hades, another to Ammon, and another one between them to Poseidon, the extent of which was a thousand stadia ; and the inhabitants of it — they add — preserved the remembrance from their ancestors of the immeasurably large island of Atlantis which had really existed there and which for many ages had reigned over all islands in the Atlantic sea and which itself had like-wise been sacred to Poseidon.

In commercial terms, the Athlon " Classic " was an enormous success — not just because of its own merits, but also because Intel endured a series of major production, design, and quality control issues at this time.

The mainstream view is that Gigantopithecus was quadrupedal, and it has been argued that Gigantopithecus's enormous mass would have made it difficult for it to adopt a bipedal gait.

" Mick Jagger stated that " he was a wonderful, original musician who was an enormous force in music and was a big influence on The Rolling Stones.

Bo Diddley was honored by the Mississippi Blues Commission with a Mississippi Blues Trail historic marker placed in McComb, his birthplace, in recognition of his enormous contribution to the development of the blues in Mississippi.

At the contrary, Zagreb-Split trait construction enjoyed a constant support from Croatian public and its on-schedule completion was marked with enormous joy and pride all through the country.

Although all rebellions were eventually put down at enormous cost and casualties, the central imperial authority was seriously weakened.