This means that they were at first fragmental rocks like limestone, shale and sandstone and have never been in a molten condition nor entirely in solution, but the high temperature and pressure conditions of metamorphism have acted on them by erasing their original structures and inducing recrystallization in the solid state.

For instance, the small calcite crystals in the sedimentary rock limestone and chalk change into larger crystals in the metamorphic rock marble, or in metamorphosed sandstone, recrystallization of the original quartz sand grains results in very compact quartzite, also known as metaquartzite, in which the often larger quartz crystals are interlocked.

After a major blaze in 1405, the original wooden buildings were gradually replaced by half-timbered houses and later the sandstone buildings that came to be characteristic for the Old Town.

Historic places in East Longmeadow include the numerous red and brown sandstone quarries that gave the town its industrial beginnings and from which the original Smithsonian Institution building in Washington was mined, and the Elijah Burt House, The Seward Pease House and the First Congregationalist Church.

Built on the boundary of the Lower Carboniferous limestone and the Upper Carboniferous shale, sandstone and gritstone, the original settlement was largely of limestone construction, of which only the parish church of St Anne, built in 1625, remains.

There is a pyramid shaped historical marker of sandstone situated approximately 200 yards west-northwest of the fort's original location next to the old chicken house.

It was one of the original ten townships, No. 3, and is said to have been named thus by the commissioners on the discovery by the surveyors of a bed of reddish sandstone resembling the Potsdam sandstone in the town of that name in Germany.

The Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul is believed to be on the site of the original kirk, on a sandstone outcrop, and is the oldest building in the town.

The sandstone piers are all that remain today of the original bridge, with the northern pier adjacent to the Huntleys Point Ferry Wharf, and the southern in Howley Park in Drummoyne.

However the remote sandstone areas to the north have valuable original habitat in good condition providing shelter for much wildlife.

Most or all of the original texture and sedimentary structures of the sandstone are erased by the metamorphism.

This sandstone is the same stone that was used to construct the original Beath High School on Stenhouse street.

Sometime later in the Roman era, the upper tiers of sandstone were added ( the original remains of the top half have never been found ); the date of this reconstruction is unknown, but local tradition has this circa 199, by Roman Emperor Septimius Severus in an attempt to curry favour with the oracle ( it is known that he visited the statue but did not hear the sound ).

College House, the original 15th-century college, is a Grade I listed building built of sandstone in the shape of a lowercase ' b ' with a slate roof.

The original buildings were made mostly of local sandstone, from which the area derives its name.

James Shepherd bought the property in 1810 and added a six-room house to the original sandstone cottage.

At it is the largest of several islands that were, in their original state, heavily timbered sandstone knolls.

The original Pixie's Parlour ( a cave in sandstone ) can be found along the banks of the River Otter, about a mile south of the Otter Road bridge in Ottery St. Mary.

The small Town Hall, located on Townhall Street, is built of sandstone from a quarry at Latt, on the northern edge of Cavan Town, while the original slates came from near Carrick-on-Suir in County Tipperary.

The deformed area is exposed at the surface and marked by a 3 km diameter ring of fractured and faulted sandstone, which is interpreted as the eroded relic of a central uplift ( material that rebounded within the crater to once form a central peak ); the original crater rim, long since removed by erosion, being estimated at approximately 9 – 12 km diameter.

Built in 1842 from local sandstone, much of the original structure still remains intact and contains an original cell.

Around the village, winding lanes are covered in their original sandstone setts and front boundary walls are usually built from the same local sandstone.

A few close-ups of what would be the creature's diamond-shaped fin were taken in different positions, as though the creature was moving, but the " flipper photograph " has been highly retouched from the original image.

The first and original fin material to wakeskating is plastic.

The 2E series was an aerodynamically improved version of the original 1C series incorporating the re-arranged interior of the " hot-and-high " 1E series that resulted in a greater seating capacity, as well as a higher gross weight, increased fuel capacity by providing an additional fuel tank in the fin and more powerful Rolls-Royce Spey engines to fly non-stop from London to Beirut with 90 passengers.

Also, the plane has its own original tail fin.

Its original dimensions were a diameter of 340 mm, a length of 8. 08 m, and a fin span of 1. 59 m. Cost per missile in 1957 was an estimated $ 60, 000 dollars.

Its current and final form is completely different than the original car ; only the massive center dorsal fin on the tail recalls the first design.

No longer does Death Adder wear a mask, as his face now resembles a chicken / lizard hybrid with a beak for a mouth and a fin much like his original mask possessed.

Although he did not attend any celebrated schools or universities, he was a master of Greek and Hebrew and could read the Bible in the original.

For by now the original cause of the quarrel, Philip's seizure of Gascony, was only one strand in the spider web of French interests that overlay all western Europe and that had been so well and closely spun that the lightest movement could set it trembling from one end to the other.

If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.

Laudably enough, it is offering classics and off-beat imports, but last week only one U.S. original was on the boards, Robert D. Hock's stunning Civil War work, Borak.

Stowey Rummel was internationally famous, a crafter of a genuine Americana in foreign eyes, an original designer whose inventive childishness with steel and concrete was made even more believably sincere by his personality.

He claims that he was denied due process of law in violation of the Fifth Amendment, because ( 1 ) at a hearing before a hearing officer of the Department of Justice, he was not permitted to rebut statements attributed to him by the local board, and ( 2 ) at the trial, he was denied the right to have the hearing officer's report and the original report of the Federal Bureau of Investigation as to his claim.

Petitioner was not entitled, either in the administrative hearing at the Department of Justice or at his trial, to inspect the original report of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, since he was furnished a resume of it, did not challenge its accuracy, and showed no particular need for the original report.

He says that he was not permitted to rebut before the hearing officer statements attributed to him by the local board, and, further, that he was denied at trial the right to have the Department of Justice hearing officer's report and the original report of the Federal Bureau of Investigation as to his claim -- all in violation of the Fifth Amendment.

That Prokofieff's harmonies and forms sometimes seem professionally routine to our ears, may or may not indicate that he was less of an `` original '' than we prefer to believe.

This original capsule contained a battery and a transistor oscillator and was about 1 cm. in diameter.

when the insoluble fraction was suspended in a volume of saline equal to that of the original serum sample, no complete antibody activity could be detected.

Approximately ten days after the questionnaire was mailed, a follow-up airmail postcard was sent to each of the original names.

In parts a repeated sponging was needed, but everywhere we found that water alone was enough to restore the original brightness.

Down in Concord, New Hampshire, was a flier in the right place at the right time: Robert S. Fogg, a native New Englander, had been a World War 1, flying instructor, barnstormer, and one of the original planners of the Concord Airport.

`` To be creative is to have the ability to cause to exist -- to produce where nothing was before -- to bring forth an original production of human intelligence or power ''.

What remained lacked the original verve but it was at least dignified, as befitting the tragic circumstances.