This chalk outcrop runs through the centre of the Island from Culver Cliff in the east to the Needles in the west, and then continues under the sea to the Isle of Purbeck, forming Ballard Cliff ( near Swanage ), Lulworth Cove and Durdle Door.

On the 1787 trip to the Isle of Arran he found his first example of Hutton's Unconformity to the north of Newton Point near Lochranza, but the limited view meant that the condition of the underlying strata was not clear enough for him, and he incorrectly thought that the strata were conformable at a depth below the exposed outcrop.

The researchers have identified the source as a long rock outcrop called Craig Rhos-y-Felin (), near Pont Saeson in north Pembrokeshire, located from Stonehenge.

The site of Avignon was settled very early on ; the rocky outcrop ( le Rocher les Doms ) at the north end of the town, overlooking the Rhône River, may have been the site of a Celtic oppidum or hill fort.

This early castle may have been incomplete when it was abandoned in favour of a rock outcrop some to the north.

The Temple of Pashupatinath, dedicated to Shiva, stands on an outcrop above the river north of Kathmandu.

Cape Moreton, at the north eastern tip of the island, is the only rock outcrop on the island.

A similar and more prominent outcrop known as the Niagara Escarpment runs parallel and about 25 miles ( 40 kilometers ) to the north through upstate New York, but curves northwestward in southern Ontario toward Lake Huron and eventually into Michigan's Upper Peninsula and Wisconsin's Door Peninsula.

These two formations are not recognised within the northern province i. e. the outcrop north from East Anglia to Yorkshire, where the entire sequence is now referred to as the ' Ferriby Chalk Formation '.

Rising to the north on the other side of the Rhine is the Rheingau range, the Taunus ’ s southwesternmost outcrop.

Meola Reef is an outcrop of black basalt rock which extends some distance north into the Waitemata Harbour.

To the north of the Zoo was an area of mangrove swamp where the Western Springs creek reached the sea just by the Meola Reef Lava outcrop.

Another version is that in the local dialect some words of celtic origin ( dubh for black ) were still in usage when Ordnance Survey staff recorded and thus fixed the placename ( a similar outcrop five miles to the north is known as Black Stone Edge ).

This beachfront and the massive outcrop of the Southworks table slag to the south and the water treatment plant to the north is a perfect demonstration of the vigorous advancement of the steel industry and 20th century development.

This rock outcrop assumes an impressive peaked appearance when viewed from the north, although from behind it could easily be missed.

In October 1869 Dunsmuir was fishing for trout at Diver Lake, a few miles north and west of Nanaimo, when he found a coal outcrop.

In the north east side of Nicholls the corner Vee shaped outcrop of tuff comes in from Ngunnawal, and also the base of the crook shaped ashstone outcrop.

The outcrop area is extended to the north north west to Freshford, and includes Castle Hill.

This subsidiary top a little to the north has a fine columnar cairn built from the nearby outcrop of flaky rocks.

: An isolated outcrop to the north of Arapiles, it has many excellent easier routes and is a popular day trip area especially on busy weekends.

A well researched outcrop lies at Colliers End near Ware.

At the port city of Jaffa ( today part of Tel Aviv ) an outcrop of rocks near the harbour has been associated with the place of Andromeda's chaining and rescue by the traveler Pausanias, the geographer Strabo and the historian of the Jews Josephus.

The Acropolis of Athens ( Greek: Ακρόπολη Αθηνών ) is an ancient citadel located on a high rocky outcrop above the city of Athens and containing the remains of several ancient buildings of great architectural and historic significance, the most famous being the Parthenon.

The old city of Aarau is situated on a rocky outcrop at a narrowing of the Aar river valley, at the southern foot of the Jura mountains.

Newer districts of the city lie to the south and east of the outcrop, as well as higher up the mountain, and in the valley on both sides of the Aar.

Land elevations average, though Clipperton Rock, a barren volcanic outcrop located in the atoll's southeast, is considerably higher and forms the island's tallest point.

This outcrop contains the tomb of Sidi Abderrhamane Thaalibi, a Sufi from Baghdad and the founder of Algiers.

The Sibyl rock is a pulpit-like outcrop of rock between the Athenian Treasury and the Stoa of the Athenians upon the sacred way which leads up to the temple of Apollo in the archaeological area of Delphi.

The middle third of the hike is along the face of an exposed slickrock outcrop and is strenuous due to the gain in elevation, but offers better views of the geology in the salt valley.

The population that lives in an isolated rock outcrop hides in crevasses where its flattened body offers a selective advantage.

For younger stages, a Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point ( GSSP ), a physical outcrop clearly demonstrates the boundary.

In the laboratory, biostratigraphers analyze rock samples from outcrop and drill cores for the fossils found in them.

A band of Carboniferous age rocks underlies part of the northern plain but is nowhere seen at the surface however similar age rocks do outcrop in the south between Castletown, Silverdale and Port St Mary.

An eroded outcrop at Siccar Point showing sloping red sandstone above vertical greywacke was sketched by Sir James Hall in 1788.

Luxembourg's fortress, located on a rocky outcrop known as the Bock, was steadily enlarged and strengthened over the years by successive owners, among others the Bourbons, Habsburgs and Hohenzollerns, which made it one of the strongest fortresses on the European continent.

Reefs are built up by corals and other calcium-depositing animals, usually on top of a rocky outcrop on the ocean floor.

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.

The name " Ebla " means " White Rock ", and refers to the limestone outcrop on which the city was built.

A tor is a large, free-standing residual mass ( rock outcrop ) that rises abruptly from the surrounding smooth and gentle slopes of a rounded hill summit or ridge crest.

* Tor Bay, one of the sandy beaches near Oxwich Bay on the Gower Peninsula in south Wales, so-called because the beach is framed by a huge outcrop of carboniferous limestone.

" You cannot go to a rocky outcrop and observe either the constancy of nature's laws or the working of unknown processes.

The cave is noted for the Witch of Wookey Hole – a roughly human shaped rock outcrop, reputedly turned to stone by a monk from Glastonbury.

With the advent of audio recording and Mass media, the 20th century witnessed the outcrop of Popular Music, as well as in Classical Music, both the revival of ancient forms, as a mixture of various forms, from ancient to contemporary.