There are ghostly scenes in which the little boy on his rocking horse rocks madly toward the climax that will magically give him the name of the winning horse.

Wisconsin Dells, where fantastically scenic rocks carved by the Wisconsin River are overgrown with fern and other foliage, rates a stopover when traveling from Chicago.

The plants along Route 128 are mostly well designed and nicely set against the New England rocks and trees.

The free living larvae are normally fully aquatic but the tadpoles of some species such as ( Nannophrys ceylonensis ) are semi-terrestrial and live among wet rocks.

These properties and ratios are used to determine the age of rocks by the method of K-Ar dating.

Roofs are constructed from Alpine rocks such as pieces of schist, gneiss or slate.

Between the Cotton Belt and the Tennessee Valley is the mineral region, the Old Land area — a region of resistant rocks — whose soils, also derived from weathering in silu, are of varied fertility, the best coming from the granites, sandstones and limestones, the poorest from the gneisses, schists and slates.

Bags of abalone prized from the rocks are brought to the surface by the diver or by way of " shot line ", where the deckhand drops a weighted rope for the catch bag to be connected then retrieved.

Abalone are normally found on rocks near food sources ( kelp ).

Anchors are sometimes fitted with a tripping line attached to the crown, by which they can be unhooked from rocks or coral.

Although agates may be found in various kinds of rock, they are classically associated with volcanic rocks and can be common in certain metamorphic rocks.

This protection explains why fossils preserved further from the Cathedral Formation are impossible to work with — tectonic squeezing of the beds has produced a vertical cleavage that fractures the rocks, so they split perpendicular to the fossils.

:" Birka is the main Geatish town ( oppidum Gothorum ), situated in the middle of Sweden ( Suevoniae ), not far ( non longe ) from the temple called Uppsala ( Ubsola ) which the Swedes ( Sueones ) held in the highest esteem when it comes to the worship of the gods ; here forms an inlet of the Baltic or the Barbaric Sea a port facing north which welcomes all the wild peoples all around this sea but which is risky for those who are careless or ignorant of such places ... they have therefore blocked this inlet of the troubled sea with hidden masses of rocks along more than 100 stadions ( 18 km ).

Discordant coastlines feature distinctive landforms because the rocks are eroded by ocean waves.

The period was established by Adam Sedgwick, who named it after Cambria, the Latin name for Wales, where Britain's Cambrian rocks are best exposed.

But if consciousness is subjective and not visible from the outside, why do the vast majority of people believe that other people are conscious, but rocks and trees are not?

His explanations provide more complex answers through our various mental strategies in theory of mind that lead us to believe we are conscious as well as other people while trees and rocks are not conscious.

Chromium compounds are found in the environment, due to erosion of chromium-containing rocks and can be distributed by volcanic eruptions.

Hard hats are worn to protect the head from bumps and falling rocks.

Caves can be dangerous places ; hypothermia, falling, flooding, falling rocks and physical exhaustion are the main risks.

Solutional caves are the most frequently occurring caves and such caves form in rock that is soluble, such as limestone, but can also form in other rocks, including chalk, dolomite, marble, salt, and gypsum.

Demons, fairies, angels, and a host of other spiritual beings were as much a part of the experiential world of western man as were rocks and trees and stars.

Much of the western two-thirds of the country underlying the Pliocene – Pleistocene volcanics consist of Precambrian basement rocks.

The glaciers were able to carve away more land on the eastern side of the lowland because the bedrock is made of shale which is much softer than the carbonate rocks on the western side.

The structural mountains on the extreme eastern and western portions of the island show broad exposures of Mesozoic rock with ultrabasic rocks at the surface in many places along the east coast.

It is not known when life originated, but carbon in 3. 8 billion year old rocks from islands off western Greenland may be of organic origin.

The eastern part of the Pyrenees consists largely of granite and gneissose rocks, while in the western part the granite peaks are flanked by layers of limestone.

The painted rocks may not be authentic Native-American paintings as the Seneca Indians lived in longhouses not the tee-pee used by western Native-American tribes.

It is in the central and eastern portions of the range only that crystalline rocks make their appearance ; the western part is composed almost exclusively of sedimentary deposits, and the secondary ridges extending through Berne and the adjoining cantons are formed of jurassic, cretaceous, or eocene strata.

Archean rocks are known from Greenland, the Canadian Shield, the Baltic Shield, Scotland, India, Brazil, western Australia, and southern Africa.

Colymboides, the oldest unequivocal gaviiform genus known as of 2009, is widely known from early Priabonian – about 37 million years ago ( Ma ) in the Late Eocene – to Early Miocene ( late Burdigalian, less than 20 Ma ) limnic and marine rocks of western Eurasia north of the Alpide belt, between the Atlantic and the former Turgai Sea.

The basement rocks are not nearly as resistant to weathering as the TMS but significant outcrops of the Cape Granite are visible on the western side of Lion's Head.

Bedford County is situated along the western border of the Ridge and Valley physiographic province, which is characterized by folded and faulted sedimentary rocks of early to middle Paleozoic age.

The bedrock geology of the John Day area is a complex assemblage of Permian to Triassic age metamorphic and igneous rocks which were added to the western North American continental margin by tectonic activity in the Triassic and Jurassic Periods.

A maximum thickness of about 12, 000 m of sedimentary rocks is attained in the offshore western Niger delta, but maximum thicknesses of sedimentary rocks are about 2, 000 m in the Chad basin and only 500 m in the Sokoto embayment.

Mount Taylor in western New Mexico is of similar age, but here dissection seems to have advanced farther, probably because of the weaker nature of the underlying rocks.

While the western shores of Cape Breton Island and northeastern shores of the Nova Scotia peninsula are dominated by granite, sedimentary rocks along the central and western parts of the strait, as well as the entire south shore of Prince Edward Island, consist of sandstone, lending to beautiful sandy beaches with minimal coastal development.

The western ( and older ) side of the valley, on the west side of Red Hill, is underlain primarily by Permian and Pennsylvanian rocks.

The mountains are the exposed portion of an extensive terrane ( the Spavinaw terrane in part ) of granitic and rhyolitic rocks dating from 1485 to 1350 mya that stretches from Ohio to western Oklahoma.

* Peterson, Fred, 1988, " Stratigraphy and nomenclature of Middle and Upper Jurassic rocks, western Colorado Plateau, Utah and Arizona, IN Revisions to stratigraphic nomenclature of Jurassic and Cretaceous rocks of the Colorado Plateau ", U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 1633-B, p. B13-56

The rocks which formed the base was evidently of volcanic origin: it was of dark colour, full of small holes and extremely hard, while on the western side many regular circular cavities, some of which were about four or five yards in diameter at top, and tapered down gradually towards the bottom, which was usually filled with round stones.

The geoneedle is made from different rocks along the Jurassic Coast and marks its western end at Orcombe Point near Exmouth, Devon | Exmouth, Devon.

Walkenaer, under the name Aranea agrestis, in reference to its western European habitat in fields, woods, and under rocks.