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.

Giovanni Bernini's `` Fountain of the Rivers '', in the center of the piazza, is built around a Roman obelisk from the Circus of Maxentius which rests on grottoes and rocks, with four huge figures, one at each corner, denoting four great rivers from different continents -- the Danube, the Ganges, the Nile, and the Plate.

A hermit living there told him that amid the rocks was a chasm communicating with purgatory, from which perpetually rose the groans of tortured souls.

Modern anchors for smaller vessels have metal flukes which hook on to rocks on the bottom or bury themselves in soft bottoms.

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

Most agates occur as nodules in volcanic rocks or ancient lavas where they represent cavities originally produced by the disengagement of volatiles in the molten mass which were then filled, wholly or partially, by siliceous matter deposited in regular layers upon the walls.

In these versions, when Ajax came to the Capharean Rocks on the coast of Euboea, his ship was wrecked in a fierce storm, he himself was lifted up in a whirlwind and impaled with a flash of rapid fire from Athena in his chest, and his body thrust upon sharp rocks, which afterwards were called the rocks of Ajax.

Beck said the miners shot and possibly killed at least one of the creatures, precipitating an attack on their cabin, during which the creatures bombarded the cabin with rocks and tried to break in.

Speleologist William Halliday argued in 1983 that the story arose from an incident in which hikers from a nearby camp had thrown rocks into the canyon.

The land upon which it stands was created by land reclamation on the Hudson River using 1. 2 million cubic yards ( 917, 000 m < sup > 3 </ sup >) of soil and rocks excavated during the construction of the World Trade Center and certain other construction projects, as well as from sand dredged from New York Harbor off Staten Island.

Brueys had augmented the fort with his bomb vessels and gunboats, which were anchored among the rocks to the west of the island in a position to give support to the head of the French line.

:" 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 ).

Rock art of the " Round Head " style, found in the Ennedi region, has been dated to before the 7th millennium BC and, because of the tools with which the rocks were carved and the scenes they depict, may represent the oldest evidence in the Sahara of Neolithic industries.

The vast majority of igneous rocks are formed from molten magma and the degree of crystallization depends primarily on the conditions under which they solidified.

Such rocks as granite, which have cooled very slowly and under great pressures, have completely crystallized ; but many kinds of lava were poured out at the surface and cooled very rapidly, and in this latter group a small amount of amorphous or glassy matter is common.

The whole is surrounded by a circle of granite stones set on their edge which once surrounded the cairn — the rocks of which are now scattered around — that was originally built over a large kistvaen that still exists beneath the pedestal.

* Shatter cones, which are chevron-shaped impressions in rocks.

The question of which is first is clouded by very different approaches: counting only men, counting a pile of rocks etc.

Diamonds are brought close to the Earth ′ s surface through deep volcanic eruptions by a magma, which cools into igneous rocks known as kimberlites and lamproites.

The first inlet turned out to be a " very narrow and intricate channel, which ... abounded with rocks above and beneath the surface of the water ".

It had no teeth in the front part of its jaws, which were probably used to remove shellfish and worms from cracks in rocks or / and the sandy, muddy beaches it inhabited.

The early discovered carbonate bauxites occur predominantly in Europe and Jamaica above carbonate rocks ( limestone and dolomite ), where they were formed by lateritic weathering and residual accumulation of intercalated clays or by clay dissolution residues of the limestone.

They were formed by lateritization of various silicate rocks such as granite, gneiss, basalt, syenite, and shale.

Such cones are formed most easily in fine-grained rocks.

Fossil cnidarians have been found in rocks formed about, and other fossils show that corals may have been present shortly before and diversified a few million years later.

Followers of Hutton were known as Plutonists because they believed that some rocks were formed by vulcanism, which is the deposition of lava from volcanoes, as opposed to the Neptunists, led by Abraham Werner, who believed that all rocks had settled out of a large ocean whose level gradually dropped over time.

All three types of rocks may be re-melted ; when this happens, a new magma is formed, from which an igneous rock may once again crystallize.

Both of these types of granite are formed by melting of high grade metamorphic rocks, either other granite or intrusive mafic rocks, or buried sediment, respectively.

The rocks are plutonic, formed when molten magma is trapped beneath the Earth's surface and cools into a crystalline mass.

Gneiss () is a common and widely distributed type of rock formed by high-grade regional metamorphic processes from pre-existing formations that were originally either igneous or sedimentary rocks.

These are amongst the oldest rocks in Europe and some of the oldest in the world, having been formed in the Precambrian " super-eon ", up to 3 billion years ago.

These substances, major constituents of bauxite, are known as laterites and are formed by leeching from rocks of most of the ions other than aluminium and iron and subsequent hydrolysis of the remaining aluminium and iron.

Another subtype is an island or bar formed by deposition of tiny rocks where a water current loses some of its carrying capacity.

The larger part of the island is formed from highly faulted and folded sedimentary rocks of Ordovician age.

The rocks formed at that time were stained red by iron oxides, the result of intense heating by the sun of a surface devoid of vegetation cover.

The Scandinavian Peninsula occupies part of the Baltic Shield, a stable and large crust segment formed of very old, crystalline metamorphic rocks.

Intersection lineations in rocks, as they are the product of the intersection of two planar structures, are named according to the two planar structures from which they are formed.

Much of this matrix is formed by relatively soft fragments, such as shale and some volcanic rocks, that are chemically altered and physically compacted after deep burial of the sandstone formation.

However, many of the rocks exposed in Turkey were formed long before this process began.

who in an Estonian legend carried rocks to her husband's grave that formed the Toompea hill.

Clay minerals are typically formed over long periods of time by the gradual chemical weathering of rocks, usually silicate-bearing, by low concentrations of carbonic acid and other diluted solvents.

Initial < sup > 87 </ sup > Sr /< sup > 86 </ sup > Sr ratios are a useful tool in archaeology, forensics and paleontology because the < sup > 87 </ sup > Sr /< sup > 86 </ sup > Sr of a skeleton, sea shell or indeed a clay artefact is directly comparable to the source rocks upon which it was formed or upon which the organism lived.

Most of the islands have a bedrock formed from ancient metamorphic rocks and the climate is mild and oceanic.