: Our adventures in the desert were eventually terminated by our arrival at " Las Vegas de Santa Clara ", and a pleasant thing it was to look once more upon green grass and sweet water, and to reflect that the dreariest part of our journey lay behind us, so that the sands and jornados of the Great Basin would weary our animals no more ...

Inland behind the Chalk were less resistant sands, clays and gravels.

" These states of being were " altogether explicable and indefinite " ( like brother and sister ), and it was the fruits of the union of these two entities that created "... the rocks and sands of the earth ; then trees, shrubbery, herbs and grass ; then animals ".

The name was derived from the fact that four paying oil sands were believed to be present in the area.

In the Roman period, the sands were easily worked as arable land and the ironstone was dug for smelting.

For structural mortars, he recommended pozzolana, which were volcanic sands from the sandlike beds of Puteoli brownish-yellow-gray in color near Naples and reddish-brown at Rome.

Storms from any direction could also drive ships onto the shore or onto the sands, which — in spite of providing the sheltered water — were constantly shifting, and not always adequately marked.

Green, Madden and Simpson were subjected to derision and insults by the mob before they were hanged, being mockingly huzza'd by the huge crowd on the way to the gallows on Leith sands.

The sands also were used for pictures, a popular craft in Victorian times known as marmotinto.

* Slick Rock Member ( CO, UT )-named for the type locality at Slick Rock, Colorado ; Rounded beach sands were cemented together to create this uniform layer.

People who saw the bituminous sands during this period were familiar with the large amounts of tar residue produced in urban areas as a by-product of the manufacture of coal gas for urban heating and lighting.

Originally, the sands were mined with draglines and bucket-wheel excavators and moved to the processing plants by conveyor belts.

It has also been suggested that other wildlife has been negatively affected by the oil sands ; for instance, moose were found in a 2006 study to have as high as 453 times the acceptable levels of arsenic in their systems, though later studies lowered this to 17 to 33 times the acceptable level ( still causing a danger for human consumption ).

The Bar Harbor Formation, which is made up predominantly of sands and silts, and Cranberry Island Formation, made up from volcanic ash and magmatic debris, occurred under similar circumstances in the Silurian and Devonian periods, and were deposited on top of the Ellsworth Schist.

The mounds and platforms were built largely from local sands and clays.

Scott writes that as they walked by the sea, Swinburne declaimed his Hymn to Proserpine and Laus Veneris in his strange intonation, while the waves ‘ were running the whole length of the long level sands towards Cullercoats and sounding like far-off acclamations ’.

Scarborough Spa became Britain's first seaside resort, though the first rolling bathing machines were not noted on the sands until 1735.

They were soon joined in the skies by the ' string and sealing wax ' aircraft of the embryonic Royal Flying Corps ; such aircraft favoured the sands of St Andrews, where not the least of the attractions was the availability of fuel from local garages.

Despite this more mining licenses were granted until 1984 when the Federal government announced it would decline export licenses for the island's mineral sands.

1 The Cuando River ; 2 Caprivi Strip ; 3 Mudumu National Park and Lianshulu Lodge, the end of the Linyanti Swamp ; 4 Linyanti Swamp and Mamli National Park, where a ridge of Kalahari sand blocks flow to the south-east ; 5 Okavango River and delta which sinks into the Kalahari sands ; 6 Linyanti River ; 7 Lake Liambezi ( dry when photo was taken ); 8 Chobe River ; 9 Confluence of Chobe and Zambezi at Kazungula ; 10 Zambezi and Caprivi Swamps were experiencing an extreme flood at the time of the photo.

In 1912, the War Office also discovered that large areas of the sands were leased to tenants, who used them for fishing kiddles.

The following day, they were moved to Newhouse Farm, near to Fisherman's Head, ready for the arrival of 24 cattle lorries, which drove across the sands early on Friday morning.

The uplifted areas were then eroded, and further sediments, such as the London Clay, were deposited over southern England, while the English Channel was characterised by mud flats and river-deposited sands.

Historically this stretch of coastline has one of the highest instances of shipwrecks in Wales, its exposure to the Atlantic swell, south-westerly winds, shallow reefs and the Nash sands bar making it treacherous to shipping.

The trade in coal was hindered heavily however as the shifting sands made the river treacherous and the safe paths changed year by year.

It was accessed mainly by crossing the treacherous sands of Morecambe Bay.

Pembrey sands have proved the final resting place of many ships, some by mishap, others it is said lured to their doom deliberately to provide plunder for the wreckers known as " Gwyr-y-Bwelli Bach " or " The Men of Little Hatchets ".

East Goodwin LightshipThere is currently a lightship on the end of the sands, on the farthest part out, to warn ships.

These ships became known as the " Yellow Fleet ", because of the desert sands which soon covered their decks.

A number of ships were built on the sands, the largest being the " Ann Catherine " a brig of 211 tons.

So that day and night the king lodged on the sands, and in the meantime discharged the ships of their horses and other baggages: there the king made two marshals of his host, the one the lord Godfrey of Harcourt and the other the Earl of Warwick, and the Earl of Arundel constable.

The necessity for a lighthouse at this place must have become apparent when the Goodwin Sands became dangerous and when it was found that in directing their course so as to keep clear of this land which extends so far into the sea ships were extremely liable to strike on the sands at night before they were aware.

After considerable initial difficulty due to waves breaking heavily over shifting sands of the bar crossing, the ships entered the bay.

One way to survive here is to burrow into the sands, as a number of the desert's animals, including the endangered Southern Marsupial Mole ( notoryctes typhlops ), and the Water-holding Frog do.

Madagascar has a number of natural resources, including graphite, chromite, coal, bauxite, salt, quartz, tar sands, semi-precious stones and mica.

:" Our sins are more in number than the sands of the sea ;

The spring aquifer held a large quantity of water due to the great number of fractures, solution channels, and interstices in the rocks and underlying sands, although the aeral extent of the Big Spring sink is estimated to be only in diameter, with the main area only wide and almost circular, with some ellipticity trending towards the west.

In 1912, the Danish government constructed the " Flak Fort " on the Salthom Flak sands just north of the island proper, stationing a number of artillery pieces ranging in calibre from 47 mm to 290 mm.

The exhibition contains some photographs of a number of world famous people including the aviator Amy Johnson, World War 1 flying Ace Wing Commander Ira Jones, Motor Racer Sir Malcolm Campbell and Parry Thomas, both of whom attempted World Land Speed Records at the famous Pendine sands.

A significant aspect of the geology of the Adelaide area is a number of Tertiary marine sands deposits, many of which have been extensively quarried.

The one is a settled or standing cnapan the date and place being known and yearly haunted and observed: of these cnapan days in Pembrokeshire there were wont to be five in number, the first at Bury sands between the parishes of Nevern and Newport upon Shrove Tuesday yearly ; the second at Portheinon, on Eastcr Monday, between the parishes of Meline and Eglwyswrw ; the third on low Easterday at Pwll-du in Penbedw between the parishes Penrhydd and Penbedw ; the fourth and fifth were wont to be at St. Meigans in Cemais between Cemais men of the one party, and Emlyn men, and the men of Cardiganshire with them of the other party, the first upon Ascension Day, the other upon Corpus Christi day, ' and these two last were the great and main places, far exceeding any of the former in multitude of people for at these places there have oftentimes been esteemed two thousand foot beside horsemen ...