Sentence examples for abrupt rock from inspiring English sources

After a short countdown, he leaned forward, said, "See you," and was soon banking and soaring over the dense forest and abrupt rock faces of a massif near the northern Italian town of Riva del Garda.

The apparently abrupt transition from rock to bronze tends to mask the critical discovery of native metals and their utilitarian use and fails to indicate the significant discoveries of melting and casting.

They're in a line of abrupt jagged art-rock, curious and impatient, that goes from Captain Beefheart through prog-rock, the Pop Group, the Ex, Fugazi and Deerhoof.

The first region, a series of limestone platforms, extends along the southern coast; in some areas the platforms form an eroded karst region (i.e., marked by sinks interspersed with abrupt ridges, irregular rocks, caverns, and underground streams) that makes travel and habitation difficult.

We recorded the shape of the defecation posts, grouping them into two categories: rectangular rocks with abrupt, vertical walls; and rounded or triangular rocks with less angular wall slopes.

Even his abrupt twist away from rock stardom into the avant-garde hasn't seemed unlikely or alienated his passionately loyal fanbase.

His studies of abrupt transitions in the rock types and fossils of the hills around the Paris Basin were observational: he reported what he saw.

The present study aims to investigate disaster preparedness and perception of abrupt geological disasters (such as rock avalanches, landslide, mud-rock flows etc) in mobility-disadvantage group living in coastal rural area of China.

Due to the distance at which eagle owls generally squirt their faeces (20.1±10.8 cm; n = 108), isolated defecation rocks with abrupt and vertical shapes (the most common type of marked posts, see Figure S2; χ2 = 82.67, df = 1, P = 0.0001) should not show faecal marks if marking was due by coincidence.

It's true: the transition is abrupt, and it has bedevilled rock stars since the advent of the backbeat.

You seem to be making a bit of progress and then, whoops, that rock takes an abrupt backslide to square one and despite shouting from a moral high ground about how Mega-Bankers were the recipient of all that marvelous green stuff showered on them by the U.S. Treasury, in the end, it all falls on deaf regulatory ears.