Sentence examples for blocks of rock from inspiring English sources

The products of dimension stone quarries are prismatic blocks of rock such as marble, granite, limestone, sandstone, and slate.

In cross-cut without support system, the ejection of blocks of rock from the test wall was observed.

Tillites typically consist of poorly sorted angular and subangular, polished and striated blocks of rock floating in an unstratified clay matrix.

Pictures from Everest's south side base camp showed flattened tents and blocks of rock scattered around a site deep in snow.

The impact and hydraulic action of storm waves are the most significant upon shores composed of highly jointed or bedded rock, which are vulnerable to quarrying, the hydraulic plucking of blocks of rock.

Most gem-quality diamonds are 1 billion to 3.5 billion years old, and originate at shallower depths, in the keels beneath the cratons, the ancient blocks of rock that form the hearts of the earth's continental masses.

Rockbursts frequently occur in deep underground excavations in a sudden or violent ejection of blocks of rocks from excavation walls.

Across town — meaning about 10 minutes away by foot — I pondered the arrangement of Barbara Hepworth's hammers, chisels and files, stacked in her workshop just as she'd left them, along with large blocks of rocks that waited patiently for the sculptures inside them to be set free.

Lavas with low viscosity, such as in Hawaii, flow easily and produce gentle slopes, but more viscous lavas mixed with explosively erupted solid blocks of rocks can form steeper volcanic cones, such as Mount Fuji in Japan, Mount Rainier in the northwestern United States, or Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa.

One of the tenant building blocks of rocks are minerals, which geologists have a very precise definition for.

The coal seam comprised of blocks of lignite and strata and was simulated by blocks of rocks supplied from the coal mine.