Sentence examples for blocks of rocks from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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

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

Responding to the marketplace and because the extraction of blocks of rocks is relatively easy once suitable materials are discovered, there has been a worldwide increase in the number of quarries, especially from third-world countries that may even lack the facilities for cutting and shaping the extracted block.

Yes, some may say Monument Valley belongs to Utah, but if you look on the map actually a good portion of it is in Arizona including those famous three blocks of rocks known as "The Mittens and Merrick Butte", which are best viewed from the The View Hotel.

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

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.

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.

Large daily variations in temperature, especially pronounced in deserts, were also credited with producing exfoliation expansion from heating during the day followed by contraction from rapid cooling at night was thought to cause the separation of thin slabs from large blocks of rock at the surface.