Sentence examples for enclosed rock from inspiring English sources
One of Kyoto's most beautiful Zen temples, Nanzen-ji, can be toured free of charge (but there is a fee to enter the enclosed rock garden).
Several "unknown effects" – empty water, enclosing rock, impenetrable wood – are fused.
A landslide could lead to radioactive matter currently enclosed in rock being released into the sea.
The most beautiful have hongs – hidden lagoons enclosed by rock walls – that are often only accessible for a few hours a day at low tide.
Many are penetrated by parallel membranes, which are continuations of laminations in the enclosing rock.
They can be contrasted with sills, which are sheetlike intrusions oriented parallel to the bedding of the enclosing rock: a laccolith's ratio of diameter to thickness should be less than 10; a larger ratio would make the body a sill.
Florence and Tuscany played an important role in the history of European science in the 17th and 18th century, and some of these fossils were those used by natural philosophers such as Steno to prove that remains of ancient animals are now enclosed in rocks, or by Targioni Tozzetti to explore prehuman geohistory.
Large-scale faults typically occur along the margins of the greenstone belts where they are in contact with enclosed granitic rocks.
According to Fig. 1, the surrounding rock enclosed by ∆AHI and ∆BCD exert a lateral rock thrust on two side walls of the tunnel.
Dike, also called dyke or geological dike, in geology, tabular or sheetlike igneous body that is often oriented vertically or steeply inclined to the bedding of preexisting intruded rocks; similar bodies oriented parallel to the bedding of the enclosing rocks are called sills.
Escape of volatiles from the system can occur "osmotically" if the enclosing rocks are pervious to them but not to the magma, but in general they are fractionated in favour of the residual melt until their concentration reaches the limit of solubility under the prevailing conditions of temperature and effective confining pressure.
