Sentence examples for geological site from inspiring English sources

Built on an incredible geological site – a perfectly natural expanse of sand – it was France's first theme park when it opened in 1963 but its rides and attractions have survived the test of time.

The government also tried to restart stalled efforts to find a geological site for a long-term underground nuclear waste dump, by changing the rules on which councils have the final say.

The fact that the stones had long ago been cleared from their original geological site by farmers needing agricultural land was a plus for Goldsworthy, though he had to convince one incensed member of a local commune that he was not uprooting the rocks from an ancestral resting place.

Geological site characterisation programmes typically rely on drill cores for direct information on subsurface rocks.

The council said the scheme, at a "complex geological site" near a designated beauty spot, had "not been straightforward".

Finally, the proposed model is used to perform large-scale simulations of the injection operation through a multilayered geological site.

The UK also has over 3,500 local geological sites, and an emerging national UK geodiversity action plan.

Through a tour of geological sites around the globe, Fortey, a paleontologist at the Natural History Museum of London, presents the planet's dynamic history.

The five are thought to be part of a group of westerners who went missing while on a trip to look at geological sites 500 miles north of the capital in a remote desert region.

IF YOU GO Flagstaff, the jumping-off point for visits to Meteor Crater and other geological sites in northern Arizona, is also home to Lowell Observatory (928-774-3358; whereowell.edu), where Pluto was discovered and where the astronomer Percival Lowell spent years studying Mars, convinced he saw canals there.

Similarly emissions trading may eventually spur the use of carbon capture and sequestration, but only after several such plants have been tried on the public expense, to investigate the real engineering and costs of possible technologies, and the real feasibility of safe, long-term storage in geological sites.