Sentence examples for mass of granite from inspiring English sources
This mottled mass of granite and coral, metres deep and metres high, faces the entire south side of the ground.
Matopo Hills, Matopo also spelled Matopos or Matobo, mass of granite hills, southeast of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, formed by river erosion and weathered into fantastic shapes and deep valleys.
The deformable modulus and compressive strength of rock mass of granite are estimated by the RMR system.
About 1,400 million years ago a mass of granite now in the Panamint Range intruded this complex.
These rocks were intruded by a mass of granite 1400 Ma (million years ago) and later uplifted and exposed to nearly 500 million years of erosion.
The sequence is intruded by batholithic masses of granite and gneiss (Kesse 1985).
The diversion tunnel will be driven in rock mass, consisting of granite and diorite.
To the north and north east of the city is the granite mass of Dartmoor; the granite was mined and exported via Plymouth.
The single-room office of the L. Sims News & Speculation Sheet was in one of the city's oldest buildings, constructed of chocolate-colored brick and masses of silver granite.
Soon huge masses of schist, granite and sandstone rose on either side of us, daubed with green moss and brown lichen and dripping with cascades of black fungus that grow in the runoff of the monsoon rains.
