Sentence examples for mountain formation from inspiring English sources

On Easter morning, Shane drives up Canyon Road to a mountain formation called Devil's Thumb.

Again, Silurian rocks provided one of the key ingredients this time, hematite ore from the Llandovery Red Mountain Formation, which was mined from 1862 to 1971.

Various legends, reminiscent of Gulliver and the Lilliputians, are connected with the Sleeping Giant, a mountain formation a few miles south of Kapaa.

Greater relief is found in those areas in the heart of western and central Europe where uplifted and faulted massifs survive from the Hercynian orogeny, a late Paleozoic period of mountain formation.

Peter Simon Pallas, (born Sept. 22, 1741, Berlin died Sept. 8, 1811, Berlin), German naturalist who advanced a theory of mountain formation and, by the age of 15, had outlined new classifications of certain animal groups.

September 22, 1741 Berlin, Germany September 8, 1811 Berlin, Germany Peter Simon Pallas, (born Sept. 22, 1741, Berlin died Sept. 8, 1811, Berlin), German naturalist who advanced a theory of mountain formation and, by the age of 15, had outlined new classifications of certain animal groups.

The three mountain formations concerned differ in origin and structure.

Done in ink on gold leaf, the design depicts mountain formations receding from close up into the distance across a body of water.

The volcano is actually just a remnant on the edge of huge Mount Tehama, which collapsed thousands of years ago, forming the fascinating caldera defining the surrounding mountain formations.

The son of a textile machinery manufacturer, Mertz studied patent law at the University of Bern, and science at the University of Lausanne, specialising in glacier and mountain formations.

After he attained his degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of Bern, Mertz studied science at the University of Lausanne; he specialised in glacier and mountain formations, for which he received his second doctorate.