Sentence examples for on a basalt from inspiring English sources
He was named John Smith, he was a captain in the Madras Army, and he would have remained an almost forgotten British imperial figure but for a single scratched graffito that he left high on a basalt pillar in one of these caves, with, in perfectly legibly incised copperplate, his name and the date, April 1819.
The rover Spirit landed on a basalt plain that may be typical of plains.
The ruined 13th-century Salgó Castle is on a basalt cone (2,050 ft [625 m]) overlooking the city.
Dotted across 2,000 square kilometres of hills and villages on a basalt plateau in western India sit more than 800 turbines - generating more than 1,000 megawatts of electricity.
In this study we analyze a terrestrial manganese-rich rock varnish coating on a basalt rock in the laboratory with the ChemCam engineering model to determine the LIBS signature of a natural rock coating.
An age of 650 +/- 100 ka is assigned to this fan deposit based on these ages and on the oldest cosmogenic He-3 exposure date of 653 +/- 20 ka on a basalt boulder from the surface of unit B. This assigned age and offset together yield a mid-Pleistocene to present average slip rate of 1.4 +/- 0.4 mm/yr.
Wild Frontiers (020-7736 3968, wildfrontiers.co.uk) has a 14-day Danakil Depression and Tigray Highlands tour from £3,095pp Looming high among the extinct volcanic outriders of the Ethiopian Rift, the Simien Mountains national park is nature junked up on steroids: a basalt escarpment 40 miles long and up to a mile high, populated by super-sized plants and armies of gelada monkeys.
And in Iceland, Matter is about to participate in the first major pilot study on CO2 sequestration in a basalt formation.
The Střekov Castle, standing on a precipitous basalt crag across the river, is the only notable reminder of the city's medieval origin.
Technology, through faxes and computers, has cut the mountain obstacles and desert basins down to size, making it as easy for someone to earn a living on a isolated basalt bluff as an apartment in Century City.
They postulate that this piece of oceanic crust was the oldest in the WPB based on a dated basalt collected at site 294/5.
