Sentence examples for reddish sand from inspiring English sources
"The reddish sand hills with the dark mesas behind them.
"But it has one drawback: small quantities of reddish sand which make the surface rough and discontinuous".
Settled in the 1840s, it was known as Leodocia until sometime before 1854, when it was renamed for the reddish sand and low bluffs on which it stands.
On Friday, on the road that leads from Brega (where the rebels are trading artillery with Qaddafi's men) to Adjabiya (deserted) and on to Benghazi, a cool desert wind was blowing, raising billows of reddish sand and making it, at times, hard to see.
By Jon Lee Anderson April 1, 2011 On Friday, on the road that leads from Brega (where the rebels are trading artillery with Qaddafi's men) to Adjabiya (deserted) and on to Benghazi, a cool desert wind was blowing, raising billows of reddish sand and making it, at times, hard to see.
One of the handsomest places to take a stand on the matter is Maracas Bay, a 45-minute drive north from Port of Spain, and one of the island's most famous beaches, both for its proximity to the capital and for its shocking beauty: a limp half-circle of soft, reddish sand beneath towering mountains and wisps of fog.
Debris now (at about 8 or 9 meter depth) changing to reddish gravelly sand.
Parasequences are overlain by erosive reddish oxidized sand beds, enriched in broken, abraded brackish and freshwater shells.
But the houses on the steep hill leading down to the river edge, where the first patches of reddish brown sand are beginning to appear through the snow, are ramshackle, at least a century old, built of unfin ished wooden planks and decorated with gingerbread carving around the eaves and windows characteristic of ru ral Russian architecture of the past.
The topsoil exhibits a light greyish colouration and is underlain by reddish-coloured sand and silts which gives the impression of being clayey from a distance.
