Sentence examples for rounded granite from inspiring English sources

The flat relief is broken by rounded granite hills and outliers of the Fouta Djallon.

Elsewhere are found innumerable small rounded granite hillocks known locally as kopjes.

The main summits of the range rise over 2,000 ft and consist of smoothly rounded granite hills, but the highest, Lugnaquillia (3,039 ft [926 m]), is capped with hard mica-schist rocks.

The site contains a huge oval of around 95 rounded granite megaliths, some engraved.

In this case, the reverence is for the rounded granite bulk of the Cairngorm mountains in north-east Scotland, but across Britain and Ireland rocks born molten many millions of years ago still fashion the familiar natural world around us.

These odd, weather-rounded granite formations, huddled between the tiny town of Lone Pine and the snow-dusted peak of Mount Whitney, have played host to over 400 films and television shows – mostly Westerns.

One distinctive gravestone carries the artistic signature of Abraham Rattner on a rounded slab of granite.

"Flex 'em!" Seventy feet up, on a rounded crest of granite that looks impossibly smooth from down below, McCall pulls away from the wall, dropping his heels.

Almost hidden in the foliage is INSCOPE ARCH, a generously rounded bridge with pink granite walls and gray granite voussoirs (the wedge-shape stones that compose the arch).

It is mainly a granite highland with rounded summits, although its northern part comprises forested sandstone, and it is bordered to the south by a narrow band of lower and more fertile limestone.

As was shown in Fig. 1, the limestone had a more rounded shape than quartzite and granite.