Sentence examples for source of the stone from inspiring English sources

He researched the source of the stone used in the center chimney, and tapped the same quarry for stone for a backyard patio.

The boulders were transported over 150 km from the source of the stone.

Investigators have proposed that large Cerro Cintepec basalt boulders found on the southeastern slopes of the mountains are the source of the stone for the monuments.

But in recent years Anglo has moved its diamond-sorting operation and auction process nearer to the source of the stones, in Botswana's capital, Gaborone.

Here Helferich tells the story of the search for the long-vanished mines of the Mayas and their predecessors, the Olmecs — the source of the venerated stone used to make ritual masks, jewelry and burial gifts for their dead kings.

Ask about the origin of the stone.

A nearby outcrop of a flintlike rock called chert, they believe, was the source for many of the stone tools they found: long, triangular blades shaped with six or seven deliberate, strategic strikes.

The desiccated country is in the Lower Awash Valley, bordered on the north by Gona (the source of the oldest known stone tools) and Hadar (Lucy's home).

Shops on the opposite side of Maharat Road specialize in articles for the faithful, and is a major source of the gold or stone amulets that many Thais hang from their necks and rearview mirrors.

We propose a functional data approach to evaluating colour changes in stone that is based on applying a functional experiment design to the tristimulus curves resulting from the product of the power spectral distribution of the source, the stone reflectance curve and the matching colour functions of the standard observer.

The smallest weigh 6 tons, while the largest is variously estimated to weigh 40 to 50 tons, although it was abandoned and left unfinished close to the source of its stone.