Model to illustrate a block displacement in rocks │ │ which are intersected by master joints.
The same massive rocks where intersected by vertical joint planes yield, on the contrary, sharp granite needles like those of Harney Peak (plate 8 A).
Wherever rocks are found exposed in their original attitudes, they are, in fact, seen to be intersected by two parallel series of fractures which are perpendicular to the earth’s surface and to each other and are described as joints.
The underlying basement where it appears about the margins of the basalt is in many places intersected by dikes or fissure fillings of the same material.
Model to illustrate a block displacement in rocks which are intersected by master joints 82 5.
A simple case of such displacements in rocks intersected by a single set of master joints is represented in the model of plate 4 C.
Such streams continue their serpentine courses until these are intersected by a crevasse down which the waters plunge in a whirling vortex which soon develops a vertical shaft of circular section within the ice.
In those regions where the beds have been folded and perhaps overthrust before their elevation into the zone of fracture, and which are further intersected by disorderly fissure planes, the results are far more complex.
A plateau which is intersected by deep and steep-walled valleys of U-section (p.
There are, however, large elevated tracts upon the earth’s surface which are intersected by deep valleys, but where no arrangement of the elevated portions within chains or ranges is to be detected.
The cliffs, which are high and extend for several miles, are wholly composed of it, and are occasionally intersected by veins and dykes of Breccia.
The capital is almostintersected by the 25th parallel north latitude, and 95 deg.
The same movement took the assailants across the intricate region of the mine "funnels" of Beauséjour up to the extended wood intersected by the road to Maisons de Champagne.
This could not be a continuous work, as the ground to be defended is intersected by rivers and ravines, and the banks of the Rhone are almost everywhere so precipitous that it would have been useless to fortify them.
It intersected the faubourg at the corner of the little Rue Saint Jean.
Three other barricades, extremely feebly constructed, again intersected the Rue Montorgueil in the space which separates the Rue Mauconseil from Saint Eustache.
The courtyards are intersected by high walls into a multitude of little oblong walks.
In this gloomy network of narrow streets, intersected with barricades, and blockaded by soldiers, two wine-shops had remained open.
It forms a hilly tableland elevated in the east and north, and intersected by numerous fertile river valleys, trending for the most part to the south and south-west.
The outline is irregular; the coast is for the most part bold and rocky, and is intersected by the bays of Bantry, Dunmanus, and Roaring Water.
In eastern or "locked" Arcadia these heights run in parallel courses intersected by cross-ridges, enclosing a series of upland plains whose waters have no egress save by underground channels or zerethra.
Owing to the steep banks of many of the wadis which intersected the area of operations, the routes passable by wheeled transport were limited, and, in many places, the going was heavy and difficult.
This consists of stitches that are worked in the width of the stuff, intersected by back-stitches set slightly slanting.
Here, every other square of the netting is filled, as closely as possible, with stitches; the empty squares between are intersected diagonally with corded threads.
He saw that he must use the trails of the wild beasts, which intersected it in all directions.
In front there was a steep but shallow dip, from which the land sloped gently up the valley, clothed with high bush and deep thickets intersected with innumerable narrow trails.
Rocks are not homogeneous; they are intersected by joints and places of weakness, which divide them into virtually detached masses.
At the base of the ice-fall a succession of protuberances, with steep frontal slopes, followed each other, and were intersected by crevasses.
The soil is intersected everywhere by canals for irrigation, and water is treasured up in tanks, and conveyed in wooden troughs for miles and miles of distance, with a care that shows the just value they ascribe to it.
They were now approaching the narrow point of the Cape, and found themselves on a dreary waste of barren country whereon only heath grew, and which was intersected with boggy creeks.
The country they passed over consisted of large, level plains, intersected by sand-ridges; but they crossed numerous creeks with more or less water in all of them.
Thence he kept a north-east course, traversing stony plains intersected by the dry beds of sandy watercourses.
Next day their course lay through plains intersected with belts of scrub, and they discovered another creek, inferior to the last one both in size and the quality of the water.
The great pastoral stretches of the upper course were left behind, and were succeeded by flat and inferior country intersected by sand-ridges.
The wide plains, intersected by far-winding rivers, offered no obvious barriers which might have marked off a separate kingdom of Tchernigov or Polotzk, and each district was too dependent on the others to become permanently estranged.
Broadly speaking, nearly the whole area enclosed within these boundaries is one unbroken plain, intersected and watered by several fine rivers, of which the Volga and the Dniepr are, historically, the most important.
It embraces the whole extent of the bay of Cadiz; the bright towns which stand upon its margin; the curiously intersectedcountry that cuts them off from each other; and the winding courses of the Guadalete and Santi Petri.
In a country intersected by deep canadones, which offer a secure hiding-place in their many hollows, this is a difficult matter.
The ground which descended to them was cut and intersected by pantanos of wet or drying mud and sand.
From far off it looked level, but in reality we found it to be intersected and veined with mighty gashes, which formed winding gorges.
Here we are in this huge country looking for horses upon and about a pampa intersected by many canadones, each of which would take an entire week to explore thoroughly.
The landscape was that broad plain I have mentioned, with Shasta on its verge, intersected by low rolling ridges, and broken by the cones of extinct volcanic spiracles, sometimes grouped, but oftener isolated.
By striking across the country six miles to the small settlement of Buckeye, we intersected a route little travelled, but far more picturesque, and leading directly to the great object of our longings.
Quixos and Macas are intersected by the rivers mentioned as flowing into the Maranon through parts of Maynas; but little is known of the state of the country on their banks, as the aborigines are there the sole and undisputed masters.
The western slope of this chain is broken into numberless elevated plains and peaks, intersected with crevices of the most tremendous appearance.
It was divided into four quarters, which had four broad roads leading from the four gates of the great temple; a fifth quarter was added, when the city of Tlatelolco was taken, and the city was intersected by canals in every direction.
The houses are mostly founded on piles, on account of the marshy nature of the ground, and the town is intersected by numerous canals.
There are four principal streets, running parallel to each other; these are wide and perfectly straight, and intersected by others of a smaller size, at right angles.
We were travelling these two days over very rough rocky ground, intersected with gullies and belts of scrub.
There is a large tract of land opposite Rockingham Bay which is occupied by swamps, intersected by patches of open ground, and a few peaked hills.
To the west and round to the south the country appeared to be fine undulating forest land, intersected by numerous creeks and small rivers falling considerably to the westward, as in fact all the water had been running for some days past.
During these three days we travelled over an irregular, mountainous country, intersected by numerous creeks, running in every direction, but all of them with belts of scrub on each side.
Our journey still continued through scrub, intersected by small creeks, which we had to cross, and by patches here and there of open forest ground, covered with long grass, the soil a stiff loam.
All round the Palace were charming gardens, intersected by watercourses, with many a grotto and pavilion, where gay young Princes and Princesses, pages and maids of honour, idled away the pleasant hours.
From Kalaw we rode through the Myelat, fine open country, but intersected by many ravines, to Nyaungywe, on the edge of the Inle Lake.
A comparatively barren land, fringed by hills of no great height, intersected by many watercourses, now beds of dry sand, anon rushing torrents.
The state forms a level plain of triangular shape, intersected by numerous rivers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "intersected" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: crisscross; cross; secant
