The driver was whistling softly to himself and glancing attentively ahead, for there was a continuousoutcrop of boulders all along the road.
This bold man, embarking in a mere whaleboat, passed along the Australian coast until he found the outcrop of coal.
The steep path became a rocky staircase, which emerged from the wood into an elaborate rock garden, so artfully constructed that it seemed almost a natural outcrop from the leafy soil.
There were ancient gnarled trees of immense girth, with little secret lawns, and stretches of deep bracken; a purling stream, and an outcrop of rugged rocks, where the picnic feast was held.
Now we came to a rough outcrop of red sandstone, looming ruddily on our right.
We had soon left the shady groves behind us, our clever little ponies often obliged to pick their footsteps, where an outcrop of rock or blocks of fallen stone obstructed the margin of level ground.
Perhaps the most interesting principle which we see operative in this region is the outcrop of volcanoes along meridional lines.
Hazel knew that Jack Murray behind his outcrop must hear the thunder of the racing hoofs, the rattle of the swooping buckboard.
She heard a yell from the direction of the outcrop above the wash.
Fingers busy with the breast-strap snap, she looked back to see a man hurdle the outcrop and plunge toward her through the brush.
Directly above the site and to the northeast, a light-yellow sandstone outcrop has been exposed to weathering for a considerable period of time.
The Tank Site is adjacent to a massive basaltoutcrop from which angular core tools were manufactured.
It is not improbable that this was a quarry site; an outcrop of rhyolite is close at hand.
Six bedrock mortars were found here in a sandstone outcrop of the south bank of the creek, 200 feet upstream from the Kiewit Ranch.
Three deep bedrock mortars, and some seven smaller, have been worn into a sandstone outcrop toward the upper end of the site, and a single pestle, and scraper plane of quartzite, came from the surface.
He clambered to the topmost level of the rocky outcropand dragged a blazing stick with him.
Harkness pointed to a scar on a mountainside where a crystal outcrop in a sheer face of rock sparkled brilliantly in the sunlight.
Within the barricade, at about the center, the top of the knoll showed an outcrop of rocks that rose high enough to be exposed to fire from outside, but their little shelters were on nearly level ground at the base of the rocks.
And on the knoll, near an outcrop of limestone rocks, was a house.
In the rocky outcrop at the top of their knoll he had found a cave with which this rock seemed honeycombed.
He was grey and he was woolly, and his pride was inordinate: he danced on an outcrop in the middle of Australia, and he went to the Little God Nqa.
He is dancing on an outcrop (that means a ledge of rock) in the middle of Australia at six o'clock before breakfast.
It might be inferred, therefore, that from A to B we had a gradually ascending series--that as we paced over the outcrop we were stepping constantly from a lower to a higher geological horizon.
He recalled even the fact that it was HIS prospecting on the mountain that first suggested the existence of gold in the outcrop and the use of the hydraulic.
The frequent recurrence of outcrop and angle made this comparatively easy.
He recalled even the fact that it was his prospecting on the mountain that first suggested the existence of gold in the outcropand the use of the hydraulic.
There's the coal under us, and we work it at any depth from following up an outcrop down to six hundred feet.
The carpenter stood on an outcrop of rock, and said angrily: "See what damage your hathi has done, Sahib.
A short walk over a grassy down gives on to an outcrop of very dirty sandstone, which in the excessive innocence of his heart the visitor naturally takes to be the coal lying neatly on the surface.
When the outcrop is the pure red sandstone, we can hope for little else but the desert spinifex.
When the outcrop is limestone, we may reckon on good pastoral country, and a fair water supply.
So if Nature or chance should indicate a locality suitable for mining, the miner should dig his trenches there; if no vein appears he must dig numerous trenches until he discovers an outcrop of a vein.
Here there was no trail at all, only spreading outcropof crock under dying leaves.
Somewhere in here began an outcrop of rock running east for miles.
The outcrop runs by Tingwick, Buckingham, Berehampton and Newport Pagnell, it is quarried at Wolverton and elsewhere for road metal.
The dry leaves and the blankets would make a bed good enough for any forest rover at that time of the year, but Henry noticed a stone outcrop in a hill above them and concluded to look farther.
The outcrop was of the crumbling limestone that imparts inexhaustible fertility to the soil of a great region in Kentucky.
This outcrop of sandstone is known locally as Rocky Point or Violet Hill, from the abundance of violets which carpet its slopes in the spring.
A fine view may be obtained from this outcrop or from the land back of the Scherbath house.
The surface of the outcrop was rounded during the invasion of the glacial ice into this region.
The locator's discovery was upon an outcrop rich in silver.
Dome-shaped outcropof strata on the Ohio, older than the coal.
The dip of the strata is indicated by the small arrows and the accompanying figures; and it will be observed on tracing the outcrop of any stratum, a a, across the fault that it is shifted to the right.
If the throw of the fault were reversed, the displacement of the outcrop would be reversed, also.
It is instructive to observe the relations of the outcrop to the form of the surface.
Metalliferous veins, especially, are usually deeply decomposed along the outcrop by the action of atmospheric agencies.
It is the direction of the outcrop of the strata where the ground is level.
The scenery around Petworth is characteristic of the Lower Greensand country and the picturesque wooded outcrop north-east of Byworth is perhaps as beautiful as any other part of this distinctive belt.
A picturesque outcrop of the Hastings sandstone around a small lake forms a beauty spot of local fame: it is within the demesne of "The Rocks" on the west of the town.
An Outcrop of Middle Ordovician Stratified Limestone in Northern New York.
The cliff character of the outcrop is due to the fact that the lava is much more resistant to erosion than the sandstone above and below it.
In still other places, middle Ordovician strata, associated with other rocks, are highly folded, as in the Appalachians, where such strata outcrop in only narrow belts following the trend of the folds.
Clackmannanshire coal-field, as if the strata at the outcrop all around were denuded of the alluvial cover.
The situation of rivers, lakes, or marshes, particularly if any be near the outcrop of the coal strata.
