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Example sentences for "volcanic formation"

  • However, some of the islands are lofty and of volcanic formation.

  • The islands are all mountainous and of volcanic formation.

  • The islands are of volcanic formation, lofty and mountainous.

  • The locality, however, proved to be of volcanic formation, and a pit or cave in which the flints were to be found, successfully eluded our efforts to discover it.

  • The groups of atolls, which there occur, were formed, as shown by recent investigations, around and over oceanic peaks of volcanic formation, and independently of any movement of subsidence.

  • On this reasoning, tree Nerites ought to be more numerous in islands of volcanic formation; but this is a point on which I cannot pronounce from the lack of sufficient evidence.

  • In the island of Faro, which is entirely of volcanic formation, flints are not known to the natives, and it would be interesting to ascertain whether they are similarly absent from other islands of the same character.

  • We continued, and entered a broader valley, also of volcanic formation, with reddish sediments burying a sub-formation of yellowish brown rock which appeared in the section of the mountains some 300 feet above the plain.

  • The characteristic shape of the peaks of the range is conical, and a great many deep-cut channels and holes are noticeable in the rocky sides of these sugar-loaf mountains, as is frequently the case in mountains of volcanic formation.

  • We were here in a region of volcanic formation.

  • Like all the islands of the Atlantic, it is of volcanic formation.

  • All the mountains are of volcanic formation.

  • It lies in the centre of a small bay, on the two sides of which are magnificent headlands with precipitous cliffs and rocks of volcanic formation.

  • Instead of green banks, as between Tomakomai and Shimokebo, here were high cliffs of volcanic formation, with a narrow strip of sand at their foot.

  • Almost the whole of the western part of the Iburi district is of volcanic formation.

  • I have often found it growing wild on mountain slopes of volcanic formation, where the little depth of soil scarcely gave it room to root.

  • All the islands are mountainous and of volcanic formation.

  • The Archipelago is said to be of volcanic formation, and unlimited quantities of sulphur exist on many of the islands.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after period; both houses; child labour; coral rock; domestic institution; has said; hundred feet; know why; little grim; second child; small family; spontaneous variation; take hede; time wore; useful work; volcanic action; volcanic activity; volcanic agency; volcanic ashes; volcanic dust; volcanic eruptions; volcanic island; volcanic islands; volcanic rock; volcanic rocks; winged woodpecker