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Example sentences for "worn pebbles"

  • I speak thus after having examined small water-worn pebbles, formed from Roman bricks, which M.

  • The appearance of the above nodules of chalk surprised me, much at first, as they closely resembled water-worn pebbles, whereas the freshly-broken fragments had been angular.

  • The smallest of these water-worn pebbles of brick from Geneva resembled closely many of those extracted from the gizzards of worms, but the larger ones were somewhat smoother.

  • Amongst the water- worn pebbles, of which the rising ground consisted, there were, besides the ingredients of the Barwan gravel, many of trap and basalt.

  • In the gravel at the base of the hill, were water-worn pebbles of trap and basalt.

  • The red earth seemed to be but the decomposed matrix of that rock, as the water-worn pebbles of quartz so thickly set therein, here covered the ground in some places so thickly as to resemble snow.

  • It was then surrounded by a ring made up of water-worn pebbles, apparently brought up from the river.

  • We saw no other water-worn pebbles on the surface of the ridge, but they were numerous in the gravel of the bottom-lands subject to the overflow of the rivers.

  • On the top of this heap of soil and among the broken rock to the south and east of it, were found several water-worn pebbles, used as hammers in breaking up the rock, as indicated by the battered condition of their ends (p.

  • Within this zone there are spots where the fragments of quartzite are so well rounded as to simulate water-worn pebbles.

  • They are also found among water-worn pebbles, wherever the rocky beds of our rivers or the rocky bluffs of our sea-shores crumble down.

  • They are found upon and among the glacier-worn pebbles, especially where the latter have themselves been disturbed since their accumulation.


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