Crag Sentence Examples

At the base of the Red Crag in that county is a bed, 3 to 18 in.

Remains of crag deposits lie in pipes in the chalk near Lenham.

The natural cleavage of the trachyte into joint planes had already scarped out shelves which it was comparatively easy for human labour to shape; and so, high up this cone of trachyte, the Greek town of Assus was built, tier above tier, the summit of the crag being crowned with a Doric temple of Athena.

On a crag above the town stands the v.

Crag, a heap or barrow - Crag Mawr, Trichrug.

The old castle, Schloss Ilsenburg, lying on a high crag above the town, was originally an imperial stronghold and was probably built by the German king Henry I.

On the north the crag is crowned by a sort of plateau sloping backwards into a round-topped hill.

The foremost foothill of the range is the steep crag of Mons Titanus, crowned by the towers of the republic of San Marino.

The Suffolk Crag has yielded the unmistakable bones of an albatross, Diomedea.

Several of the lesser elevations near the lake are especially famous as view-points, such as Castle Head, Walla Crag, Ladder Brow and Cat Bells.

The picturesque ruins of an old castle on a crag close by the town are usually known as the castle of Queen Bona, i.e.

Craig, a rock or crag - Pen-y-graig.

Search Hart Crag 8th November at 17.30 Two people became benighted on Hart Crag.

An interesting north east facing little overhanging crag situated about two miles north of Alnwick and just west of the A1.

The pseudo-coprolites of the Suffolk Crag have been estimated by Herapath to be as rich in phosphates as the true ichthyo-coprolites and saurio-coprolites of other formations, the proportion of P 2 O 5 contained varying between 12.5 and 37.25%, the average proportion, however, being 32 or 33%.

The walk-in starts from a beach and you reach the crag via a very pleasant 30 min walk along the coast path.

Access and approaches The crag can be reached from several directions.

It is a volcanic rocky crag and one time prison, standing guard on the southern coast of the First of Forth.

To my knowledge this is the only natural gritstone crag in the country from which the coast can be seen.

The classic limestone crag has exciting climbs to challenge all levels of ability.

A compact, pleasant north facing sandstone crag with over a dozen routes up to HVS.

The last section of the ascent path with the summit crag beckoning ahead.

A Crag Chilia, another Chilean endemic, was then found and although for only a short time, most people saw it well.

The crag stands above a steep woody hillside, with a caravan site down on the right of the road.

Look for the chapel in a cave up on the left, and crag martins flying around the crags on the right.

East and south Ben Vrackie has many plants concentrated round one fairly small crag - purple oxytropis, Alpine milk vetch and scottish asphodel.

After reaching the floor we tried to pull the ropes through from the abseil point at the top of the crag.

Most of the crag dries quickly, particularly the Upper Tier, and takes little seepage.

This was the site of Crag End Locks, a three-rise staircase.

The third section is intimidating on approach, a path zigzags through the crag avoiding much of the trouble.

The steep expanse of rock to the right of Gone is crossed by some of the best routes on the crag.

The crag gets very little sunshine except first thing in the morning.

The Climbs Composed of natural, weathered sandstone the crag can be divided into four buttresses.

Almansa is built at the foot of a white limestone crag, which is surmounted by a Moorish castle, and rises abruptly in the midst of a fertile and irrigated plain.

The phosphatic nodules occurring throughout the Red Crag of Suffolk are regarded as derived from the Coralline Crag.

It embraces over 10,000 acres, including the Blue Hill reservation (about 5000 acres), the highest land in eastern Massachusetts, a beautiful reservation of forest, crag and pond known as Middlesex Fells, two large beach bath reservations on the harbour at Revere and Hull (Nantasket), and the boating section of the Charles river.

The Pena de los Enamorados, or "Lovers' Peak," is a conspicuous crag which owes its name to the romantic legend adapted by Robert Southey (1774-1843) in his Laila and Manuel.

At the base of the Red Crag in East Anglia, and occasionally at the base of the other Pliocene Crags, there is a " nodule bed," consisting of phosphatic nodules, with rolled teeth and bones, which were formerly worked as " coprolites " for the preparation of artificial manure.

They are divided into the Diestien, corresponding in part with the English Coralline Crag, the Scaldisien and Poederlien corresponding with the Walton Crag, and the Amstelien corresponding with the Red Crag of Suffolk.

According to Lyell, Etna is rather older than Vesuvius - perhaps of the same geological age as the Norwich Crag.

The high Silurian crag now known as Domberg was early occupied by an Esthonian fort, Lindanissa.

Near Husavik in the north there have been found marine deposits containing a number of marine shells; they belong to the Red Crag division of the Pliocene.

A resident barn owl also lives at the crag in the second born crack.

The latest Pliocene, or pre-Glacial, flora of northern Europe is best known from the Cromer Forest-bed of Norfolk and Suffolk, a fluvio-marine deposit which lies beneath the whole of the Glacial deposits of these counties, and passes downwards into the Crag, many of the animals actually associated with the plants being characteristic Pliocene species which seem immediately afterwards to have been exterminated by the increasing cold.

Along the western side of northern Anti-Lebanon stretches the Khasha'a, a rough red region lined with juniper trees, a succession of the hardest limestone crests and ridges, bristling with bare rock and crag that shelter tufts of vegetation, and are divided by a succession of grassy ravines.

The term coprolites has been made to include all kinds of phosphatic nodules employed as manures, such, for example, as those obtained from the Coralline and the Red Crag of Suffolk.

The tenant of the air, it seemed related to the earth but by an egg hatched some time in the crevice of a crag;--or was its native nest made in the angle of a cloud, woven of the rainbow's trimmings and the sunset sky, and lined with some soft midsummer haze caught up from earth?