The outcrop erodes away as it gets sandblasted, and the spherules (which seem to resist erosion better than the rest of the outcrop does) fall out and roll down the hill. Weird.
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He's just standing there, completely still, on a rocky outcrop.
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Until recently, the divide of this outcrop has been largely theoretical.
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A 10-hour hike precedes the stunning rock outcrop that is Trolltunga.
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Image: Neil DaviesThis may be the end of paleontological explorations along this particular outcrop.
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I start to see glass vitrines, embedded at impossible angles on a steep outcrop.
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Fragments taken from the outcrop display distinctly soil-like characteristics, including mudcracks and sand crystals.
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Only the small outcrop now discovered, measuring some 98 by 230 feet, avoided intense heating.
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The community took its name in 443 from a granite outcrop on the town's edge.
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I needed to climb again, get around the rocky outcrop above me, to be more visible.
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IN THE DISTANCE, Orvieto's cathedral sits majestically on the massive outcrop over which the city spreads.
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As the authors of the new study note, the outcrop is located near a former caravan route.
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During a recent helicopter survey, Noffke saw the outcrop sticking out from underneath a receding ice cap.
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We descended toward an ever-narrowing outcrop of rock where the lighthouse sits at the cliff edge.
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The Bramble Cay, a rodent that lived on a tiny outcrop in the Great Barrier Reef, is extinct.
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It would be wrong, however, to understand Brazil's plutocracy as the product of some unique outcrop of corruption.
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If there were rocky hills or obstructions, you'd see a shadow — known as a holiday — behind the outcrop.
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He said that a "Greenland government observer" who attended Allwood's expedition said it was a "short one-day helicopter trip," and that the scientists avoided the site (outcrop B) explored by Nutman because it was "covered by a thin layer of snow," choosing a different, more accessible site (outcrop A) instead.
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The last remaining outcrop of bipartisan consensus is that we all can't wait for this election to be over.
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Devils Tower National Monument is a stunning yet strange rock outcrop in the middle of a prairie in Wyoming.
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"We want a lot of rocks or rock outcrop, because that's what tells us the geologic story," Farley said.
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Scarborough Shoal is the largest outcrop in the dispute between the Philippines and China in the South China Sea.
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While we lunch beside the waterfall with the goats, we spy another goat on an outcrop across the paradise pool.
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From a few hundred yards away, at the foot of the hill, he points to the outcrop of pine trees.
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About 35 kilometers south of Inukjuak, an Inuit village in the far North of Quebec, lies an unusual rocky outcrop.
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Manya Hillel and her husband have lived in a house below an outcrop of pine trees for almost 15 years.
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We spotted the lone gannet's yellow head bobbing as he perched high on a dark granite outcrop, exhibiting nesting behaviors.
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Image: University of OregonEarth's oldest soil could be tucked away in an ancient rock outcrop in Greenland, according to new research.
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There was also a rock outcrop nearby full of volcanic obsidian, which they used to make tools to hunt the rodents.
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They say that the rock layer forming the outcrop in which the fossils were found lies on the southwest coast of Greenland.
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Any action by China to reclaim land in the Scarborough Shoal, an outcrop in the disputed sea, would have consequences, Carter said.
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The Château de Calberte is jammed onto a steep, rocky outcrop and the wall in some places is at least 20 feet high.
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The specimen was found by an amateur fossil hunter in 1999 in an outcrop of limestone in the Dolomite mountains of northern Italy.
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This outcrop of modernism, designed by Adolf Loos, was completed in 1911, less than 20 years after the dome-topped palace entrance it faces.
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Word travels fast on the Isle of Lewis, population 21,000, a blustery Scottish outcrop which has traditionally churned out tweed and hardy evangelical Christians.
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As we stood on one flat, mountain outcrop, Donahue pointed to glimmering shapes dotted through the trees on the other side of the river.
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Frankly, my eye is on one of the giant, white, fiberglass guitars I see lined up in front of an outcrop of pine trees.
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They make the 235-mile climb to the top of the 825-foot granite outcrop or navigate the sidewalks and trails that surround it.
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Any action by China to reclaim land in the Scarborough Shoal, an outcrop in the disputed South China Sea, would have consequences, Carter said.
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But 120,803 years ago, this limestone outcrop was part of a white sandy shoal beneath a sea that covered the lower third of Florida.
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Only Das's beloved Lhasa endures, the gleaming white walls of Potala still draped over their outcrop of rock like fresh snow upon a mountaintop.
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He was alone when BORSTAR found his body earlier this year on the bare outcrop, which has now become some kind of sacrificial altar.
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Better known for his fondness of cycling before entering 10 Downing Street, Johnson swam around a rocky outcrop several hundred metres off a Biarritz beach.
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Deposits of Chicxulub tektites are rare; the best source, discovered in 1990, is a small outcrop in Haiti, on a cliff above a road cut.
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Every few miles, Jack would point out a mountain, field or coastal outcrop with a name and spiritual tale that was thousands of years old.
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Japan's government announced this week that it's buying Mageshima Island, an uninhabited outcrop 353 miles (34 kilometers) from the southernmost Japanese main island of Kyushu.
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Known as Vera Ridge after the pioneering astrophysicist Vera Rubin, the durable outcrop could shed new light on the environment and potential habitability of ancient Mars.
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So, while Chinese ships have confronted Malaysian, Philippine and Vietnamese vessels in the area, Taiwan's regular journeys to and from the lonely outcrop have gone unimpeded.
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While Taiwan has occupied the 46 hectare (110 acre) outcrop almost 2,000 km south of Taipei for decades, China, the Philippines and Vietnam also claim it.
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It's at the highest point in the Florida Keys, but was once a reef with living coral, submerged, like the outcrop in Miami, under the sea.
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The outcrop at the neck of the Mediterranean was ceded to Britain in the Treaty of Utrecht of 1713, and has been squabbled over ever since.
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The Philippines has long claimed Scarborough Shoal, an outcrop off its western coast that was once used as a firing range by the United States military.
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Mr. Wang was visiting Bonnieux, a village with a church atop a rocky outcrop in the southern region of Provence, when the fall occurred Tuesday morning.
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A 44-year-old British tourist went missing after going swimming alone in Hermitage Lagoon, off Réunion Island, a tropical outcrop in the Indian Ocean, last weekend.
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While we've been gushing over InSight, the six-wheeled NASA rover has been working at Vera Rubin Ridge, investigating the Highfield outcrop, a unique patch of grey bedrock.
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Boessenecker's analysis was based on the discovery of a single Inermorostrum skull, which was recently found in a limestone outcrop by a diver in South Carolina's Wando River.
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On February 11, 2004, while exploring a rocky outcrop at Meridiani Planum, Opportunity ventured into an area where the Martian surface was covered with hard, round, gray pebbles.
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Curiosity has traveled miles more than 13 miles since it landed on Mars in August 2012, and is now located near a steep rocky outcrop called Central Butte.
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The river mouth is narrow, caught between a steep bluff on one side and a rocky outcrop on the other, but widening it is out of the question.
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After eight hours of searching, Boat 36826 slows as it passes under a section of the bridge, a giant outcrop of grey concrete covered in spindly metal scaffolding.
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When snow began melting on Isua island off the southwestern tip of Greenland, revealing a freshly exposed outcrop of rocks, geologist Allen Nutman and his colleagues got to work.
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At the Twin Rocks Trading Post, a cafe beneath an outcrop of striated red rock at the edge of Bears Ears National Monument, Al Yazzie had a different perspective.
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Data from the vehicle's software air bag module suggests the car had stopped at the scenic highway outcrop overlooking the cliff and then accelerated off the road, Baarts said.
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So, the mother of two had no idea Tim's latest ascent of the 20163,000-foot rock outcrop on Saturday — with friends Jason Wells and Kevin Prince — would be his last.
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The rock layer forming the outcrop, known to geologists as the Isua supracrustal belt, lies on the southwest coast of Greenland and is some 3.9 to 3.7 billion years old.
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JAMESTOWN, St. Helena (Reuters) - On St. Helena, the remote volcanic outcrop in the South Atlantic where Napoleon breathed his last, big changes are afoot - well, big by St. Helena standards.
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In one sequence, a full moon rose slowly over an outcrop as Roger Kaza, St. Louis's principal horn player, performed the sixth movement, "Interstellar Call," which is a horn solo.
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Otto von Bismarck, a Prussian statesman, craved the outcrop, and in 1890 Britain ceded it to Germany in exchange for a free hand in the former slave-trading sultanate of Zanzibar.
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On the smooth walls of a rocky outcrop within the mountain region known as Serranía de la Lindosa, there's a wall with one of the most important rock paintings in Colombia.
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Recently, the rover's camera captured a panorama of the Teal Ridge outcrop and Strathdon, a rock comprised of wavy sediment layers that could have been sculpted by wind, water or both.
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The vehicle had plunged into the water from a flat, gravel-covered outcrop where travelers can stop to admire the view, walk their dog or stretch their legs, the sheriff said.
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Hoatzins, a kind of tropical pheasant, flap noisily between copses; kingfishers flash like jewels above the streams that gurgle down from the Sierra de la Macarena, an imposing outcrop of the Andes.
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In March 2500, Dominic Papineau, a geochemist at University College London, and his student Matthew Dodd described tubelike fossils in an outcrop in Quebec that dates to the basement of Earth's history.
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Two U.S. officials confirmed that the USS Hopper had sailed within 12 nautical miles of Scarborough Shoal, a rocky outcrop and prime fishing spot due to its bountiful catches and calm waters.
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FROM a rocky outcrop overlooking a limestone quarry in the desolate valley below, a fighter from Hizbullah surveys what just days before had been territory controlled by militants linked to al-Qaeda.
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Just a three-quarter-mile hike from the parking area, Horseshoe Bend is a spot in Page, Arizona, where the Colorado River makes a 180-degree turn around a giant golden outcrop.
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His previous releases—2010's Dagger Paths EP and 2013's Engravings—made clear a personal connection to the Wirral, an outcrop of land sandwiched between Liverpool and northernmost tip of Wales.
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Connected to the mainland by a long iron footbridge, this golden stone outcrop in the Bay of Biscay is topped with a statue of the Virgin Mary as iconic as Biarritz itself.
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The sandstone outcrop contained fractured quartz grains, which the geologists think were proximal ejecta from the meteorite — the term for material that gets pushed out from an impact site into nearby rocks.
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China, which claims almost the entire South China Sea, stopped repelling Filipino boats in late 2016 and allowed Filipinos to fish on the rocky outcrop, 200 km (124 miles) from the Philippines.
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Controversy was recently rekindled when Greek youths hoisted a flag on another rocky outcrop.. Reporting by Michele Kambas in Athens and Irem Koca in Istanbul; Writing by Michele Kambas; Editing by Dale Hudson
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At one outcrop we saw evidence where the debris flow came to a halt but the material behind it was still trying to move forward and was pushed up over the stalled material.
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The remote Pacific outcrop, called the Dokdo Islands in South Korea and the Takeshima Islands in Japan, made headlines Tuesday following an alleged violation of the airspace above them by a Russian jet.
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"We should maintain the civilian nature so as not to escalate tensions," he said, reacting to some suggestions the Philippines deploy warships to Scarborough Shoal to assert Manila's claim on the rocky outcrop.
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MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Benigno Aquino on Thursday accused China of breaking a U.S.-brokered deal between the two nations on the Scarborough Shoal, an uninhabited rocky outcrop in the South China Sea.
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Its massive cross on a rocky outcrop in the foothills of the Sierra de Guadarrama is visible from the outskirts of Madrid, and its basilica is a cold vault bored 250 metres into the mountainside.
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Presiding over the town, the Palamidi fortress, an 18th-century citadel built on a rocky outcrop, is accessible by either a challenging hike up a nearly 193,000-step stone staircase or a short scenic drive.
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Last month, a Philippine minister said Chinese President Xi Jinping had promised his Philippine counterpart China would not build structures on the rocky outcrop both countries claim, but China called the comments "baffling and regrettable".
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These illuminated Christian manuscripts—at around 19953,500 years old, perhaps the oldest of their kind in existence—belong to Abba Garima monastery, which is perched on a remote outcrop in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia.
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MANILA (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping has promised his Philippine counterpart that China would not build structures on a rocky outcrop both countries claim in the South China Sea, a Philippine government minister said on Thursday.
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China five years ago started blockading the Scarborough Shoal, a rocky outcrop within the Philippines' 200 mile exclusive economic zone (EEZ), and the United States has warned Beijing against carrying out the land reclamation work there.
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Scientists said on Thursday DNA analysis of museum specimens of the bug and a similar-looking one from an inhospitable volcanic outcrop called Ball's Pyramid 14 miles (23 km) away confirmed they are the same species.
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MANILA (Reuters) - Chinese coast guard vessels prevented a Philippine nationalist group from planting a Filipino flag on a rocky South China Sea outcrop, the group said on Monday, the latest territorial standoff between the two countries.
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The severed hand and wedding ring of a 44-year-old British tourist has been found inside a tiger shark off the coast of Réunion island, a tropical outcrop in the Indian Ocean, multiple reports say.
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The next morning, we returned to Makena State Park, hiked over a jagged lava outcrop, then down through thorny kiawe trees to Little Beach — a pristine stretch of sand at the base of a cinder cone.
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LONDON — To the formidable list of problems facing Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain as she negotiates the nation's risky withdrawal from the European Union, add one more: the future of the rocky outcrop of Gibraltar.
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Hermogenes Esperon said Chinese ships were still present but had not blocked Filipino boats at the Scarborough shoal, a rocky outcrop central to an international arbitration case, since President Rodrigo Duterte's visit to Beijing two weeks ago.
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Townshend said that China could begin construction work on Scarborough Shoal -- an outcrop it currently controls 100 miles from the Philippines and 500 miles from China -- or set up an air defense zone over the South China Sea.
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While foggy weather had initially delayed the royal helicopter from making the 28-mile flight to the Scilly Islands from the English mainland, William and Kate arrived on the rocky outcrop under bright sunshine and brilliant blue skies.
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Late Monday, two British divers experienced in cave rescues, accompanied by a team of Thai Navy SEAL divers, found the survivors on an elevated outcrop, perched above a pool of water about 2 kilometers from the cave mouth.
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The SEAL team, including doctors, has stayed with the boys, setting up lights and communications on the outcrop and giving them energy gels to keep them going while rescuers work out the best approach to get them out.
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So in 1936, when Moses was parks commissioner, he dedicated the 20-foot curved granite bench that is situated on a rocky outcrop in Central Park's Shakespeare Garden, a garden that Mr. Stover himself commissioned, to his friend.
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Seoul, South Korea (CNN)In 1991, Kim Sin-yeol and her husband made the unusual decision to move to a lonely outcrop of islands at the heart of a long-standing territorial dispute between Japan and South Korea.
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Thitu is more than 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Subi Reef, once a coral outcrop that now resembles a small Chinese city with a runway and skyline visible from the Philippine-held island when its lights glow at night.
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A Philippines air force plane flew over the rocky outcrop on Saturday and spotted more boats than usual in a flotilla China has maintained since seizing the shoal after a tense standoff in 2012, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said.
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Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSSA few weeks earlier, while Curiosity was exploring a region within the clay-bearing unit, the rover stopped to take a 360-degree panorama as it stood next to a rocky outcrop named Teal Ridge.
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Perched on an outcrop overlooking the tidal bay of Lochmaddy, the Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum & Arts Centre occupies a former 18th-century inn and is the epicenter of the arts community on the two Uist islands in the Outer Hebrides.
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Data from the vehicle's software air bag module and software suggest the car had stopped at the scenic highway outcrop overlooking the cliff and then accelerated off the road, said Greg Baarts of the California Highway Patrol's Northern Division.
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The national men's team recently placed 83rd in FIFA rankings, just ahead of the Faroe Islands, a remote outcrop of Denmark with fewer than 19803,000 inhabitants, and it is unlikely to win a spot in the 2018 World Cup.
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Photo: Photos courtesy of Carlos JaramilloAfter spotting the fossils in the coastal outcrop, Atencio called Carlos Jaramillo, a geologist and paleontologist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, who in turn put together a team of scientists to excavate them.
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Nutman said he's "mystified" that Allwood and her colleagues focused on the far end of the site A outcrop, which his team avoided because of the severe tectonic deformations and chemical weathering observed in this particular part of the rock formation.
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ITU ABA, South China Sea (Reuters) - On Itu Aba, in the Spratly archipelago of the South China Sea, Taiwanese coast guard officials proudly haul a small wooden bucket of water from one of several simple concrete wells on the coral outcrop.
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The more challenging 40-mile round-trip Tom's Thumb Trail rises 275,2179 feet in elevation, taking hikers past massive granite and metamorphic rock formations, prickly teddy bear cholla cactus and vibrant wildflowers to the namesake outcrop and a panoramic sunset perch.
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The tiny sketches and illustrations are much in keeping with the world that she constructed around herself, including her one-room summer cabin on the rocky outcrop of Klovharun (to call it an island seems a stretch) in the Finnish archipelago.
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SYDNEY, Australia — Australian researchers say rising sea levels have wiped out a rodent that lived on a tiny outcrop in the Great Barrier Reef, in what they say is the first documented extinction of a mammal species due to human-caused climate change.
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KHON PI LONG, Thailand (Reuters) - China's plan to blast open more of the Mekong River for bigger cargo ships could founder on a remote outcrop of half-submerged rocks that Thai protesters have vowed to protect against Beijing's economic expansion in Southeast Asia.
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But as we inched into the continent's interior, stopping whenever some outcrop or dirt pile caught my father's eye, I realized I could be wealthier than I had ever imagined — if I availed myself of the skulls still firmly rooted in their carcasses.
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But the biggest draw might be the location, between the island's most distinctive landmarks — the Faraglione, a stack of oceanic rock popular with divers, and the Arco dell'Elefante, another rocky outcrop, which resembles an elephant plunging its trunk into the sea. clublevante.
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The site is on Sadhu-Bet island, a rocky outcrop in the middle of the Naramada river bed, and the team had to engineer and reinforce it in a way that artfully integrated the sculpture's base with the surrounding body of water.
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Part innovation lab, part incubator and part community center, Impact Hub's Vienna outcrop is another local pillar with an international perspective, offering everything from accelerator programs to scaling mentorship and social impact awards — all oriented toward promoting sustainable solutions to pressing issues through startup entrepreneurship.
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Nathan Kanczes was attending Teen Wilderness Camp through YMCA Camp Kon-O-Kwee Spencer in Fort Hill on Monday when he fell from a remote outcrop called Cove Rocks, according to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and a statement from the YMCA of Greater Pittsburgh.
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In 2015, a gravitational analysis of the region suggested the crater was about 50 kilometers (31 miles) wide, and located to the east of the Stac Fada outcrop—a narrow belt that runs about 50 km north and south along the northwest coast of Scotland.
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The center, on Manus Island, a rugged, volcanic outcrop, is one of two such detention centers that Australia maintains in the Pacific to house migrants it has intercepted on the way to its shores, a policy that rights groups and the United Nations have criticized.
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The terms also signaled how Britain was losing control over developments in Europe by giving Spain an effective veto over whether any deal applied to Gibraltar, the rocky outcrop that has long been the subject of an acrimonious sovereignty dispute between London and Madrid.
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It was not clear what prompted Carpio's call but broadcaster GMA News reported on Monday that Chinese fishermen had harvested giant clams and destroyed coral reefs in Scarborough Shoal, a rocky outcrop, 200 km (124 miles) from the Philippines, claimed by both China and the Philippines.
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A Philippine coastguard vessel navigated choppy waters to collect the two fishermen from the Chinese ship, in what would be the first time in four years both countries' coastguards were in close proximity in the Scarborough Shoal, a rocky outcrop at the heart of years of diplomatic tension.
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Competitive climbers never lose that love, even as they struggle to perch on a postage-stamp-size piece of real estate, leap from one egg-size outcrop to another, or scale inch by inch up a sheer wall, then an inverted wall, then a nearly upside-down wall.
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The rocky outcrop rises just 221 meters above the plain, about 254 feet, but it gave some 210,000 Germans sufficient cover to dig in and slaughter many of the up to one million Soviet troops sent in waves to overwhelm the enemy and clear the way to Berlin.
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The new study, led by University of Oregon geologist Greg Retallack and Old Dominion University geologist Nora Noffke, describes a tantalizing new rock outcrop in the Isua Greenstone Belt of southwestern Greenland that, quite possibly, contains our planet's oldest dirt, and by consequence, the oldest traces of life on the planet.
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Duterte's outreach has stunned the region, coming just months after an arbitration tribunal in The Hague ruled in favor of the Philippines in a case it lodged in 2013 to challenge not only China's control of the rocky outcrop, but the legality of its manmade islands and vast maritime claims.
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A system of opposing ropes would then have been used to lay the vertical pillars on their side: ropes lassoed around the top of a pillar would pull it away from the rock face, while others held by workers standing at the summit of the outcrop would steady its descent.
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Duterte's outreach has stunned the region, coming just months after an arbitration tribunal in The Hague ruled in favour of the Philippines in a case it lodged in 2013 to challenge not only China's control of the rocky outcrop, but the legality of its manmade islands and vast maritime claims.
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The authorities could not say exactly how many people were on the boat and asked passengers or relatives to report to a makeshift rescue center along the shore of the reservoir, which surrounds the soaring rocky outcrop of El Penol, a popular weekend destination a little more than an hour from Medellin.
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It is peppered with useful précis on towering figures from natural history — we join the 19th-century naturalist and savant Mary Anning, for instance, plying the Jurassic Coast for ichthyosaurs, and stand with the father of Deep Time himself, James Hutton, as he stares down the abyss of time represented in an outcrop in Scotland, contemplating the successive layers of earth that created it.
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