When Curiosity approached the volcanic rock, there was never really any expectation that it would pique great excitement.
We head uphill, across crumbly volcanic rock through a narrowing defile that rises to the top of a ridge.
Ocean waves broke on the volcanic rock below, and we sat for a long while before heading back.
They're crowded together on a mound of black volcanic rock, and they're squawking and cooing their hearts out.
"Then it cooled, and the wood was locked in the volcanic rock, " Wolfe told LiveScience in an email.
The sand is very probably just the product of weathered basalt, the ubiquitous volcanic rock on Mars' surface.
Spend a day exploring the gleaming Baroque churches made from white volcanic rock.
This is the way early Polynesians first conquered this seemingly endless world of water that is punctuated by lumps of volcanic rock and coral.
Shelves and coffee tables display trinkets picked up around the world an ivory elephant from India, a piece of volcanic rock from Pantelleria.
All around the stunning, perched towns of Pitigliano, Sovana, and Sorano run hidden hiking trails carved from volcanic rock by the pre-Roman Etruscans.
The glacier starts just below the summit and extends for some 2, 000 feet before giving way to huge boulder fields of volcanic rock.
The company said the closure was necessitated by weak volcanic rock above the ore deposit which allowed water to flow into the mine.
Vikings settled this chunk of volcanic rock in the Atlantic in the year 874, and the Icelanders have lived in comparative isolation ever since.
Vikings settled this chunk of volcanic rock in the North Atlantic in the year 874, and the Icelanders have lived in comparative isolation ever since.
The crater floor is made of relatively new volcanic rock, formed by lava flows that would have covered any evidence of ancient bodies of water.
The courtyard has pebbles and stones surrounded by grass, with an understated cascading fountain made from Balinese volcanic rock that collects rainwater and seeps into the stone.
About the size of a golf ball, it is what's known as a habitat specialist, found only in caves of a certain kind of volcanic rock along streams in southeastern Puerto Rico.
The station, established in 1955, is built on volcanic rock on Ross Island, the solid ground farthest south that is accessible by ship, according to the NSF, an independent U.S. government agency.
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When his shipmates--fellow privateers and sociopaths in their own right--had had enough of him, they put him ashore in 1704 on a 12-mile stretch of volcanic rock off the coast of Chile.
For a country formed when cooling volcanic rock rose through the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, the archipelago's story in this tournament is appropriate: once again, Cape Verde is a continental newcomer ready to leave its mark.
Ample evidence is left of how they were carved from softer volcanic rock in a central quarry, but it is still a mystery how exactly they were then moved, despite weighing countless tons, over distances of miles with no mechanical propulsion (or even the wheel).
And the film's most deluxe monster is Kronos (father of Zeus, Hades and Poseidon), who, after being overthrown and imprisoned, has now risen up in the form of a really, really gigantic giant made entirely of volcanic rock and ash, with humungous arms that disintegrate and reconstitute themselves as they throw off fiery streams of lava.
Instead, out comes a synthetic gaseous fuel and a lump of shiny rock, not unlike volcanic glass, with toxins locked up inside in relative safety.
Features include cave hamams (Turkish baths), rock-cut arches, walls patterned with volcanic colour-banding and panoramic terraces surveying the valleys.
Cappadocia has one of the world's oldest wine industries, which stretches back some 4, 000 years to the Hittites, the first to recognise the volcanic soil's viticultural qualities, and to carve rock cellars.
Currently, Spirit is examining a series of specimens that were perhaps formed when wind-borne volcanic ash fell to the ground, mixed with water and eventually formed into layered rock.
The Network includes sites as diverse as Lagkawi Island, featuring the oldest rock formations in Malaysia, the petrified forest on Lesvos Island (Greece) and the volcanic craters of Vulkaneifel in Germany.
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