Significados de crystalline rocks en inglés

Note that the crystalline rocks a have been crumpled and crushed.

These are, strictly speaking, crystalline rocks, and yet they are arranged in something like layers.

At present three leading theories are held as to the origin of these basal crystalline rocks.

On the southern side of the chain the and the crystalline rocks rise directly from the plain.

It appears to consist almost entirely of raised coral, whereas the northern island contains hard crystalline rocks.

The submergence of the Catoctin Belt was practically complete, because the Weverton sandstone nowhere touches the crystalline rocks.

How does it differ from the surface of the crystalline rocks seen in the Torridonian Mountains, and why?

Volcanic cones continue to predominate, the old crystalline rocks almost disappear, while the Mesozoic rocks are most common.

The Piedmont Plateau is a lowland worn down by erosion on hard crystalline rocks, then uplifted to form a plateau.

How does it come to cross the hard crystalline rocks a and the weaker sandstones b at the same impartial level?

The second related to the great masses of crystalline rocks which, underlying the muds, cover so great a part of the continent.

Quartz is tough, and the sand we find to-day is practically the same that was dissolved out of the first crystalline rocks.

That the original crystalline rocks played the major part in the genealogy of the subsequent stratified rocks, it would be folly to deny.

In both a successive series of continental deposits, ranging from the Carboniferous to the Rhaetic, rests on an older base of crystalline rocks.

Near the coast the lower hills are composed of crystalline rocks, syenite and granite, with, here and there, a strata of sandstone or limestone.

On the one side erosion has since stripped off the sandstones for the most part, but the hard crystalline rocks yet stand in bold relief.