The inclined valleys are very shingly and bouldery. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
Discontinuous, sandy, bouldery morainal veneers dominate its surfaces. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Canadian Shield taiga] Reference
It also has less bouldery colluvium than those two surrounding regions and more saprolite. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Alabama and Georgia (EPA)] Reference
So we went to the more-bouldery gym today because our regular gym is closed for renovation. From Wordnik.com. [I think the last third of 2008 will be the time in which I practice my zen.] Reference
This top attractor pattern is virtually unmatched in snatching trout from heavy currents, broken water, and bouldery pockets. From Wordnik.com. [Royal Wulff] Reference
Habitat types vary from cliffs and bouldery shores to pebbly and sandy beaches and from wooded hillsides to occasional swamps and lagoons. From Wordnik.com. [Lake Malawi National Park, Malawi] Reference
The river was unusually low, so that the many bouldery rapids which otherwise would have been welcome were now only the vexatious hints of what might have been. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880] Reference
The road good, shingly, but not very bouldery; very winding, and generally capable of strong defence; much cover exists from the rugged margins of cliffs, and windings of the road. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
We are unable to judge of the extent of cultivation, because the country, which seems uniformly dried up, is rugged and bouldery: on the right is the old bed of the river, consisting of dry sand. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
The track had dwindled to less and less, and now had dropped to the bouldery bed of a canon stream, from which no woodcraft of mine, nor of my good trail-wise horse, could perceive that it made an exit. From Wordnik.com. [The Penance of Magdalena & Other Tales of the California Missions] Reference
Hyderkhet, distance ten and a half miles down the same valley; the road is bad and after crossing the undulating terminations of the southern slope, very stony and bouldery; in several places it is narrow and uneven. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
Advanced to Sirekhugoor, distance nineteen miles, ascent throughout on a considerably inclined plain up the bed of a river, shingly and bouldery; the pass is not much contracted, but a short distance from Abigoom we parted from every thing like valleys. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
They are exceptionally well formed and are excellent representatives of the form: ridges of bouldery till up to 5 m high, 10-50 m wide, and in some cases more than 1,000 m long, occurring in large fields and compact clusters at 40-300 m intervals, mostly in low-lying areas. From Wordnik.com. [Kvarken Archipelago High Coast, Finland and Sweden] Reference
To-day we halt at Abigoom, which is at the extremity of an inclined plain, and 2,500 feet above the sea; some of the boundary hills are considerably higher, the valley is shingly and bouldery, covered with the usual plants, but more scantily: Nerioid, Paederia involucrata. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
The bouldery slope presented an abrupt bank of a considerable angle, and its limits were most marked from that of the tillable soil; as we approached the foot of the ghat, the fragments became larger, they are angular, and have been little if at all worn; thence I walked eastwards to a small isolated ridge of limestone, perhaps. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
The slope was very gradual: the road towards the foot generally sandy, and in some places very bouldery: on surmounting the ridge, which was not 300 feet above the plain, we descended a trifle, and encamped in an open space with hills to the north; this place slopes to the south into the valley up which we have come for some marches. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
I thought while looking at this outcrop the last time I stopped, that there might be some faulting or shearing between the whitish layer and the upper, densest part of the welded tuff the reddish gray, bouldery, hard-looking stuff with possible shearing taken up in part in the brighter reddish zone, in which you can still see some compaction foliation. From Wordnik.com. [Geology on the Road: Highway 50 #1] Reference
Past Marcy Dam, the fun begins with the straight-up bouldery unpleasantness discussed earlier. From Wordnik.com. [coloradoan.com - Local News] Reference
Imagine a very bouldery hillside planted thickly with knee-high brambles and more sparsely with higher bushes. From Wordnik.com. [African Camp Fires] Reference
Our way at first lay along Thibert Creek, now on gravel benches, now on bed rock, now close down on the bouldery edge of the stream. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in Alaska] Reference
Its kind of a differnent landing every time and I have a few pads but if there is a rocky landing or a bouldery one, Ill sometimes use the open cell face up. From Wordnik.com. Reference
This monster enduro-climb begins with 60 feet of warm-up climbing (5.12d), then heads up an overhanging face with sustained bouldery moves (5. 14c) for 100 feet to a severe crux at 160 feet. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventure Blog] Reference
Fifty feet below the summit I find a comfortable piece of rock, hollowed out by wind and rain and exfoliation into a rough chair approximately my size and shape, and shaded by the bouldery overhang. From Wordnik.com. [Coyote Crossing] Reference
This fan-shaped accumulation of bouldery gravel is marked in the geological survey maps as covering a space of about two square miles south of Pickering, but the deposit is probably much larger, for Dr. Thornton. From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution of an English Town] Reference
It is a wide, placid stream on its lower reaches, flowing through low, timbered regions, emptying into the Gulf in a half-moon bay called the Jew's Mouth, which is a perfect shelter from the Gulf storms and the only such shelter in thirty miles of bouldery shore line. From Wordnik.com. [Poor Man's Rock] Reference
The ice now proved good all the way across, and we reached the lateral moraine just at dusk, then with trembling limbs, now that the danger was over, we staggered and stumbled down the bouldery edge of the glacier and got over the dangerous rocks by the cascades while yet a faint light lingered. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in Alaska] Reference
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