noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
chalk/limestone/granite cliffs
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White chalk cliffs rose up from the sea.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
boulder
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Ahead, a low cairn of granite boulders rose clear of the moor.
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Acorn-grinding mortars can be found in granite boulders scattered throughout the camp.
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The centrepiece is a granite boulder from Solovki, a group of islands in the White Sea.
intrusion
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Volcanicity and magma emplacement, largely in the form of large granite intrusions , characterize the volcanic arc.
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Eventually granite intrusions are emplaced at high levels within the mountain mass and volcanic activity develops.
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Extensive stretching of the crust above these granite intrusions produces a faulted terrain with active volcanoes.
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This was the major period of emplacement of granite intrusions which resulted in the growth of the Western Cordillera.
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The modem phase of orogeny began in the Miocene with volcanism and the further emplacement of granite intrusions .
slab
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The gutter between the sidewalk and granite slabs is cleared of leaves and litter.
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The path teetered down into a side gorge - and then the granite slabs appeared.
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It was a 3, 000-foot granite slab , rising in total isolation from a flat plain.
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They were on a granite slab that had fallen centuries ago and lay by the shore with the water rippling at it.
wall
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He turned so that his back was to the sloping granite wall and pulled her up.
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Outside, the Rippowam River ran so swiftly its roar penetrated the granite walls .
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Along its high white granite walls , hundreds of funeral wreaths were coalescing into one great hanging garden of remembrance.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At one place, the round shape of an engine protruded from the granite .
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Bronze on granite base. 6.5m.
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Grit blew off the granite outcroppings and the fields beneath grew nothing but rocks and dust.
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Hatchet-faced, tough as the city's granite , Yevdoxia plumped herself down at Anna's side.
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Salt water, beaten into a white sea foam, collides into the granite with each swell.
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The wolframite is scattered extremely thinly throughout the granite .
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They imported all the granite gravel for the driveway from Paris.
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This appears to coincide with the base of the granite batholith and may represent the basal Variscan thrust.