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 Übersetzung für 'whinstone' von Englisch nach Deutsch
SYNO whin | whinstone
geol.
whinstone
basaltisches Gestein {n}
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Übersetzung für 'whinstone' von Englisch nach Deutsch

whinstone
basaltisches Gestein {n}geol.
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Anwendungsbeispiele Englisch
  • Farm of Port Spittal, Stoneykirk, 2 miles south of Portpatrick. "Burial ground of the four Kings". A Bronze Age Cist and Urn were found in a grave covered with a whinstone slab.
  • The village lies under the spectacular whinstone outcrop, Ratcheugh Crag, near which local point-to-point racing is often conducted.
  • The solid geology of the Beith area is dominated by rocks such as limestone, coal, and also whinstone, an igneous basalt.
  • Massive outcrops of whinstone occur at the Pentland Hills, Scotland and the Whin Sills, England.
  • Mossend Farm survives as ruins in a copse next to a whinstone quarry across the lane from the old Dustyridge Farm.

  • A number of small whinstone quarries were also present in the area, such as at Townhead of Lambroughton on the 1858 OS.
  • It has an unusual aspect in that it is faced with whinstone, compared to the traditional sandstone of the area.
  • An 1856 map shows a brewery at the west end of the village, and whinstone quarry to the north of the main road.
  • In Scotland, quartz dolerite is commonly known as whin or whinstone.
  • A small whinstone quarry lay to the east that may have been utilised to provide the whinstone for the walled garden and a smaller one above may have been adapted as a bunker for the old golf course.

  • Late 19th century maps indicate that the current driveway for the coach house was a road extending to the land on Purvishill, and the whinstone quarries to the north east of the ancient terraces.
  • The rock is described as being composed of whinstone, a generic term used to refer to dark-coloured hard rocks.
  • As one enters at the West door one is immediately confronted with the full beauty of the cathedral, which is built in hard local whinstone to the designs of Mr F L H Fleming and Sir Herbert Baker.
  • One of the concerns regarding resumed quarrying of the hill is the potential for this species to be spread throughout Scotland with whinstone extracted and exported from the quarry.
  • Moving west along the escarpment, a glacial surface drift of boulder clay begins to overlay the whinstone.

  • Lochend Farm was partly constructed from whinstone taken from the nearby quarry.
  • Freestone and whinstone are the underlying rocks and the church itself stands on an elevated outcrop.
  • One of the finds discovered in 1931 was a whinstone ballista ball.
  • Archaeological evidence shows settlements around the area of Aigas dating back to the Bronze Age, with ancient dwellings made from local whinstone.
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