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Only granite cliffs, rising to the height of 50m ft, testify to the original rocky terrain of the region.
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Above the surface on both sides are 5,000-foot (1,500-m) granite cliffs.
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This was a small river which had several rapids, some with granite cliffs adjacent to them, in its upper reaches.
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The river then turns generally westward for another 3 mi, where it snakes through a spectacular narrow gorge between massive, glacially resistant granite cliffs.
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Numerous lakes and tarns are tucked against rugged granite cliffs and surrounded by tundra and lingering snowfields.
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They can be found in crevices and cracks of granite cliffs or in canyon edges.
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Towering 1500 ft above are granite cliffs and pinnacles.
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A few kilometres out of town, there are more impressive landscapes, from sandy beaches to grottos to tall granite cliffs.
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Precariously perched, the village is in constant danger of rockslides from the nearby granite cliffs, although rockslides have yet to cause any serious damage.
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There are granite cliffs in the west and limestone cliffs in the east.
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Local rockclimbers use the granite cliffs above and adjacent to the lake for top-roping and lead climbing.
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An interior courtyard, also ovular, encircled the "old town", creating a second defensive perimeter, while in the east and south, the granite cliffs completed the defensive lines.
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Granite cliffs surround parts of the lake.
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The redgranitecolumnrises 23 metres high, including the base, and weighs over 250 tonnes.
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This redgranitecolumn(the tallest of its kind in the world) is 47.5 metres high and weighs some 500 tons.
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Over each light is a pointed arch supported by a free-standing polishedgranitecolumn.
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It consists of a hugegranitecolumnwith an image of a casket at its summit.
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The font was fashioned from an ancientgranitecolumnand is girdled by an iron grating.
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Four globes in the bowl surround thegranitecolumnand emit water, which cascades over the edge of the bowl into a shallow receptacle in the grey granite base.
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A second smaller monument, agranitecolumn, was built in the same location, a small hill, at a cost of 1,400, and was completed in 1953.
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The interior has a nave and two aisles, divided by granite columns and pilasters.
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Most typical are the graceful sweep of the curved roof ridge with upturned eaves, wooden carvings and ornamental gable eaves set in granite columns.
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Shops lined the marble floored colonnade forming an arcade with 34 grey granite columns.
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To support the roof, there are two drum terraces, each having two granite columns, in the front of the study hall.
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Its marble and granite columns carry diamond-cut and "muqarnas" capitals.
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The semicircular apse is decorated with five framed blind arcades each of two red granite columns.
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It is characterized by recessed, monumental, four story granite columns supporting recessed arches.
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The church is made of three naves, divided by granite columns.
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The entrance is protected by a tower were two free-standing granite columns rise.
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During the following year, one of the granite columns in the memorial cracked and was repaired.
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The narthex is supported by octagonal piers at the corners and two granite columns between them.
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One of these granite columns is the largest such structure in the world, standing at 90 feet.
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