Vijayanagara's core, an area of 25 km2, includes the Tungabhadra River flowing through rocky terrain with huge boulders piled in massive formations.

He let Data and Keefe Nordine soar far ahead of him, always keeping their tiny silhouettes in sight amid the massive formations and endless blue sky.

We were moving over grey rocks of dense and massive formation, which in cooling had formed into hexagonal prisms.

From there one can see the Great Ice Embankment, a massive formation that rises to a height of 25 metres and represents the area of greatest ice growth.

But then at the base of the cliffs you discover that whenever rock is deposited in such a massive formation, it is never entirely sheer.

By now, the materializations seemed to have stopped, and the faint glow had disappeared from the massive transporterlike formation in the ceiling.

Within an hour, it was clear that the animal had taken refuge in a massive formation of jagged, coal-black crags.

At Antlers the river meets the massive geological formation known as Standpipe Hill, forcing its turn to the southeast.

The operation was designed to surround massive Soviet formations and, more important, shorten German lines to free up men and machines desperately needed elsewhere.

Introduced in the 1990s, the PLA plans to expand their number and rid itself of the massive, rigid formations of the Soviet model.