They stood on a plain rectangular floor, with rock basins cut in the side and a kind of sacrificial altar.

Now we stood facing them, perfectly prepared, backs to the screen of palm tree trunks huddling vertically near the rock basin.

But China's richest sedimentary rock basins lie beneath its poorest places - its northeast, central and northwestern regions.

These include arêtes, corries, rock lips, rock basins and terminal moraines.

He was a few yards in the bush, peering intently into a small pool of water that seeped out of a rock basin.

Inside a perennial spring flows into a rock basin.

The "Fairy Pond" is rock basin filled with clear water which seeps through the surrounding limestone rock.

The phasers had bored through the ice and scoured down to bare stone, revealing a massive rock basin.

Scattered lakes occur in glacial rock basins.

The craft came over the low lip of the rock basin surrounding the pond.