rock waste

You mean that big building on the rock wastes?' '

The flashes revealed the ponderous advance of giants from the rock wastes.

He'd nearly died in that blasted rock waste.

The bullets chunked harmlessly into the rock waste below us for a time, and then the shooting tapered off.

The feature that differentiates this site is the discovery of a Beaker settlement very close with metallurgical pits, hammers and rock waste.

Around the amphitheatres of the lake regions and above them to the limit of perennial drifts they gather flock-wise in splintered rock wastes.

The till is presumably made in part of preglacial soils, but it is more largely composed of rock waste mechanically transported by the creeping ice sheets.

"We went over rock beaches and rock wastes that were sown with Dragons' Teeth; we went over them to get the Fleece.

Then I made a loop on my pack from which to hang the axe, and covered over the shovel and pick with rock waste from the floor of the tunnel.

The rock problem was solved when the Bureau raised the upstream and downstream cofferdams with rock waste and topped them with rail lines that could deliver rock-fill much faster.

It rose ten meters above the hot rock waste, a slight bump in the flat desert ten kilometers south of the Black River and well east of Jaren's Ford.

The piles of rock waste on the former mine sites have proved to be ideal breeding grounds for rare plants, and have resulted in the designation of part of the forest as a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI).

The caisson was lowered with ballast of gravel and rock waste before water was pored in and the box sank into place - the fit was perfect and the box so tight the planned hiring of a steam engine to pump it dry could be cancelled.

The Byrd amendment would in effect overturn a decision by a federal judge in West Virginia that found that the state's mining companies, with the complicity of the federal government, had for years violated federal clean water and surface mining laws by dumping rock waste into valleys and streams.