The oldest is the Gehannam Formation (ca 40-41 million years old) consisting of white marly limestone and gypseous shale and yielding many skeletons of archaic whales (archaeocetes), sirenians (sea cows), shark teeth, turtles, and crocodilians. ❋ Unknown (2008)
A little to the left, sheltered from the boreal wind by the white gypseous ridge, Ras el-Târah (“the Head that surrounds”), and flanked at both ends by its triangular reefs, the Sharm Makná, the past and future port of the mines, supports the miniature gunboat no larger than a “cock,” and the Sambúk dwarfed to a buoy. ❋ Unknown (2003)
It probably represents a remnant of the old terrace which, like the Secondary gypseous formation, has been torn to pieces by the volcanic region to the east, and by the plutonic upheavals to the west. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Cap the whole with the mighty double quoin of gypseous Jebel el-Kharaj, buttressing the eastern flank of its valley, and with the low, dark metal-revetted hills of the Kalb el-Nakhlah, a copy of the Fahísát. ❋ Unknown (2003)
This gypseous or Secondary formation was found to extend, not only over the adjacent hills, but everywhere along the road to ❋ Unknown (2003)
The superiority which is claimed for Burton ales is attributed to the use of well-water impregnated with sulphate of lime derived from the gypseous deposits of the district. ❋ Various (N/A)
Red Rivers, which are tinged with red mud, derived from rocks of porphyry and red gypseous clays in 'the far west.' ❋ Various (N/A)
The "Onondaga Giant" is the work of the sculptor, and out of a single large block of the gypseous limestone (an upper member of the "Onondaga Salt Group") which forms large beds in the immediate vicinity. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
It is well known that the stream of the Mississippi is charged with sediment of a different colour from that of the Arkansas and Red Rivers, which are tinged with red mud, derived from rocks of porphyry and red gypseous clays in the far west. ❋ Unknown (1909)
In the immediate neighbourhood of Illetzkaya-Zastchita there are two or three gypseous hillocks, and a cavern in one of these is used by the inhabitants as a cellar, having been artificially enlarged for that purpose. ❋ Unknown (1881)
"A warrior in armor with a gypseous pipe in his hand leans against a table and blows the smoke far away of himself." ❋ Unknown (1879)
For the decoration of his monumental doorways and the lining of his richest apartments, the architect chose and committed to the sculptor those fine slabs of gypseous alabaster of which so many examples are to be seen in the ❋ Georges Perrot (1873)
Even in these days, when commerce and industry have fallen so low in those regions, the gypseous alabaster from the neighbourhood of Mossoul is transported in no unimportant quantities as far as Bagdad. ❋ Georges Perrot (1873)
This gypseous or Secondary formation was found to extend, not only over the adjacent hills, but everywhere along the road to Makná. ❋ Richard Francis Burton (1855)
A little to the left, sheltered from the boreal wind by the white gypseous ridge, Ras el-Târah ( "the Head that surrounds"), and flanked at both ends by its triangular reefs, the Sharm Makná, the past and future port of the mines, supports the miniature gunboat no larger than a "cock," and the ❋ Richard Francis Burton (1855)
After thirty minutes 'walk up the southern plane of the prism, composed of gypseous and coralline rocks, veins of white petrosilex resembling broken columels, streaks of magnetic black sand, and scatters of grit and harder stones, we reached the summit of the little ridge. ❋ Richard Francis Burton (1855)
The general disposition suggests that before the upheaval of the Gháts, the Jibál el-Tihámah, this vast gypseous sheet was a plain and plateau covering the whole country, till a movement of depression, caused by the upheaval of the igneous mountains, sank in it the Gulf of 'Akabah. ❋ Richard Francis Burton (1855)
