These upheavals, however, are not always permanent, the upraised land sometimes settling back to its former position.
Represented as ithyphallic, with two tall plumes on his head, the right arm upraised and bearing a scourge.
All the rocks are of basalt and greyishtinted lavas, excepting some beds of upraised coral.
Above the ring of stamens is the ovary itself, upraised on a prolongation of the same stalk which bears the filaments, or sessile.
The altitudes along the upraised edge of the block, or range crest, are approximately 5000 ft.