The bitumen coats the grains of sand like a film and is in turn surrounded by water.
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Ringed by mountains and surrounded by water, Yuhuan County is literally an island and is cut off from the rest of China.
They found some of the sites under construction almost completely surrounded by water from the flooding that has followed two days of persistent rain.
The revamped museum, which includes a newly built pavilion surrounded by water, promises to bring the institution - which first opened in 1885 - "completely in step with the 21st century", while restoring Pierre Cuypers' original design.
In Sopchoppy, authorities rescued 57 people from homes surrounded by rising water, said Keith Blackmar of the Wakulla County Sheriff's Office.
But when summer comes, this place is stranded, a sodden island teeming with mosquitoes, surrounded by marsh and water, reachable only by air or riverboat.
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They sat, quietly, in family groups, surrounded by their empty water cans and barely any belongings - tough people, with no sense of entitlement or outrage.
The algae in the device lives in water surrounded by a gas-permeable membrane and helped by light from and LED.
"San Francisco is a very nice city, surrounded on three sides by water, and there's an utter lack of supply, " he says.
The project calls for the off-white wind turbines in a 25-square-mile area in a shallow part of the sound, a triangular body of water surrounded by Cape Cod, Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard.
The rural 5-acre property surrounded by forest has a tenuous water supply from a well.
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Not injured, but no food, no water and surrounded by bodies.
The stadium at Monastir was surrounded by a virtual moat of water and the district's governor came to direct clean-up operations to allow the Caf inspectors to gain access to the venue.
Ever since 1718, when Jean Baptiste le Moyne de Bienville, a French colonist, decided to build his settlement on a hurricane-prone patch of swampland surrounded by three huge pools of water (the Mississippi Delta, the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Pontchartrain), New Orleans has been living in nature's shadow.
The runway where the man was spotted juts out into water that is surrounded by marsh and wetlands.
Surrounded by red limestone cliffs, the water comes from the ground and is so clean you can drink it.
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The village is essentially surrounded by virgin forest and has no well water and therefore is reliant on the Xingu River for drinking and cooking.
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The Palestinian Authority has made it abundantly clear that it can never content itself with a ministate on the West Bank and Gaza, surrounded by hostile powers, limited in its control of water resources, airspace, and treaty-making power.
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Surrounded by colourful springs and steaming vents, it can shoot water up to 70m into the sky.
The heavy water is held in an acrylic sphere, and is surrounded by a network of nearly 10, 000 photomultiplier tubes.
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It's a succulent oasis on 3 acres that uses very little water, a surprisingly exotic island of sculptural desert plants surrounded by suburbia.
With light rain as my only company, I walked through Paris until I reached the famous pyramid, splashed with water nymphs in the form of diamond-coloured drops, surrounded by Japanese tourists holding candy-coloured umbrellas.
Residents are "surrounded by flowing raw sewage, " and many have been forced to resort to drink contaminated water from rivers, the group said.
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