Such sodic soil tends to form columnar structures near the surface.

The columnar structure was a dark, dusky brown, and as she looked up and up, she saw that it appeared to branch off in its higher reaches.

Traditions, however, claim that the original temple was a columnar structure and both the roof and the columns supporting it were made of pure gold.

Also, columnar structure can be an indicator of sodic condition.

He "understood now the reason why the builders of antiquity purposely and secretly introduced minute variation from absolute symmetry in their columnar structures."

Only the clouds were feathered with chaos - weird columnar structures towering above the Strait of China.

It occurs in monoclinic crystals; also massive, generally with fibrous or columnar structure.

It has a columnar structure including channels filled with water molecules; these can be removed and replaced without destroying the crystal structure.

The idea of the baldachin to mark Saint Peter's tomb was not Bernini's idea and there had been various columnar structures erected earlier.

It is a black, amorphous appearing mineral, often with a granular, fibrous or columnar structure, sometimes forming reniform crusts.