stony

Entering a local restaurant, he is greeted with stony stares; a white woman points toward the colored entrance.

Using optical and electron microscopy, Harris and his team determined the rock was a chondrite - the most abundant type of stony meteorite, according to Nasa - which meant that it was approximately 4.56 billion years old.

His world is the pastureland, the stony hills of the Jordan Valley, his sheep and cattle, the bed and breakfast he has opened.

In the years since they were dug, their surface has sunk into the dry, stony earth.

It's a pipe that snakes under the stony beach and out into the Atlantic, sucking up seawater and bringing it onshore.