oblique-lying

Updated: June 21, 2025

Reaching the first, we ascended it, and I could see at a glance that any prospect of finding water was utterly hopeless, as these low ridges, which ran north and south, were merely a few oblique-lying layers of upheaved granite, not much higher than the sandhills which surrounded them, and there was no place where water could lodge even during rains.

Ernest Giles - Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,