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Vanessa returned with a tray bearing two mugs of coffee, plates with slices of Mikki's healthy, wholefood cake and two forks.
Our plates are clear of food, but sit in front of us for a good 10 minutes before the waitress reappears.
Men usually work with metals such as copper, brass, and aluminum to craft decorative plates, wall hangings, and utensils.
The recorder captured the sounds of loud thumps, crashes, shouts, and breaking glasses and plates.
I stayed the night in Dromore with Jimmy and Elise, at Sylvan Hill House, where hospitality was borne on plates of wheaten bread.
As I come out with a stack of napkins and some plates, their conversation quiets and dies down, and we all eat.
Washing up for example, is far more enjoyable if you make targets out of the dinner plates and use a water pistol.
I opened my mouth for a sharp rebuke but just then the waitress appeared, bringing our plates of burgers and fries.
For oven meals all you need are casserole dishes in a few sizes, a roaster, some pie plates for meat pies and quiches, and pizza pans.
Doctors had to insert metal plates into the sides of his face to reconstruct his jaw because it was so badly damaged.
Mr Loughlin was taken to hospital, had surgery to have plates put in his face and his jaw wired but discharged himself after three days.
The hide of the Javan rhinoceros is characterized by large plates of hard tissue joined by thinner, more flexible layers of skin.
When only woodcuts, etchings and engravings could be printed, the images would get worse and worse over time as the blocks or plates wore down.
Their work uses industrial materials such as steel plates, cables, magnets and oil.
Their skin is covered with non-overlapping scales composed of the protein keratin and often studded with bony plates called scutes.
Many of these are supported on folded steel plates which, like all the other visible steel in the building, have been oil quenched.
The birds grace kiwiana souvenirs from luggage tags and passport holders to ceramic dinner plates and hand-painted wine glasses.
He can also remember car number plates off pat and his room is full of junk that he can take apart, examine and rebuild.
Inside they found mouldy plates and pans in the kitchen sink and clothing covered with cat hairs and flea eggs.
At first, the attempts to separate agglutinated plates applying mechanical force were undertaken.
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Therefore, in these early stages, the boundary can be drawn between these aboral plates and those formed adoral to the terminals.
Also, if there are no trash receptacles, where do you put the used napkins and plates?
Your jam jar might be cream crackered, but you can always walk down the frog and toad on your own plates.
The Daniell cell is a wet cell consisting of copper and zinc plates and copper and zinc sulphates.
Indeed, not a crumb, droplet of sauce or carrot julienne was left on our plates.
To serve, quarter the large pancake and place on four warmed plates, or place an individual pancake on each plate.
However, there was a substantial difference in adhesion to collagen-coated plates.
Some cars were just used for joyriding and dumped, but others may have been stolen to order or fitted with fake plates and sold.
The thieves either unscrew or simply rip the number plates from the cars while they are parked in drives, on streets or in car parks.
The five volumes consisted of an octavo of 786 pages of descriptive matter and four imperial folios containing 213 plates.
Geologists have devised a number of clever ways to reconstruct the past movements of tectonic plates.
The device can read the plates of passing cars, and check national records to see if the car or lorry is travelling untaxed.
John Woodhouse did at least 72 of the 150 paintings for the imperial folio edition and 5 additional plates for the octavo edition.
The cables terminate in wall plates, and the plates have a variety of connection points in them that allow you to simply plug things in.
Usually metallic rather than ceramic, these servers included plates, shallow bowls without feet, and shallow footed bowls.
The same is true for smaller baseboards and ceiling moldings, which are nailed into the top and bottom wall plates rather than into the studs.
Individual plates are now keenly sought by collectors with small and large budgets.
Around the tourmalines were a dozen more wall plates, including a fine quartz cluster weighing nearly 100 kilograms.
In this version the bottom of both the high and low joists bear directly on the wall plates.
A short wade out to sea, the bottom plates, remnants of the ship's engines and boiler lie collapsed upon themselves.
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They sat down at a long table with plates of waffles, syrup, butter, whipped cream, and strawberries piled on top of it.
The position of these plates on the non-rudiment side of the larva suggests that ossicles occurring on the aboral surface are extraxial.
I'm even more surprised that there's no secondary securing mechanism, such as strapping or webbing, round the piles of plates in the cupboard.
As she entered the small kitchen she saw the stowaway serving plates of what looked like pasta with white sauce.
To start, we were brought plates of micro-thin crust pizza, one with a simple tomato sauce and herbs and the other a white pizza with herbs.
As I scraped applesauce and cream of eel from countless plates I felt wistful.
Keep raw and cooked foods separate and use different plates and utensils for them.
He served it to us in leaf plates with a generous dollop of Maggie's tomato ketchup.
This behavior is also common in two-material waveplates such as achromatic waveplates constructed from quartz and magnesium fluoride plates.
I set the table, without being asked, lining up the whipped cream, nuts, and chocolate sauce before placing down plates.
This process puts greater stress on the articular cartilage of the vertebrae and their respective end plates.
Mountain ranges are created by diverse tectonic processes, including convergence of plates and volcanic activity.
Anna Peters's work, by comparison, is a lot looser, cartoony drawings on paper plates, paper, acrylic on canvas are jokey one shot reflexive gags.
Two workboats, ancient battered things with rusting plates, shouldered into it from either side like a couple of drunks supporting a comatose companion.
The gel is a thin slab of acrylamide polymerized between two glass plates.
Dynamo will provide vigorous live accompaniment whilst the hot plates are sizzling and for delirious dessert, THE YOUNG PROFESSIONALS whip up a small hurricane.
It's ok to nail the upper wall plates into the upper floor joists.
Pile a bunch of the strips on plates, then pour the sauce on top.
That was just about bearable, but then they started spraying the table-tops with chemical cleaners, the thin mist wafting over onto our plates and up our noses.
Private hire vehicles are now required to carry new, more visible licence plates on the rear of the vehicle, near and offside front doors and front and rear windscreens.
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In colder climates, melting arctic plates has forced polar bears to abandon their ice floes for dry land hunting.
The armoured plates on the undamaged places on bombers, cut down losses by something like 30 per cent.
Changeable cell phone covers and face plates to suit your mood, the latest holograms, flashing keypads and colorful gemlike keypads can bring a smile to your face.
If a guard dog licks one of your dinner plates, for example, serious scrubbing is involved to restore its cleanliness.
My grandfather wanted to look through the book and quickly became enthralled by its colorful plates of whistlers, honeyeaters, parrots, pigeons, and doves.
With small machines, the core plates are keyed direct to the shaft.
Brass plates were nailed on the first step of the white alabaster stairs.
Deck hardware is soundly attached with stainless steel nuts, bolts and washers and either aluminum or fiberglass backing plates for distributing loads.
Wombi Rock, an amazing three-story crystal mountain built inside the casino, is crafted from more than 12,000 individual plates of onyx and alabaster fused to glass.
It was to be regretted, he would admit if questioned, that the table flipped sideways, causing all those plates and their children to fly every whichaway.
I put my dish in the sink and started to wash the plates up.
Alignment of individual elements shows that plates proximal to the stem attachment have c axes inclined aborally, but more distal plates have more adorai inclinations.
Expect a boatload of commemorative coins, plates, T-shirts, and baby tchotchkes of all sorts to be sold.
There are industrial touches such as steel mesh kick plates on the permanent walls and a sleek lighting system set into the coffer-like ceiling of the room.
The sound made by clattering plates restores him to a restaurant where dined with his friend killed in the war.
Items which get stolen from council vehicles include jacks, rims, tyres, seats, engine parts, steering wheels, number plates, petrol caps and warning triangles.
And also, for what reason about 30 military vehicles that accompany the convoy have no plates on them.
During expiration, contraction of the rectus abdominis and transversus abdominis muscles draw the pubic plates dorsally, decreasing abdominal volume.
We sell a variety of stock including T'shirts, boomerangs, spears, woomeras, didgeridoos, pottery, flower pots, cups, plates, vases, tea tree oil and stocking flowers.
His wife, colleen, had been rinsing plates at the sink and putting them in the dishwasher.
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A short wade out to sea, the bottom plates, remnants of the ship's engines and boiler lie collapsed upon themselves, home to kina and the occasional crayfish.
It serves small plates like cheese, charcuterie, and sandwiches, but most come here for the impressive wine selection.
Once on the plate smaller plates slide out to hold up the sleeves.
The now creamy polenta was ladled onto the plates, and this most fragrant of deep brown chicken stews spooned on top.
Even their dermal plates were made up of acellular aspidine and dentine, requiring little metabolic investment beyond the initial cost of construction.
These guys are easy to spot when they are on the juice because if you get a good look at their eyes at the start line their pupils are as big as dinner plates!
Students at universities boycotted classes and banged plates and cups in cafeterias.
That same day, Hanger pulled over a beat-up Mercury Marquis with no license plates cruising down a highway headed to Kansas.
The company specializes in the design and production of vintage European outdoor lighting, as well as accessories like mailboxes, wall plates, and bollards.
Seeds were surface-sterilized and sown on GM agar plates lacking sucrose.
Patrons eat their cannoli slowly and deliberately, dabbing the powdered sugar on their plates with licked fingers.
The temperature in the reactors began to rise, melting some steel plates.
The subducting plates pulled Japan eastward, opening the Sea of Japan around 15 million years ago.
Tectonic plates are composed of oceanic lithosphere and thicker continental lithosphere, each topped by its own kind of crust.
Tectonic plates are able to move because the Earth's lithosphere has greater mechanical strength than the underlying asthenosphere.
Some volcanoes occur in the interiors of plates, and these have been variously attributed to internal plate deformation and to mantle plumes.
As explained above, tectonic plates may include continental crust or oceanic crust, and most plates contain both.
Three types of plate boundaries exist, with a fourth, mixed type, characterized by the way the plates move relative to each other.
The weakness of the asthenosphere allows the tectonic plates to move easily towards a subduction zone.
Somehow, this energy must be transferred to the lithosphere for tectonic plates to move.
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Slab pull is therefore most widely thought to be the greatest force acting on the plates.
In this current understanding, plate motion is mostly driven by the weight of cold, dense plates sinking into the mantle at trenches.
One of the first pieces of geophysical evidence that was used to support the movement of lithospheric plates came from paleomagnetism.
The Himalayas, the world's tallest mountain range, are assumed to have been formed by the collision of two major plates.
The current motion of the tectonic plates is today determined by remote sensing satellite data sets, calibrated with ground station measurements.
When the convergent movement of the two plates results in continental collision, the basin becomes shallower and develops into a foreland basin.
Earth's lithosphere is divided into several rigid tectonic plates that migrate across the surface over periods of many millions of years.
The mechanically rigid outer layer of Earth, the lithosphere, is divided into pieces called tectonic plates.
As the tectonic plates migrate, oceanic crust is subducted under the leading edges of the plates at convergent boundaries.
In the Late Jurassic the Pacific Plate opened originating from a triple junction between the Panthalassic Farallon, Phoenix, and Izanagi plates.
What can also be observed in relation to tectonic plates and Pangaea, is the formations to such plates.
On the other hand, some of the world's largest tectonic plates such as the North American Plate are in motion, yet are nowhere being subducted.
Divergent boundaries also form volcanic islands which occur when the plates move apart to produce gaps which molten lava rises to fill.
Over millions of years, tectonic plates may move many hundreds of kilometers away from both sides of a divergent plate boundary.
The Juan de Fuca, Explorer, Gorda, Rivera, Cocos and Nazca plates are remnants of the Farallon Plate.
This collision of plates is responsible for lifting the massive Andes Mountains and causing the volcanoes which are strewn throughout them.
The cratons are connected by orogenic belts, regions of highly deformed rock where the tectonic plates have engaged.
It is the product of the complex interaction between the African, Eurasian, and Iberian plates.
This means the ATJ is not a simple triple junction where three tectonic plates meet at a point.
When oceanic plates diverge, tensional stress causes fractures to occur in the lithosphere.
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The driver for seafloor spreading in plates with active margins is the weight of the cool, dense, subducting slabs that pull them along.
During collisions between two continental plates, large mountain ranges, such as the Himalayas are formed.
When two plates with oceanic crust converge, they typically create an island arc as one plate is subducted below the other.
Slab rollback occurs during the subduction of two tectonic plates, and results in seaward motion of the trench.
Two forces acting against each other at the interface of the two subducting plates exert forces against one another.
The age of the subducting plates does not have any effect on slab rollback.
Seamounts provide data on movements of tectonic plates on which they ride, and on the rheology of the underlying lithosphere.
Waves and wind then act to compress these ice particles into larger plates, of several meters in diameter, called pancake ice.
Earth has an outer shell made of a number of discrete, moving tectonic plates floating on a solid convective mantle above a liquid core.
The surface of the Earth reflects stretching, thickening and bending of the tectonic plates as they interact.
This tectonic plate converges with the Cocos, Nazca, and North American plates to form the Middle America Trench, a major subduction zone.
Most species create somewhat elaborate nests, which can be cups, domes, plates, beds scrapes, mounds, or burrows.
In our patients, 7 periprosthetic fractures were treated with locking compression plates, and all patients achieved union.
This device utilizes a number of specially designed stainless steel plates with small spaces between them.
Milk is passed between every other set of plates with water being passed between the balance of the plates to remove heat from the milk.
A police check revealed his car had false number plates and Sutcliffe was arrested and transferred to Dewsbury Police Station.
Cladding, shingles, sill plates and exposed timbers or glulam beams are examples of potential applications for treated wood.
Bacteriological plates such as these are commonly used in the clinical identification of infectious bacterium.
The Earth's tectonic plates move relative to one another in different directions at speeds on the order of 50 to 100mm per year.
So points on the Earth's surface on different plates are always in motion relative to one another.
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Prior to that date as the Earth's plates had begun to join the Pearl Islands were created and they emerged from the sea.
This fault system takes up part of the motion due to the subducting plates and produces large earthquakes.
Some Indian women, in an attempt to ward off Shitala, placed plates of cooling foods and pots of water on the roofs of their homes.
During the second stage the two prelaminated plates are anastomosed by tunneling the gracilis into the perineum.
Offshore of Cape Mendocino lies the Mendocino Triple Junction, a geologic triple junction where three tectonic plates come together.
Many of the ancient faults are within plates rather than along plate boundaries.
Vehicle license plates in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut in Canada are in the shape of a polar bear.
These plates convert after the other parts of the bones, and are crucial to development.
The foundations rest on plates of Istrian limestone placed on top of the piles, and buildings of brick or stone sit above these footings.
Delftware includes pottery objects of all descriptions such as plates, ornaments and tiles.
The numerous picture plates added to the book's appeal and usefulness, particularly when pertaining to things found in nature.
A typical practice is to have small cups of juice and plates of broken bread distributed to the seated congregation.
Wooden cups and plates were used to avoid any outward displays of formality.
The rulers of Kerala, in appreciation of their assistance, had given to the Malankara Nazranis, three deeds on copper plates.
The marimba is made with hardwood plates placed over bamboo or metal tubes of varying lengths.
When the operation is over, the blast is shut off and the prop under the bottom door is knocked down so that the bottom plates swing open.
These types of mills are commonly used to hot roll wide plates, most cold rolling applications, and to roll foils.
Initially the heating vessel was made of wrought iron plates, but these oxidized, and he substituted a cast iron vessel.
To help homogenize the steel, it was pounded into flat plates, which were stacked and forge welded together.
A lathe equipped with indexing plates, profile cutters, spiral or helical guides, etc.
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They gave us permission to drive in Australia under the British rego, meaning we still had our GB number plates.
Navy became popular heroes with plates with the likeness of Decatur, Steward, Hull, and others, becoming popular items.
The mountains were formed over tens of millions of years as the African and Eurasian tectonic plates collided.
The sequence of Tethyan marine sediments and their oceanic basement is sandwiched between rock derived from the African and European plates.
Other meals are still served in a traditional manner on carved wooden plates.
The second volume contains 1419 pages and 4 plates, with a list of about 1300 subscribers.
Google Street View will blur houses for any user who makes a request, in addition to the automatic blurring of faces and licence plates.
Nature prints in The Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland used fronds to produce the plates.
Subducting plates can lead to orogeny by bringing oceanic islands, oceanic plateaus, and sediments to convergent margins.
After being made into graphite foil, the foil is machined and assembled into the bipolar plates in fuel cells.
Motion along the fault including both shortening and extension of tectonic plates, usually also deforms strata near the fault.
The bridge was widened by adding wrought iron plate girders and transverse girders, supporting longitudinal joists with iron arch plates.
Windows in the South Bend house are sashless. They are simply plates of glass that slide in the grooves of a wood casing.
Molds of these pages were dropped down chutes to the basement pressroom and used to cast semicylindrical printing plates.
He staggers against a stanchion, trips over a rope, and tumbles into the space between the quay and the steel plates of the freighter.
He had the finest stud in England, and his delight was to win plates from Tories.
Therefore, both a mantle plume and also the subductions of the oceanic plates may have mutually contributed to create the magmatic zone.
Pipefishes are slender and elongate, with a syringelike mouth and body encased in dermal plates arranged in series of rings.
Idealized membranes, plates and bars are clearly inadequate and give way to the reality of tablas, gongs and zanzas.
Most of the gathering was milling around them, talking over plates of pizza puffs, zucchini fingers, and teriyakied chicken wings.
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Others are thecate, covered with a strong wall of interlocking cellulose plates.
Thermography, which imitates engraving, costs far less because it employs no dies or plates.
This directive requires we check the afterbody bolts for proper thread count and nut plates for security.
The most important factors are definitely the consistency and quality of the photoactive and aluminium oxide layers of the printing plates.
But the plates are good, and, in reality, sufficient without all the wordage.
The threads of screws, when bigger than can be made in screw plates, are called worms.
Ramirez passes around plates of cookies and mugs of a hot rice-milk drink called atole.
Waffles are made with a thin batter cooked traditionally on the stove between two buttered and heated plates of a waffle iron.
If the order was prepaid, two sets of addressograph plates containing the mailing address would be prepared.
These replaced the old wet plates and freed photography from the studio and the darkroom.
Pile matzo on plates and put three in a matzo cover, break one in half and hide the other piece, the afikomen.
Thermal imidization of the amic acid precursor was achieved by first casting the poly solution onto pyrex glass plates.
The Norse crafted ornamented plates from baleen, sometimes interpreted as ironing boards.
Australian beef and plates, the remnant of our sailors' last feed before they turned into their sail-covered oar-bestretched tent.
Place 2 baguette toast slices in each of 4 soup plates, spoon in bourride and top with another slice of toast and minced fennel fronds.
It is readily distinguished from Schizophoria parafragilis by shape and by its widely diverging brachiophore supporting plates.
Chinese potters copied prints from Europe on the plates that depict buffoonlike Harlequin figures from the popular commedia dell'arte.
The foundry at Barberton is also equipped to dip calorize steel plates and castings.
Jake lengthened his stride and crossed the road in front of a double-parked car, large, black and with CD plates.
In the giant chiton, Cryptochiton, this girdle has expanded so as to completely cover the plates.
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We buy these plates and cups from the Park Slope co-op, said one popular Brooklyn hostess ruefully, that are eco-correct and dishwashable.
It serves seafood, but it's the porterhouse and eye fillets that jump off the plates here.
A huge Guernsey gache, which is a sort of fruit cake, was flanked by plates and baskets of figs, grapes, nectarines, peaches, and raspberries.
No player shall be allowed to wear projecting nails, iron plates, or gutta percha on the soles or heels of his boots.
Duench whips out bowls with expandable tops, hangable onion holders, portion control plates.
Its overlapping steel plates and the empty hawseholes, from which the anchors will soon be suspended, are visible.
The positive clone was subjected to three consecutive rounds of single colony isolation on plates of solid medium to ensure homoplasmicity.
She was his wife, wasn't she? Jen says coming in with plates balanced on her arm.
The zone where the Eurasian and Indian subcontinent plates meet remains one of the geologically active areas, prone to major earthquakes.
It is used as a facade on some skyscrapers, but only in thin plates for covering, rather than solid blocks.
On 8 July 1680, Hooke observed the nodal patterns associated with the modes of vibration of glass plates.
The beam then passed between two parallel aluminium plates, which produced an electric field between them when they were connected to a battery.
The archipelago is therefore situated in the zone between the Eurasian and African tectonic plates.
The region lies near the intersection of geological plates, with heavy seismic and volcanic activity.
Then the concrete foundations were poured, and the base plates for the columns were set into them.
His own etched plates appear not to have been published commercially until after his death, and early states are very rare.
The later Sasanian Empire is also well represented by ornate silver plates and cups, many representing ruling monarchs hunting lions and deer.
His likeness graced playing cards, mugs, posters, models, paintings, plates and jigsaw puzzles.
The geomorphology of Scotland was formed by the action of tectonic plates, and subsequent erosion arising from glaciation.
As a result, vehicles owned by personnel ceased to have distinct registration plates, which had made them easily identifiable.
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Then, in the form of plates riveted together and made watertight, it was used to form the hull itself.
When working with wet photographic plates, Swan noticed that heat increased the sensitivity of the silver bromide emulsion.
Studios sprang up in cities around the world, some cranking out more than 500 plates a day.
Her bedlinen was changed daily, and her own chefs prepared meals with a choice of 32 dishes served on silver plates.
Beneath the surface, two plates of the Earth's crust were slowly colliding, forcing the Cocos Plate to slide under the Caribbean Plate.
Meanwhile, movement of the two tectonic plates was also pushing up the sea floor, eventually forcing some areas above sea level.
German potters also crafted a large array of jugs, pots, and plates of both elegant and traditional design.
Volcanoes and movements in continental plates contributed to high amounts of CO2 in the atmosphere.
In these instances, not only the crust, but also entire tectonic plates, are in the process of breaking apart to create new plates.
The Thistle Chapel does, however, bear the arms of members living and deceased on stall plates.
These enamelled plates are affixed to the back of the stall and display its occupant's name, arms, and date of admission into the Order.
Quimper faience is known worldwide for its bowls and plates painted by hand, and other towns, such as Pornic, also maintain a similar tradition.
To bend plates into the required shape, they were first heated in a gas furnace, and then pressed into the correct curve.
There was an extensive use of gold and silver plates, jewels and enamelling at court, which would have been richly decorated.
This coupling between rigid plates moving on the surface of the Earth and the convecting mantle is called plate tectonics.
There silver plates and foreign coins were melted down and in some cases just hammered into shape to produce coins quickly.
It is possible these were the same 6 Sevier referred to, as the number, brass plates and Welsh coat of arms are consistent with both references.
There were vegetable pies and nutburgers, spinach lasagne and stuffed mushrooms simmering over candlelit hot plates.
The trough is not fastened to the arches, but lugs are cast into the plates to fit over the rib arches to prevent movement.
By the late 1990s technological developments had eliminated the need for vast areas for storing maps and for making printing plates by hand.
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Hotspot volcanic island ridges are created by volcanic activity, erupting periodically, as the tectonic plates pass over a hotspot.
In contrast, modern ophiuroids have a single series of axial arm plates termed vertebrae.
In stenurids, as in modern ophiuroids, lateral plates are present at the sides of ambulacrals, and prominent lateral spines are typical.
The underside of the disk contains the mouth, which has five toothed jaws formed from skeletal plates.
The madreporite is usually located within one of the jaw plates, and not on the upper side of the animal as it is in starfish.
In ophiuroids, the calcite ossicles are fused to form armor plates which are known collectively as the test.
The plates are covered by the epidermis, which consists of a smooth syncytium.
In most species, the joints between the ossicles and superficial plates allow the arm to bend to the side, but not to bend upwards.
They are supported by an internal skeleton of calcium carbonate plates referred to as vertebral ossicles.
They are essentially fused plates which correspond to the parallel ambulacral plates in sea stars and five Paleozoic families of ophiuroids.
Each of these areas consists of two rows of plates, so the sea urchin test includes 20 rows of plates in total.
The plates are covered in rounded tubercles, to which the spines are attached.
The periproct contains a variable number of hard plates, depending on species, one of which contains the madreporite.
They also have statocysts, called spheridia, located within the ambulacral plates to help the animal remain upright.
Conventionally, the term tabulation has been used to refer to this arrangement of thecal plates.
The formation of thecal plates has been studied in detail through ultrastructural studies.
They reflect light using plates of crystalline chemochromes made from guanine.
When illuminated, they reflect iridescent colors because of the diffraction of light within the stacked plates.
Minke whales have between 240 and 360 baleen plates on each side of their mouths.
Humpbacks have 270 to 400 darkly colored baleen plates on each side of their mouths.
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These had long bodies, a head covered with bony plates and generally weak or undeveloped limbs.
Earth's volcanoes occur because its crust is broken into 17 major, rigid tectonic plates that float on a hotter, softer layer in its mantle.
Therefore, on Earth, volcanoes are generally found where tectonic plates are diverging or converging, and most are found underwater.
Volcanoes are usually not created where two tectonic plates slide past one another.
Subduction zones are places where two plates, usually an oceanic plate and a continental plate, collide.
The asthenosphere that underlies the surface plates is not liquid in any vernacular sense, although it is relatively plastic.
In contrast, baleen whales have evolved baleen plates to filter feed plankton and small fish from the water.
Geologically the continents largely correspond to areas of continental crust that are found on the continental plates.
Continents sit on continental lithosphere which is part of tectonic plates floating high on Earth's mantle.
Oceanic crust is also part of tectonic plates, but it is denser than continental lithosphere, so it floats low on the mantle.
This number is used in postal codes and was formerly used on vehicle number plates.
Over the course of millions of years, the motion of tectonic plates reconfigures global land and ocean areas and generates topography.
Throughout the Cenozoic Era, the large North American and South American continental plates moved westward from the Eurasian plate.
The collision of the Indian and Eurasian plates is a good example of the extent to which orogenic uplift can reach.
The uplift of these islands is the result of the movement of oceanic tectonic plates.
One of the possible issues with this timing was the continental debris cluttering up the seaway between the two plates in question.
One of these plates makes up the hooked portion of the upper bill, called the maxillary unguis.
The first volume contains 1220 pages, 4 plates, and many additional diagrams and figures within the text.
They also lack vertebral centra, and are partially covered with 5 lateral rows of bony plates called scutes rather than scales.
However, care must be taken not to overclear the specimens otherwise details of the clypeolabral plates may be obscured.
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Pallas was in poor condition, having a chain passed around the ship to hold the armour plates in place.
The tour included an official visit to Istanbul where Fisher dined with the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from gold cups and plates.
Lacking means of reconnaissance, he devised a plan to armour a train with iron plates, machine gun and cannon.
Later, some ships survived mine blasts, limping into port with buckled plates and broken backs.
Ankylosaurs were four-legged plant eaters with rows of bony plates covering their backs and skulls.
The centerpiece of flowers contained protea, green anthuriums, Oriental lilies and Star of Bethlehem with the plates framed by Monsterra leaves.
Three to 4 days after the seed plates were taken from darkness and exposed to light, mass zoospore release occurred.
Along a row of breast plates, Lindsey selected one which inspired Janty Yates who won an Oscar for best costume design in Gladiator.
Back at the coop, food is presented on heavy cardboard plates.
They typically remove baseboards, tear out carpet, drill kick plates of cabinets for venting etc.
In addition to the operator trip bar over the mill rolls, two operator kick plates will also stop the drive when actuated.
We sat on long refectory tables and were served plates of steaming spaghetti, followed by pancakes and hot berry juice.
Kwai Fun Li, 45, used the cash to buy four properties, a Porsche and two private number plates.
There's a good selection of sushi, with lots of small plates, buns, ramen and laksa.
Now the ventilation space above head height is crowded with ducting, conduits, cameras, speakers and equipment acting as a baffle plates with predictable reductions in flow.
Lastly, when great numbers of the plates are treated with the hot or boiling water, it should be done in a vitrine or cabinet ventilated directly into the open air.
All samples were analyzed in tetraplicate on separate TLC plates.
The tape is supplied from a feeder-roll and is brought up to and curved around the cable by guide plates and rubber snuggers to form a wrapping lengthwise on the sheath.
The cloth was singed to remove superfluous fluff by being passed over heated copper plates and then boiled in bleaching keirs with lime or caustic soda.
The Gibraltar Arc in the western Mediterranean is migrating westward into the Central Atlantic where it joins the converging African and Eurasian plates.

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