The primary ore minerals were not investigated, although galena and pyrite were found as relict masses on several occasions. |
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The normal-sense shears are confined to the gabbro block and may represent relict ocean floor faulting. |
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But in field after field, paper journals are becoming like academic caps and gowns, a purely ceremonial relict of an obsolete culture. |
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Perhaps the rounding up of errant Alpine travellers is a distant relict of gathering sheep. |
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Minor relict populations occur 50-80 km to the south and southwest. |
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In addition, modern and Holocene sediments were collected from an embayment fill succession, comprising a series of relict foredunes at Longbeach, Guichen Bay. |
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Also as seen in graptolites, many of the taxa that were common during the Hirnantian were eurytopic species, high-latitude immigrants, or endemic, relict faunas. |
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This is the only primate found in the Mediterranean Basin, where it is restricted to relict patches of forest and scrub in Morocco and Algeria. |
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Of great concern appears to be the situation of the relict population of bear in the Adamello-Brenta. |
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Niokolo-Koba has a relict population of less than 10 individuals, while Comoé has about 200 Elephants, most living outside the Park. |
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Look out for relict vine thicket and rainforest around the pools and springs along the Gibb River Road in the northern Kimberley. |
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In northern latitudes, including the North Sea and Irish Sea, much of the sea floor sediment is of relict glacial or periglacial origin. |
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Many of the Tzeltal in Highland Chiapas may not think about relict stands of evergreen cloud forest as undisturbed valuable habitat for regionally endemic species. |
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That was all a relict from the times of the Cold War, and had to go. |
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It was a relict of the times before the First Apocalypse, the unknown era. |
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In its strive to adopt Western civilizations, the Imperial Meiji government banned tattooing as something considered a barbaric relict of the past. |
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The challenging wilderness environment provides a poignant setting for the rich relict landscape, which brings to life the personal struggles and dramatic human history of the trail. |
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Travelling with ocean currents or a glacial relict? |
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They also occur as small isolated clusters arising from the surrounding plain and studding the eastern summit of the massif, the latter possibly relict from an earlier tower-forming period. |
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Chlorarachniophytes, which belong to the phylum Cercozoa, contain a small nucleomorph, which is a relict of the algae's nucleus. |
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This has permitted the survival of rare and relict life forms, and encouraged the development of a number of endemics that exist in the proposed serial site. |
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Evidence of secondary origin includes relict structures of allochems such as skeletal fragments and oöids preserved entirely within chert nodules. |
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Similarly, a river such as the Mississippi that is reworking a relict alluvial deposit in a valley may be seen to be depositing gravel on point bars on the insides of bends. |
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The new varieties were notably distinct from the surviving relict dialects. |
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Serpentinite consists essentially of antigorite locally with relict pyroxene, minor magnetite, crisotile and carbonate veins. |
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The other idea is that of the ideology of the EU which consists, in your view, Commissioner, in seeing this industry as a relict and China being forced to look outwards as a smooth transition. |
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Most samples contain albitic plagioclase, and relict pyroxene is common in mafic rocks. |
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A relict border is a former boundary, which may no longer be a legal boundary at all. |
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Thus, a relict neuter gender can arguably be said to persist in Italian and Romanian. |
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They are found mainly in arid environments although some aeolian lakes are relict landforms indicative of arid paleoclimates. |
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In botany, an example of an ice age relict plant population is the Snowdon lily, notable as being precariously rare in Wales. |
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The Grande Coupure is characterized by widespread extinctions and allopatric speciation in small isolated relict populations. |
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Subsequently, within the past 10,000 years, the Arctic Ocean rose and advanced over a frozen landscape to produce a degrading relict subsea permafrost. |
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When climate in a region changes, elimination of relict landforms and deposits causes a disequilibrium phase, which is followed by a dynamic equilibrium phase as new geomorphic equilibria are established. |
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A scat found at Kidland Forest in Northumberland in June 2010 may represent either a recolonisation from Scotland, or a relict population that has escaped notice previously. |
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When a relict is representative of taxa found in the fossil record, and yet is still living, such an organism is sometimes referred to as a living fossil. |
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This area has been described as perhaps being a relict of the Ice Age Mammoth steppe, along with certain areas along the northwestern border between Mongolia and Russia. |
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Periodically, populations of horses in isolated areas are speculated to be relict populations of wild horses, but generally have been proven to be feral or domestic. |
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Relict populations of the West African crocodile persisted in the Draa river until the 20th century. |
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