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The primary ore minerals were not investigated, although galena and pyrite were found as relict masses on several occasions.
The normal-sense shears are confined to the gabbro block and may represent relict ocean floor faulting.
But in field after field, paper journals are becoming like academic caps and gowns, a purely ceremonial relict of an obsolete culture.
Perhaps the rounding up of errant Alpine travellers is a distant relict of gathering sheep.
Minor relict populations occur 50-80 km to the south and southwest.
In addition, modern and Holocene sediments were collected from an embayment fill succession, comprising a series of relict foredunes at Longbeach, Guichen Bay.
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.
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.
Of great concern appears to be the situation of the relict population of bear in the Adamello-Brenta.
Niokolo-Koba has a relict population of less than 10 individuals, while Comoé has about 200 Elephants, most living outside the Park.
Look out for relict vine thicket and rainforest around the pools and springs along the Gibb River Road in the northern Kimberley.
In northern latitudes, including the North Sea and Irish Sea, much of the sea floor sediment is of relict glacial or periglacial origin.
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.
That was all a relict from the times of the Cold War, and had to go.
It was a relict of the times before the First Apocalypse, the unknown era.
In its strive to adopt Western civilizations, the Imperial Meiji government banned tattooing as something considered a barbaric relict of the past.
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.
Travelling with ocean currents or a glacial relict?
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.
Chlorarachniophytes, which belong to the phylum Cercozoa, contain a small nucleomorph, which is a relict of the algae's nucleus.
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Examples from Classical Literature
We regret that the relict of the late Captain Budd did not behave exactly as became a shipmaster's widow, under fire.
As often did the relict fly across the way to express her wonder to the Widow Stone, at the frequency of the rich man's visits.
Mrs. Tibbs looked at the relict of the departed Bloss, and thought he must have had very little peace in his time.
The relict and sole executrix of this noble-minded man was an odd mixture of shrewdness and simplicity, liberality and meanness.
It was as if someone had mentioned spaghetti to the relict of an Italian organ-grinder.
His relict, with a glance at his portrait, shook her head and wiped her eyes.
You forget, sir, that you are talking to the relict of the late Paul Winpennie.
And Judith his relict was a widow now three years and six months.
Do thou from mansions of eternal bliss Remember thy distressed relict.Relict means just the same as widow, only a man can be a relict, too.
Sparsit, deceased, of whom she was the relict, had been by the mother's side what Mrs.
How he must have loved this dear relict of his military predecessor!
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