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The geosphere is the Earth itself, the rocks, minerals, and landforms of the surface as well as its interior.
A crater was formed at the point where the meteor impacted the planet's surface.
Boil the chicken and use a spoon to remove any scum that floats to the surface.
With the telescope we can see details of the planet's surface that are ordinarily invisible.
The telescope makes the craters on the surface of the moon incredibly clear.
Alligatoring is a result of the sun making the top surface of the asphalt brittle.
The existence of an allochthone resting on an autochthone implies the existence of an overriding surface.
Violent and sudden storms often sweep the surface, due to large transient temperature differences and a long reach of wind.
Calcaerous woodland occurs on thin soils where chalk is close to the surface.
Fog is formed when warm moist air moves over a cold surface.
Underneath the surface excitements the demon of accidie had her by the hair.
And although Danny had been sober for a long stretch, you only had to scratch the surface to find that crazy, dramatic, addictlike behavior.
The less surface area, the less stability but larger flights hamper close grouping.
The planum rostrale of pigs has tactile hairs distributed over the surface and numerous large merocrine sweat glands.
Instead, each tyre had four large circumferential grooves on its surface designed to limit the cornering speed of the cars.
In March 2010, the surface was relaid for the 10th time since 2007, when the stadium was built.
The difference of 0.02 sec. may be attributed to conduction from the outer surface of the column to the sphincter embedded in its mesogloea.
The playing surface at Portman Road is highly regarded and has been voted best pitch in the league on a number of occasions.
The tie was played on clay courts in the United States in the hope that the Americans would defeat Murray on his weakest surface.
The track surface is similar to that of Thoroughbred racing and usually consists of dirt.
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Wind shear occurs because of friction above a water surface slowing the flow of air.
This pattern can be explained by seasonal differences in the strength of microstratification at the surface of the lake.
The previous study reported that AFM is an efficient tool to study the surface morphology and microtribological properties of thin films.
While this was an embarrassment for the British, it was the end of the German surface threat in the Atlantic.
The 1981 Defence Review by John Nott, the defence minister, dramatically cut the capabilities of the Royal Navy's surface fleet.
The reason the precise nature of the fault is still unknown is because there is little evidence of a continuous fault plane on the surface.
A fault plane is the plane that represents the fracture surface of a fault.
A fault trace or fault line is the intersection of a fault plane with the ground surface.
The fault surface is usually near vertical and the footwall moves either left or right or laterally with very little vertical motion.
A fault that passes through different levels of the lithosphere will have many different types of fault rock developed along its surface.
This eventually choked the lakes and raised above the surface, forming raised bogs.
The surface currents of the Indian Ocean also have a monsoonal regimen associated with the Asian Monsoonal wind regimen.
British naval forces also returned to more usual levels, with two surface combatants, a tanker and a repair ship present in early July.
The ram air turbine, capable of generating 100 kVA, is supplied by Hamilton Sundstrand and located in the lower surface of the fuselage.
Testing was cut short on 23 May, when, during a rejected takeoff test, the left side main wheels broke through the runway surface.
Some individuals did surface in the leaked documents, according to ICIJ partner in the investigation Toronto Star.
This expression is valid only over small distances h from the surface of the Earth.
In the case of gravity, the operators representing the area and the volume of each surface or space region likewise have discrete spectrum.
Many clinical tests were inconclusive, probably because it had been used as a surface antiseptic.
Hot exhaust gases from the fire passed through the flue thus increasing the surface area heating the water and improving efficiency.
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The oxide deposits on the bulb inner surface and reacts with hydrogen, decomposing to metallic tungsten and water.
In a conventional lamp, the evaporated tungsten eventually condenses on the inner surface of the glass envelope, darkening it.
For bulbs that contain a vacuum, the darkening is uniform across the entire surface of the envelope.
The main western section runs on the surface from Reading to Acton Main Line.
One of the two eastern sections runs underground from Whitechapel to Stratford, then on the surface on the existing main line.
Computer models showed the possibility of subsurface currents delivering oil to the surface in an upwelling off the Florida Shelf.
It deals with the management and disposal of property, and with surface hazards, such as abandoned coal mine shafts.
Separate production wells are used to bring the product gas to the surface.
The pressure is controlled by the operator using pressure valves at the surface.
Horizontal drilling reduces surface disruptions as fewer wells are required to access the same volume of rock.
Tiltmeter arrays deployed on the surface or down a well provide another technology for monitoring strain.
In general, the material on race has moved from surface traits to genetics and evolutionary history.
However, word order in Tamil is also flexible, so that surface permutations of the SOV order are possible with different pragmatic effects.
The new French works taught a new, on the surface freer, gallant exchange between the sexes as the essence of life at the French court.
His views on the position of the Welsh people, as a conquered people are never far below the surface.
The Handel excerpts are afflicted with a combination of high surface noise from the source material as well as variably muzzy sound.
In the far infrared a self-supporting layer, such as a sheet of mylar stretched over a plane circular surface, is widely used.
Expressionist painters explored the bold use of paint surface, drawing distortions and exaggerations, and intense color.
The powder on the floor defines the surface of the floor and the objects appear to be partially submerged, like icebergs.
Since 1995, he has worked with the highly reflective surface of polished stainless steel.
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If one rows with poor technique, especially rowing with a curved rather than straight back, other injuries may surface, including back pains.
The test against Tonga took place at Rugby Park, Kilmarnock, and was the first Rugby Union international to be played on an artificial surface.
The roughened, softer surface of an old ball can be more conducive to spin bowlers, or those using reverse swing.
Though early navigators thought of the sea as a flat surface that could be used as a vertical datum, this is not actually the case.
An improvement in the landing field was the introduction of grooves in the concrete surface.
A solution lake is a lake occupying a basin formed by surface dissolution of bedrock.
Where groundwater lies near the grounds surface, a sinkhole will be filled water as a solution lake.
Finally, overlying the metalimnion is a surface layer of a warmer, lighter water is called the epilimnion.
Output sources are evaporation from the lake, surface and groundwater flows, and any extraction of lake water by humans.
Since the surface water of deep tropical lakes never reaches the temperature of maximum density, there is no process that makes the water mix.
Jupiter's large moon Io is volcanically active, and as a result sulfur deposits have accumulated on the surface.
Geologic evidence appears to confirm, however, that ancient lakes once formed on the surface.
Often one sees, on surface view, a distinctly rounded vacuole, occupying a position in the cell occupied in others by a large nematocyst.
Centuries of extensive and poorly controlled peat extraction lowered an already low land surface by several metres.
Beneath the surface, two plates of the Earth's crust were slowly colliding, forcing the Cocos Plate to slide under the Caribbean Plate.
Without sunlight, there could be no explanation for the sediment record on the Earth's surface.
It is by the value of tones, the colored surface and the harmony of lines that I can reach the spirit and wake up the emotions.
The rate of improvement of surface to air missiles seemed to indicate that they would soon be able to shoot any manned aircraft out of the sky.
The weight of the redistributed surface mass loaded the lithosphere, caused it to flex and also induced stress within the Earth.
Solidification into rock occurs either below the surface as intrusive rocks or on the surface as extrusive rocks.
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The magma, which is brought to the surface through fissures or volcanic eruptions, solidifies at a faster rate.
When magma reaches the surface from beneath water or air, it is called lava.
It is the largest inland stretch of water in Great Britain by surface area.
What a large part of Loch Lomond's beauty is due to its islands, those beautiful green tangled islands, that lie like jewels upon its surface.
These currents, called submarine rivers, flow under the surface of the ocean and are hidden from immediate detection.
Thus, equatorial upwelling occurs in these westward flowing equatorial surface currents.
Surface currents are found on the surface of an ocean, and are driven by large scale wind currents.
Knowledge of surface ocean currents is essential in reducing costs of shipping, since traveling with them reduces fuel costs.
They usually push their prey deeper into the water and capture it as they return to the surface.
The dorsal surface of the neck and head are the same colour as that of the trunk, but is lighter gray around the eyes, lips, cheeks, and chin.
Very large prey such as swans may be dragged along the surface of the water to the shore to be consumed.
The eggs hatch in about 2 weeks, and the tiny larvae tunnel to the wood and score its surface with their feeding channels.
By combining it with watermarking technology the thread can be made to surface periodically on one side only.
The playing surface or curling sheet is defined by the World Curling Federation Rules of Curling.
A key part of the preparation of the playing surface is the spraying of water droplets onto the ice, which form pebble on freezing.
The pebbled ice surface resembles an orange peel, and the stone moves on top of the pebbled ice.
Cofferdams were used where rock was nearer to the surface, and it was possible to work in low tide.
This involves the production of alloys, the shaping, the heat treatment and the surface treatment of the product.
It involves bonding a thin layer of another metal such as gold, silver, chromium or zinc to the surface of the product.
Glaciers form only on land and are distinct from the much thinner sea ice and lake ice that form on the surface of bodies of water.
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Thermally, a temperate glacier is at melting point throughout the year, from its surface to its base.
When the mass of snow and ice is sufficiently thick, it begins to move due to a combination of surface slope, gravity and pressure.
Glaciers are broken into zones based on surface snowpack and melt conditions.
Ogives are formed when ice from an icefall is severely broken up, increasing ablation surface area during summer.
Because of the low atmospheric pressure, ablation near the surface is solely due to sublimation, not melting.
The final upper surface was made of concrete or well smoothed and fitted flint.
Most aqueducts were constructed below the surface with only small portions above ground supported by arches.
This improves definition of the position and topography of the specimen surface and increases the spatial resolution of the image.
Finishes include mechanical surface treatments, chemical coloring, and coatings.
But plumping it up allows the two cords to meet and gives the nonparalyzed one a better surface to vibrate against.
The plastic was a nonporous surface, so the ink couldn't sink in and stain it.
A vaccine non-responder is a person who does not develop protective surface antibodies after completing two full series of injections.
Following an unofficial strike in 1969 about the pay of surface workers, it was decided that the threshold for the ballot should be lowered.
Wet prominence assumes that the surface of the earth includes all permanent water, snow, and ice features.
Geology describes the structure of the Earth beneath its surface, and the processes that have shaped that structure.
This coupling between rigid plates moving on the surface of the Earth and the convecting mantle is called plate tectonics.
Rock units are first emplaced either by deposition onto the surface or intrusion into the overlying rock.
Volcanic ashes and lavas accumulate on the surface, and igneous intrusions enter from below.
They fed above the sediment surface, but were forced to burrow to avoid predators.
Microfossils have been unearthed from holes riddling the otherwise barren surface of the dolomite.
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Where v is the equivalent wind speed at 10 metres above the sea surface and B is Beaufort scale number.
It may assist in the detection of prey near the sea surface as a bird flies low over it.
The bird catches food off the surface or by pursuit diving, and forages alone or in small flocks.
Large groups will dive and swim together in circles repeatedly and all rise up to the surface, heads first and bills open.
Further examination reveals the cut surface of the hole has toothmarks which follow the direction of the shell.
In addition, there will be toothmarks on the outer surface of the nut, at an angle of about 45 degrees to the cut surface.
Woodmice also leave toothmarks on the outer surface of the nut but voles do not.
The shark follows plankton concentrations in the water column, so is often visible at the surface.
In large individuals, the dorsal fin may flop to one side when above the surface.
Dolphins frequently leap above the water surface, this being done for various reasons.
Examples of body language include leaping out of the water, snapping jaws, slapping the tail on the surface and butting heads.
The bottlenose dolphin has a single blowhole located on the dorsal surface of the head consisting of a hole and a muscular flap.
Dolphins are voluntary breathers, who must deliberately surface and open their blowholes to get air.
In addition to such endeavors, the individuals swim with and surface near surfers at the beach.
Eel larvae drift in the surface waters of the sea, feeding on marine snow, small particles that float in the water.
These ferrihydrite ions are transported through ion channels to the tooth surface.
Stress wears preferentially on the front surface of the cusp of the teeth, allowing the back surface to stay sharp and more effective.
Turning the shell over with the aperture flat on a surface and measuring vertically reveals the height of the snail.
They also feed on zooplankton, tiny animals found in oceanic surface waters, and small fish and fish larvae.
Toxotid and anabantid fish from Southeast Asia project spouts of water toward prey above the surface of the water.
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The angular defect clearly has something to do with curvature, because the larger it is, the more pointed the surface is at the vertex.
Men have tasted of the apples of Sodom, and they have found bitter ashes under an inviting and luscious surface.
The surface of uncoated fine art paper is sometimes sized with starches or gelatins.
The asthenosphere that underlies the surface plates is not liquid in any vernacular sense, although it is relatively plastic.
It augered into the water and vanishedunder the surface only to float up again, its keel pointing skyward.
As it happened, I had progressed only some few feet out onto the snow when a clean-cut section stripped off the surface and avalanched.
Many bathy systems will use an additional infrared pulse to determine the water surface.
She saw what was beneath the surface and realized he was not such a bad guy.
There's nothing more thrilling to the whale watcher than to see a whale surface and blow.
The cliff-dwellers had chipped and chipped away at this boulder till it rested its tremendous bulk upon a mere pin-point of its surface.
Not one rock near the surface was discovered which was not buoyed by this floating weed.
The graver, in ploughing furrows in the surface of the copper, raises corresponding ridges or burrs.
On hatching, the chicks scramble to the surface and head bush on their own.
That they have been exterminated by exceptional cataclysmal changes of the earth's surface has not been proved.
Within a nanosecond of the book becoming a horizontal surface, there was a catbutt firmly planted upon it.
Cats-paw, a light air of wind perceived... by the impression made on the surface of the sea, which it sweeps very lightly, and then decays.
Wipe the surface with a cloth dampened with mineral spirits in order to remove the sanding dust, then brush on a full coat of varnish.
The first concrete state, or consistent surface, of the chaos must be of the same figure as the last liquid state.
In all cases, the surface of the plastic must be made conductable, and this is most simply done by coating with a reduced silver film.
Drops of water naturally form themselves into figures with a convex surface.
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The dark traces of the cracks in the crazed surface of the pot contrasted with the light glaze and was quite attractive.
The fat in untreated milk floats freely and rises to the surface to form a creamline on the top.
Thus analytical surface wave solutions are available to describe waves that are either progressive or trapped in the crosswedge direction.
They are comparatively large, without outgrowths, of a rounded shape, with a flattened ventral surface and cryptostomy or plagiostomy with a lip.
Examination of waves larger than 60 metres will depend on the accuracy with which the spatial derivatives of the surface can be obtained.
They may be separated early from the mother tissue by cutinizing their surface.
Broiling is but another way of roasting those cuts of meat which have a broad, flat surface such as steaks, chops, or cutlets.
In fact, Soviet astronomers once thought that the thick, dense Cytherean atmosphere might not let any sunlight reach the surface.
Daddy longlegs adults are weak flyers, falling onto the water surface in the lightest of breezes, and even on calm days.
Datums are another important map aspect related to projection. A datum provides a base reference for measuring locations on Earth's surface.
To obtain normal surface moisture, the peeled carrots were dewetted by centrifuging with a salad spinner.
Somehow one's acceptance into humanity is dependent on the kind of Disney World assumption that differences are only on the surface.
Pressure readings are taken downhole next to the feed zone and the total flow is measured on the surface using a separator.
From its surface, he insisted, plain food became ambrosia, water nectar, and the duffest dope would blow your mind.
Democratic or not, there is a certain easygoingness in Asmara, at least on the surface.
They attach themselves to the eglomerated solids and oil particles and lift them to the surface of the water.
As mentioned before, modern geodetic datums rely on the surfaces of geocentric ellipsoids to approximate the surface of the earth.
At the symphysis, the entopterygoid articulates with its counterpart through a striated articular surface which is oval in outline.
The nature of the surface of a plant also determines the number and sort of Epiphytes which lodge on it.
The specifics of how an ocean and the Europan surface might interact, however, are far from agreed-upon.
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The surface part of an exopinacocyte is polygonal in shape and covered with a mucous layer of self-secreted glycocalyx.
In severe burns, the body loses large amounts of nitrogen, in the urine and by exudation from the burned body surface.
Notice, too, that the shaft is not straight, but bent so that the upper surface of the feather is convex, and the lower concave.
After harvesting the first flush, clean up all the withered pinheads and debris on the surface of the block.
You'll need to focus the microscope carefully in order to capture the full detail of this surface.
It becomes surface water runoff through atmospheric scouring associated with rainfall and fogfall.
The most specialized fossorial mammals are subterranean, seeking food and shelter underground and rarely coming to the surface.
Improper cooling and a dull milling blade on titanium can gall the surface.
Its configuration is related to soil type, particularly in the down suction, or concavity, of its lower surface.
Regardless of GRM used, graffiti ghosts persist. Protect cladding with surface coating or replace with graffiti resistant paint or laminate.
She could stand on a rocky surface, scoop up a gloveful of dirt, and explore extinct volcanoes and ancient canyons.
Frequent showers from the dark clouds that swept in and out over the Sydney Football Stadium turned the surface into something of a gluepot.
Because the Earth's surface is curved, the shortest distance is actually a curve over the surface called a great circle.
The British Empire reached its greatest extent, covering a fifth of the world's land surface and a quarter of its population.
Low salinity surface coastal waters move offshore, and deeper, denser high salinity waters move in shore.
It covers approximately 20 percent of the Earth's surface and about 29 percent of its water surface area.
From October to June the surface is usually covered with sea ice in the Labrador Sea, Denmark Strait, and Baltic Sea.
Evaporation, precipitation, river inflow and sea ice melting influence surface salinity values.
Climate is influenced by the temperatures of the surface waters and water currents as well as winds.
The granite can be seen at the surface as the Ennerdale, Skiddaw, Carrock Fell, Eskdale and Shap granites.
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The limestone is exposed at the surface in the north of the range, in the North Pennines AONB, and in the south in the Derbyshire Peak District.
The surface of the holotype bears seven rounded annulations which slope very slightly orad from the venter.
The Baltic sea drainage basin is roughly four times the surface area of the sea itself.
In future honings, you'll assume the tip is touching the stone on the back when it is, in fact, above the stone's surface.
Beneath the surface, they had profound and lasting influence on geothermal heat and the patterns of deep groundwater flow.
Although the surface is cold, the base of an ice sheet is generally warmer due to geothermal heat.
The two large stones at the Southern Entrance had an unusually smooth surface, likely due to having stone axes polished on them.
The reflecting surface was typically made slightly convex so that the whole face could be seen in a small mirror.
They are made in various shapes, each producing its own furrow profile and surface finish.
It turns an almost square sectioned furrow and leaves a more broken surface finish.
It is a mouldboard whose surface is made of slats placed along the length of the mouldboard, so that there are gaps between the slats.
The ploughshare spread the cut horizontally below the surface, so when the mouldboard lifted it, a wider area of soil was turned over.
Cultivator teeth work near the surface, usually for weed control, whereas chisel plough shanks work deep beneath the surface.
The paraplough or paraplow is a tool for loosening compacted soil layers 12 to 16 inches deep and still maintain high surface residue levels.
It accelerates soil warming and water evaporation in spring because of the lesser quantity of residues on the soil surface.
Ploughing leaves very little crop residue on the surface, which otherwise could reduce both wind and water erosion.
When the framework was removed, the new wall was very strong, with a rough surface of bricks or stones.
This surface could be smoothed and faced with an attractive stucco or thin panels of marble or other coloured stones called revetment.
The sewers were mainly for the removal of surface drainage and underground water.
The area of each specimen was lased imbricately twice with a uniformly slow speed at a 90-degree angle to the surface and at a distance of 1 mm.
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Elsewhere in the world, the Navy hunted down the handful of German surface raiders at large.
The outer surface is covered with variable amounts of dental plaque and saliva. The inner surface is bathed in interstitial fluid or lymph.
The second mechanism, which is the primary focus of the present paper, involves insertion of interstitials into dangling bonds at the surface.
Out of this work came another of Wren's important mathematical results, namely that the hyperboloid of revolution is a ruled surface.
Music magazines, reviews, and critical works which suited amateurs as well as connoisseurs began to surface.
The ABDA fleet finally encountered the Japanese surface fleet at the Battle of Java Sea, at which Doorman gave the order to engage.
The surface of the state may properly be divided into two parts, the uplands of the north, and the alluvial along the coast.
In the pyloric canal, muscular ridges are more fixed than elsewhere and produce quite a labyrinthine surface.
Groundwater is vulnerable to surface pollution, especially in highly urbanised areas.
Bands of limestone emerge from the Earth's surface in often spectacular rocky outcrops and islands.
Subterranean drainage may limit surface water, with few to no rivers or lakes.
The development of karst occurs whenever acidic water starts to break down the surface of bedrock near its cracks, or bedding planes.
The largest lake by surface area is Lough Neagh in Northern Ireland, though Scotland's Loch Ness has the largest volume.
Latitude is used together with longitude to specify the precise location of features on the surface of the Earth.
The second step is to approximate the geoid by a mathematically simpler reference surface.
The simplest choice for the reference surface is a sphere, but the geoid is more accurately modelled by an ellipsoid.
Lines of constant latitude and longitude together constitute a graticule on the reference surface.
The primary reference points are the poles where the axis of rotation of the Earth intersects the reference surface.
The plane through the centre of the Earth and perpendicular to the rotation axis intersects the surface at a great circle called the Equator.
The geocentric latitude is the angle between the equatorial plane and the radius from the centre to a point on the surface.
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Points on the real surface of the earth are usually above or below this idealized geoid surface and here the true vertical can vary slightly.
This wind pattern applies a stress to the subtropical ocean surface with negative curl across the north Atlantic Ocean.
Thus these lavaless craters appear to indicate the presence of intrusive bodies that have solidified before reaching the surface.
At surface conditions these will condense out of the gas to form natural gas condensate, often shortened to condensate.
In 2005, EADS Astrium Space Transportation started a campaign in favour of a project called LIFE, for astronomy from the Moon surface.
There will be three Precursor spacecraft to Mars to set up three bases on the planet to enable maximum exploration of the planet's surface.
The craft will dock together to enable the crew to transfer to the ferry vehicles for descent to the surface at a selected site.
The crew, along with the equipped rovers, will spend 14 months to explore the Martian surface.
Craters on Mars and the Moon are named in his honour as well as a type of surface wave known as a Rayleigh wave.
Thomson could trace the path of the ray by observing the phosphorescent patch it created where it hit the surface of the tube.
Thomson pasted a scale to the surface of this sphere to measure the deflection of the beam.
Some kinds of ducks in lighting strike the water with their tails first, and skitter along the surface for a few feet before settling down.
Rods hang from the outer end of the beam and operate pumps at the bottom of the mine shaft which raise the water to the surface.
Both the smallpox vaccine and HIV exploit a receptor called CCR5, which is expressed on the surface of white blood cells.
These machines move autonomously while collecting surface dust and debris into a dustbin.
Another discovery was that the total amount of air needed to lift the craft was a function of the roughness of the surface it traveled over.
Hovercraft service is suspended for several weeks each year while the river is beginning to freeze to minimize damage to the river ice surface.
The brushes run directly on the armature surface making the whole design very compact.
Where CHP is not used, steam turbines in stationary power plants use surface condensers as a cold sink.
A steam turbine often exhausts into a surface condenser that provides a vacuum.
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Converting the surface integral into a volume integral via the divergence theorem gives.
The surface of this type of vibrating coating line is distributed and scattered with raised bumps.
The device's reflective surface enables the device to be clearly visible at long distances at night and in rainy weather.
They are glued to the road surface with an epoxy and as such are not suitable in areas where snow plowing is conducted.
Many of the seeds remain on the surface where they is vulnerable to being eaten by birds or carried away on the wind.
Motorists were diverted to the old road while the UK road research laboratory at Harmondsworth pondered the importance of surface water drainage.
This special surface was publicised in an episode of the BBC's Tomorrow's World programme.
This section was designed to have a heated road surface to reduce icing in winter.
This pressure difference drives ventilation between platforms and the surface exits through the passenger foot network.
Often electronic signs have their flat surface at right angles to the main air flow, causing choked flow.
Most aqueducts were constructed below the surface, with only small portions above ground supported by arches.
Both main or secondary roads might either be paved, or left unpaved, with a gravel surface, as they were in North Africa.
The Viae glareatae were earthed roads with a graveled surface or a gravel subsurface and paving on top.
Under pressure, the heated water rises to the surface along fissures and faults in the limestone.
The thickness of a layer of thatch decreases over time as the surface gradually turns to compost and is blown off the roof by wind and rain.
Sparks from paper or burned rubbish can ignite dry thatch on the surface around a chimney.
Workmen should never use open flame near thatch, and nothing should be burnt that could fly up the chimney and ignite the surface of the thatch.
A solution to this was to pull down the top of a tower and to fill the lower part with the rubble to provide a surface for the guns to fire from.
It is also employed as a wall decoration in which arcade and window openings form part of the whole decorative surface.
With this arrangement, Paxton could glaze the entire roof surface with identical panes that did not need to be trimmed.
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Perchlorate, a type of salt in its solid form, dissolves and moves rapidly in groundwater and surface water.
Due to the steepness and uneven surface of the hill there are usually a number of injuries.
Roasting can enhance flavor through caramelization and Maillard browning on the surface of the food.
These gills produce microscopic spores that help the fungus spread across the ground or its occupant surface.
There is no attempt to represent depth in manuscript painting, with all the emphasis on a brilliantly patterned surface.
The Lindau design is dominated by a cross, but the whole surface of the cover is decorated, with interlace panels between the arms of the cross.
He then built up the painted surface in tempera and oil, recording the tiniest detail, down to each stitch or fastening of costume.
Moore often refined the final full plaster shape and added surface marks before casting.
Flat or matte paint allows a deep color expression on the walls while also hiding flaws that may be inherent on the painted surface.
The idea is to hit the ball to best effect with the flat surface of the bat's blade.
The slates on modern carom tables are usually heated to stave off moisture and provide a consistent playing surface.
It was an amberjack, and twice as large as any I had ever seen before. As I drew up the captain's snapper this amberjack came to the surface, and I certainly yelled.
The seed is then typically reared in a nursery environment, where it is transferred to a material with a suitable surface for later relocation to the growing area.
The great anfractuosity, called the fissure of Sylvius, divides the convolutions of the inferior surface into those of the anterior and those of the middle and posterior lobe.
As a result, the RN surface fleet continues to reduce in size.
The fructification of the spores is effected by the turbid fluid which proceeds from the apertures of the anthoid organs, and flows over the surface of the fronds.
The bottlenose dolphin typically rises to the surface to breathe through its blowhole two to three times per minute, although it can remain submerged for up to 20 minutes.
The ice of a polar glacier is always below the freezing point from the surface to its base, although the surface snowpack may experience seasonal melting.
This contrast is thought to a large extent to govern the ability of a glacier to effectively erode its bed, as sliding ice promotes plucking at rock from the surface below.
However quickly the water was used, there were always larvae of some sort on its surface, jumpy jellylike whiskery things, perfection in their way.

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