Ground water stands high and may exude in areasof swamp.
Do the Triassic areas now stand higher or lower than the surrounding country, and why?
Over large areas it is spread in level plains of till, perhaps bowlder-dotted, similar to the plains of stony clay left in Spitzbergen by the recent retreat of some of the glaciers of that island.
These names are given to extinct lakes which once occupied large areas in the Great Basin, the former in Utah, the latter in northwestern Nevada.
Large areas occur in the maritime provinces of Canada.
In Iceland, in Spitzbergen, in Kamchatka, and in other frigid lands large areas are thickly strewn with sharp-edged fragments into which the rock has been shattered by frost.
The upridging of the Appalachians had begun and a wide continental uplift--proved by the absence of Permian deposits over large areas where sedimentation had gone on before--opened new lands for settlement to hordes of air-breathing animals.
The Pennsylvanian Series The Mississippian was brought to an end by a quiet oscillation which lifted large areas slightly above the sea, and the Pennsylvanian began with a movement in the opposite direction.
Areas of weak rock are wasted to plains, while areas of hard rock adjacent are still left as hills and mountain ridges, as in the valleys and mountains of eastern Pennsylvania.
Figure 246 exhibits a few small bosses of granite near Baltimore as examples of numerous areas of igneous rock within the Piedmont Belt which represent bodies of molten rock which solidified deep below the surface.
This is the name given to a denuded surface on very ancient rocks which extends from the Arctic Ocean to the St. Lawrence River and Lake Superior, with small areas also in northern Wisconsin and New York.
The cloth workers in rural areaswere isolated and weak and often at the mercy of middle-men for employment and the amount of their wages.
In certain areas there lived in crowded houses, those wanted for minor offenses, small thefts, and debt.
Bad areas of thieves and prostitutes and the slums east of the City were gradually being replaced by warehouses and offices.
Justices of the Peace in rural areas were squires and in towns aldermen.
Various companies were granted monopolies for trade in certain areas of the world such as Turkey, Spain, France, Venice, the Baltic, and Africa.
Other localities posted sentries on the road to keep Londoners out of their areas to prevent the plague from spreading there.
The smiths and potters were excluded from the more densely populated areas because they were fire risks.
The demand for food in London and other urbanareas made enclosure for crop cultivation even more profitable than for sheep grazing.
The best places were hilly areaswhere there were many streams and good pasture for flocks of sheep.
Parliament's assertion into religious matters and foreign affairs was unprecedented, those areas having been exclusively in the power of the King.
The Mexican sub-region belongs to the Neotropical Region, one of those six great areas into which the globe has been divided off by Dr.
Areas of spots have been measured, and the measures have been reduced to millionths of the Sun's visible hemisphere.
With regard to the Numerical Lunar Theory: A cursory collection of the terms relating to the Areas (in the Ecliptic) led me to suppose that there might be some error in the computations of the Annual Equation and related terms.
During the evening the Battalion formed up in its prearranged assembly areas in readiness for the attack on the following morning.
The heavy shelling which had interfered with the relief continued throughout the night, our front and support lines being heavily bombarded, while the back areas were subjected to incessant searching with high explosive and shrapnel.
A heavy bombardment of the assembly areas on the whole Divisional front followed, lasting all the morning and causing a good many casualties.
Here the 1/4th Londons' duties in carrying and trench working parties in the forward areas were severe as the reserve billets were some three miles from the front line trenches.
This tour of duty passed without important incident though the enemy's artillery exhibited some activity, principally against the back areas in the neighbourhood of Wancourt.
The plaint of the Divisional Staff made at the time is rather pathetic: "Training areas have not yet been allotted.
The assembly areas are marked on the map in Roman numerals as follows: I.
For not only does it carry the sand of its own grinding, as it passes through the hundred miles of canyon of its waterway, but it accepts the sweepings of vast areas made by its tributaries.
I AM trying to prove that the sum of the areas of two similar polygons, constructed on the two legs of a right triangle, is equal to the area of a similar polygon constructed on the hypotenuse.
Its great areas of production offered good profits to men who would handle and ship the products.
The people who built them are probably connected with the Ohio mound-builders, although in this vicinity they seem not to have made many earthen embankments, or walls inclosing areas of land, as is common in Ohio.
Excavations in the areas showed that they were covered with a layer of burnt clay, uneven and broken; immediately below this a layer of ashes 6 inches thick, and below this black loam.
On these areas large trees were growing, one a poplar 3 feet in diameter.
Zollern Trench and the front areas heavily shelled by the hostile artillery.
The operations of speculators frequently tended to retard settlement rather than to stimulate it, as they shut out large areas from cultivation or occupation, in order to hold them for an advance.
In the Southern portion the country is more broken, but it contains large areas of rich lands.
There is now a great demand for men to fill the vacancy caused by deaths in the field, and to occupy the extensive areas that are still uncultivated.
When the levees become broken from any cause, immense areas of country are covered with water.
In the intermediate areas the culture includes wheat, barley, oats, potatoes and other cereals and vegetables common to the temperate zone.
Leaving the dense and weirdly impressive tropical forests of the hinterland, the rolling areas of the yungas ascend toward the plateau—a succession of vast gardens delicately scented and brilliant with color.
The northernareas of Argentina submitted more quietly to the conquerors.
These dark areas are Mars' old sea bottoms, and in many instances have been utilized by our engineers as natural reservoirs for water.
The dark areas shown in the drawing are Mars ancient sea bottoms now covered with vegetation.
These so-called "Carets," as the telescope will show, are located at the edge of some of what appear to you as very dark areas on our planet.
The result of this was that on many occasions the foresight of the Martian engineers who had the water supply of the planet in charge, saved immense areas from drought.
There are large areas of governments in which this social set is not interested, and in America, at least, it has exercised only a fluctuating control over the national government.
By coordinating their information several administrativeareas could reconcile autonomy of decision with cooperation.
Nor can we forget how, for more than seven long years, the Chinese people have been sustaining the barbarous attacks of the Japanese and containing large enemy forces on the vast areas of the Asiatic mainland.
The overwhelming majority realize that the food we send abroad is for essential military purposes, for our own and Allied fighting forces, and for necessary help in areas that we occupy.
The menace exists not only in the slum areas of the very large cities, but in many smaller cities as well.
These difficulties we worked out for ourselves as the peoples of the liberated areas of Europe, faced with complex problems of adjustment, will work out their difficulties for themselves.
We have seen already, in areas liberated from the Nazi and the Fascist tyranny, what problems peace will bring.
Those who represent such areas in every part of the country do their constituents ill service by blocking efforts to raise their incomes, their property values and, therefore, their whole scale of living.
And in some of those areas interest in Earth was so slight that the offworlders were ignored, as the Earthmen were here .
The colonists would always support their own men, who at least knew conditions in the areas they were to govern.
Nameless faces, all of them, having no place in the more developed areas of the Terran civilization.
Now he could reach out and touch the strange areas of this mind: the concepts and attitudes of an alien race and culture and experience.
The areas of the southern languages being usually small, they could easily escape discovery, insomuch as the attention of the explorers and colonists was directed more toward ethnography than toward aboriginal linguistics.
Germany may keep in commission a fixed number of mine-sweeping vessels until the mines within certain specified areas in the North Sea and Baltic have been swept up.
Existing fortifications within those areas are to be demolished and guns removed.
Italy:--Austrian attacks in the Montello and Grappa areasare repulsed.
But, in other parts of the world, the meridians are in opposite phases at the same instant of absolute time; therefore, the magnetic poles are not points, but wide areas enclosing the magnetic poles of all the countries under the sun.
The Housing of the Working Classes Act of 1890 was an admirable measure, but it was hedged about with obstacles which rendered it very difficult to work in urban areas and virtually useless in rural districts.
Moreover the Society was conducting a series of "Suburban Lectures" by paid lecturers, in more or less middle-class residentialareas of the Home Counties.
The Groups, on the other hand, are like County Councils, local organisations within special areasfor particular purposes, with their own finances for those purposes only.
The important effects produced by latitude and climate upon the bird-life of these widely separated areas make material for fascinating investigation, and have been fully dwelt upon as opportunities were presented.
In November the flocks of Bramblings return to the beech-woods for the winter, and bird-life generally becomes much more localized, crowded intoareas where food and shelter chance to be found most easily.
Not a few species are met with that are seldom normally seen in southern haunts, and opportunities are afforded him of studying the nesting economy of species, the breeding areas of which are decidedly boreal.
This is principally due not only to the fact that so many marine species breed in northern areas only, but also to the much greater strength of migration generally along the coasts.
We have often remarked that these moorland Sparrow-hawks quit such areas during winter when small birds are absent.
Some of course are more imposing than others, drain largerareas of upland, and contain a much greater volume of water.
This seems to indicate beyond question that Ring-ouzels migrate direct to their breeding areas after landing on our southern coasts.
The elevation of the table is proportionate to the quantity of water injected, and the power proportionate to the receptive areas of the pump and the cylinder.
This contest also opened the eyes of the world to the fact that vast tracts of idle land, exceeding in extent the areas of many states and countries, could now be sown and reaped--a fact impossible with the scythe and the sickle.
Inventions for the excavating of clay, piling and burning it in a crude state for ballast for railways, are important, especially for those railways which traverseareas where clay is plentiful, and stones and gravel are lacking.
The rising water had flooded immense areas of cultivated land, and even larger areas were threatened.
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