The ores of iron concentrated in these ways are in many instances in well-defined layers, or lenticular bodies, which are thickest in the central portion and thin out in all directions.
A very well marked species, easily recognized, at least when stipitate, by its remarkable discoid orlenticular sporangia.
Sporangia stalked or sessile; peridium cartilaginous, adorned without with large calcareous scales, superficial or shut in lenticular cavities; capillitium non-calcareous.
The Lenticular method was based on the undulatory theory.
The influence of his arguments in Congress was powerful, and from this time the lenticularmethod prevailed, and the system of lighthouses on all our coasts was extended.
At the orbit of the earth, this lenticular space is narrowed to a very thin stratum, but undoubtedly reaches beyond the earth's orbit with a rapidly diminishing density.
The parallax of the nearest star is only one second, the whole lenticular mass of light which surrounds our sun would therefore only subtend an angle of a single second at the nearest fixed star.
The form of the zodial light, as seen edgewise, gives a lenticular form for the stratum of planetary particles composing it, and its central plane has been considered as coinciding with the plane of the sun's equator.
It crystallizes in the monoclinic system, forming flattened octahedra almost lenticular in shape (hence the German name Linsenkupfer).
It is a reniform limestone, which occurs distributed in single nodules or rather lenticular cakes, in beds of clay.
Such are the gypsums of the environs of Paris, as at the heights of Montmartre, which contain crystallized sulphate of lime in many forms, but most commonly the lenticular and lance-shaped.
Under this name I have included all the lenticular species of Persoon's Synopsis, Physarum nutans, P.
Lenticular ampullae coated with a greenish glaze, flanked by two crouching monkeys for handles, decorated along the edge with pearl or egg-shaped ornaments, and round the body with elaborate collars (fig.
I have a lenticular mace-head, 3 inches in diameter and 2 inches thick, formed of a silicious breccia from Pergamum.
The lenticular part is usually about 5 inches in diameter, and its rounded surface was used for |442| polishing the linen.
One of the few facts which indicate a certain continuity of tradition in later Greece is this, that we again find the same characteristic forms, the glandular and lenticular stones, in the cemeteries, of Melos and elsewhere.
It is only recently that archaeologists have learnt to distinguish between the later lenticular and glandular stones "of the Greek Islands," as they are commonly called, and those of the Aegean age.
A Cretan fresco shows a figure wearing an agate lenticular stone suspended from the left wrist.
This clay is of a smoky colour, impregnated with petroleum, mingled with lamellar and lenticular gypsum and sometimes traversed by small veins of fibrous gypsum.
It is lenticular in section, with the edges jaggedly sharp.
The blade is paddle-shaped like the large end of an apple seed, lenticular in cross section, with a mid-rib on each side which runs out about 10 mm.
The upper portion resembles the first-mentioned specimen and the lower part is somewhat similar to it but more lenticular in cross section.
The object seems to be a fragment of a bow which was lenticular in cross section although rather flat.
The blade is of the characteristic form with lenticular cross section but thicker than the thin type of stone clubs of this form such as are found near the coast.
The handle is oval but approaches a lenticular form in cross section.
Beds of granular limestone, or of calcareous schists are also never altogether wanting; while iron pyrites and graphite, in lenticular masses, or in local beds conformable to the great mass of the gneiss strata, are very generally present.
Crystalline limestone, sometimes magnesian, including lenticular patches of quartz, and broken and contorted layers of quartzo-felspathic rock, rarely above a few inches in thickness.
I examined the fittings of the apparatus, the strength of which was increased a hundredfold by lenticular rings, placed similar to those in a lighthouse, and which projected their brilliance in a horizontal plane.
Four light-ports with lenticular glasses, let in a groove in the partition of the cabin, allowed the man at the wheel to see in all directions.
It is these which enter the frontal lobe and lenticular nucleus.
It was much shorter, however, like the insular territory of the same side, and in corresponding sections the posterior end of the left lenticular nucleus was struck while the right was absent.
The right lenticular nucleus presented a larger section area by about 25 per cent.
Styles or stigmas 2 or 3; achene accordingly lenticular or 3-angular.
Achene lenticular or triangular, naked at the apex.
Style 2-cleft, its base or the greater part of it enlarging and hardening to form the beak of the lenticular or tumid more or less wrinkled achene.
Style 2--3-cleft, its bulbous base persistent as a tubercle jointed upon the apex of the lenticularor triangular achene.
Section across the great lenticular threads of alluvial deposits which compose the veneer of the High Plains (after W.
Such rock fragments are shaped by the continued wear against their neighbors under the restless breakers, until they have a lenticular or watch-shaped form (Fig.
In some placeslenticular masses of pure rock-salt nearly 100 feet thick are interpolated between the argillaceous beds.
It is a slightly oolitic shelly limestone, forming large lenticular masses imbedded in sand only six feet thick, but very rich in organic remains.
The mineral veins with which we are most familiarly acquainted are those of quartz and carbonate of lime, which are often observed to form lenticular masses of limited extent traversing both hypogene strata and fossiliferous rocks.
It is usually a soft whitish-yellow rock, with a texture resembling that of loaf-sugar, but sometimes it is entirely composed of lenticular crystals.
The principle of the lenticular stereoscope is perhaps better seen by reference to the next diagram, in which the centres of the semi-lenses (i.
The refracting or lenticular stereoscope that of Sir David Brewster.
Burrows, about 2 inches deep and lenticular in cross section, are dug in the ground in well-drained, partly sheltered areas; also old Podium nests are used.
Fruit a lenticular seed covered by the membrane of the ovary.
In defined lead and copper lodes, or in large lenticular bodies such as the Tennessee copper mines, the radius may often be considerably greater,--say one hundred feet.
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