The professor had a clastic model of the human brain. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Belize shelf - carbonate sediments, clastic sediments, and ecology. From Wordnik.com. [Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System, Belize] Reference
The surface geology of this ecoregion consists of clastic sedimentary rocks and recent alluvium. From Wordnik.com. [Northern New Guinea lowland rain and freshwater swamp forests] Reference
On shore, 5 m sand dunes and alluvial sands and gravels overlie relatively recent sedimentary, Tertiary clastic and PreCambrian crystalline rocks. From Wordnik.com. [Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California, Mexico] Reference
The transition back to clastic sediment deposition between 5550 14C yr B.P. and 3950 14C yr B.P marks the end of this warming period and the beginning of a neoglacial interval. From Wordnik.com. [Loso: Varves in Alaska « Climate Audit] Reference
The Cobalt Plain in the northeast section of the Ontario portion is composed of flat-lying clastic sediments with ridges and hills formed by gabbro sills or granitic rock inliers. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern forest-boreal transition] Reference
On the basis of egg burial, one major point is missed it seems in these arguments, and that sequential layers of fossils and fossils buried in clastic sediments in a single series. From Wordnik.com. [Report on the 2005 Creation Mega Conference, Part Three - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
A small peak in clastic sedimentation was followed by a larger peak in glacigenic sedimentation, and presumably of ice extent, late in the Neoglacial interval Leonard and Reasoner, 1999. From Wordnik.com. [Loso: Varves in Alaska « Climate Audit] Reference
While the Pliocene/Pleistocene boundary comes the closest to what we expect with ever-decreasing geologic-energy levels, it too falls short when examining offshore clastic and carbonate accumulations. From Wordnik.com. [Steve Steve and the Fossil-Fossils of De-Na-Zin - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
The caves that have been created are some of the largest found anywhere in the world, and are superb examples of tropical river caves with flood incuts, extensive clastic sediment deposits and ellipticle tubes linking different cave levels. From Wordnik.com. [Gunung Mulu National Park, Malaysia] Reference
This quaternary plain was formed by the post-orogenic clastic depositing of sediment, derived from adjacent tectonic uplifts deposited in the basin of the lower Magdalena River that formed a platform of peat intercalated with sand and clay beds. From Wordnik.com. [Magdalena-Santa Marta mangroves] Reference
Similarly, geomorphology varies from a low-gradient slope along the alluvial coastal plain, composed primarily of unconsolidated sediments to steeper gradients of acidic rocks of igneous origin and clastic sediments as one moves up into the mountains. From Wordnik.com. [Sonoran-Sinaloan transition subtropical dry forest] Reference
I still don't understand how that happened other than to think that somehow they didn' pay enough attention to the conference chair Andrew Miall - a noted clastic sedimentologist and maybe somebody the CSPG thought would be friendlier to their policy statement. From Wordnik.com. [It's always the third goddamn reviewer that screws us over] Reference
But in addition to this very general evolution of medieval thought from enthusiastic system towards critical, and even icono - clastic, analysis, there was specifically a doctrine of elementary minima being elaborated during the Ren - aissance within the Aristotelian tradition by such. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
In their icono-clastic fervour they laid hands on the sacred shrine of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Egyptian Problem] Reference
Slide 8: Non-clastic rocks form by chemical precipitation (settling out from a solution.). From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Hales thought plants were somehow able to modify the qualities of a single, highly clastic air. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
All were preserved in the hard calcified clastic sediment that formed at the bottom of a pool of water. From Wordnik.com. [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition] Reference
The specimen was found with the palate and teeth facing upward, embedded in an iron-rich clastic conglomerate in the middle part of the Shumaysi. From Wordnik.com. [Livescience.com] Reference
The principal host rocks for the Excalibur mineralization are Permian clastic sediments, including chert, which have undergone low grade metamorphism. From Wordnik.com. [Star Gold Corp. Explores Its Excalibur and Longstreet Projects in Nevada - Yahoo! Finance] Reference
The specimen was found with the palate and teeth facing upward, imbedded in an iron-rich clastic conglomerate in the middle part of the Shumaysi Formation. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
The property covers a batholith of Mississippian-age syenite, coeval felsic volcanic rocks and lower Paleozoic clastic and carbonate rocks of Silurian age. From Wordnik.com. [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases]
Although tuffaceous rocks are the most common in the deposit there are also clear intervals of clastic and chemical sedimentary rocks and a few late intrusives. From Wordnik.com. [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases] Reference
The drill hole exhibited strong quartz-sulfide stockworks with chalcopyrite and molybdenite mineralization in both diorite intrusive and the host clastic sediments. From Wordnik.com. [StreetInsider.com News Articles] Reference
This first drill program focused on targets that occur on the northeast section of the property in a geological environment dominated by chemical and clastic sedimentary rocks. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News from SYS-CON MEDIA] Reference
A project for a clastic sedimentology class I was taking at the time required us to go visit a nearby roadcut outcrop, collect some data, and then synthesize our observations and interpretations. From Wordnik.com. [Clastic Detritus] Reference
Certain locations on the Bengal submarine fan, which is the single largest pile of clastic detritus on Earth, has some of the highest short-term rates known (several to 10s of meters per 1,000 years). From Wordnik.com. [Clastic Detritus] Reference
It has been already stated, that common air contains aqueous va - pour, or water in an invisible clastic form, which is greater in pro - portion as the temperature is high, air at the temperature of 65°. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Chemical Philosophy: Part 1, Vol.1] Reference
Moreover, HERO technology is proving to be effective not only in North American tight-gas sand and gas-shale reservoirs, but also in carbonate and conventional clastic reservoirs in the Middle East and Asia Pacific. From Wordnik.com. [FinanzNachrichten.de: Aktuelle Nachrichten] Reference
It consists of cherts that were deposited first under deep-sea pelagic conditions at or near a mid-oceanic ridge, later during transport of the ocean floor towards a subduction zone, and finally the cherts were overlain by clastic infill in the trench. From Wordnik.com. [EurekAlert! - Breaking News] Reference
Two outlets, each with heft and in rather different quarters of the media, provide contrasting explanations for why Iceland's middling-to-small volcanic eruption by Eyjafjallajökull volcano went from a plastic, gurgling lava flow to a clastic, plume-hurling ash cloud 30,000+ feet in the air. From Wordnik.com. [Knight Science Journalism Tracker] Reference
Allow me to add a word to your vocabulary: "anthropoclastic", consisting of "anthropo -" (from Greek anthropos, man) and "- clastic (from Greek klastos, broken into pieces). From Wordnik.com. [Bill Totten's Weblog] Reference
"The Clavos Property is transected in an east-west direction by a contact between mafic and ultramafic volcanic rocks of the Tisdale Group to the north, and Hoyle Assemblage clastic sedimentary rocks to the south. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference
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