Sentences with phrase «by erosion over»

It also features the spectacular rock formations of Remarkable Rocks and Admirals Arch, created by erosion over millions of years.

The park has an incredible 2,000 natural arches in its sandstone rock, formed by erosion over millions of years.

Not exact matches

Prices for gold bullion and other precious metals have climbed over the past decade to new heights as investors sought protection against the erosion of incomes and wealth by inflation.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

Over the course of a few years, there would be an erosion of the Church's public presence, as Catholic institutions find themselves burdened by fines and unable to offer health coverage.

Aliansi Gerakan Reform Agrari (AGRA), a national peasant federation in Indonesia in statement expressed that «Indonesia, as with the whole region, is also threatened by the growing corporate control over agriculture and consequent erosion of traditional seed resources.

Adding to this disillusion, he continues, is a gradual erosion of public faith in politics, driven in part by the distorting impact of 24 - hour news and social media — «it does trivialise politics, and it has done a real amount of damage to the perception of politics» — a backlash against a political class that favours spin over frankness — «I detest spin, it is deceit and it is intended to be deceit» — and, ultimately, by the failure of mainstream parties to «reach out beyond the political sphere» and speak to people's real concerns.

The real problem for Labour is the erosion over a number of years of its local government base, with by far the largest number of UK councillors being Tories.

In June 2008 the then Shadow Home Secretary David Davis resigned his parliamentary seat over what he described as the «erosion of civil liberties» by the then Labour government, and was re-elected on a civil liberties platform (although he was not opposed by candidates of other major parties).

Last May, a Siberian reindeer herder named Yuri Khudi chanced upon the world's most intact mammoth remains, unearthed by erosion of a riverbank, and promptly turned them over to the natural history museum in the Russian town of Salekhard.

But a new study published in the Journal of Applied Ecology and led by University of Pennsylvania doctoral candidate Bianca Charbonneau finds that the invasive plant does have one advantage over its native counterpart, Ammophila breviligulata, or American beach grass: the invasive is better at preventing erosion of dunes during big storms.

Sometimes called hoodoos, the red - orange sandstone rocks have been sculpted over the past million years by wind and water erosion into spires, towers and pedestals.

Built up over the ages by wind - blown sands from the nearby Gobi Desert and Qaidam Basin, the plateau has long boasted some of the world's most erosion - prone soils.

The pair then went over alternative explanations for the distribution pattern, such as erosion by wind or burial under material flowing from ice volcanoes.

After breakfast, we travel to Bryce Canyon National Park, where the haunting rock formations known as Hoodoos have been shaped by wind and water erosion over the eons.

There was a warm, stable climate with dispersed continents surounded by vast warm and shallow seas over continental shelves that provided light, oxygen, and nutrients for life to thrive in, because intense mountain - building also increased erosion and the discharge of eroded nutrients into those seas.

Here we show that the East Greenland Ice Sheet existed over the past 7.5 million years, as indicated by beryllium and aluminum isotopes (10Be and 26Al) in quartz sand removed by deep, ongoing glacial erosion on land and deposited offshore in the marine sedimentary record.

This resource shows the effects of erosion caused by a waterfall over a period of time.

Over 1,500 mounds formed from coral deposits and shaped by erosion.

The commanding presence of the rock formations, caused by millennia of wave erosion, draws over 2 million visitors annually.

Caravan's Grand Canyon adventure tour guests get to experience an afternoon boat cruise through Antelope Canyon with its rich red sandstone walls that were carved by over 5 million years of erosion.

The Natural Bridge as the powerful river flows through this opening carved out over time by erosion

The photographs, like much of the artist's work, capture images of ancient ruins, abandoned bunkers, and graffiti - covered urban structures - in short, disparate sites that are unified by their shared states of physical change, erosion, or decay over time.

Both DMA and Amon Carter have mounted major shows of Texas art over the past few years — Julian Onderdonk, Loren Mozley, and the current and timely «Alexandre Hogue: The Erosion Series» at DMA; and at the Carter, «Intimate Modernism: Fort Worth Circle Artists in the 1940s in 2008,» and more recently an ongoing gallery devoted to «Texas Regionalism,» soon to be replaced by «Lone Star Portraits.»

Fox's process, continually adding and removing layers of paint, echoes the way that geology forms slowly over time by evolution and erosion.

By the time I moved back to Massachusetts in the early 1990s after living away from here for over 2 decades, the dunes were being planted with grasses and scrub brush to control erosion.

Turning to individual products, oriented strand board (OSBO) had by far the largest sales of any green building product in 2005 and is expected to remain in first place through 2011, despite price erosion, which will reduce the value of sales over time.

Assuming a good bit of this was added after the natural warming cycle was started we are probably looking at closer to 1200 ppm over the next century or two before C02 levels begin to decrease again as this natural green house locks up carbon primarily in phytoplankton blooms caused by fertilization from the new large desert regions near the equator and excessive erosion from very intense storm systems the develop in such a hot house climate.

The MacKenzie River region, which supports one of the world's last major wild rivers, has warmed by 3.1 ° F (1.7 ° C) over the past century.2, 3 This warming has endangered the long - term stability of much of the permafrost — the frozen mix of rock, soil, and ice that underlies and surrounds the river basin3, 3 — raising the risk of erosion, flooding, landslides, and other significant changes to the landscape.2, 3,4,5,6

Global agriculture would be signalled by increases of erosion and sedimentation rates over time, and plastic pollutants would be detectable for perhaps billions of years.

This allowance has fallen by over half to 0.2 ha per capita because the population has doubled and soil degradation and erosion have increased.

The United States — which over the last two decades retired one tenth of its cropland, most of it highly erodible, and shifted to conservation tillage practices — has reduced soil erosion by 40 percent.