Sentences with word «upthrust»

Thus we have berm, a lovely word for a longish mound used for landscaping; pingos, if you're up north, where they'll be rather large conical upthrusts of ice covered with some soil (and, of course, given the yin / yang of this business, further south also a circular depression typically filled with water); further south still you'll trip over drumlins, formations made up of till left by receding glaciers, and not to be confused with eskers, which seem to have formed within holes inside glacier.
Then there's Samsung, which went all - in this year when it opened its concept store — called simply «837» — in New York's Meat Packing District, a gleaming upthrust middle finger in the general direction of Apple.
This is a laccolith upthrust through sediment, perduring like a myth through man's prehistory, Pa Sapa's pediment.
What a marvelous upthrust of creative genius it is!
8) upthrust effects floating and sinking 9) hydraulics is an application of liquid pressure (qualitative and quantitative) I hope you find this resource useful.
Christ is then the final flowering of this upthrust of Spirit from within evolving matter.
The Confession of Christ as the meaning of the upthrust of human history and the crown of its scientific and cultural progress is contradicted by the modern division of history into Ancient, Medieval, and Modern periods.
«A newly formed 3.5 meter escarpment (upthrust) would have been obvious, even to the casual tourist.»
The overall rate of sedimentation is controlled by the upthrust of mountains and the erosion and chemical breakdown of their rocks.
Covers types of forces, balanced forces, friction, upthrust and gravity.
Sword skills, like the upthrust and downthrust, from the moment they are acquired, fundamentally change Link's approach to combat.
The upthrust of great glacier - capped peaks tower over this country.
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