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- In geology, a vein is a distinct sheetlike body of crystallized minerals within a rock. Veins form when mineral constituents carried by an aqueous solution...
- In geology, a nappe or thrust sheet is a large sheetlike body of rock that has been moved more than 2 km (1.2 mi) or 5 km (3.1 mi) above a thrust fault...
- it is known as sleabhac. It is smooth in texture and forms delicate, sheetlike thalli, often clinging to rocks. The prin****l variety is Porphyra umbilicalis...
- and impermeable, rapidly achieve Horton overland flow. It is shallow, sheetlike, and fast-moving, and hence capable of extensively eroding soil and bedrock...
- as "sleabhac" or "slake". It is smooth in texture and forms delicate, sheetlike thalli, often clinging to rocks. Porphyra is classified as red algae;...
- Flowstones are sheetlike deposits of calcite or other carbonate minerals, formed where water flows down the walls or along the floors of a cave. They...
- shortening of lighter-wood). Embers of burned paper, leaves and other sheetlike materials are easily carried off by air currents, where they can alight...
- mountains, (that are folded by lateral pressure), and nappe belts (where a sheetlike body of rock has been pushed over another rock m****). Other types of range...
- produces low scarps and shallow depressions. Solifluction produced lobed or sheetlike deposits, with fairly definite edges, in which clasts (rock fragments)...
- volcanic plugs (remnant necks of extinct volcanoes), lava domes, and sheetlike intrusions between Morro Bay on the north and Islay Hill on the south...