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LewHisWaterWater
... , and blocking the highway through town with tons of mud and rock. Virginia Van Orden remembers trips down to Salt Lake City, during which her parents had to detour around similar mud and rock slides in Willard. In fact, flooding and slippage ...
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The Beaver
... passes. They stare from rock and fallen log, from tree top and from grasses. The bear, the fox, and buffalo, and all their feathered neighbors, Bend a knee and bow a head, And somewhere grateful prayers ... are engineering geniuses, building both dams and lodges during their busy lifetimes. Dams slow down the speed of rivers and streams so that stable lodges, built of mud and branches, may be built to ...
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A Tale of Two Turtles
... now. I surprise them with camouflage and speed. I wait just under the water looking like a moss-covered rock (it's this algae that grows on my shell), until one of those characters strolls by. Then, quick as a wink, I shoot out my neck and ... land and that's another story. Don't cross me there! Which reminds me of last spring. I woke up, crawled out of the mud, and found ...
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Vegetative Terminology (Part 1)
... and securely anchor this shrub in the mud and loose sand of tidal waters. Right: Close-up view of prop roots showing numerous pores called lenticels which provide gas exchange and ... "aerial roots") are negatively geotrophic and grow upward out of the mud and away from gravity. Black mangrove belongs ... cliffs horizontally, and the base of the plant is rounded, permitting the plant to rock slightly in ...
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Reed College Canyon: Plants
... rock faces where there's plenty of moisture and protection from direct sunlight. You can find it around waterfalls and in old wells dug by pioneers. Bracken fern spreads by underground rhizomes and ... mud and does well in the flowing waters of the creek where duckweed would be washed away. Duckweed and water-fern, on the other hand, are free-floating and ...
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The Strip Miner
... process of "lithofication," transformed the silty mud into rock, preserving the detail of these Sigillaria cones ... rock strata over millions of years eventually wore the Allegheny Plateau down into a network of twisting mountains and dendritic drainages which comprise the ridges and ... and rock to get at this coal exposed near the surface. In 1985 this fossil was about 60 feet away from erosion and ...
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West Virginia 300 million years ago
... river channels which eventually covered things with mud and silt. Subsequent deep burial by more sediments in succeeding geologic ages resulted in heat and pressure which transformed the peat into coal. ... detail has been destroyed in the process of coalification. However, in the interburden or rock layers between successive coal seams it is possible to find outstanding specimens, although these ...
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Ferns & Fern Allies
... & S Fk Orestimba Ck. Polystichum munitum. {?} WESTERN SWORD FERN. Perennial. Damp woods, canyon slopes and rock crevices. Fairly common on slopes above Middle Fk Coyote Ck upstream from Mexican Flat, ... water or in mud. Apparently uncommon. MARSILEACEAE: MARSILEA FAMILY Marsilea vestita. {+} CLOVER FERN. HAIRY PEPPERWORT. Perennial, resembling some odd, 4-leaf clover. Edges of ponds and in beds of ...
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LewHistSoil
... DEFINING PERSEVERANCE Joan Shaw View of Red Rock Pass, site of breach and subsequent outflow of prehistoric Lake Bonneville Imagine yourself ... the biggest flash flood in the planet's history. Soil and rock and plant material tumble along before the torrent that crashes north ... began paving the city's streets in the 1940s and 1950s. The mud problem in the fields continued, however, for it wasn ...
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Mission and Garden Overview
... (mountain cedar), mountain laurel, and Uvalde maple. In spring bluebonnets, buttercups, red salvia, and Texas bluebells blanket the meadow. The fachwerk Schumacher House, made from wood, mud, and sand, was originally constructed in 1849 near Fredricksburg. The AuId House is a meeting facility cleverly adapted from an 1880’s piñon pine house relocated from Rock ...
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