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Drift Seeds and Drift Fruits
... Equatorial Current, bringing thousands of unique drift disseminules from the Amazon and Orinoco deltas and across the Atlantic from river deltas of tropical west Africa. In the Pacific region drift seeds may be ... hand grenade. They are produced by a small tree native to the Amazon and Orinoco River basins of South America. Two types of grenades: Fruits (endocarps) of the Amazonian tree Sacoglottis ...
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Medical Alkaloid Photos
... dried fruits (drupes) of Cerbera odollan, a large shrub or small tree native to muddy river deltas of southeast Asia and tropical Pacific Islands. The drupes are 2-4 inches (5-10 ...
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Climate during the Carboniferous Period
... river deltas supported vast coal swamps that left repeating stratigraphic levels of peat bogs that later became coal, separated by layers of fluvial rocks like sandstone and shale when the deltas ... laid down in swamps along coastal environments which are often dominated by meandering river deltas. Because these deltas were always moving and changing, the distribution and thickness of individual coal ...
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Appalachian origins revealed through the "coal-rank thermometer"
... by rivers sourced from the east from highlands now long gone. These coastal swamps and river deltas sank ever deeper, as layers of sand and mud were deposited, along with occasional coal ...
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Sequoía sempervírens (D
... . Habitat Native Range The range of redwood extends southward from two groves on the Chetco River in the extreme southwest corner of Oregon (lat. 42° 09' N.), to Salmon Creek Canyon ... stands have developed on flats and benches along the larger streams, on moist coastal plains, river deltas, moderate westerly slopes, and valleys opening toward the sea. Although most redwood stands are close ...
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FLORA OF NORTH AMERICA - Volume 1, Chapter 1
... extension reflects a greater penetration of moist westerlies at that latitude through the Columbia River--Snake River--Wyoming Basin gap. Summers are moderately warm and receive the maximum precipitation ( ... Quaternary age, with marine limestone prominent in southern Florida. Finally, the alluvial plains and deltas of the Yukon, Mackenzie, and Mississippi rivers have fine-grained deposits (fig. 1.10 ...
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FLORA OF NORTH AMERICA - Volume 1, Chapter 2
... Latin aqua, water) are the wet entisols. They are commonly found in tidal marshes, in deltas, on margins of lakes where the soil is continuously saturated with water, in flood plains ... place. Fluvents (from the Latin fluvius, river) are brownish to reddish entisols. They have formed in recent water-deposited sediments---primarily flood plains, fans, and deltas of rivers and small streams, but ...
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LewHistSoil
... again and again, leaving behind it the extensive bars, benches, and deltas that make up the larger part of Utah. Move forward ... Lewiston's irrigation system was augmented by water from the Bear River in 1914. hrough the next two decades, with much trial ... .Cheney, ed., 1981 (Great fun to read!); "Oral History of Cub River Irrigation," Avery, 1981; "Lewiston City Compiled Works" and other material, ...
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