constructive total loss
The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
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constructive total loss, a marine insurance term indicating that the cost of repairing damage to a ship will exceed its total value. In such a case the insurance payment is the total sum for which it has been insured, and not the estimated cost of repairs. See also
wreck.
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Mediterranean salt: isotopes and ice. (Mediterranean Sea suffered 'salinity crisis' in Miocene epoch)
Magazine article from: Science News; 11/23/1985; ; 700+ words
; At the end of the Miocene epoch, 6 million years ago, the Mediterranean...support ice sheet expansion in the late Miocene, one of the best indicators of increased...which supports increased ice in the Miocene. Hodell suspects that other researchers...
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Notes on a megachiline bee (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) from the Miocene of Idaho.
Magazine article from: Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science; 3/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...in a more recent account of the Miocene fossil insect fauna near Juliaetta...description and discussion of the putative Miocene Coelioxys (Megachilidae: Megachilinae...Langhian, and Burdigalian ages of the Miocene Epoch. SYSTEMATIC PALEONTOLOGY Megachilinae...
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EXPLORE PRECIOUS MINERALS AND MIOCENE FOSSILS IN NEW EXHIBIT
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 10/4/2006; 438 words
; ...Collection include marine vertebrates that lived in the ocean waters that covered what is now Orange County during the Miocene Epoch -- about five to 15 million years ago. Among featured fossils will be shark, whale -- toothed and baleen -- fur...
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PERU: 16 MILLION-YEAR-OLD INSECT FOSSILS FOUND FROZEN IN TIME.
News Wire article from: Interpress Service; 9/29/2006; 700+ words
; ...formed in the Amazon during the Miocene epoch proves that the region's rich...the finding told Tierramrica. The Miocene era encompasses the period of Earth...rich biodiversity during the middle Miocene. Today's average garden hosts...
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A portal to the past
Newspaper article from: Capital (Annapolis); 7/5/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...The cliffs offer a view into the Miocene Epoch, which was 8 million to 18 million years ago. During the Miocene Epoch, there was no Chesapeake...did not stay uniform during that Miocene period of time," Dr. Godfrey...
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New fossil discoveries in Abu Dhabi's Western Region.
News Wire article from: WAM - United Arab Emirates News Agency; 1/4/2009; 700+ words
; ...years ago, a time known as the late Miocene epoch. The team from the Yale Peabody...million years. During the late Miocene epoch Abu Dhabi was greener than...important that the Abu Dhabi late Miocene deposits receive protection since...
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Research from N. Rybczynski and colleagues provide new insights into life sciences.
Newspaper article from: Science Letter; 5/19/2009; 700+ words
; ...shores of North America by the early Miocene epoch(8,9). Here we report the discovery...aquatic carnivore from an early Miocene lake deposit in Nunavut, Canada...Asia and the late Oligocene and Miocene Potamotherium from Europe," wrote...
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Fossil facts and time line.(The Gazette (Colorado Springs))
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 1/24/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Tertiary period: Paleocene Epoch, 65 million years ago. Great...primitive mammals. _Eocene Epoch, 54 million years ago: Mountains...Florissant Valley flourished. _Miocene epoch, 28 million years ago...Florissant Valley flourished. _Miocene epoch, 28 million years ago...
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Bones of ground-based ape unearthed
Magazine article from: USA Today; 6/1/2000; ; 677 words
; ...new hominoid genus from the middle Miocene epoch and named it Equatorius. Recognition...fossil material from the middle Miocene that is being uncovered," explains...hominoid genus from the African middle Miocene, Kenyapithecus. There had been...
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Bones of Ground-Based Ape Unearthed.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: USA Today (Magazine); 6/1/2000; 700+ words
; ...new hominoid genus from the middle Miocene epoch and named it Equatorius. Recognition...fossil material from the middle Miocene that is being uncovered," explains...hominoid genus from the African middle Miocene, Kenyapithecus. There had been...
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Miocene Epoch
Book article from: World of Earth Science
Miocene Epoch Notable in the development...ago, near the end of the Miocene Epoch. Importantly, the...Phanerozoic Eon . The Miocene Epoch is the fourth epoch in the...ago (mya) to 5 mya. The Miocene Epoch was preceded by the...
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Miocene epoch
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Miocene epoch , fourth epoch of the Tertiary...extensively submerged in the Miocene than in the preceding Oligocene...peneplained by the close of the epoch. In the western interior...Pliocene epoch. During the Miocene most of N Europe was elevated...
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Miocene
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Earth
Miocene The Miocene epoch is a division of Cenozoic time that was first distinguished by Charles...Pliocene. Today, Lyell's criterion of some 17 per cent of the Miocene mollusc fauna being extant is no longer applied; the Miocene is held...
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Oligocene Epoch
Book article from: World of Earth Science
Oligocene Epoch In geologic time...latest (most recent) epoch in the Paleogene Period). The Oligocene Epoch lasts from approximately...was followed by the Miocene Epoch . Large impact...Epoch and start of the Miocene Epoch can be studied...
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Pliocene Epoch
Book article from: World of Earth Science
...the subsequent Pleistocene Epoch of the Quaternary Period . The Pliocene Epoch spanned that period of geologic...africanus that date to the Pliocene Epoch. Although these species became...ancestor that lived during the Miocene Epoch. By the end of the Pliocene...
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