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Sarah Jenkins Column -- Is Misuse Decimating Language? Issue's Moot
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In fact, Alaska natives had already had 125 years of contact with
white explorers and fur traders, and the Gaash village had been
decimated by smallpox, which all too often followed.
"Cape Fox village was a huge village ... with 1,000 people,"
Dundas said. The disease left 177 alive, she said.
-- From an Associated Press article on Tlingit artifacts, July
22, 2001
Sometimes examples of word misuse are so perfect you think the
writer did it on purpose. But this writer probably didn't - I'm sure
he or she believes decimate to be a more interesting way to say
destroy. That is increasingly the ...
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Use of basalt in asphalt concrete mixes.
Magazine article from: Construction and Building Materials
; ...rutting. Keywords: Basalt; Asphalt concrete mixes...deformation 1. Introduction Basalts are dark colored, fine...mineral grains of the basalt are so fine that they...there are some intrusive basalts, having cooled inside the Earth's interior. Basalt is low in silica content...
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Hightec Announces Details Of Las Vegas Basalt Fiber Manufacturing Plant.
News Wire article from: Canadian Corporate News
; ...HTEH), announced today that it's wholly owned subsidiary, Basalt Fiber Industries, Inc. has been formed to commercialize the development of basalt fiber products in America. Basalt Fiber Industries, Inc. will serve as a sister subsidiary...
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Structure and stratigraphy of the early Tertiary basalts of the Blosseville Kyst, east Greenland
Magazine article from: Journal of the Geological Society
; ...by widespread plateau basalts, locally with an angular...unconformity of 8 deg. The basalt stratigraphy established...region. The plateau basalts were erupted over a zone...largest coherent remnant of basalts preserved onshore (Fig...This East Greenland basalt plateau is more than...
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Crustal contribution to the genesis of Ethiopian plateau rhyolitic ignimbrites: Basalt and rhyolite geochemical provinciality
Magazine article from: Journal of the Geological Society
; ...high-TiO^sub 2^ basalts (e.g. Garland...This coincidence of basalt and rhyolite provinciality...are related to the basalts either by extensive...crystallization of the exposed basalt magma types and varying...TiO^sub 2^ flood basalts. As noted for other continental flood basalt ...
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BASALT TOWN COUNCIL ISSUES AGENDA FOR JAN. 23 MEETING
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
; The Basalt Town Council issued the agenda for their meeting: 5:45 P...ITEMS 6:13 4. Request for Transfer of 3.2 Liquor License: Basalt Center, LLC (formerly the Basalt Store), 136 Emma Road, Basalt Motion to Approve Staff Recommendation...
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[sup.40]Ar/[sup.39]Ar age of the Jurassic North Mountain Basalt, southwestern Nova Scotia.
Magazine article from: Atlantic Geology
; ...for the North Mountain Basalt, which are similar to...ages for correlative basalts of eastern North America...is a zeolite-bearing basalt from the middle flow...Ma for dyke rocks and basalt flows within parts of...and similar ages for basalts and dyke rocks of the...
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Ateliers of basalt. Basalt industries of Tafuna (AS-31-150) and Pava'ia'i (AS-31-170), Tutuila Island, American Samoa.(Research Reports)
Magazine article from: Archaeology in Oceania
; ...dimensional. Keywords: basalt adze, industry, technological...Adzes made from the fine basalt of Tutuila were widely...export-quality Tutuila basalts (Figure 2). Following...Archaeologically, basalts geochemically similar...unfinished adzes. However, basalt flakes--likely to...
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Emeishan Basalts (SW China) and the 'end-Guadalupian' crisis magnetobiostratigraphic constraints
Magazine article from: Journal of the Geological Society
; ...half of the Emeishan Basalt outcrop belt was erupted...data, the main Emei Basalts appear to be at least...however, that the Emei Basalt waning zone sequence...thickness of the main basalt pile (respectively, 175 m and 270 m). The basalts conformably overlie a...
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BASALT TOWN COUNCIL ISSUES AGENDA FOR NOV. 28 MEETING
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
; The Basalt Town Council issued the agenda for their...Ordinance of the Town Council of the Town of Basalt, Colorado, Granting Approval of a Minor...the Costs of Government for the Town of Basalt, Colorado, for the 2007 Budget Year Council...
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Basalt Stone ,C*A Raw Material for Important Qualitative Industries in Syria.
News Wire article from: Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA)
; Damascus,(SANA)-Basalt stone is used in many of the modern...materials demanded by the global markets. Basalt fiber industry is different from that...radial energy doesn't penetrate through basalt smelters and its products, said Engineer...
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