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Take to the skies, if you are brave enough The Maverick
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The airline business has always attracted daredevils and showmen.
From Howard Hughes to Kirk Kerkorian, fortunes have been made and
lost flying planes in an attempt to turn a profit. Civil aviation has
been a boom and bust game since the day it started, with the world's
first daily international air service from Hounslow Heath to Paris on
August 25 1919.
Supposedly the industry has generated a net trading loss since its
founding, but quite a few outstanding entrepreneurs have done well
from it.
These days the independent kings of the sky across Britain are Sir
Richard Branson of Virgin ...
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Ascent mechanism of the Dzhabyk batholith, southern urals: Constraints from URSEIS reflection seismic profiling
Magazine article from: Journal of the Geological Society
; ...profile from the surface outcrop of the Dzhabyk batholith to the upper mantle. The batholith is c. 5 km thick, and the crust beneath it...the Earth's crust to form a thick globular batholith (e.g. Weinberg & Podladchikov 1995...
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Mesozoic-Cenozoic evolution of the North Patagonian Batholith in Aysen, southern Chile
Magazine article from: Journal of the Geological Society
; ...than the North Patagonian batholith, are not dealt with in this...Formation of the Patagonian batholith took place episodically from...time-span, cordilleran batholiths in northern Chile display...indicated that the Patagonian batholith is composite in terms of age...
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The Brno Batholith: an insight into the magmatic and metamorphic evolution of the Cadomian Brunovistulian Unit, eastern margin of the Bohemian Massif
Magazine article from: Journal of Geosciences
; ...northern part of the Dyje Batholith, which represents the direct...western branch of the Brno Batholith. The geological structure...from both the Brno and Dyje batholiths exhibit some similarities...assembly. Keywords: Brno Batholith, Brunovistulicum, granites...
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Emplacement of the Fogo Island Batholith, Newfoundland.
Magazine article from: Atlantic Geology
; ...ABSTRACT The Siluro-Devonian Fogo Island Batholith is a high-level, bimodal, sill...evidence suggests emplacement of the batholith by raising of the roof without strong...compositions in the granitic portion of the batholith may reflect diffusion during this process...
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Wolf River Batholith Could Become Nuclear Waste Dump, Activists Warn.
Newspaper article from: States News Service
; ...spent nuclear fuel. "The Wolf River Batholith in Wisconsin would be a likely choice...locating the facility at the Wolf River Batholith, a massive granite formation in northern...of the region's heavy rainfall. The batholith subsequently was one of several sites...
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Contrasting crustal sources for peraluminous granites of the segmented Montes de Toledo Batholith (Iberian Variscan Belt)
Magazine article from: Journal of Geosciences
; ...Variscan Montes de Toledo Batholith (MTB) is an E-W linear...composed of large granitic batholiths, particularly in its innermost...Most of these Variscan batholiths are complex assemblages where...The studied Montes de Toledo Batholith (MTB) is a large batholithic...
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Deep drill hole in the Devonian South Mountain batholith, Nova Scotia: a potential for hidden mineral deposits within the batholith.
Magazine article from: Atlantic Geology
; ...periphery of the Devonian South Mountain batholith, which contains important mineralization...that such zones are widespread in the batholith and point to abundant hydrothermal activity...economic mineral deposits within the batholith is much greater than is suggested by...
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Proterozoic anorthosite-granite Nain batholith: structure and intrusion processes in an active lithosphere-scale fault zone, northern Labrador.
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
; ...g., Ryan 1998) that the complex forms a batholith, here called the Nain batholith, composed of numerous composite plutons (Rawlings...scale (Fig. 1), we propose that the Nain batholith developed where a major east-west intracontinental...
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U-Pb dating of the Musquodoboit Batholith, southern Nova Scotia: evidence for a protracted magmatic-hydrothermal event in a Devonian intrusion.
Magazine article from: Atlantic Geology
; ...and solidification of the batholith. Integration of the new data...redaction.] INTRODUCTION Granite batholiths form a large part of tectonic...larger intrusions, such as batholiths of thousands of [km.sup...data for the Musquodoboit Batholith (MB, MacDonald and Clarke...
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Weathering of Devonian monzogranites as recorded in the geochemistry of saprolites from the South Mountain Batholith, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Magazine article from: Atlantic Geology
; ...saprolites) developed on the South Mountain Batholith. Saprolites of three different ages...on monzogranite of the South Mountain Batholith (O'Beirne-Ryan and Zentilli 2003...other felsic units of the South Mountain Batholith. [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] The preserved...
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