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	Groundwater Chapter 4Groundwater A VAST HIDDEN RESOURCE Water lies beneath almost every part of the earth's surface Read more
	mesophyll mesophyll The internal tissue of a leaf blade (lamina), consisting of parenchyma cells. There are two distinct forms. Palisade mesophyll lies just beneath the upper epidermis and consists of cells elongated at right angles to the leaf surface. They contain a large number of chloroplasts and their... Read more
	seismology seismology , scientific study of earthquakes and related phenomena, including the propagation of waves and shocks on or within the earth by natural or artificially generated seismic signals. Seismographic Instruments Instruments used to detect and record seismic disturbances are known as... Read more
	sand dollar sand dollar common name for a marine animal in the same phylum as the starfish (see sea star ). The sand dollar has a rigid, flattened, disk-shaped test, or shell, made of firmly united plates lying just beneath the thin skin. Small spines that densely cover the test enable the animal to burrow in... Read more
	Robert Bruce Bruce, Robert (1210–95). Known as the ‘Competitor’. Leading member of the 13th-cent. Scottish nobility and grandfather of King Robert I. His extensive lands stretched from Middlesex to Aberdeenshire, the most important concentrations lying in Essex, Co. Durham, and south-west... Read more
	buried soil buried soil Soil covered by an alluvial, colluvial (see COLLUVIUM), aeolian, glacial, or organic deposit, and being a product of a former period of pedogenesis. In US usage a buried soil is defined as lying beneath 30–50 cm if the covering layer is more than half the thickness of the buried... Read more
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	plane plane in mathematics, flat surface of infinite extent but no thickness. An example of a plane, or more exactly of a bounded portion of a plane, is the surface forming one face, or side, of a cube. A plane is determined, or defined, by any of the following: (1) three points not in a straight line;... Read more
	Sergio Mendes Sergio Mendes Bandleader, composer, arranger, keyboardist For the Record… Selected discography Sources With his band Brazil ‘66, bandleader Sergio Mendes soared to the top of the popular music charts in the United States during the mid-1960s with covers of songs by Paul McCartney,... Read more