Word: atop
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...digging, Dothan made her most impressive find to date: 300 yds. south of the burial ground, her bulldozers uncovered foundations of what appears to be a large official residence, containing some 15 rooms, dating back to the 14th century B.C. Mud-brick walls of a second residence, atop the first, traced directly to the era of Ramses...
They are great underground mountains of salt, some of them six miles deep and three miles across. They were formed tens of millions of years ago-some even before the age of the dinosaurs-by the evaporation of ancient saline seas. Layer upon layer of sediment piled atop the dried-up ocean beds. Gradually, columns of the lighter salt were forced upward by the pressure, like putty squeezed through the fingers of a slowly clenching fist. In the U.S. alone, there are more than 500 such salt domes, all of them in or around the Gulf of Mexico...
...lake gurgling down into the dome. The most frightening accidents have involved still another use of salt domes: as cheap, convenient storage tanks for crude-oil and natural-gas products. Last fall hundreds of people had to flee Mont Belvieu, Texas (pop. 2,700), which sits atop the largest such hydrocarbon reserve in the U.S., after gases began leaking from...
HANOVER, N.H.--After the second day of the Eastern Seaboard Swimming Championships, the Harvard men's swim team is riding high atop the meet's largest wave. With a spectacular 359 points, the Crimson aquamen have a firm hold on first place, with Princeton and host Dartmouth trailing in the distance with 194 and 136.5 respectively...
...climates. Moonlight or the glare from cities and highways can also spoil the view. As the twinkling of the stars shows, the dust and gases in the earth's atmosphere scatter heavenly light, thus limiting the effectiveness of every telescope, even such monsters as the 200-in. mirror atop California's Palomar Mountain...