Word: detritus
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...human detritus was buried or carted away. The rubble had been heaped into piles, like unmelting snow, or trucked out of town and dumped. Slowly the skeletons of Europe's wrecked palaces, cathedrals and cities had emerged. The cultural bill for Europe's latest berserk spree was on the table. A comprehensive picture book, out this week (Lost Treasures of Europe, Pantheon; $5), tots up that bill...
...year ago, when the filthy tide washed back, it was hard to tell what was left of Europe. Would the detritus of Nazi conquest bury a civilization, leaving its survivors in a confused struggle among the ruins? A year later it was still too soon to know. Many glimpses of Europe yielded gloomy answers. But for a scene full of hope that Europe was in truth rising again, the world could turn to Vught, in southern Holland...
Geological Conference. Papers by C. N. Fairchild, "On the Migration of Detritus on Marblehead Beach"; C. W. Purington, "On the Rock Geology of Marblehead Neck"; W. W. Clendennin, "Formation of top set beds in sand plains." Geological Laboratory...
Geological Conference. Papers by C. N. Fairchild, "on the Migration of Detritus on Marblehead Beach"; C. W. Purington, "On the Rock Geology of Marblehead Neck"; W. W. Clendennin, "Formation of top set beds in sand plains." Geological Laboratory...
...valley growth, when the little head water branch streams are gnawing backwards with great rapidity into the plateau country above them. Landslides are thus produced, several of them being indicated both in the incipient stages of undercut and semi-detached masses, and later their catas trophic fall. The detritus carried by the torrent is opened out in a broad fan-delta of gentle declivity across the bottom of a wider valley of greater age: and the river of this valley is thereby pushed against the further slope, where it undercuts the bank, forcing the highway to the upland. The volcanie...