Rock Criticism from the Beginning
While much has been written on the history of rock, this Bourdieu-inspired book is the first to offer a look at the coming of age of rock journalism, and the critics that opened up a whole new kind of discourse on popular music.
Geotechnical Characteristics of Soils and Rocks of India
... rock is noted during boring operation, then the piles should fully penetrate the weathered rock and should be seated on the hard bedrock by 2.00 m. A load test is essential for the accurate determination of pile capacity. Hard rock was ...
City of Rocks National Reserve, Comprehensive Management Plan, Development Concept Plan
... rock surfaces . Climbers would also continue to affect rock surfaces through cleaning and chiseling and using gymnastic chalk ( calcium carbonate ) . Cleaning of loose material from hand - holds and rock surfaces is done to improve ...
Petrology of Sedimentary Rocks
... rock fragments Detrital rock fragments in sandstones and conglomerates provide the most unequivocal evidence of source-rock lithology. There can be little doubt that a volcanic rock fragment indicates ultimate derivation from a ...
Catapult Design, Construction and Competition with the Projectile Throwing Engines of the Ancients
... rock 75 ' 1972 75 lb rock 55'4 " 1972 ALBERTUS SORDIDUS A Mauston H.S. Mauston , WI 10 lb rock 31'8 " 1972 20 lb rock 32'8 " 1972 AMERICANUS '76 A Grand Ledge H.S. Grand Ledge , MI 10 lb rock 110 ' 1976 ANTE RES A Park - Tudor School ...
Rocks & Minerals
Chris Pellant. Glossary | 251 Intrusion A body of igneous rock that invades older rock . □ Laccolith Mass of intrusive igneous rock with a dome - shaped top and usually a flat base . □ Lamellar In thin layers or scales ; composed of ...
Common Minerals and Rocks
... rock - salt ; and , since drying - up seas are few in number , and small compared with the whole extent of the ocean , we can easily understand why neither rock - salt nor gypsum are abundant rocks , except in a few localities . Rock ...
The Rock and the River
Coretta Scott King - John Steptoe Award winner In this “taut, eloquent first novel” (Booklist, starred review), a young Black boy wrestles with conflicting notions of revolution and family loyalty as he becomes involved with the Black ...
A Contribution to the Geology of the Pre-Cambrian Igneous Rocks of the Fox River Valley, Wisconsin
... rock . While the evidence of the extrusive origin of this rock is not conclusive , yet from its analogy with the other rhyolite outcrops , and from the evidence of the fragments , the Berlin rock is believed to be a surface rock like ...
Elements of Mining
... rocks fall into this group . Group 2. The rock mass shows a series of parallel planes of weak- ness such as the planes of stratification in a sedimentary rock or sheeting planes in an igneous rock . Such a rock mass is strongest in a ...
Sand and Sandstone
... Rock fragment content of North American Recent. gneisses or granites ; the color was considered radiogenic , its depth or intensity increasing with age . Poldervaart ( 1955 ) studied zircons from sedimentary rocks in comparison with ...
Summary Report of the Geological Survey Department
... rock . They evidently represent cooling or shrinkage cracks filled with quartz derived from the enclosing rock . Stock - like bodies of rhyolite are present but are not common . One of these on Cronin creek is 1,500 feet across ...
American Revisions and Additions to the Encyclopedia Britannica
... rock and exploding the powder by means of an electric current . The rocks thus operated upon were Pot Rock , Frying Pan , Way's Reef , Bald- headed Billy , Sheldrake Rock , and Diamond Reef . On all of them the depth of the water was in ...
Publications of the Egyptian Research Account and British School of Archaeology in Egypt
... rock for founda- tions of the pyramid temple , on the east side . In plate v the upper view has the rock wall in the foreground , along the west side ; it was cased with fine stone . Stretching straight forward is seen , along the south ...
House documents
... rock formations , the rock of the summit of Bull Cliff is unlike any other of the district , and its relation to the neighboring normal phonolite is not definitely known . The rock is fine - grained , mottled by round dark spots in a ...
Engineering-contracting
Earth and Rock Section Note : This Section is devoted to methods and costs of excavating earth and rock and building embankments . It will cover the grading of roads and rail- roads , diking and canal work , dredging , building ...
Manual on Drilling, Sampling, and Analysis of Coal
... rock may be useful during mine planning . Although these categories are qualitative , they sometimes yield useful information . Description Fresh Rock ( F ) —the parent rock shows no discoloration , loss of strength , or any other ...
Census Reports
... rock and vein . Ore and gangue . UNCOMPAHGRE DISTRICT - cont'd Riverside . Union SNEFFLES DISTRICT . Potosi Terrible ... rock called trachyte . Vein : strike , N. 500 E .; dip , 78 ° S .; width , 4 feet . Gray porphyritic rock ...
Memoirs of the Geological Survey [of] England & Wales
... rock .. 4 0 ... 7 0 Red sandstone - rock 3 4 10 ... ... 4 marl ... ... ... ... 4 10 8 " sandstone - rock 2 0 ... 12 8 ... " marl - parting 2 ... ... 12 10 sandstone - rock 4 ... ... 8 17 6 " " marl - parting 2 17 8 ... sandstone ...
The Encyclopedia Americana
... rock magmas 23 604 24 375 Salina stage .... 24 184 New red sandstone ..... 20 160 Old red sandstone ...... 9 42 Science of rocks ..... 23 602 Sedimentary rocks ... 24 524 Secondary rocks .... 24 515 Silurian stage ..... 11 276 20 656 ...