detritus

The foundation of their airy castles lay already before them in the strip of rich alluvium on the river bank, where the North Fork, sharply curving round the base of Devil's Spur, had for centuries swept the detritus of gulch and canyon.

These plains are often of a desolate sterility; mere sandy wastes, formed of the detritus of the granite heights, destitute of trees and herbage, scorched by the ardent and reflected rays of the summer's sun, and in winter swept by chilling blasts from the snow-clad mountains.

In central Chile I was astonished at the structure of a vast mound of detritus, about 800 feet in height, crossing a valley of the Andes; and this I now feel convinced was a gigantic moraine, left far below any existing glacier.

At last we discovered some by looking close to the mountain, for at the distance even of a few hundred yards the streamlets were buried and entirely lost in the friable calcareous stone and loose detritus. I do not think Nature ever made a more solitary, desolate pile of rock; -- it well deserves its name of Hurtado , or separated.

The humic-fulvic complexes bound with mobile sesquioxides appear to have become predominant not only after the weathering of detritus but also later during the formation of the permanent forest floor and the biogenic sesquioxides belonging to its composition.

Until recently, it was believed that only exonic sequences were functional, and that the rest of the DNA was a sort of genetic detritus, consisting of useless code such as defective copies of genes, nonsensical repeats, and the remains of disabled retroviruses (potent viruses such as HIV that can insinuate their code into the DNA of their hosts).

Watching the paper, plastic, and other detritus of daily operations being put to good use, Skip Dunn, a volunteer who, twice a week, handles the daily passing of water pitchers to residents, pointed out another unrecognized wasteful habit.

The children also learned that vandalism, graffiti and their new word for the day - detritus - can have a major impact.

La situation est tres serieuse, fort inquietante, car les dechets qui sont entasses ici et la sont autant de facteurs d'insalubrite qui aujourd'hui exercent un impact negatif sur l'ensemble de la population de Casablanca, et comme on le sait, ces dechets, saletes et detritus, quand ils sont mal geres, entrainent une degradation du cadre de vie des populations et peuvent transformer l'environnement en un espace epidemiogene.

Eocene Nisai Formation and Oligocene Khojak Formation within the Pishin Belt were mainly providing the sedimentary/metasedimentary detritus.

It definitely isn't 'enjoyable' watching the show, but we do it with our own kind of compulsion, because we know or hope that, at the end of the viewing hour, we will be rewarded with new knowledge about how to make sure that we don't end up drowning in our own neurotic detritus!