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These values suggest that the Mohorovicic discontinuity remains relatively deep, 40 to 45 km, beneath western half of the transect.
Earlier models often had a molding, or at least a sharp discontinuity, between the reinforce and chase.
The structural discontinuity between the shield and the horizontal lavas filling the embayment corresponds to the eroded scarps of the landslide.
The shield and postshield stages are separated by a major structural discontinuity.
The conclusion is that reinforced concrete flat slabs could be designed using torsionless moment fields using the discontinuity line analysis.
Yet they may have come across moments when they discovered a profound gap or discontinuity in their supposedly continuous self.
Every few centuries, the steady march of change meets a discontinuity, and history hinges on that moment.
This discontinuity opens the possibility of exploring the impossible, the little boy's prelinguistic consciousness.
One of the key themes to emerge is a debate over continuity or discontinuity.
The juxtaposition of this passage with the following pericope underscores this theme of discontinuity.
The sharp boundary between the crust and mantle is called the Mohorovicic discontinuity or Moho.
Overall, these studies have generally underscored the lack of discontinuity among human groups and the relative homogeneity of the human species.
That is, it is necessary to understand both continuity and discontinuity between closely related species.
We found at least one identifiable discontinuity in all analyses and more than one discontinuity in some.
Although I suppose the above changes are marked more by continuity than by discontinuity.
Institutions, like individuals, tend to prefer stability and continuity over instability and discontinuity.
With 14 illustrators contributing to the book, one might expect some obvious discontinuity among plates, but that is not the case.
As such, philosophy itself must orientate itself to the continuous discontinuity of the event.
It is a rhetoric of participation and community to disguise a world of discontinuity and short-termism.
The Mohorovicic discontinuity, or Moho, the first major boundary of the earth's interior, separates the crust from the underlying mantle.
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Examples from Classical Literature
But the inspection of these changes gives us no right to believe that there has been any discontinuity in natural processes.
This conclusion, which implies great breaks or discontinuity in the series, appears to me improbable in the highest degree.
The discontinuity of farm objects on hand virtually rules out the telling of a coherent and complete history of agriculture.
This causes an 'area of discontinuity of flow', or eddy, which results in 'negative pressure', causing an upward suction.
When is it that we pass judgment on the discontinuity and incoherence between our successive dreams?
Exterior limitability and interior divisibility result equally from the possibility of discontinuity.
Genetic continuity is a background for pragmatic discontinuity.
At any rate, it is somewhat above this discontinuity that magma is formed.
This discontinuity of area must be taken along with two other facts.
Insistence on discontinuity between both Testaments and going beyond former perspectives should not, however, lead to a one-sided spiritualization.
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