Lizards and some frogs have somewhat similar osteoderms forming bony deposits in the dermis but this is an example of convergent evolution with similar structures having arisen independently in diverse vertebrate lineages.

A central massif composed of uplifted blocks and downfolded troughs, covered by recent deposits and giving the appearance of a plateau with rough terrain, is wedged between two folded mountain ranges that converge in the east.

One academic study ( Heffernan, 2003 ) found that demutualised societies ' pricing behaviour on deposits and mortgages was more favourable to shareholders than to customers, with the remaining mutual building societies offering consistently better rates.

Prior to 31 December 2010, deposits with building societies of up to £ 50, 000 per individual, per institution, were normally protected by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme ( FSCS ), but Nationwide and Yorkshire Building Societies negotiated a temporary change to the terms of the FSCS to protect members of the societies they acquired in late 2008 / early 2009.

The Mississippian is about twice as long as the Pennsylvanian, but due to the large thickness of coal bearing deposits with Pennsylvanian ages in Europe and North America, the two subperiods were long thought to have been more or less equal.

There may be petroleum deposits along the country's northern border with Chad ( Two billion barrels of oil are present in private estimates ).

As a result of the War of the Pacific with Peru and Bolivia ( 1879 – 1883 ), Chile expanded its territory northward by almost one-third and acquired valuable nitrate deposits, the exploitation of which led to an era of national affluence.

The British Pacific Island Company acquired the rights to Clipperton's guano deposits in 1906, and built a mining settlement on the island in conjunction with the Mexican government.

In one third of patients with sporadic CJD, deposits of " prion protein ( scrapie )," PrP < SUP > Sc </ SUP >, can be found in the skeletal muscle and / or the spleen.

This oil can contaminate surfaces inside the chamber or upon contact with hot filaments or electrical discharges may result in carbonaceous or siliceous deposits.

File: DeadSea3667. jpg | A rough Dead Sea, with salt deposits on cliffs

Oil shale and limestone deposits, along with forests which cover 47 % of the land, play key economic roles in this generally resource-poor country.

Afghanistan is endowed with a wealth of natural resources, including extensive deposits of natural gas, petroleum, coal, marble, gold, copper, chromite, talc, barites, sulfur, lead, zinc, iron ore, salt, precious and semi-precious stones, and many rare earth elements.

In 2010, U. S. Pentagon officials along with American geologists have revealed the discovery of nearly $ 1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan.

Just as an individual might keep an account at a bank, the U. S. Treasury keeps a checking account with the Federal Reserve, through which incoming federal tax deposits and outgoing government payments are handled.

The discovery of oil and gas deposits along the coast and offshore, combined with easy access to shipping, have made the Gulf Coast the heart of the U. S. petrochemical industry.

Mousterian deposits found at Gorham's Cave, which are associated with Neanderthals in Europe, have been dated to as recently as 28, 000 to 24, 000 BP, leading to suggestions that Gibraltar was one of the last places of Neanderthal habitation.

Guinea is richly endowed with minerals, possessing an estimated quarter of the world's proven reserves of bauxite, more than 1. 8 billion metric tons ( 2. 0 billion short tons ) of high-grade iron ore, significant diamond and gold deposits, and undetermined quantities of uranium.

Guinea is richly endowed with minerals, possessing an estimated one-third of the world's proven reserves of bauxite, more than 1. 8 billion metric tons ( MT ) ( 2. 0 billion short tons ) of high-grade iron ore, significant diamond and gold deposits, and undetermined quantities of uranium.

Mesozoic igneous activity is largely responsible for this diversity of mineral deposits and the mineral concentrations have been variably enhanced by hydrothermal activity associated with faulting.

Other than higher-latitude temporary marine incursions associated with glacial depression, Holocene fossils are found primarily in lakebed, floodplain, and cave deposits.

However, consistent archaeological evidence has told another story, and the accepted view is undergoing re-evaluation, though some features are agreed: more opulent but fewer urban houses, an end to new public building and some abandonment of existing ones, with the exception of defensive structures, and the widespread formation of " black earth " deposits indicating increased horticulture within urban precincts.

Primer pockets may need to be cleaned with a primer pocket brush to remove deposits that prevent the primer from being properly seated.

Permo-Triassic age rocks are known to lie beneath Point of Ayre but, as with the rest of the northern plain, these rocks are concealed by substantial thicknesses of superficial deposits.

In most of these, the male deposits a spermatophore, a small packet of sperm on top of a gelatinous cone, on the substrate either on land or in the water.

Bute has the most productive land, and a pattern of deposits that is typical of the southwest of Scotland.

Libya long claimed the Aouzou Strip, a strip of land in northern Chad rich with uranium deposits that was intensely involved in Chad's civil war in the 1970s and 1980s.

In the extreme south of the country lies " the land of the red rocks "- a reference to the deposits of minerals found here.

The crystalline substrate of the land and absence of soil in many places have exposed mineral deposits of metal ores, such as those of iron, copper, nickel, zinc, silver, and gold.

Areas around the southern part of Lake Maracaibo are swampy, and, despite the rich agricultural land and significant petroleum deposits, the area was still thinly populated in 1990.

In 1928 important discoveries were made in the region from then on called Copperbelt-enormous copper deposits were found, transforming Northern Rhodesia from a prospective land of colonization for white farmers to a copper exporter.

Marine deposits, such as soils along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and in the Imperial Valley of California of the United States, are the beds of ancient seas that have been revealed as the land uplifted.

Since there are less fine-grained deposits near the source, this is a place where aquifers are often unconfined ( sometimes called the forebay area ), or in hydraulic communication with the land surface.

Endowed with significant natural resources, including ample fertile land, regular rainfall, and mineral deposits, it is thought that Uganda could feed all of Africa if it was commercially farmed.

Owing to deposits of sediment and land reclamation, the coastline of the Wash has altered markedly within historical times ; several towns once on the coast of the Wash ( notably King's Lynn ) are now some distance inland.

The beautiful land is rich in mineral and water deposits.

The town has set aside land designated as a " Glacial Park " which consists of a section of end moraine and outwash deposits ( containing kettles ).

From Frostburg to Westernport lay of land that contained some of the richest semi-bituminous coal deposits in the country.

The land was bought in the 1930s and was being mined of its natural sand and gravel deposits.

Giant upheavals in the Earth's crust distorted the land along with the gypsum deposits, forcing them high into the air about 70 million years ago.

In 1686, a man named Thomas Fitzwater discovered vast lime deposits on his land in Oreland.

Charlemagne Tower, founder of Tower CityTower City was founded by and named for Charlemagne Tower, a New York – born lawyer who had come to Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania in 1846 to work with the legal issues regarding land claims to large coal and mineral deposits in that area.

Land, particularly geographic locations and mineral deposits, has historically been the cause of much conflict and dispute ; land reform programs, which are designed to redistribute possession and / or use of geographic land, are often the cause of much controversy, and conflicts over the economic rent of mineral deposits have contributed to many civil wars, particularly in Africa.