Bishofite was discovered in the Staßfurt salt deposits in Germany by German geologist Gustav Bischof in the second half of 19th century.

Bishofite is used in form of compresses to treat joint diseases such as arthritis, rheumatic fever osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, radiculitis, calcaneal spur and traumas, especially in rehabilitation centers of Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, and Lithuania.

As well, the species of diatom may also differ among deposits.

In archaeology, votive deposits differ from hoards in that although they may contain similar items, votive deposits were not intended for later recovery.

Because deposits in sedimentary rocks are commonly layered and relatively less hard, the mining methods used differ from those used to mine deposits in igneous or metamorphic rocks ( see Underground mining ( hard rock )).

The best chance, of course, is offered by gently sloping terrain where the water remains close to the surface and where the air is dry, so that a high evaporation leaves salty deposits which permit only sparse plant growth.

Or ( more commonly, thinks Keys ) the deposits themselves get so big that they choke off the artery's flow to the point that an infarct occurs: the heart muscle is suffocated, cells supplied by the artery die, and the heart is permanently, perhaps fatally injured.

The female visits the nursery sites regularly and deposits unfertilised eggs in the water which are consumed by the tadpoles.

* Terrigenous deposits with land origins, consisting of sand, mud, and rock particles formed by erosion, weathering, and volcanic activity on land washed to sea.

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.

The spread of the Akkadian state as far as the " silver mountain " ( possibly the Taurus Mountains ), the " cedars " of Lebanon, and the copper deposits of Magan, was largely motivated by the goal of securing control over these imports.

Removal of adherent surface deposits by physical chemical means ( by cotton swab ).

In the 4th century BC Plato knew oreichalkos as rare and nearly as valuable as gold and Pliny describes how aurichalcum had come from Cypriot ore deposits which had been exhausted by the 1st century AD.

Its guano deposits were mined by the American Guano Company from 1859 to 1878.

Fossil remains of beavers are found in the peat and other superficial deposits of Britain and the continent of Europe ; while in the Pleistocene formations of Britain and Siberia, remains of a giant extinct beaver have been found, Trogontherium cuvieri, representing a genus by itself.

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.

Glaciations in Gondwana, triggered by Gondwana's southward movement, continued into the Permian and because of the lack of clear markers and breaks, the deposits of this glacial period are often referred to as Permo-Carboniferous in age.

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.

An economic depression that had begun in 1967 peaked in 1972, exacerbated by capital flight, plummeting private investment, and withdrawal of bank deposits in response to Allende's socialist program.

The other part of a nation's money supply consists of bank deposits ( sometimes called deposit money ), ownership of which can be transferred by means of cheques, debit cards, or other forms of money transfer.

Innovations introduced by Muslim economists, traders and merchants include the earliest uses of credit, cheques, promissory notes, savings accounts, transactional accounts, loaning, trusts, exchange rates, the transfer of credit and debt, and banking institutions for loans and deposits.

Central banks may do so by lending money to and borrowing money from ( taking deposits from ) a limited number of qualified banks, or by purchasing and selling bonds.

Such deposits may easily be spoiled forever by a single misplaced step.

Though the name came to be commonly used to refer to the whole of southern Mesopotamia, Chaldea proper was in fact the vast plain in the far south east formed by the deposits of the Euphrates and the Tigris, extending to about four hundred miles along the course of these rivers, and about a hundred miles in average width.

It was, in fact, nothing like any material used by the Romans, but was a " Natural cement " made by burning septaria – nodules that are found in certain clay deposits, and that contain both clay minerals and calcium carbonate.

It is later revealed that Tiberium was introduced to Earth by the Scrin, an extremely advanced race of Tiberium-based aliens bent on mining the planet after the Tiberium deposits have reached maturity.

The horizontal structure of each lens is influenced by variations in the type and porosity of the sub-surface deposits, which on Diego Garcia are minor.

The large coal deposits of the Carboniferous primarily owe their existence to two factors.

The regulatory feedback between organisms and their environment can affect conditions from local ( e. g., a beaver pond ) to global scales, over time and even after death, such as decaying logs or silica skeleton deposits from marine organisms.

Males develop calcium deposits that form bumps on their skulls as they age.

" Rare earths " got their name because they were indeed rare as compared to the " common " earths such as lime or magnesia, and historically only a few deposits were known.

Other mineral resources include coal, galena, quartz, agate and uranium deposits, but their exploitation is not considered commercially viable.

Instead reports have to be made of all suspicious deposits or transfers, irrespective of their value.

Landlords therefore owned the base metals and coal under their estates and had a strong inducement to extract them or to lease the deposits and collect royalties from mine operators.

Most ( but not all ) placer deposits, because of their shallowly buried nature, are mined by surface methods.

Most ore deposits are named according to either their location ( for example, the Witswatersrand, South Africa ), or after a discoverer ( e. g. the kambalda nickel shoots are named after drillers ), or after some whimsy, a historical figure, a prominent person, something from mythology ( phoenix, kraken, serepentleopard, etc.

Three general areas are especially noted for their extensive Permian deposits-the Ural Mountains ( where Perm itself is located ), China, and the southwest of North America, where the Permian Basin in the U. S. state of Texas is so named because it has one of the thickest deposits of Permian rocks in the world.

As the era proceeded, the marginal seas periodically washed over the stable interior, leaving sedimentary deposits to mark their incursions.

They also contain important ore deposits, including gold and silver, and their mineral water springs feed numerous health resorts.

The wealth of its coal deposits and their large-scale industrial exploitation, coupled with its location on the border between France and Germany, have given the Saarland a unique history in modern times.

Mazerath deposits his briefcase, which contains Sister Dorotea's severed ring finger in a preserving jar, on the dashboard " where professional motorman put their lunchboxes ".

In this way he discovered that stone tools did not co-occur with bronze or iron in the earliest deposits while subsequently bronze did not co-occur with iron-so that three periods could be defined by their available materials, stone, bronze and iron.

Earlier, in the 17th century, rich ore deposits were discovered in the mountains and their systematic extraction began in the early 18th century, eventually turning the region into the largest mineral base of Russia.

Clay deposits may be formed in place as residual deposits in soil, but thick deposits usually are formed as the result of a secondary sedimentary deposition process after they have been eroded and transported from their original location of formation.

Secondary clay deposits have been moved by erosion and water from their primary location.

Most of their defecation occurs in the water, creating allochthonous deposits of organic matter along the river beds.

* The foreign creditors of the Sienese Gran Tavola bank start demanding their deposits back thus accelerating the liquidity crisis faced by the firm.

Debt securities may be called debentures, bonds, deposits, notes or commercial paper depending on their maturity and certain other characteristics.

Cloudinids had a wide geographic range, reflected in the present distribution of localities in which their fossils are found, and are an abundant component of some deposits.

Apart from continental sediments, rift basins normally also have part of their infill consisting of volcanic deposits.