The O atoms in each sheet are close packed and each Cr atom is surrounded by a distorted octahedron of O atoms.

The name of it is Gore Court, and it is surrounded by a wasteland that would impress T. S. Eliot.

The egg of an amphibian is typically surrounded by a transparent gelatinous covering secreted by the oviducts and containing mucoproteins and mucopolysaccharides.

" Alas ," he is recorded to have said, " surrounded by great warriors devoted to my cause, guarded night and day by them, I should have allowed them to do their job.

The atom is a basic unit of matter that consists of a dense central nucleus surrounded by a cloud of negatively charged electrons.

The main feature of the family is the composite flower type in the form of capitula surrounded by involucral bracts. The name " Asteraceae " comes from Aster, the most prominent generum in the family, that derives from the Greek ἀστήρ meaning star, and is connected with its inflorescence star form.

It is surrounded by the southern waters of the World Ocean – alternatively ( depending on source ), it is washed by the Southern ( or Antarctic ) Ocean or the southern Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans.

The focal point of the park is the main terrace, surrounded by a long bench in the form of a sea serpent.

Its basin is surrounded by ( north ) Amguyema River and Palyavaam River, ( northwest ) Bolshoy Anyuy River and the Oloy branch of the Omolon River and ( southwest ) Penzhina River.

In Norse religion, Asgard ( Old Norse: Ásgarðr ; meaning " Enclosure of the Æsir ") is one of the Nine Worlds and is the country or capital city of the Norse Gods surrounded by an incomplete wall attributed to a Hrimthurs riding the stallion Svaðilfari, according to Gylfaginning.

The founding of the United States is often surrounded by legends and tall tales.

* The cell is surrounded by a pellicle of three membrane layers ( the alveolar structure ) penetrated by micropores.

The tip is surrounded by a band of microtubules, called the polar ring, and among the Conoidasida there is also a funnel of tubulin proteins called the conoid.

Another similarity is that many apicomplexan cells contain a single plastid, called the apicoplast, surrounded by either 3 or four membranes.

The adrenal medulla is the core of the adrenal gland, and is surrounded by the adrenal cortex.

Ajmer is surrounded by the Aravalli Mountains.

Ajmer is surrounded by the Aravalli Mountains.

He ordained further that some should be called " Abbreviators of the Upper Bar " ( Abbreviatores de Parco Majori ; the name derived from a space in the chancery, surrounded by a grating, in which the officials sat, which is called higher or lower ( major or minor ) according to the proximity of the seats to that of the vice-chancellor ), the others of the Lower Bar ( Abbreviatores de Parco Minori ); that the former should sit upon a slightly raised portion of the chamber, separated from the rest of the hall or chamber by lattice work, assist the Cardinal Vice-Chancellor, subscribe the letters and have the principal part in examining, revising, and expediting the apostolic letters to be issued with the leaden seal ; that the latter, however, should sit among the apostolic writers upon benches in the lower part of the chamber, and their duty was to carry the signed schedules or supplications to the prelates of the upper bar.

Situated at the confluence of a tributary stream, the Gavenny, and the River Usk, it is almost surrounded by two mountains – the Blorenge ( 559 m ) and the Sugar Loaf ( 596 m ) – and five hills: Ysgyryd Fawr ( The Skirrid ), Ysgyryd Fach ( Skirrid Fach ), Deri, Rholben and Mynydd Llanwenarth, known locally as " Llanwenarth Breast ".

It is possible, although highly doubtful, that he killed none at all but merely let his reputation work for him by privately claiming every unsolved murder in the state.

The place is inhabited by several hundred warlike women who are anachronisms of the Twentieth Century -- stone age amazons who live in an all-female, matriarchal society which is self-sufficient ''.

since Bourbon whiskey, though of Kentucky origin, is at least as much favored by liberals in the North as by conservatives in the South.

In fact it has caused us to give serious thought to moving our residence south, because it is not easy for the most objective Southerner to sit calmly by when his host is telling a roomful of people that the only way to deal with Southerners who oppose integration is to send in troops and shoot the bastards down.

But apart from racial problems, the old unreconstructed South -- to use the moderate words favored by Mr. Thomas Griffith -- finds itself unsympathetic to most of what is different about the civilization of the North.

The two main charges levelled against the Bourbons by liberals is that they are racists and social reactionaries.

It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.

Ratified in the Republican Party victory in 1952, the Positive State is now evidenced by political campaigns being waged not on whether but on how much social legislation there should be.

He was, and is, with the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit pool of thinkers financed by the U.S. Air Force.

They are huge areas which have been swept by winds for so many centuries that there is no soil left, but only deep bare ridges fifty or sixty yards apart with ravines between them thirty or forty feet deep and the only thing that moves is a scuttling layer of sand.

It is softened by the saltbush and the bluebush, has a peaceful quality, the hills roll softly.

On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.

Poetry in Persian life is far more than a common ground on which -- in a society deeply fissured by antagonisms -- all may stand.

Nostalgic Yankee readers of Erskine Caldwell are today informed by proud Georgians that Tobacco Road is buried beneath a four-lane super highway, over which travel each day suburbanite businessmen more concerned with the Dow-Jones average than with the cotton crop.

All but the most rabid of Confederate flag wavers admit that the Old Southern tradition is defunct in actuality and sigh that its passing was accompanied by the disappearance of many genteel and aristocratic traditions of the reputedly languid ante-bellum way of life.

Westbrook further bemoans the Southern writers' creation of an unreal image of their homeland, which is too readily assimilated by both foreign readers and visiting Yankees: `` Our northerner is suspicious of all this crass evidence ( of urbanization ) presented to his senses.

As his disciples boast, even though his emphasis is elsewhere, Faulkner does show his awareness of the changing order of the South quite keenly, as can be proven by a quick recalling of his Sartoris and Snopes families.

The unit of form is determined subjectively: `` the Heart, by the way of the Breath, to the Line ''.

Its total land area is -- slightly larger than Washington, D. C. -- consisting of five rugged, volcanic islands and two coral atolls.

In coral it is often able to set quickly by hooking into the structure, but may be more difficult to retrieve.

Agatized coral is often referred to as Petoskey stone or agate.

The terrain is low-lying and sandy: a coral island surrounded by a narrow fringing reef with a depressed central area devoid of a lagoon with its highest point being above sea level.

Anegada is geologically distinct from the rest of the group and is a flat island composed of limestone and coral.

Its terrain consists of coral islands, and is relatively flat.

The scraping of the ocean floor in bottom dragging is devastating to coral, sponges and other long-lived species that do not recover quickly.

Terrain is mostly a low-lying limestone base surrounded by coral reefs.

Clipperton Island ( or ) is an uninhabited coral atoll in the eastern Pacific Ocean, southwest of Mexico and west of Costa Rica, at.

The Calcium carbonate, from which coral skeletons are made is just over 60 % Carbon dioxide.

A coral reef lies close to shore ; the island's capital of Mutsamudu is also its main port.

Diego Garcia is a tropical, footprint-shaped coral atoll located south of the equator in the central Indian Ocean.

The coral reef surrounding the seaward side of the atoll is generally broad, flat, and shallow at about below mean sea level in most locations and varying from 300 to 650 feet ( 100 to 200 m ) in width.

Diego Garcia is the above-water rim of a coral atoll composed of Holocene coral rubble and sand to the depth of about 36 metres ( 120 ft ), overlaying Pleistocene limestone deposited at the then-sea level on top of a seamount rising approximately 1, 800 metres ( 6, 000 ft ) from the floor of the Indian Ocean.

When reefs become environmentally stressed, this distribution of symbionts is related to the observed pattern of coral bleaching and recovery.

Howland Island () is an uninhabited coral island located just north of the equator in the central Pacific Ocean, about southwest of Honolulu.

The terrain is low-lying and sandy: a coral island surrounded by a narrow fringing reef with a slightly raised central area.

An atoll is an island formed from a coral reef that has grown on an eroded and submerged volcanic island.

Behind the beaches is a flat raised plain of uplifted coral reef.

Unlike most coral atolls, the lagoon on Jarvis is wholly dry.

The low-lying coral island has long been noted as hard to sight from small ships and is surrounded by a narrow fringing reef.

The atoll, which is located on the coral reef platform, comprises four islands.