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Most of the stone, gravel, and sand used in construction in Los Angeles County between the 1920s and the 1970s came from quarries in Sun Valley.
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Most citrine is made by heating amethyst, and partial heating with a strong gradient results in ametrine — a stone partly amethyst and partly citrine.
Most stone had to be quarried miles away, and then brought to the building site.
Most insulated buildings that utilize concrete block, brick, adobe, stone, veneers or some combination thereof feature interior insulation in the form of fiberglass batts between wooden wall studs or in the form of rigid insulation boards covered with plaster or drywall.
Most of the urinary tract can be reached via the urethra, enabling prostate surgery, surgery of tumors of the urothelium, stone surgery, and simple urethral and ureteral procedures.
Most ESWL is carried out when the stone is present near the renal pelvis.
Most of them weigh between two and eight tons each, but others weigh even more, with one extraordinary stone located in the northern section of Wilson's Arch measuring 13 metres and weighing approximately 570 tons.
Most henges do not contain stone circles ; Brodgar is a striking exception, ranking with Avebury ( and to a lesser extent Stonehenge ) among the greatest of such sites.
Most of these operate out of the century old stone buildings in town.
Most of the monuments are built in the lovely soft local stone known as tuffeau.
Most scholars however, generally agree that Great Zimbabwe was built by the Shona people as part of the 13th century kingdom of Zimbabwe, and successor to the earlier Kingdom of Mapungubwe, also known for its stone ruins.
Most often, hieratic script was written in ink with a reed brush on papyrus, wood, or stone and pottery ostraca.
Most of the religious buildings of the city were demolished in that period: in 1797, the old cathedral, which had been dubbed the " wonder of the low countries ", was sold to a merchant who exploited it as a stone quarry.
Most of these buildings were built from materials such as brick, concrete block, and stone, each varying.
Most of these buildings were built from materials such as brick, concrete block, and stone, each varying.
Most of the trail is a-wide cinder or stone aggregate ( unpaved ) surface with grass shoulders.
Most sculptors work rhythmically, turning the tool with each blow so that the stone is removed quickly and evenly.
Most of the bronze statues were melted down for the war effort and the stone carvings were damaged by the war, save for some small lion's heads over the entrance.
Most Han stone pictures of Liubo show the players throwing sticks onto a mat between themselves ( with the Liubo board to the side of the mat ), and ceramic model Liubo sets such as the one excavated in 1972 from Lingbao in Henan province show six sticks lined up neatly between the two players.
Most of the carved stone on the ancient structures was removed in the 18th century through the mid 20th century for reuse in modern construction.
Most of the surrounding area ( including the property with the stone cottage Lane had built for them ) had been sold off, but they still kept some farm animals, and tended their flower beds and vegetable gardens.
Most of the stone bridges on the Old Main Line did not last long, being washed out by the periodic flooding of the Patapsco River and replaced at first by Bollman Truss bridges.
Most stone is many times weaker in tension than in compression, plugs and feathers utilize this fact.
Most of the important civic and administrative buildings which survive from 18th century Dublin, known then as " the second city of the Empire ", are of Portland stone, including City Hall, Dublin ( 1779 ), the Irish Houses of Parliament ( 1767 ), the Custom House ( 1791 ) and the General Post Office ( Dublin ) ( 1818 ).
Most early overpasses were stone, but then changed to concrete, with green rails and retro etchings, popular around the 1950s and 1960s.
Most still practice a traditional lifestyle, inhabiting natural shelters such as caves or cliff overhangs, as well as small cabins of wood or stone.
Most and gravel
Most of the gravel roads in southern Sudan have become unusable after being heavily mined by the insurgent southern forces of the Sudanese People's Liberation Army ( SPLA ).
Most geologists use the Udden-Wentworth grain size scale and divide unconsolidated sediment into three fractions: gravel (> 2 mm diameter ), sand ( 1 / 16 to 2 mm diameter ), and mud ( clay is < 1 / 256 mm and silt is between 1 / 16 and 1 / 256 mm ).
Most roads in the park are gravel with some sandy stretches and can be driven on with a conventional vehicle.
Most of Montara's streets were dirt or gravel until the early 1990s ; the rustic quality of the town has not been lost since the streets were oiled or paved ( only some of the streets are actually paved ).
Most of the commercial traffic using the navigation now consists of petroleum tankers and gravel barges.
Most of the small islands and gravel banks keep changing shape and size due to the annual floods.
Most of the roadway in New Mexico was gravel ; however, there was a fully paved segment between Roswell and Acme.
Most of the route of the trackbed from Rye to Camber is a footpath, although a short section has been destroyed by gravel workings.
Most species are bottom-dwellers, foraging in sand, gravel, or detritus.
Most gold mining in the early years was alluvial mining, where the gold was in small particles mixed with dirt, gravel and clay close to the surface of the ground, or buried in the beds of old watercourses or " leads ".
Most of the trail consists of gravel, and a 600-step staircase.
Most of the rest of the land is a hard clay and round pebbles known locally as ' gravel '.
Most of the roads and main streets in the poblacion ( urban barangays ) are concrete with few earth and gravel roads, 4 can be reached only through water transportation while 11 can be reached either through water transportation and / or by land transportation.
Most adventure motorcycles function well on graded dirt and gravel roads but are less than ideal on more difficult off pavement terrain.
Most vineyards contain a base soil of limestone with marl ( a clay and limestone mixture ) that often includes a mixture of gravel and sand.
Most and sand
Most of the beaches consist of either grass, rocks, or the silty sand that also makes up most of the bottom of the lake.
Most were produced with a pointed base to allow upright storage by embedding in soft ground, such as sand.
Most eye injuries occur when solid particles such as metal slivers, wood chips, sand or cement chips get into the eye.
Most of these landscapes alternate between rough cliffs and fine sand beaches ; the region of the Algarve is recognized for its tourist-friendly sand beaches, while at the same time its steep coastlines around Cape St. Vincent is well known for steep and foreboding cliffs.
Most notably — thanks to its smooth, flat underbody — the Kübel would propel itself much like a motorised sled when its wheels were sinking into sand, snow or mud, allowing it to follow tracked vehicles with remarkable tenacity.
Most of the beaches in the Grenadines have white sand.
Most of the city is underlain by smectite-rich clay which is locally capped by silt or fine sand ; the high shrink-swell potential associated with smectite creates major challenges to urban infrastructure.
Most of them are located on what was the floor of the Wantsum Channel, whilst those to the south lie behind the sand dunes of the Sandwich Flats.
Most meteors are smaller than a grain of sand, so almost all of them disintegrate and never hit the Earth's surface.
Most lichens grow on stable rock surfaces or the bark of old trees, but many others grow on soil and sand.
Most particles pass through surface layers but are trapped in pore spaces or adhere to sand particles.
Most of the sand is unconsolidated ; however, in some places near the False Bay coast the oldest sand dunes have been cemented into a soft sandstone.
Most common psammoseres are sand dune systems.
Most species favor loamy soils, often among rocks where drainage is good, but some grow in marshes and others in pure sand.
Most soil consists of moraine, a grayish yellow mixture of sand and rocks, with a thin layer of humus on top.
Most of US-84 in Alabama traverses the Gulf Coastal Plain which is relatively lowlying land with some sand content.
Most of the soil in Balikpapan contains yellow-reddish podsolic soil and alluvial and quartz sand, making it extremely prone to erosion.
Most of the sand, made of 98 % translucent, rounded-grain quartz, was transported from coastal sand dunes to the west, in what is now central Nevada.
Most of Gush Katif was situated on the sand dunes that separate the coastal plain from the sea along much of the southeastern Mediterranean.
Most were used in engineering-related tasks involving terrain that would be difficult for even four-wheel drive trucks, such as snow, sand and water-logged soil.
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