An ordinary sea wave is rarely more than a few hundred feet long from crest to crest -- no longer than 320 feet in the Atlantic or 1,000 feet in the Pacific.

Their amplitude sometimes is as little as two feet from trough to crest.

Ulyate and Kearton climbed on toward the sound of the barking of the dogs and the sporadic roaring of the lion, till they came, out of breath, to the crest, and peering through the branches of a bush, this is what Ulyate saw: Jones who had apparently ( and actually had ) ridden up the nearly impassable hillside, sitting calmly on his horse within forty feet of a full-grown young lioness, who was crouched on a flat rock and seemed just about to charge him, while the dogs whirled around her.

Athena's Helmet is the central feature on the United States Military Academy crest.

The smooth muscle of the great arteries and the population of cells that form the aorticopulmonary septum that separates the aorta and pulmonary artery is derived from cardiac neural crest.

This contribution of the neural crest to the great artery smooth muscle is unusual as most smooth muscle is derived from mesoderm.

It is the 1924 tour that is credited as being the first in which the team were referred to as " the Lions ", the irony being that it was on this tour that the single lion-rampant crest was replaced with the forerunner of the four-quartered badge with the symbols of the four represented unions, that is still worn today.

Although the butterfly effect may appear to be an esoteric and unlikely behavior, it is exhibited by very simple systems: for example, a ball placed at the crest of a hill may roll into any of several valleys depending on, among other things, slight differences in initial position.

In comparing the skulls of carnivores and herbivores, it can be seen that the shearing force of the temporalis is somewhat more important to carnivores, which have more room on the braincase ( this is not unrelated to carnivoran intelligence ) and commonly develop a sagittal crest ( running from posterior to anterior on the skull ), providing yet additional room for temporalis attachment.

" The swords and stars refer to the former general's career, as does the crest, which is the badge of the 101st Airborne ( which he served as a brigade commander in the mid-1970s ).

The current crest, featuring a ceremonial lion rampant regardant holding a staff, is a modification of the one introduced in the early 1950s.

A " Cowboys " chest crest is directly under the NFL shield.

In the center is a crest containing the Old Avery Oak.

When the source of the waves is moving toward the observer, each successive wave crest is emitted from a position closer to the observer than the previous wave.

They also contribute to the desired effect of converting the ( kinetic energy ) push of the sloped wave face combined with the rider's mass on the sloped wave face ( potential energy ) into redirected energy-lift ( lift ( physics ))-the surfer deflects his surfboard and fins off the water of the wave face ( and / or vice-versa ) to make forward progress across the wave face, or " down the line ," that is, parallel to the wave crest and beach-riding parallel to the crest ( perpendicular to the pull of gravity down the wave's slope ) in this way is known as " trimming.

In English the word " crest " is commonly ( but erroneously ) used to refer to an entire heraldic achievement of armorial bearings.

Despite efforts by the soldiers and the Pence resolution mandated donations raised to provide for provisions, horses and wagons, each day those who could not make the march through the hot arid September Sacramento Valley-where afternoon temperatures top 90 ° F or over the 6, 000 foot crest of the North Coast Ranges-were left behind without food or water and were soon killed by a pack of wild boar that had formed behind and followed the group ; the survivors were told to stay at the Round Valley concentration camp or be shot on sight.

The impressive average depth of this volcanic lake is due to the nearly symmetrical deep caldera formed 7, 700 years ago during the violent climactic eruptions and subsequent collapse of Mount Mazama and the relatively moist climate that is typical of the crest of the Cascade Range.

* The lateral margin of the latissimus dorsi is separated below from the obliquus externus abdominis by a small triangular interval, the lumbar triangle of Petit, the base of which is formed by the iliac crest, and its floor by the obliquus internus abdominis.

A white ( argent ) wyvern formed the crest of the Borough of Leicester as recorded at the heraldic visitation of Leicestershire in 1619: A wyvern sans legs argent strewed with wounds gules, wings expanded ermine.

The inferior border articulates with the crest formed by the maxillæ and palatine bones.

Oceanic crust ( and to a lesser extent, the underlying mantle ) typically becomes hydrated to varying degrees on the seafloor, partly as the result of seafloor weathering, and partly in response to hydrothermal circulation near the mid-ocean-ridge crest where it was originally formed.

The crest itself originated from the Birmingham College of Commerce, one of the institutions that formed the polytechnic in 1971.

The hike climbs over the crest of the shale formed, north-south oriented Spring Mountain Range, and rewards the hiker with panoramic views of the Redrock Escarpment below.

The Dartington Morris Men side was formed at Dartington Hall in 1968 and was given permission to use the crest of the white hart on a red rose as its emblem.

The crest is formed by a Roman fasces in Or, in vertical position, and a Double-edged Ax.

The crest of The Wrekin's ridge and its northwestern slopes are formed from various rocks of volcanic origin assigned to the Uriconian series, of Precambrian age.

In the divide between the first and second systems, which is also the great watershed between the Atlantic slope and the Mississippi Valley, a singular anomaly is presented, for it is formed not by the lofty Smoky range, but by the Blue Ridge — not, therefore, at the crest of the great slope which the surface of the state presents, but on a line lower down.

The club was formed in 1904, taking the crest of Leeds as the club badge and adopting blue, yellow and white as the club's colours.

Commanded by a Wing Commander, the School of Fighter Control was formed in 1940 and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II awarded the Unit its own crest in 1958.

Shiva is said to have taken abode in the ' Bhima Shankara ' form, upon the request of the Gods, on the crest of the Sahyadri hills, and the sweat that poured forth from his body after the battle is said to have formed the Bhimarathi river.

The crest here is a broad, flat plateau formed of erosion-resistant Pottsville Formation | Pottsville conglomerate, with the escarpment dropping steeply to the east ( left ).

Most of the remaining small sublingual ducts open separately into the mouth on an elevated crest of mucous membrane, the plica fimbriata, formed by the gland and located on either side of the frenulum linguae.

King George VI had already approved the design of an Ensign for the newly formed Royal Observer Corps, the Ensign was RAF blue with the Union Jack in one corner and also bearing the Corps ' crest.

The front is common to both versions, with the grille formed from virtually extensions of the central crest.

The pitch at which the scapha – helix projects from the conchal cup is determined: ( i ) by the acuteness of the fold of the crest of the antihelix, ( ii ) by the height of the posterior wall of the conchal bowl, and ( iii ) by the completeness of the hemisphere formed by the concha.

The college crest is formed from the initials of the College.

He formed an initial defensive line at the hamlet of Four Mile, while posting his reserves in a second line a mile away at Gravel Hill, on the crest of the ridge above the river.

The official crest / seal of Edgewood College is directly related to the Dominican Order, as its background is formed by the black and white shield of the Dominican Order.

The British formed circular / squared defensive positions on the crest of the ridge with 240 infantry, 38 cavalry and 2 pieces of artillery while the roughly 300 Boers attempted to surround them and cut them off from escape.

* Calf ( ex open mining ): From 1949 to 1974 by means of days at the calves brown coal one promoted, which is still to be recognized still well: After the pumps were turned off, up to 30 m deep a lake northeast formed and above this for approximately 20, 000 m² large lake is the basalt crest calf in the former open mining, whose quite evenly graduated and quite high basalt walls are impressing much.