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When timber was available, many were surrounded by a circle of wooden piles with axe-sharpened bases that were driven into the bottom, forming a circular enclosure that helped to retain the main mound and prevent erosion.
When some base level is reached, the erosive activity switches to lateral erosion, which widens the valley floor and creates a narrow floodplain.
When the upcurrent amount of sediment is less than the amount being carried away, erosion occurs.
When Stonehenge was first opened to the public it was possible to walk amongst and even climb on the stones, but the stones were roped off in 1977 as a result of serious erosion.
When the river courses over resistant bedrock, erosion happens slowly, while downstream the erosion occurs more rapidly.
When erosion removes the overlying rock material, these intrusive rocks are exposed and the pressure on them is released.
When erosion removes most of the overlying block, leaving only island-like remnants resting on the lower block, the remnants are called klippen ( singular klippe ).
When Hurricane Floyd in 1999 dropped approximately 19 inches ( 480 mm ) of rain in 24 hours on some long-term never-till fields, visual observation showed virtually no erosion.
When seas receded, terrestrial sedimentary deposits and erosion dominated.
When sedimentary beds are tilted and exposed to the surface, erosion and weathering may occur differentially based on the composition.
When the ice dams melted, a great volume of water was released downstream causing massive flash floods and immediate and catastrophic erosion of the present-day canyon.
When the source of a stream is very high relative to its base level ( high stream gradient ), erosion proceeds rapidly due to the energy of the rapidly moving water and the topography becomes rugged, and it is considered a young stream ( geologically speaking ).
When erosion has acted for a long geologic time, wearing down the high points and making a small difference between the source and the base level of a stream ( low stream gradient ), then the stream is called mature.
When the structuring element B has a center ( e. g., a disk or a square ), and this center is located on the origin of E, then the erosion of A by B can be understood as the locus of points reached by the center of B when B moves inside A.
When selecting a rope for heavy top roping use, a large diameter (>= 10mm ) static rope ( or low-stretch rope ) is recommended for the anchors to prevent rope wear and reduce rock erosion and to ensure maximum safety in the event of a fall.
“ Geologically they are originally part of the main land at the edge of the great riff or fault which formed the depression to which the waters of Lake Superior collected .” When the glaciers melted, waves from the waters of Lake Superior caused erosion that formed the islands.
When exposed by erosion, these cores called batholiths may occupy huge areas of Earth's surface.
When the world's sea level was at this " low stand ", former sea bed sediments were subjected to subaerial weathering ( erosion by rain, frost, rivers, etc.
When viewed from orbit, this appears as a circular crater with an outer rim that has not been significantly worn through impact erosion.
When erosion occurs, tule rhizomes are replanted in strategic areas.
When this litter is removed or compacted ( e. g. through grazing or human overuse ), erosion and flooding are exacerbated as well as deprivation of dry season water for forest organisms.

When and threatened
When this heresy-decree, to be made effective, was forwarded to other congregations for approval, the friends of liberal thought, under the leadership of the Tibbonites, issued a counter-ban, and the conflict threatened to assume a serious character, as blind party zeal ( this time on the liberal side ) did not shrink from asking the civil powers to intervene.
When Democratic-Republicans in some states refused to enforce federal laws, and even threatened to rebel, Federalists threatened to send the army to force them to capitulate.
When threatened, it will crouch and freeze, relying on camouflage to stay undetected, but will flush into low flight if closely disturbed.
When the toads are threatened, their glands secrete a milky-white fluid known as bufotoxin.
When the production of Richard Kelly's debut film, Donnie Darko, was threatened, Barrymore stepped forward with financing from Flower Films and took the small role of Karen Pomeroy, the title character's English teacher.
When they warned him that they would ask Charles Gounod instead and then threatened to engage Richard Wagner's services, Verdi began to show considerable interest, and agreements were signed in June 1870.
When Evans began to question her religious faith, her father threatened to throw her out, although that did not happen.
When the Brunswick Manifesto of July 1792 once more threatened the French population with Austrian ( Imperial ) and Prussian attacks, Louis XVI was suspected of treason and taken along with his family from the Tuileries Palace in August 1792 by insurgents supported by a new revolutionary Paris Commune.
When France was negotiating with the Netherlands about purchasing Luxembourg in 1867, the Prussian Kingdom threatened the French government with war.
When, however, the Treaty of San Stefano threatened a Russian hegemony in the Near East, Andrássy concurred with the German and British courts that the final adjustment of matters must be submitted to a European congress.
When the Germans threatened to overrun Paris in 1940, where she was then living, he arranged her escape to England.
When Louis threatened invasion, the third great civil war of his reign broke out.
When threatened, the Ostrich will either hide itself by lying flat against the ground, or will run away.
When rebel gunboats threatened to dash upriver from Argentina to bombard the capital into submission, Stroessner's forces battled furiously and knocked them out of commission.
When the siege had started, Saladin was unwilling to promise terms of quarter to the Frankish inhabitants of Jerusalem until Balian of Ibelin threatened to kill every Muslim hostage, estimated at 5000, and to destroy Islam's holy shrines of the Dome of the Rock and the al-Aqsa Mosque if quarter was not given.
When confronted with the evidence that Solomon was a free man, and told that he had a wife and children, Epps cursed the man ( unknown to him ) who had helped Solomon and threatened to kill him if he discovered his identity.
When Thompson climbed back on board, Johnson drew a knife and threatened Thompson's girlfriend, who was also on board.
When Goldstein was threatened with court-martial for refusing to treat non-Jewish soldiers in the Israeli Defence Force, he declared: " I am not willing to treat any non-Jew.
When threatened, however, they can reach up to and maintain that speed for up to 90 seconds.
When threatened by Xena he tells her, " I know what I'm fated to do with my life ".
When the king was passing by the oasis, the residents killed his son, and the Yemenite ruler threatened to exterminate the people and cut down the palms.
When Gregory was hard pressed by Henry IV, Robert Guiscard left him to his fate, and only intervened when he himself was threatened with German arms.
When viewers realized that Willow was falling in love with Tara, Whedon remembered that some threatened to boycott the show, complaining " You made Willow a fag ", to which he responded, " Bye.

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