accumulation zone


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accumulation zone

[ə·kyü·myə′lā·shən ‚zōn]
(geology)
The area where the bulk of the snow contributing to an avalanche was originally deposited.
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The eXXpedition voyage team is a group of 24 women, split over two voyage legs, travelling over 3,000 nautical miles through the densest ocean plastic accumulation zone on the planet.
Women's sea trip to study plastics pollution in Pacific
Next, insurers should identify cyber accumulations by product line, industry/business sector and various subsectors as the characteristics, scope and intensity of cyberrisks can vary from one area of dimensionality or accumulation zone to another.
WATCH THE CONCENTRATIONS With a fast-growing cyber insurance marketplace and the rising threat of global cyber shocks, insurers must have a robust cyber accumulations framework
This has historically been a bullish accumulation zone for silver.
It's not hard to spot why silver is becoming a value magnet
The steep channel gradients somewhere can reach 600% which provided a large transport capacity of the debris flow and thus large amounts of gravels were deposited in the lower part of the channel and upper edge of the accumulation zone. Figure 2 shows the particle grading curve of the gully.
Analysis of River Blocking Induced by a Debris Flow
With its ability to control the speed within each accumulation zone, the system incrementally slows product down before accumulation.
Accumulation conveyor maximizes carton control, throughput
In the northern margin of the Jiangnan-Xuefeng uplift, there are up to 156 paleo-reservoirs (or residual oil reservoirs) and hydrocarbon shows in the hydrocarbon accumulation zone (Fig.
Characteristics and distributions of marine paleo-reservoirs in the northern margin of the Jiangnan-Xuefeng uplift, southern China
The transect length and direction was determined by using a computer model developed at the University of Hawaii (32) to estimate the accumulation zone for plastic pollution in the SPSG.
Plastic pollution in the South Pacific Subtropical Gyre
As snow falls in the accumulation zone at the top of a glacier, snow melts in the warmer ablation zone at the bottom (see Anatomy of a Glacier, p.
The ice man: an intrepid photographer shoots glacier caves around the world
The most significant expansion of the accumulation zone started immediately after the deep drop of the lake level at 8200-8000 BP.
Lake basin development in the Holocene and its impact on the sedimentation dynamics in a small lake (southern Estonia)/Jarvenoo arengu moju settimisdunaamikale Holotseenis Louna-Eesti vaikejarve naitel
Each accumulation zone is driven by air-operated clutches that are controlled by photo eyes and solenoids located in each zone.
"Conveyor"
Each accumulation zone is driven by air-operated clutches that are controlled by photo-eyes and solenoids located in each zone.
Heavy duty accumulation conveyor
Though Ganai does not have enough scientific experience to trek to the accumulation zone, he and six other members of the team play a vital role collecting data on the lower portions of the glacier know as the ablation zone, or the area where the ice melts.
"Goddess" glacier melting in Kashmir

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