10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DREIKANTER»
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A Source Book in Geology, 1900-1950
DREIKANTER AND VENTIFACTS * With reference to the discussion ... on the use
of the word Drei- kante, I should like to point out . . . that the term is more
appropriately employed for the comparatively common form with three long,
nearly ...
A dreikanter (meaning literally "three edges") has a flat base and a pyramidal top
with three faces, and hence three upper edges. The sand-laden wind, blowing
against a corner of the stone as it rests on the ground, is believed to be split by
the ...
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Report of the Committee on Sedimentation
2:358-359 (1905). 13. . Dreikanter. Geol. Mag., 8 : 282-283 (1911). 14. .
Dreikanter. Geol. Mag., 8:477 (1911). 15. Baudissin, A. (Graf von). Bericht ueber
die Diinen der Insel Sylt: Sepa- ratabdruck aus der Nord-deutsche Zeitung,
Flensburg, ...
National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Sedimentation, Thomas Wayland Vaughan, William Henry Twenhofel, 1928
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Principles of Physical Geography
These features are blow-outs or deflation hollows, desert pavement, mushroom
or pedestal rocks, dreikanter, stone lattice, zeugens, yardangs and inselbergs etc
. (a) Blow Out The chief landform produced by wind action is the blowout or ...
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Summary of Progress of the Geological Survey of Great ...
The fact that the dreikanter are formed exclusively of materials derived from the
denudation of the older drifts shows them to be later than these deposits. At
Whitley (see p. 12) they barely antedate the newer drifts by which they are buried,
and ...
Geological Survey of Great Britain, 1935
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Summary of Progress of the Geological Survey ... and Museum ...
The fact that the dreikanter are formed exclusively of materials derived from the
denudation of the older drifts shows them to be later than these deposits. At
Whitley (see p. 12) they barely antedate the newer drifts by which they are buried,
and ...
Geological Survey of Great Britain, 1934
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The Origins of the Civilization of Angkor, Volume 4: The ...
The Excavation of Ban Non Wat. Part II: the Neolithic Occupation Charles Higham
, A. Kijngam. FIG. 7:29 High terrace gravels outcropping as a result. FIG. 7:27
exposure of high terrace gravels in a creek bed. Scale 50 cm FIG. 7:31 Dreikanter
...
Charles Higham, A. Kijngam, 2011
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Rotliegend: Essays on European Lower Permian
Many of the fragments are initially triangular in shape and resemble dreikanter.
True dreikanter, though doubtless locally common, may, however, be less
abundant than a study of the literature would suggest. The breccias are
extensively ...
Pick up a few of the pebbles from the surface of any desert today and you will
soon find a beautifully polished, three-sided example known as a dreikanter (Fig.
3). Sure enough, in the pebbly sandstone sections of our North Sea cores we ...
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Fundamentals of Geomorphology
The number of edges or keels they carry is sometimes connoted by the German
terms Einkanter (one-sided), Zweikanter (two-sided), and Dreikanter (three-sided
). The pyramid-shaped Dreikanter are particularly common. The abrasion of more
...
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DREIKANTER»
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Sorites spells second place for Toronto girl at US spelling bee
... 13, Grade 7, home schooled in Rockland, Ont. Words spelled in semifinals: boutade. arbustum. dreikanter. grimthorpe. Words spelled in final:. «Toronto Star, Jun 11»
Cape Elizabeth girl falls in finals of National Spelling Bee
Even words such as “chlorthalidone,” ”dreikanter,” ”renminbi” and “helichrysum” couldn't sufficiently narrow down the field in the semifinals, ... «Bangor Daily News, Jun 11»
