superstructure built on top and around a mountain. On the very top was a temple. Ziggurats were made out of only mud brick. One may ask‚ why use mud brick? Compared to other materials such as limestone it is a terribly weak building material. The reason was because of the location of Ur. Ur did not have limestone anywhere near it so mud brick was the practical choice. Viewed from the outside‚ the giant mud structure looks like a towering fortress. Huge bulking walls rise hundreds of feet up and while one may
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coarse-grained‚ angular-subrounded clasts. * Conglomerates‚ matrix supported clasts-supported fabrics. * Unstable minerals present [ (source rock)] = compositionally immature (usually) * Debris flow deposits: massive‚ un-bedded‚ very poorly sorted‚ mud matrix. * Usually there is a confined permanent channel that may contain an intermittent stream. 1.4 Proximal fan facies * Better sorting (sands can be well sorted)‚ fine-grained. -Sandstones dominate with thin gravel layers in channels
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were used to protect women from hostile spiritual forces during transition into adulthood. Other motifs protected women from harm when confronting and killing powerful animals.” (Authentic Africa‚ 2017) Women use the mud in the rivers to decorate the cloth. Women also cover and soak the mud cloths with leaves to make the cloth softer. Some ;cloths are used for decoration such as being used as a table cloth. Many of the cloths have a geometric design. The Gwandusu Bamana maternity sculpture are seen as
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amount of thick mud around the battlefield. Soldiers would move very slowly and would sometimes take 3 hours to walk 100 metres. If a soldier was wounded they would sometimes trap them and they would drown in the thick mud. Because of this‚ thousands of soldiers could not be found; lost in the mud and were put under the category of ’missing‚ presumed dead’ (Unknown‚ 2015). The mud was infested with human waste and was infested by rats. The diseases throughout the battle came from the mud and wet grounds
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had just gotten stuck in the mud. We ripped off our boots‚ and slowly started entering the dirty brown watered dam‚ as we did not want to startle the calf‚ as he was already stress. My feet where almost suctioned into the mud‚ as I lifted the calves sloppy wet head to keep it above the water. We pushed‚ one‚ two‚ and three. Minutes went ticking by; this calf was in the mud deep. I then gave one last push trying so hard to lift and push the calf it slipped out of the mud. The feeling of saving this
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houses. As you can guess the Egyptians had sturdier homes that used bricks from mud and straw‚ narrow windows up high‚ so the sun didn’t come in and white walls to keep the room cooler. They also had a stick and palm branches for roofs. The more money you had the better your house was like some houses even had pools. The Mesopotamians had reed and mud homes with reed pillars bent over and plastered with mud or bricks from mud and straw‚ but both types crumbled easily in bad weather and then had to be
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of Winogradsky column is to observe microbiology interaction of microbes using pond mud. The aim of this paper is to describe structural and chemical features in Winogradsky column and to show the acknowledgement of microbial cells in Winogradsky column. Materials of experiment Pond mud Calcium sulfate Calcium carbonate Shredded paper Pond water Cylinder Aluminum foil Methods 1. Prepare pond mud 2. Add calcium sulfate and calcium carbonate 3. Add piece of paper 4. Add
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Pueblo Indians The pueblo people‚ sometimes called the Anasazi. Began to build mud-brick houses for themselves in the south-west part of America about 100 BC. They were also known as the Basket Maker people. These people built houses of wooden poles and mud-brick‚ often dug into pits in the ground‚ or they lived in caves. People hunted and gathered most of their food‚ but by 1 AD they also grew pumpkins and corn‚ which they had learned about from Maya people to their south. They did not
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to this day. The sediments grow thicker and sink into the seafloor under their own weight. As additional deposits pile up‚ the pressure on the ones below increases several thousand times‚ and the temperature rises by several hundred degrees. The mud and sand harden into shale and sandstone and the remains of the dead organisms are transformed into crude oil and natural gas. Surface deposits of crude oil have been known to humans for thousands of years. In the areas where they occurred‚ they were
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