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And, o'er the dang'rous deep, secure the navy flies; / Glides by the Sirens' cliffs, a shelfy coast, / Long infamous for ships and sailors lost
The procedure and the results of calculating the wave regime in the example of the shelfy water of the Black Sea are discussed. Analogous data with respect to the wave regime can be obtained for all shelfy bodies of water of the inland and shelf seas of the USSR .
According to Potter and Pattison (1977) , the most common surface landform found along the Antelope Point shoreline is shelfy terrace .
The tillable fields are in some places […] so shelfy that the corn hath much ado to fasten his root.
The vegetable Soils may be distinguished into three sorts, the black and gritty, the shelfy slatty Soil, and the stiff reddish Soil, approaching more to the nature of Clay.
The shelfy or slaty soil is found in more abundance in the gentle delivities and level grounds, and may be termed the detritus of the schistus.
His rosebud lay on shelfy breast,And deem it quite a fragrant jest.
I hit my head on that shelfy thing every time I stand up.
A short discussion about options followed; floating, brackets, off-site carcasses, it was all a bit blooming shelfy to be honest .
Reduced models have long been used to describe the mechanics of ice sheets and ice shelves, while more recently a shelf-like model has been used to describe the mechanics of shelfy streams, where the basal friction is ' small ' in a precisely definable sense.
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For many purposes this means we do not have to consider shelfy streams as part of the marine ice sheet system. Moreover, since the slopes of shelfy streams are controlled by the same processes which control shelves, the same arguments about the transfer of kinematical information between shelfy stream and meso-traction stream as were used for shelf and sheet hold; the meso-traction stream does not 'see' the shelfy stream.
For extensional-stress resolving 'shelfy stream' models, differences between model results were mainly due to the choice of spatial discretization.
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