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Conjunctival concretions can be seen easily by everting the eyelid. The projecting concretions can be removed if they are causing concerning symptoms. Removal can be performed by an eye doctor. Sometimes just a needle or a scalpel is used to remove the concretion under local light anesthesia of the conjunctiva in adults.
Little Rock Dam, also known as Littlerock Dam, or officially as Little Rock-Palmdale Dam, is a concrete gravity dam on Little Rock Creek in Los Angeles County, California, about 5 mi (8.0 km) south of Palmdale. [2]
Concretions in Torysh, Western Kazakhstan Concretions with lens shape from island in Vltava river, Prague, Czech Republic Marlstone aggregate concretion, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, United States A concretion is a hard and compact mass formed by the precipitation of mineral cement within the spaces between particles, and is found in sedimentary ...
Since multiple fires ignited across various communities in Los Angeles County last week, tens of thousands were forced to evacuate, more than 12,000 homes were destroyed or damaged and at least 24 ...
The Palos Verdes Peninsula, a Los Angeles County area that juts into the Pacific Ocean, shifted around 16 inches toward the ocean during last fall, according to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory ...
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) stated that a reservoir was needed to provide additional water supply for domestic and firefighting purposes on the south slope of the Santa Monica mountains. [3] In 1966, a bid for constructing the concrete-lined, compacted earth reservoir was given to Aetron, a subsidiary of Aerojet.
A combination of an exceptionally dry period - downtown Los Angeles has only received 0.16 inches (0.4cm) of rain since October - and powerful offshore gusts known as the Santa Ana winds have ...
Puente Hills Landfill was the largest landfill in the United States, rising 500 feet (150 meters) high and covering 700 acres (2.8 km 2). [1] Originally opened in 1957 in a back canyon in the Puente Hills, the landfill was made to meet the demands of urbanization and waste-disposal east of Los Angeles.