When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Concretion - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concretion

    Some of the most unusual concretion nuclei are World War II military shells, bombs, and shrapnel, which are found inside siderite concretions found in an English coastal salt marsh. [10] Depending on the environmental conditions present at the time of their formation, concretions can be created by either concentric or pervasive growth.

  3. Reification (fallacy) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reification_(fallacy)

    Pathetic fallacy (also known as anthropomorphic fallacy or anthropomorphization) is a specific type [dubious – discuss] of reification. Just as reification is the attribution of concrete characteristics to an abstract idea, a pathetic fallacy is committed when those characteristics are specifically human characteristics, especially thoughts or feelings. [13]

  4. A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and ...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Manual_for_Writers_of...

    Part 1 of the manual approaches the process of research and writing. This includes providing "practical advice" to formulate "the right questions, read critically, and build arguments" as well as helping authors draft and revise a paper. [3] Initially added with the seventh edition of the manual, this part is adapted from The Craft of Research ...

  5. IMRAD - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMRAD

    In scientific writing, IMRAD or IMRaD (/ ˈ ɪ m r æ d /) (Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion) [1] is a common organizational structure for the format of a document. IMRaD is the most prominent norm for the structure of a scientific journal article of the original research type.

  6. Cone-in-cone structures - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cone-in-cone_structures

    Cone-in-cone structures have been known since the late 1700s, and people have attempted to explain the reasons for their formations. One of the earlier explanations was actually on par with the currently accepted methods for formation as discussed above. Some of the other methods offered for their formation were given by Shaub (1937). [9]

  7. Thesis - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thesis

    Dissertations normally report on a research project or study, or an extended analysis of a topic. The structure of a thesis or dissertation explains the purpose, the previous research literature impinging on the topic of the study, the methods used, and the findings of the project. Most world universities use a multiple chapter format:

  8. Coal ball - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_ball

    A coal ball is a type of concretion, varying in shape from an imperfect sphere to a flat-lying, irregular slab.Coal balls were formed in Carboniferous Period swamps and mires, when peat was prevented from being turned into coal by the high amount of calcite surrounding the peat; the calcite caused it to be turned into stone instead.

  9. Pierre Shale - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Shale

    The Pierre Shale is the host formation for commercial petroleum deposits in the Florence and Canon City fields in Fremont County, Colorado, and the Boulder Oil Field in Boulder County, Colorado. More recently, natural gas has been extracted in the Raton Basin in southern Colorado .