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A concretion is a volume of sedimentary rock in which a mineral cement fills the porosity (i.e. the spaces between the sediment grains). The image shows a Sandstone Concretion in the wall at the beach of Año Nuevo State Reserve. This concretion was too high in the wall to place a ruler, but I estimate it to be about 400 mm long.
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 ...
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]
In philosophy and the arts, a fundamental distinction is between things that are abstract and things that are concrete.While there is no general consensus as to how to precisely define the two, examples include that things like numbers, sets, and ideas are abstract objects, while plants, dogs, and planets are concrete objects. [1]
With saltwater environments, a phenomenon called concretion occurs. "Concretion occurs when a mixture of iron corrosion product, sand, and sea life forms a hard shell around corroding iron artifacts and can encompass other non-iron artifacts that may be nearby". [3] Although they are often naturally preserved, they are also fragile and friable.
reconstructed and released by OPenn as Free Cultural Works: CC BY [8] [9] [10] Free Culture: 2004: by Lawrence Lessig (the first CC licensed book released by a major mainstream publisher, Penguin Books) CC BY-NC 1.0 [11] Freesouls: 2008: 2010 (digital ebook) book with essays and photos of key people of the free movement by Joi Ito: CC BY [12 ...
Visual images can evoke emphatic understanding of how other people experience their world. Photo elicitation has been used successfully in a range of studies and is common in participatory research with young children and marginalised communities. [5] Photo elicitation is unique to the interviewer as well as to the subject.
Depending on the nature of the subject and the image used, the ideal caption can range from none at all to a regular full-sentence caption. The following examples serve to describe the range of situations for particular infobox images: No caption – Infoboxes normally display the page name as the title of the infobox. If nothing more than the ...