We follow monks reverently copying diagrams they don't understand, and venerating relics we know to be detritus.
In contrast to the photic zone of Oceans, the major source of organic matter in swamps, sea grass meadows and estuaries is detritus derived from vascular plants.
There is detritus (some floating) of a pre-existing life -- from tires to a teddy bear doll.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo's militias are the detritus of a long-failed state.
They are the detritus of the cold war, tactical weapons deployed in Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey to protect NATO allies from the once-feared Soviet advantage in conventional arms.
The subjects are humble the detritus the artist spots on the sidewalk as he strolls through his London neighborhood.
"It is possible that the trenches are funnelling detritus food down," he says.
Phytoplankton recovery in the early Paleocene provided the food source to support large benthic foraminiferal assemblages, which are mainly detritus-feeding.
More interesting than anything the candidates said, however, was the detritus afterwards.
