As a result, the fishing industry collapsed, islands that had served as wildlife refuges became peninsulas, biological diversity and productivity fell, biota disappeared, large quantities of salt blew from the lake bed onto neighbouring lands, groundwater salinity rose, and the local climate was altered.
NEGLECTING the quantity disappearing through evaporation as relatively insignificant, the rainfall over any area either finds its way on or near the surface into streams or percolates into the ground to form subterranean reservoirs, which are tapped in many cases, naturally by springs and artificially by wells.
The times after 50% or 90% of the applied quantity have disappeared (or dissipated) are called DT50 and DT90, respectively.
If there is anywhere for carbon dioxide to disappear in large quantities from the atmosphere, it is into the Earth's oceans.
Similar stories could be told about Afghanistan, another country where U.S. weaponry has disappeared in remarkable quantities.
An operationally defined kinetic attenuation term, attenuation capacity (AC), describing the quantity of Cr VI) disappearing from the slurries, ranged from 1.1 to ∼12 μg Cr VI /g soil/7 days.
Mass quantities of plastics are disappearing from the surface waters of all five of the world's major gyres, mostly debris about 2 millimeters in size.
In 1745, when Aram was schoolmaster at Knaresborough, a man named Daniel Clark, his intimate friend, after obtaining a considerable quantity of goods from tradesmen, disappeared.
For, as I was just now saying, if quantity and measure did not disappear, but were allowed to intrude in the sphere of more and less and the other comparatives, these last would be driven out of their own domain.
The method is applicable to very old rocks because the transformation is extremely slow: the half-life, or time required for half the initial quantity of rubidium-87 to disappear, is approximately 50 billion years.
