The S wave speed drops upward across the interface by a few percent, so the interface is best interpreted as the former oceanic Moho in the stagnating Tonga slab.
We find that the Vs drops upward from the inside to the outside of the horizontally lying slab by a few percent (approximately 3%) when the interface is a first-order discontinuity, although the estimate carries substantial uncertainty due to the limited accuracy of the focal mechanisms.
It was an acknowledgment that the 11th hour lineup change likely miffed thousands who had anticipated the return of the reclusive Ocean -- and dropped upward of $175 for a ticket to the two-day festival at L.A. Memorial Sports Arena and Exposition Park.
The move is a significant setback in a county that has reeled in recent years from downsizings and relocations by large corporations, and it is expected to send Westchester's vacancy rate -- which had finally been dropping -- upward once again.
It upset two local (and now late) businessmen, Joe Roth and Wally Knoebel, so much that they decided to attend the event and drop upward of $15,000 to buy up the bulk of the paintings.
Infected plants are usually stunted; their leaves turn pale green to golden yellow and later wilt, wither, die, and drop off progressively upward from the stem base.
Along the way, too, there are perverse innovations in executions: attempts to hang multiple murderers simultaneously, scaffolds designed with trap doors, for easy execution, and hanging machines patented for their ability to lurch upward instead of dropping downward.
During that period, the drop created upward pressure on bond yields, contributing to the 1987 crash.
Experiments of vapor liquid two-phase frictional pressure drop of upward flow boiling in a smooth tube and in a spirally internally ribbed tube were conducted, respectively.
In this writer's case, it was the fact that Boucher made a song that, lyrically and sonically, points to nothing but the simple, straightforward joy of making and playing pop music evenhandedly and almost politely at first, then escalating through a series of heavy drops and upward melodic leaps into nothing short of a full-bodied scream.
