Dinner etiquette: "His idea of after-dinner entertainment involved a descent to a dungeon whose walls were painted a blood red, to watch through a spy-hole while his enemies were being tortured," according to Clark and Scott.
The training flight involved a descent and approach to Nellis Air Force Base under simulated instrument meteorological conditions from an altitude of 28000 feet.
One such process, called the "solubility pump," involves the descent of surface sea water containing dissolved CO2.
(Subduction involves the descent of the edge of one lithospheric plate beneath that of another where two such plates collide).
War, even when it is waged for a just cause and with scrupulous respect for international humanitarian law, always involves a descent into barbarism (think of the way Qaddafi died).
Route 1 is the most direct and contains abundant sediment accumulations once the deeper part of the cave is accessed (i.e., ∼20 m into the cave); route 2 has a gentler gradient, but is longer and involves a descent along narrow fissures largely devoid of sediment accumulations.
The pilot in command then decided on the descent plan, involving an initial descent to 1,200 meters (4,000 ft), then down to 900 meters (3,000 ft), before making a swing towards localizer 255.
Monday's crash involved a steep descent from its cruising altitude.
The second leg of our journey - from Barstow to Joshua Tree - involved a breathtaking descent into the Lucerne Valley, where we passed pistachios for sale, the Church of the Living Word, Connie's Cup 'n' Curl, Boo Lane, Mondo Street and Flamingo Heights.
Her memoir of these events is a pretty horrifying read; it is titled Down Below as if the experience had involved a spiritual descent to the underworld; indeed her paintings often describe places or states that hover between the ordinary, everyday world and another zone of dreams or death.
