The tower was erected many years ago by a real-estate man, who used it to point out low-lying sites to prospects.
Active layer thickness was approximately 150 cm at low-lying moss site, and 120 cm at well-drained lichen site.
Previous work suggests that this difference is not due to weatherization of homes (Cohen and Gromicko 1988); it may occur because cities are sited in low-lying, alluvial sites, where radon levels are low (Briggs et al. 2008).
This is true in the case of the low-lying coastal site KPD during the Neolithic where rice cultivation is believed to have been dependent on natural flooding at a nearby swamp (Thompson 1996).
The low-lying state is often hit by flooding.
Water hyacinth was collected from four different places, i.e. Amingoan industrial site (IS) near Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati IITGG) campus, Boragaon landfill site (BLS), Bharalu River site (BRS) and low-lying area near agriculture site (AS), Guwahati, India.
About a dozen miles east, the San Jacinto River Waste Pits Superfund site is on and around a low-lying island that was the site of a paper mill in the 1960s, leaving behind dangerous levels of dioxins and other long-lasting toxins linked to birth defects and cancer.
Objectives: To study the effectiveness of a large volume, fluid-filled tamponade balloon in the management of post-partum hemorrhage originating from the implantation site of low-lying placenta/placenta previa.
Of interest to contemporary observers, in 1872, an epidemic of kidinga pepo affected most inhabitants of low-lying areas of Réunion Island, the site where the chikungunya pandemic of 2005 2006 was first recognized (11 ).
Not only is it much cooler here in the hills than down on the plains, it is also time for Hindu pilgrims, or yatris, to trudge up (or, more often, drive up) from humid and low-lying Jammu to visit the sacred site of a big ice stalagmite within a cave, the Amarnath temple.
