In addition, to minimize the area to be flooded, a pair of canals about a quarter-mile wide and seven and a half miles long are to be built to connect two sections of the Xingu River in what company officials describe as perhaps the largest excavation project since the Panama Canal.
The dam crosses the San Joaquin River where it spills out of the Sierra Nevada, forming Millerton Lake, which provides water storage for San Joaquin Valley irrigators as well as providing a diversion point for a pair of canals, the Friant-Kern Canal and the Madera Canal.
The fully developed form of the vertebrate labyrinth consists of six semicircular canals, three on each side of the head, whose spatial arrangement (two pairs of vertical canals is placed diagonally in the head, one pair of horizontal canals is oriented earth horizontally) follows three interconnected principles: (i) bilateral symmetry, (ii) mutual orthogonality, (iii) push-pull operational mode.
It and the seventh cranial nerve pass through a pair of tiny canals, one on each side of the skull.
Negotiations are now under way to keep money flowing from NOAA long enough to ease a potential public to private transition for the dozen or so staff and contract workers who run the base out of a pair of converted canal-front houses in Key Largo.
Where Hype Williams sounded like a lover's rock cassette dredged from a canal, his pair of albums this year, The Redeemer and Stone Island, are heavy on piano ballads and Brylcreemed crooning, albeit with their narrative compass held next to a magnet.
The discovery of a "gravid" oviraptorid female containing a pair of shelled eggs inside her pelvic canal (Sato et al. 2005) has confirmed previous interpretations based on the spatial arrangement of eggs within clutches of nonavian maniraptorans.
Recently I was strolling along Amsterdam's canals with a pair of Pakistani immigrant friends.
River and canal locks have a pair of gates at each end.
Simulations were performed to study the sensitivity of canal seepage to the permeability of each soil layer and canal liner.
Fig. 2 Proposed design parameters of canal (Kra Canal International Forum 2014).
