Skeleton plots were used to align dates of the cores, and dated measurement files were checked for accuracy with the program COFECHA (Grissino-Mayer 2001).
In these stories the skeleton of plot is all important, the narrative is shaped, classically, to have a beginning, middle and end.
That is the skeleton of the plot, which is sentimental.
Truth, by Peter Temple (Quercus, £12.99) Reduced to the skeleton of its plot, Truth sounds unexceptional, even clichéd: a flawed Melbourne cop (Inspector Stephen Villani), weighed down by all kinds of domestic and professional baggage, comes unstuck investigating the murder of a young woman in a prestigious new apartment block whose selling point is its supposedly state-of-the-art security.
Australian poet and fantasy novelist Alison Croggon starts her novel "Black Spring" with the plot skeleton of Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights," then grafts on witches, wizards and a little contemporary feminist theory.
"The second stage is measuring a skeleton of accurately plotted lines that go through the drawing, and once you've got enough points measured out you can then do a join-up-the-dots process," he added.
But the beautifully textured skin of her writing hangs on a rather fleshless skeleton as far as plot and character are concerned.
Bruce retains the skeleton of Stoker's plot, but spins out the physical stories with bone-dry wit and florid sensuality.
Flynn's script pares down the plot to a bare skeleton of menace, enhanced by a truly sickening score by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.
Crack load, ultimate load, lateral displacement, steel strain and concrete strain were measured and the skeleton curves and hysteretic loops were plotted.
