Wood residues are normally recorded as side slabs (off cuts) and expressed as number of units in official STC statistics.
Stupidly, I hadn't checked out my exit in case a slab of snow broke off.
Both executives also face charges in an earlier accident in which a falling slab of rock sliced off a miner's leg.
Researchers from New York University (NYU) monitoring the Jakobshavn glacier in Greenland filmed an enormous vertical slab of ice breaking off, tipping horizontally, and floating into the ocean.
This time Dawes is on a climb called the Quarryman, a route first climbed by him in the 1980s that, in its hardest section, ascends a slab of grey rock, off-vertical but slick as an ice rink.
Then there is the caparisoned elephant (a giant slab of sculpture) that shows off a decorative howdah, while various thrones, in solid gold or lush textiles, help to re-create the palace world.
Witnesses said the boom — the long arm that hoists materials onto the building's newly laid concrete slabs — snapped off its turntable, the platter-like platform that holds the cab for the operator.
Such a marked change in the magma affinity likely indicates subducted slab break-off resulting in a change of the regional stress field to an extensional setting within the Carboniferous continental arc that runs E-W for few thousands of kilometers.
We identify slab break-off and asthenospheric upwelling in this region and suggest that this process probably initiated the thermal and material erosion of the tectosphere beneath the Eastern Block from the Paleoproterozoic, which was further intensified during the Mesozoic when a substantial part of the sub-continental mantle lithosphere was lost.
Certainly, detrital thermochronology from the foreland basin indicate that rapid erosion of the Western Greater Himalaya had begun during the Oligocene (Fig. 9) and that this would be consistent with an earlier initiation of the South Asian monsoon, as well as potentially with slab break-off (Webb et al. 2017).
