A slight, old gentleman with a mild, dry voice, resembling beneath his robes some relict of feudal Japan, Mr Justice Byrne could not be accused of having loaded the dice in favour of the defence.
After the ice sheet retreated some taxa were able to migrate and re-colonise large areas forming the modern vegetation, whereas some species (relicts) still remain within the old refugial area.
These non-marine mysids occur in four distinct types of habitats; some are estuarine species; some were isolated in the Ponto-Caspian Basin where Paramysis has since radiated enormously (23 species); some are glacial relicts and some are subterranean Tethyan relicts.
Sturges kept a company of stock actors, some of them relicts of the stage or of silent movies, who crop up like faithful hounds in one film after another.
With subsequent changes in climate and the advance of glaciers over much of the Northern Hemisphere, many plants that were broadly distributed became eliminated from some areas while persisting as relicts in others.
Some areas containing ponds are landscape relicts generated by eolian deflation during the Last Glacial Maximum.
The mire started to develop as a calcium-rich percolation fen with some species recently considered to be postglacial relicts (Meesia triquetra, Betula nana), shifted into ombrotrophy around 7450 cal yr BP by autogenic succession and changed into a pauperised, nutrient-enriched spruce woodland due to modern forestry activities.
Some endemic plants of New Caledonia are late Cretaceous relicts suggesting a distribution resulting from long-standing historical vicariance [ 37].
Various relicts and urns were discovered including three drinking-cup type urns, some of the "highest quality".
While some parts of non-glacial landscapes are currently active, others may be largely inactive relicts of past higher energy regimes.
