Although the exact sequence of events at the Fukushima plant is still unclear, early assessments suggested that the containment structures weathered last week's earthquake, but that power from the electric grid was cut off.
We compiled and used a dataset of diameter increment observations of over 2.3 million trees from 10 National Forest Inventories in Europe and a set of 99 potential explanatory variables covering forest structure, weather, climate, soil and nutrient deposition.
We can define models as fictive representations of real things (e.g., planes, cars, or buildings) or of systems (e.g., atomic structure, weather patterns, traffic flow, ecosystems, or social systems) that are simpler than the real objects and systems they represent but preferentially highlight certain properties of the referent (Rapp and Sengupta 2012).
But thanks to Young, the structure has weathered the ensuing 135 years quite handily.
Time seems to be working gently but inexorably against these fragile structures, bending and weathering them into harmony with their surroundings.
This is particularly the case in maritime north-western Europe, where a legacy of glacial activity, combined with large areas underlain by heterogeneous igneous and metamorphic bedrock, make the structure and weathering of bedrock difficult to map or model.
Invasive plants, for example, may quickly alter ecosystem processes such as carbon and nitrogen cycling, fire frequency and intensity, and soil attributes including structure, topography, weathering, water content, and salinity (Strayer et al. 2006).
The origins of an enhanced expansive potential in the B horizon are explored, and it is found that, for the weathering of a mudstone in a temperate climate, the effects of weathering on structure are more important than the effects of weathering on mineralogy.
With the help of architect Stephen Holl and $21 million in state and private funding, the school added a new structure of glass, weathered steel and concrete to house its studio arts program.
Bathymetric and seismic surveys during the GH12 cruises (Sato et al. 2013) showed that these anomalies coincide with knolls (M1 to M3 and M5) and a buried basement high (M4) that display no evident volcanic structures, suggesting sediment cover and weathering.
