The range of tornado sizes together with model structures of 1/100 to 1/500 scale will allow extensive examination of tornado-induced wind loads on terrestrial structures.
Rubins' massive sculptures resemble, in a way, this possible manifestation of aluminum's past life, resembling an organic, extra-terrestrial structure crash-landing on earth.
Exemplary design work unites the familiar and the outlandish to haunting effect; European cityscape locales crawl with Lovecraftian monstrosities and impossible extra-terrestrial structures.
The fundamental controls on the initiation and development of gravel-dominated deposits (beaches and barriers) on paraglacial coasts are particle size and shape, sediment supply, storm wave activity (primarily runup), relative sea-level (RSL) change, and terrestrial basement structure (primarily as it affects accommodation space).
Continued enrichment of the Earth's atmosphere with carbon dioxide (CO2) is certain through the coming century and is expected to alter climate and terrestrial ecosystem structure and function.
These include: Mars analogue sedimentary, hydrothermal, igneous and low-temperature alteration rock suites; lunar analogue basaltic and anorthositic rock suites; and a generic impactite rock suite from a variety of terrestrial impact structures.
This provides an important continuum of observational spatio-temporal scales on both oceanic and terrestrial environmental structures, which should never be interrupted.
This is an ambitious goal for aquatic ecosystems, but it is not applicable, in most cases, to the terrestrial environments where structure and functions of ecosystems have been greatly modified by human activities to provide specific services to humans such as food, housing, infrastructure, and recreation.
Five independent lineages were recovered within the Enoplida, containing a mixture of marine and terrestrial species; clade structure suggests that habitat transitions have occurred at least four times within this group.
Although holometabolous (endopterygote) insects are the pre-eminent macroscopic animals that structure terrestrial ecosystems today [ 1], very little is known of their late Paleozoic origins when life on land was overwhelmingly dominated by nonholometabolous insects and a myriad of other arthropod lineages [ 2].
