tilted block

tilted block
наклонная глыба

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  • Tilted Arc — was a sculpture commissioned by the U.S. General Services Administration s Arts in Architecture program for the Federal Plaza in New York, NY. It was designed by Richard Serra and constructed in 1981, and dismantled, after much debate, in 1989.… …   Wikipedia

  • tilted fault block —    A fault block that has become tilted, perhaps by rotation on a hinge line (fault).    Compare: fault line scarp.    GG …   Glossary of landform and geologic terms

  • block system — noun 1. : a system of mountain ranges composed of tilted or uplifted fault blocks compare basin range 2. : a system by which a railroad track is divided into short sections (as of three or four miles) and trains are so run by the guidance of… …   Useful english dictionary

  • Fault-block mountain — Fault block or fault mountains are produced when normal ( near vertical ) faults fracture a section of continental crust. Vertical motion of the resulting blocks, sometimes accompanied by tilting, can then lead to high escarpments. These… …   Wikipedia

  • Musgrave Block — The Musgrave Block is an east west trending belt of Proterozoic granulite gneiss basement rocks approximately 500km long. The Musgrave Block extends from western South Australia into Western Australia. The Musgrave Block is primarily exposed… …   Wikipedia

  • Unicode-Block Dingbats — Der Unicode Block Dingbats (2700–27BF) enthält eine Sammlung symbolhafter und dekorativer Glyphen in Anlehnung an Gestaltungen von Hermann Zapfs Schrift ITC Zapf Dingbats, die inzwischen einen industriellen Standard darstellen. Das englische… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Strike block — Strike Strike, n. 1. The act of striking. [1913 Webster] 2. An instrument with a straight edge for leveling a measure of grain, salt, and the like, scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle. [1913 Webster] 3. A bushel; four… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • toreva block —       landslide product consisting of a very large block of undisturbed material that has been tilted backward toward the parent cliff during movement down a gentle slope. In northeastern Arizona such blocks are thought to have formed during more …   Universalium

  • mountain — mountainless, adj. /mown tn/, n. 1. a natural elevation of the earth s surface rising more or less abruptly to a summit, and attaining an altitude greater than that of a hill, usually greater than 2000 ft. (610 m). 2. a large mass of something… …   Universalium

  • GEOGRAPHICAL SURVEY — Names The name Ereẓ Israel (the Land of Israel) designates the land which, according to the Bible was promised as an inheritance to the Israelite tribes. In the course of time it came to be regarded first by the Jews and then also by the… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • Intermontane Plateaus — Physiographic regions of the U.S. Interior See:legend For purposes of description, the physical geography of the United States is split into several major physiographic divisions, one being the Intermontane Plateaus. Please refer to the Geography …   Wikipedia


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