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AAW An acronym for anti-aircraft warfare. aback (of a sail) Filled by the wind on the opposite side to the one normally used to move the vessel forward.On a square-rigged ship, any of the square sails can be braced round to be aback, the purpose of which may be to reduce speed (such as when a ship-of-the-line is keeping station with others), to heave to, or to assist moving the ship's head ...
[18] [19] [10] The Franciscan varies along strike, because individual accreted elements (packets of trench sediment, seamounts, etc.) did not extend the full length of the trench. Different depths of underplating , distribution of post-metamorphic faulting, and level of erosion produced the present-day surface distribution of high P/T metamorphism.
The Transverse Valleys (Spanish: Valles transversales) are a group of transverse valleys in the semi-arid northern Chile. They run from east to west (traversing Chile), being among the most prominent geographical features in the regions they cross. [1] They are located in the Chilean regions of Valparaíso, Coquimbo, and Atacama.
The valley has an average elevation of 2000 ft. Kangra Valley is a strike valley and extends from the foot of the Dhauladhar range to the south of river Beas. The highest peak on the Dhauladhar, White Mountain, marks the boundary between the valley and Chamba, and reaches 15,956 ft (4,863 m). The peaks of the range are approximately 13,000 ft ...
Sam's Club is boosting pay for nearly 100,000 hourly workers, with the retail chain's starting wage rising by a buck to $16. Longer-tenured employees will get bigger pay hikes, the Walmart-owned ...
The Strike Valley is the most obvious evidence of the Waterpocket Fold in Capitol Reef National Park Licensing I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license:
Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre responded to ESPN's video of a confrontation between him and former Jets defensive end Mark Gastineau in 2023.
Bears have a rough start. The Bears have been a mess most of the season, and that's how Monday night started. Chicago went for it on its first possession on fourth-and-1, and Swift was stopped ...