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Additional evidence, like shell middens that bore evidence of having been eroded by strong currents, hinted at a potential paleotsunami.
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Nathaniel Scharping, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Feb. 2023
Faith, Chase and Quick sampled middens near Boomplaas Cave last September and received the first radiocarbon dates from the samples earlier this year.
—Elise Cutts, Scientific American, 14 Mar. 2023
On the Farasan Islands, the research team working with Geoff Bailey examines the interior of a shell midden after digging a narrow trench into it.
—Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 27 Aug. 2019
Elsewhere on the Zapatero midden, Salazar and his colleagues found similar layers of sand and ripped-up ground left behind by an ancient tsunami, along with channels gouged out by the tsunami's strong, sudden current.
—Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 7 Apr. 2022
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Nathaniel Scharping, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Feb. 2023
Faith, Chase and Quick sampled middens near Boomplaas Cave last September and received the first radiocarbon dates from the samples earlier this year.
—Elise Cutts, Scientific American, 14 Mar. 2023
On the Farasan Islands, the research team working with Geoff Bailey examines the interior of a shell midden after digging a narrow trench into it.
—Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 27 Aug. 2019
Elsewhere on the Zapatero midden, Salazar and his colleagues found similar layers of sand and ripped-up ground left behind by an ancient tsunami, along with channels gouged out by the tsunami's strong, sudden current.
—Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 7 Apr. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for midden
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It is now lost to the dustbin of history as a clear civil rights violation.Mark R. Weaver, Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2024
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As for Harris, she will be tasked as vice president with the role of presiding over Congress' certification of Trump's victory on January 6 of next year—four years to the day since the riot at the Capitol that seemed, at the time, destined to send her opponent to the dustbin of history.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 8 Nov. 2024
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That’s because cow manure doesn’t inherently contain methane.Kenny Torrella, Vox, 13 Jan. 2025
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And technologies may need to be combined–for example, feed additives and vaccines–as well as integrated with manure management and other ways to reduce climate emissions in livestock operations.Marianne Krasny, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
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Well, many of those objects - or fragments of them - are still there, languishing above Earth in an ever-expanding space junkyard.Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 27 Dec. 2024
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The man was standing with his back to the junkyard.Jamie Quatro, Harper's Magazine, 2 Aug. 2024
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The poop, or guano, of infected birds is teeming with viruses.CNN.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 27 Dec. 2024
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The guano in their colonies must smell pleasant, comforting, rather than the barnyard stink that hit my own nose.Blair Braverman, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Dec. 2024
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The Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission approved a permit March 17, 2023, for a 12-acre expansion of the landfill in Tontitown owned by WM Inc. for its Class IV landfill space.Tom Sissom, arkansasonline.com, 8 Jan. 2025
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Even a small repair can keep an appliance, piece of furniture or other item out of the landfill while also helping someone on a tight budget.Beth Lipoff, Kansas City Star, 8 Jan. 2025
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With antivenom hard to find in rural areas, some snakebite victims pay traditional healers with a chicken or a small goat to apply herbs, bones and even dung.Brian Otieno, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2025
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In turn, their dung may have fertilized the growth of certain types of algae in the lake and thereby altered the local ecosystem.Sharon Udasin, The Hill, 30 Oct. 2024
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Her mother didn't want Dutt to be raised with the stigma of being known as a Dalit of the Bhangi sub-caste, whose people were long compelled to remove excrement from latrine pits.Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 15 Dec. 2024
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The poop was exhaustively analyzed by a research team of more than a dozen scientists using advanced techniques, and even a synchrotron particle accelerator, to probe each piece of excrement down to the molecular level.Geoff Brumfiel, NPR, 27 Nov. 2024
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Rocks also contribute to soil stability and protect delicate ecosystems.Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 12 Jan. 2025
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June • For camellia, citrus, gardenia, grape and other plants adapted to acidic soil: If leaves are yellowing (chlorotic) between green veins, plants may benefit from foliar or soil application of iron and zinc chelate and mulching.The San Diego Union Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Jan. 2025
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“Midden.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/midden. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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