Mantle Sentence Examples

Jackson had started a fire and stood with his hands on the mantle, watching the flames.

The Earth's core is surrounded by its mantle and its crust.

Taran smiled and pulled off his mantle, handing it to the boy.

Her eyes went to the mantle where the hourglass remained.

He picks up that mantle one more time as Captain John Harriman.

The mantle makes up more than eighty percent of Earth's volume.

Lithosphere is called the solid part of the earth, including the crust and the uppermost mantle.

Hawkman's death in the tenth season opened the door to Clark and his allies truly assuming their mantle.

One did on the mantle above the fire.

She wrapped herself in a warm, heavy mantle, prepared to embrace the cold wind outside.

It's up to us to take up the mantle of leadership in these trying times.

Place the pumpkins or gourds evenly along the mantle and hold the scarf in place with the two candles.

Place them in rows on shelves or the mantle.

Each Draper had a varied number of tailors, two squires, and a brother to care for his pack animals and his four personal horses.Originally each Knights Templar was given a mantle, a white cloak and a wool shirt.

He finally settled on the mantle across from his bed, deciding to buy something for the music room on Friday.

The cylinder is surrounded by a mantle of one or more layers of parenchymatous cells, the pericycle, and the xylem is generally separated from the phloem in the stem by a similar layer, the mesocycle (corresponding with the amylom sheath in mosses).

The Madonna is here depicted with various saints, the archangel Michael and St Maurice holding her mantle, which is extended over the kneeling Gianfrancesco Gonzaga, amid a profusion of rich festooning and other accessory.

A nearer view will reveal the rich chestnut of the mantle and upper wing-coverts, and the combination of colours thus exhibited suggests the term "tortoise-shell" often applied to it - the quill-feathers being mostly of a dark brown and its lower parts pure white.

Recently emerged from the Post-Pliocene sea, or freed from their mantle of ice, they persistently maintain the self-same features over immense areas; and the few portions that rise above the general elevation have more the character of broad and gentle swellings than of mountain-chains.

But Ezekiel was, as Wellhausen well describes him, " a priest in prophet's mantle."

When the edges of the mantle ventral to the inhalant orifice are united, an anterior aperture is left for the protrusion of the foot, and thus there are three pallial apertures altogether, and species in this condition are called " Tripora."

She snatched the lighter on the mantle and ran to the door, standing close until the alcohol lit and spread.

Overwhelmed by the responsibilites that came with the mantle of his office, the governor resigned a few months after the election.

It is largely covered by the mantle in some Fissurellidae, is entirely internal in Pupilia and absent in Titiscaniidae.

The depth of free mantle skirt is greatest in front, where the head and neck are covered in by it.

Scutum, mantle split anteriorly and reflected over shell, which has no slit.

Fissurella, mantle and shell perforated at apex, British.

The siphon is an incompletely tubular outgrowth of the mantle margin on the left side, contained in a corresponding outgrowth of the edge of the shell-mouth, and serving to conduct water to the respiratory cavity.

The surface x of the mantle between the rectum and the gill-plume is thrown into folds which in many sea-snails (whelks or Buccinidae, &c.) are very strongly developed.

Mantle with two posterior appendages; ctenidium large and capable of protrusion from pallial cavity.

Shell thin, more or less covered by the mantle; no operculum.

Foot very large; mantle reflected over shell.

In other cases (Tectibranchs) the reduced shell is enclosed by upgrowths of the edge of the mantle and becomes internal, as in many Cephalopods.

The relation of the delicate shell to the mantle is peculiar, since it occupies an oval area upon the visceral hump, the extent of which is indicated in fig.

But in Aplysia the mantle is reflected over the edge of the shell, and grows over its upper surface so as to completely enclose it, excepting at the small central area s where the naked shell is exposed.

There is further a great tendency for the endothelial cells to form muscles, and this is especially pronounced in the small arm-sinus, where a conspicuous muscle is built up. The mantle-sinuses which form the chief spaces in the mantle are diverticula of the main coelomic cavity.

From the fact that Aplysia commences its life as a free-swimming veliger with a nautiloid shell not enclosed in any way by the border of the mantle, it is clear that the enclosure of the shell in the adult is a secondary process.

When the shell of an A plysia enclosed in its mantle is pushed well to the left, the sub-pallial space is fully exposed as in fig.

On the under side of the free edge of the mantle are situated the numerous small cutaneous glands which, in the large A plysia camelus (not in other species), form the purple secretion which was known to s the ancients.

The first is flaccid and sluggish in its movements, and has not much power of contraction; its epipodial lobes are enormously developed and extend far forward along the body; it gives out when handled an abundance of purple liquid, which is derived from cutaneous glands situated on the under side of the free edge of the mantle.

Opisthobranchs provided in the adult state with a shell and a mantle, except Runcina, Pleuro.

Posteriorly the mantle forms a large pallial lobe FIG.

Cephalic shield continuous with dorsal integument; no shell; ctenidium projecting from mantle cavity.

The next six families include the animals formerly known as Gymnosomatous Pteropods, characterized by the absence of mantle and shell, the reduction of the ventral surface of the foot, and the parapodial fins at the anterior end of the body.

Foot without parapodia; no pallial cavity, but always a single ctenidium situated on the right side between mantle and foot.

Shell covered by mantle, or absent; anterior tentacles form a frontal veil; mantle contains spicules.

Mantle-border projecting; frontal veil reduced, and often covered by the anterior border of the mantle.

Mantle oval, covering the head and the greater part of the body; anterior tentacles,.

Pharynx suctorial; branchiae surrounding the body, between the mantle and foot.

Hickson and others, that in the bivalves Pecten and Spondylus, which also have eyes upon the mantle quite distinct from typical cephalic eyes, there is the same relationship as in Oncidiidae of the optic nerve to the retinal cells.

No shell; mantle covers the whole surface of the body; radula with squarish teeth.

Shell largely chitinous, not spiral, its calcareous apex projecting through a small hole in the mantle.

Shell internal, or absent; mantle restricted to the anterior and middle part of the body; radula with squarish teeth.

Shell globular or auriform, external or partly covered by the mantle.

Ampullaria has very long tentacles and a long siphon formed by the mantle.

Where a mantle of soil covers the rock it is generally thin but very fertile.

Each valve of the shell is lined by a mantle which contains prolongations of the body cavity.

The outer surfaces of the mantle secrete' the shell, which is of the nature of a cuticle impregnated by calcareous salts.

The free edges of the mantle often bear chitinous bristles or setae which project beyond the shell.

The anterior half of this space is lined by the inner wall of the mantle and is called the mantle cavity.

The water which bears the oxygen for respiration and the minute organisms upon which the Brachiopod feeds is swept into the mantle cavity by the action of the cilia which cover the arms, and the eggs and excreta pass out into the same cavity.

In Discinisca and Lingula there is further a lip-sinus or hollow system of channels which traverses the supporting tissue of the edge of the mantle and contains muscle-fibres.

The dorsal branch sends a blind twig into each of the diverticula of the dorsal mantle-sinus, the ventral branch supplies the nephridia and neighbouring parts before reaching the ventral lobe of the mantle.

Laterally, the sub-oesophageal ganglia give off (v.) nerves to the ventral mantle, and finally they supply (vi.) branches to the various muscles.

There is a special marginal nerve running round the edge of the mantle, but the connexion of this with the rest of the nervous system is not clear; probably it is merely another concentration of the diffused sub-ectodermal nervous fibrils.

These pits are not isolated, but are connected by an ectodermal ridge, which grows in at the margin of the mantle and forms a continuous band somewhat resembling the ectodermal primordium of vertebrate teeth.

After a certain time the larva fixes itself by its stalk to some stone or rock, and the skirt-like second segment turns forward over the head and forms the mantle.

What goes on within the mantle islunknown, but presumably the head is absorbed.

The chaetae drop off, and the lophophore is believed to arise from thickenings which appear in the dorsal mantle lobe.

Either before or just after turning, the mantle develops a larval shell termed the protegulum, and when this is completed the larva is termed the Phylembryo.

By this time the eyes have disappeared, the four bundles of chaetae have dropped off, and the lophophore has begun to appear as an outgrowth of the dorsal mantle lobe.

These plates are secreted by the ventral lobe of the mantle, and were named by von Buch in 1834 the " deltidium."

B, C, D, Stages showing the turning forward of the second or mantle segment.

Garments were multiplied, and the cape and long mantle, which had previously been uncommon, were now usual.

In time this mantle covered both shoulders and assumed sleeves, and in one form or another it is frequently represented.

In addition to a tunic (kuttoneth) and a seamless mantle or robe (meil), he wore the breastplate (hoshen), the ephod, and a rich outer girdle.

In ancient Ireland a king's mantle was dyed with saffron, and even down to the 17th century the "lein-croich," or saffron-dyed shirt, was worn by persons of rank in the Hebrides.

The two greatest masters of Japanese poetry were Hitomaro and Akahito, both of the early 8th century, and next to them stands Tsurayuki, who flourished at the beginning of the 10th century, and is not supposed to have transmitted his mantle to any successor.

Zeshin, shortly before he died, indicated Shirayama Fukumatsu as the man upon whom his mantle should descend, and that the judgment of this really great craftsman was correct cannot be denied by any one who has seen the works of Shirayama.

Henceforward Henry succeeded in keeping the countship of Anjou all his life; for though he granted it in 1168 to his son Henry "of the Short Mantle," when the latter became old enough to govern it, he absolutely refused to allow him to enjoy his power.

Vegetation is very rapid, and the soil is clad in a mantle of almost perpetual green.

The flame of an incandescent gas mantle if turned low is frequently sensitive to a certain range of notes.

Like the Astin-tagh it stretches towards the E.N.E., and, like it, appears to be built up of granite and schists, but its crest is greatly denuded, so that it is a mere crumbling skeleton protruding above the deep mantle of disintegrated material which masks its flanks.

The culminating summits of the ranges generally present the appearance of a flat, rounded swelling, and when they are crowned with glaciers, as many of them are, these shape themselves into what may be described as a mantle, a breastplate, or a flat cap, from which lappets and fringes project at intervals; nowhere do there exist any of the long, narrow, winding glacier tongues which are so characteristic of the Alps of Europe.

In the heavy mantle of long brown hair covering the fore-quarters of the old males, 1 Aeschylus died there in 456 B.C.

The pallial line, which is the line of attachment of the mantle parallel to the edge of the shell, is not indented by a sinus at the posterior end.

The foot is very large and powerful; it can be protruded from the anterior aperture between the mantle edges, and its outer part is bent sharply forwards and terminates in a point.

On either side of the body between the mantle and the foot are two flat gills each composed of two lamellae.

After a few days, when the mantle bearing the shell valves has developed so much as to enclose the whole body, the young cockle sinks to the bottom and commences to follow the habits of the adult..

For the great festival of Tezcatlipoca, the handsomest and noblest of the captives of the year had been chosen as the incarnate representative of the god, and paraded the streets for public adoration dressed in an embroidered mantle with feathers and garlands on his head and a retinue like a king; for the last month they married him to four girls representing four goddesses; on the last day wives and pages escorted him to the little temple of Tlacochcalco, where he mounted the stairs, breaking an earthenware flute against each step; this was a symbolic farewell to the joys of the world, for as he reached the top he was seized by the priests, his heart torn out and held up to the sun, his head spitted on the tzompantli, and his body eaten as sacred food, the people drawing from his fate the moral lesson that riches and pleasure may turn into poverty and sorrow.

He compares it also to the change of Moses' rod into a snake, of the Nile into blood, to the virtue inherent in Elijah's mantle or in the wood of the cross or in the clay mixt of dust and the Lord's spittle, or in Elisha's relics which raised a corpse to life, or in the burning bush.

A dorsal contractile heart, with symmetrical right and left auricles receiving aerated blood from the ctenidia and mantle skirt, is present, being unequally developed only in those few forms which are inequivalve.

In this way the notches d, e of the hinder part of the mantle-skirt of Anodonta are in the siphonate forms converted into two separate holes, the edges of the mantle being elsewhere fused together along this hinder margin.

In Aspergillum the whole of the tubular mantle area secretes a continuous shelly tube, although in the young condition two valves were present.

The last is secreted by the whole surface of the mantle except the border, and additions to its thickness continue to be made through life.

The periostracum is produced by the extreme edge of the mantle border, the prismatic layer by the part of the border within the edge.

These two layers, therefore, when once formed cannot increase in thickness; as the mantle grows in extent its border passes beyond the formed parts of the two outer layers, and the latter are covered internally by a deposit of nacreous matter.

The gill axis d is seen lying in the sub-pallial chamber between the foot b and the mantle c. From it depend the gillfilaments or lamellae - formed by united filaments - drawn as black lines f.

The axis of the ctenidium is seen to be adherent to, or fused by concrescence with, the body-wall, and moreover on each side the outer lamella of the outer gill-plate is fused to the mantle, whilst the inner lamella of the inner gill-plate is fused to the foot.

In Unionidae and several other forms the pericardial glands are extended into diverti cula of the pericardium which penetrate the mantle and constitute the organ of Heber.

Anodonta has no eyes of any sort, and the tentacles on the mantle edge are limited to its posterior border.

This deficiency is very usual in the class; at the same time, many Lamellibranchs have tentacles on the edge of the mantle supplied by a pair of large well-developed nerves, which are given off from the cerebro-pleural ganglion-pair, A, When free swimming, shows the two dentigerous valves widely open.

In addition to the characters given above, it may be noted that the mantle is provided with a hypobranchial gland on the outer side of each gill, the auricles are muscular, the kidneys are glandular through their whole length, the sexes are separate.

The gonads open into the kidneys and the right gonad extends into the mantle.

Symmetrical; mantle open throughout its extent; generally with well developed anterior and posterior adductors.

Gonads generally extend into mantle and open at sides of kidneys.

Mantle has a posterior suture.

Pernidae.-Shell very inequilateral; ligament subdivided; mantle open throughout; anterior adductor absent.

Gills fused to the mantle.

Order Eulamellibranchia Edges of the mantle generally united by one or two sutures.

Mantle open; foot rather small; branchiae folded; shell inequivalve.

Gills not united with mantle.

Mantle only slightly closed; usually there is only a single suture.

Mantle not extensively closed; two pallial sutures and two well developed siphons.

Mantle closed to a considerable extent; siphons well developed; gills much folded and frequently prolonged into the branchial siphon.

Mantle largely closed, siphons long, united.

Mantle frequently presents a fourth orifice.

Septibranchia Gills have lost their respiratory function, and are transformed into a muscular septum on each side between mantle and foot.

The characteristic organs of Mollusca are the mantle and shell, the foot, the ctenidia and the radula, of which all but the last are external.

The shell extends to the edge of the mantle-fold, and the cavity between the mantle and the side of the body is the pallial chamber.

On the outside of the shell is a non-calcified layer of conchiolin called the periostracum, secreted by the thickened edge of the mantle.

The zone of the external surface of the mantle within the edge secretes a layer formed of prisms of calcite; the rest of the epithelium from this zone to the apex secretes the inner layer of the shell, composed of successive laminae; this is the nacreous layer, and in certain species has a commercial value as nacre or mother-of-pearl.

In many cases in various classes the mantle is reflected over the edges of the shell, so as to cover more or less completely its outer surface.

In the primitive condition there is one on each side in the mantle cavity, towards the posterior end of the body.

The heart receives blood from the gills and mantle, and pumps it through arteries to the body.

Some blood, however, enters the auricles directly from the mantle, without passing through the ctenidia.

The ventral cords are the pedal, the dorso-lateral, the pleural, the former innervating the foot, the latter the mantle.

This ridge forms the edge of the shell-secreting epithelium, and therefore of the mantle, since the shell extends to the edge of the mantle.

They arise as outgrowths of the sides of the body within the cavity formed by the development of the mantle.

Such were the sleeveless surplice, which was provided at the sides with holes to put the arms through; the surplice with slit-up arms or lappels (so-called "wings") instead of sleeves; the surplice of which not only the sleeves but the body of the garment itself were slit up the sides, precisely like the modern dalmatic; and, finally, a sort of surplice in the form of a bell-shaped mantle, with a hole for the head, which necessitated the arms being stuck out under the hem.

The upper plumage generally is dark green, but the mantle and rump are crimson, as are a broad abdominal belt, the flanks and many crescentic markings on the otherwise yellow lower parts.

The dorsal integument or mantle bears, not a simple shell, but eight calcareous plates in longitudinal series articulating with each other.

The ventral surface forms a flat creeping "foot," and between mantle and foot is a pallial groove in which there is on each side a series of gills.

The tegmentum is formed by the fold of mantle covering the From Lankester, Treatise on Zoology.

L, Edge of the mantle not removed in the front part of the specimen.

With regard to sense organs the epithelial papillae of the mantle have been mentioned.

In the young of the year the whole head, neck and throat are clothed in dull black, and most of the feathers of the mantle and wing-coverts are broadly tipped and mesially streaked with tawny or lightish-grey.

He shall pardon his wrongdoers, love his enemies, pray for them that calumniate and accuse him, offer the other cheek to the smiter, give up his mantle to him that takes his tunic, neither judge nor condemn.

The skeleton reclined upon a sheet of pure gold, extending the whole length of the body, which had been wrapped in a mantle broidered with gold and studded with precious stones.

Determined by the inequalities of surface of the overlying mantle of sedimentary material, they would be wholly independent of the geological structure of the rocks lying.

The caliph himself, wearing the mantle and the staff of the Prophet, then went out against him, and after a vigorous resistance he was beaten by Mowaffaq, who had the command of the troops, and fled to Jondisapur in Khuzistan, where he died three years later, leaving his empire to his brother `Amr. This prince maintained himself in power till the year 900, when he was beaten and taken prisoner by Isma`il b.

Unless the doctrine of Kant's " transcendental logic " must be held to supply a point of view from which a logical development of quite another kind is inevitable, Kant's mantle, so far as logic is concerned, must be regarded as having fallen upon the formal logicians.

There is a legend, current among historians from the days of Robertson and Hallam, that as the year 1000 approached mankind prepared for the Last Judgment; that the earth "clothed itself with the white mantle of churches," and like a penitent watched in terror and in prayer for the fatal dawn.

On his early death his mantle fell on to the shoulders of Ignatius Dellinger (1799-1890).

In 1183 the mantle of St Elizabeth fell upon Hermann Joseph, a Praemonstratensian canon at Steinfeld.

The characteristic dress of the flamens in general was the apex, a white conical cap, the laena or mantle, and a laurel wreath.

After escaping from the genital aperture they find their way into the infra-branchial part of the mantle cavity of the parent, probably by passing through the suprabranchial chamber to the posterior extremity of the gills, and then being conducted by the inhalent current caused by the cilia of the gills into the infra-branchial chamber.

The embryos having then reached the condition of "trochospheres" escape from the mantle cavity and swim about freely near the surface of the water among the multitude of other creatures, larval and adult, which swarm there.

Ferdinand died on the feast of Saint John the Evangelist, the 24th of June 1065, in Leon, with many manifestations of ardent piety - having laid aside his crown and royal mantle, dressed in the frock of a monk and lying on a bier, covered with ashes, which was placed before the altar of the church of Saint Isidore.

In the Cirripedia it forms a fleshy " mantle " strengthened by shelly plates or valves which may assume a very complex structure.

In the Cirripedia, however, they are vascular processes from the inner surface of the mantle or shell-fold, and in some Ostracoda they are outgrowths from the sides of the body.

The eggs are retained between the valves of the shell in some Phyllopoda and in the Cladocera and Ostracoda, and they lie in the mantle cavity in the Cirripedia.

The right and left margins of the mantle are united ventrally, leaving an anterior and posterior aperture to the mantle cavity.

The edge of the mantle at the anterior aperture is very thick and muscular; at the posterior aperture also there is a circular muscle, and here the edge is interrupted by a ventral sinus and is provided internally with a dorsal and ventral valve which can be applied to each other so as to close the aperture.

The captacula are tactile and prehensile and can be protruded from the anterior aperture of the mantle.

There are no special respiratory organs, their function is carried on by the internal surface of the mantle.

E, Surface view of the shell with gill-tentacles exserted as in a, Mantle.

The head is situated on the dorsal side of the body anteriorly within the anterior aperture of the mantle, from which it cannot be protruded.

The shell-gland is formed on the dorsal surface, and the mantle arises as two lateral lobes which afterwards unite by their ventral edges to form the tubular mantle of the adult.

The most famous of these is the so-called "Poem of the Mantle."

It is entirely in praise of Mahomet, who cured the poet of paralysis by appearing to him in a dream and wrapping him in a mantle.

This is not unnatural, seeing that it is only so far as they bear on the one central question of the nature of existence that philosophy spreads its mantle over psychology, logic or ethics.

Northern Missouri is covered with a mantle of glacial deposits, generally thick, although in the stream valleys of the north-east the bed-rocks are widely exposed.

Since the advent of the incandescent mantle, the efficiency of which is dependent upon the heating power of the gas more than on its illuminating power, the manu facture of coal gas has undergone considerable modifications.

With the liturgical cope may be classed the red mantle (mantum), which from the 11th century to the close of the middle ages formed, with the tiara, the special symbol of the papal dignity.

Once more chased out by the Turks, he was again in the Mountain in 1823, allied with Abdallah, on whom Jezzar's mantle had ultimately fallen at Acre, and maintaining friendly relations with the "English Princess," Lady Hester Stanhope.

Thus the "electoral mantle" was a robe of office worn by the imperial electors, and the Teutonic knights were known as the orde alborum mantellorum from their white mantles.

As an article of women's dress a mantle now means a loose cloak or cape, of any length, and made of silk, velvet, or other rich material.

The modern French form manteau is used in English chiefly as a dressmaker's term for a woman's mantle.

Differing from this species in the possession of a longer bill, in having much less white on its back, in the paler colour of its mantle, and in a few other points, is the ordinary American species, with at least three races, Haematopus palliates.

The emperor dismissed Persigny, and summoned moderate reformers such as Duruy and Behic. But he was still possessed with the idea of settling his throne on a firm basis, and uniting all France in some glorious enterprise which should appeal to all parties equally, and "group them under the mantle of imperial glory."

The shepherds, rudely clad in a sleeveless sheepskin jacket, the wool outside, and leather breeches, and loosely wrapped in a woollen mantle or blanket, are among the most striking objects in a Spanish landscape, especially on the table-land.

Even so, her own fate was nothing like Jonny's, a good kid who would be forced to take on the Black God's mantle and spearhead the forces of evil.

He'd last felt that surge a few hundred thousand years ago, when Czerno had slain his predecessor and claimed the Black God's mantle.

Yes. The Others were attempting to influence the outcome of who won the Black God mantle by using me.

Jule read through the portion dated four days ago, when the Black God's mantle had changed hands.

He reclaimed the hourglass from her and set it on the mantle of the fireplace.

For the first time since taking on the mantle of Death, Gabriel was hopeful.

Her gaze fell to the book on the mantle above the hearth.

Within the Earth mantle, nominally anhydrous minerals contain small amounts of hydrogen as point defects within their crystal structure.

Damper areas support species such as meadowsweet, ragged robin, water avens, lady's mantle and meadow fescue.

It is as if Grandma is on acid, staring bleary-eyed at her mantle piece clock full of knick-knacks.

Fulton and Pepe (Lost in La Mancha) expertly weave the strands together, with breathtakingly lush cinematography by Anthony Dod Mantle.

They include a coronet, a rod, a ring, a sword and a mantle.

A simple form of mantle was thrown over their shoulders --- a square piece of white flannel, bordered with colored binding.

The new Tory leader, argues former No10 special adviser Patrick Diamond, inherits no ' reformist mantle ' from his predecessors.

True MORB values and perhaps upper mantle geochemistry can be constrained only by considering data untainted by plume asthenosphere.

Attractive mahogany mantle with carved pillars, tiled insets with coal effect gas fire.

She wears an ungirded kirtle with tight sleeves and long mantle.

To assume an identity is to don the mantle appropriate to the account to be offered.

Thus, the modern embalmer inherits the mantle passed on through the centuries.

Tony Blair, almost of my generation, which makes me feel very old, assumes the mantle of Prime Minister.

These plates float on the partially molten rocks of the upper mantle.

Coal effect living flame gas fire with marble hearth and inset with timber mantle surround.

There is an open fire place with a marble mantle and a gas log fire along one wall there are shelves with cupboards below.

The behavior of the earth's mantle remains a first order problem in the Earth Sciences.

The location of mantle plumes during the initial stages of Gondwana break up.

Rock material in the mantle exists in a state which acts much like a solid but also flows like silly putty under pressure.

His wife wears a mantle ornamented with the Verney arms and an engrailed saltire.

The mantle of the Order is of crimson satin, lined with white taffeta and is bound by two tassels.

The aseismic nature of the continental mantle and the lower crustal seismicity beneath some shields are probably related to their water contents.

I saw a beautiful mantle and 200 shekels of silver and 50 shekels weight of gold.

Originally displayed on the mantle shelf over the fire.

Outside the core is the mantle, composed largely of magnesium silicates.

Temperatures close to an average (moist) MORB source mantle solidus characterize the eastern seaboard and its offshore.

This group studies the convection regime within the Earths Mantle in three dimensional spherical geometry at approaching Earth-like vigor.

Below ca 350m, there is an almost complete mantle of drumlins forming an internationally acknowledged type example of a 'drumlin swarm ' .

The mantle of the order is green lined with white taffeta, with green and gold tassels.

Aims To understand the Formation and Evolution of the Ocean Crust from mantle upwelling to subduction.

The " introvert " in these Gastropods is not the pharynx The ctenidium is monopectinate and attached to the mantle along as in the Chaetopod worms, but a prae-oral structure, its apical limit being formed by the true lips and jaws, whilst the apical limit of the Chaetopod's introvert is formed by the jaws placed at the junction of pharynx and oesophagus, so that the Chaetopod's introvert is part of the stomodaeum or fore-gut, whilst that of the Gastropod is external to the alimentary canal altogether, being in front of the mouth, not behind it, as is the Chaetopod's.

Shell with medium spire, external or partly covered by the mantle; genital aperture below the right posterior tentacle; genital apparatus generally provided with a dart-sac and multifid vesicles.

In 1875 the London Argand, giving a duty of 3.2 candles illuminating power per cubic foot of ordinary 16 candle gas, was looked upon as the most perfect burner of the day, and little hope was entertained that any burner capable of universal adoption would surpass it in its power of developing light from the combustion of coal gas; but the close of the century found the incandescent mantle and the atmospheric burner yielding six times the light that was given by the Argand for the consumption of an equal volume of gas, and to-day, by supplying gas at an increased pressure, a light of ten times the power may be obtained.

The eastern part of the state is covered with a thick mantle of Quaternary (Pleistocene), and the greatest part of the western portion with very thick deposits of Miocene and Pliocene (Tertiary) To the Pleistocene belong the alluvium, loess and glacial drift, and in part the sand-hills.

The old prince always dressed in old-fashioned style, wearing an antique coat and powdered hair; and when Prince Andrew entered his father's dressing room (not with the contemptuous look and manner he wore in drawing rooms, but with the animated face with which he talked to Pierre), the old man was sitting on a large leather-covered chair, wrapped in a powdering mantle, entrusting his head to Tikhon.

The girl surfaced in a swirl of bubbles, her hair floating around her white shoulders like a shimmering russet mantle.

Significant recent advances in our understanding of mantle geodynamics have been gained from studies of seismic anisotropy.

No difference in CD20 ABC between BM and PB samples was found in splenic lymphoma, mantle cell lymphoma, or follicular lymphoma.

Nobody really took up Chapman 's mantle - and English football stagnated as a result.

Allogeneic transplants are also promising for mantle cell lymphoma.

Both sexes have a chestnut mantle and whitish underparts with brown streaks, but the female is duller than the male.

He sympathizes with its people, ' wrapt in the dark mantle of idolatry,....the abject, beaten slaves of arbitrary rule '.

So, you can easily fit an LCD TV on a mantle, a shelf or even a kitchen counter.

Geothermal energy passes the test because the heat flowing from the earth as natural decay occurs within the earth's mantle.

Add some shiny lacquered boxes and vases on a tabletop or mantle and keep furnishings to a minimum.

If you are comfortable embracing high tech, then go ahead and mount a flat screen on the wall, perhaps over the mantle.

If you have a fireplace with a decorative mantle, this will likely be your focal point.

It's very easy to become enamored of a kitchen design or a fireplace mantle that is out of your budget.

Sterling silver candelabra and white taper candles make a bold formal and elegant statement for any tabletop decoration or mantle.

The founder of the Aladdin trademark, Victor Johnson, was also the original founder of the Mantle Lamp Company of America.

Mantle lamps produce up to four times more light than wick lamps per gallon of kerosene.

The mantle in an Aladdin lamp is made from a unique mixture of rare earth oxides.

A small blue flame underneath the mantle causes it to glow brightly with an incandescent light, much like an electric light bulb.

If you're undecided about whether to purchase an electric or mantle lamp, consider which style would benefit you the most during a power outage.

As long as you keep some kerosene on hand, you will never be left in the dark with an Aladdin mantle lamp.

Simply set it up on your mantle and invite guests to flip through the pages as desired.

It is absolutely gorgeous and we will think of you every time we see it on our mantle.

Japan, where it covers the trees from base to summit with a gorgeous mantle in autumn.

When the first hint of warmth melts winter's chilly mantle, gardeners across the land start asking, "When, oh when do you plant strawberries?"

Revenge practical jokes should always be performed under the mantle of good spirits and with good fun in mind.

Antique jars can grace a bookshelf, a fireplace mantle or a library table as works of art.

Serious collectors know that one of the most valuable Topps card is the 1952 Mickey Mantle card (card number 311).

This is not Mickey Mantle's rookie card, however.

The 1951 Bowman card is Mickey Mantle's rookie card.

Many collectors hoard packages of the cards in the hopes that the next Mickey Mantle will come along and prove just as valuable.

While the 1952 Mickey Mantle card is best known as being valuable, it is not the highest selling card of all time.

Hines said he felt humbled to be taking on such a mantle, but he took the idea of mentorship seriously.

To create a Golden Ratio symmetry design for your fireplace mantle using candles, you'll need to place the same configuration of number, order of height, color of candles and spacing of the arrangement on both sides of the mantle.

You'll need to visualize the mantle as two rectangular shapes.

Draw a vertical line from each end, another vertical line from the center and a top line parallel to the mantle line.

If you're looking for a project that's designed to be displayed on the mantle or hung as a garland or ceiling decoration, consider choosing one of these origami Christmas decorations.

Larger centerpieces are best for large tables such as formal dining tables or centralized coffee tables, while smaller centerpieces can stylishly accent a mantle, sideboard, or side table.

Whether you opt to purchase a centerpiece or to design your own, it's easy to add a stylish flame to your table or mantle decorations.

The fireplace mantle, coffee table or a bookcase are perfect locations.

A fireplace mantle is also a perfect location to add candles to your evergreens.

These pretty decorations add ambiance and character to a table setting, or draw attention to other areas of the home like a mantle or end table.

Decorating with a candle ring is as easy as inserting an appropriate candle into the ring and placing it on a table, mantle, or shelf.

This can be striking at a dinner table or on a mantle.

Drape them over a fireplace mantle or use to frame your mailbox.

If you don't have a mantle, find creative ways to display these colorful socks.

Coordinate the pattern with other holiday decorations, such as Christmas stockings, tablecloths, mantle runners, or throw blankets.

If you want a mantle full of greeting cards at Christmas, it may be best to send them out yourself.

Many people have donned the mantle of survivalist and are hurrying to make preparations.

Only one female-Janet Gaynor-collected a statuette for her mantle that night; the other fourteen were all awarded to men.

In the 1820's, Grafton, Massachusetts inventor Simon Willard created his famous "lighthouse clock" alarm clocks, which evolved into the many wooden and brass mantle and shelf alarm clocks of the early 1800s.

A person only needs to visit an antiques auction to discover a wide range of mantle, shelf, and bedside alarm clocks of every shape, size, and vintage.

These can take the place of the family photos on the mantle for one season, or can be used to decorate a buffet, unused tabletop or even the bathroom countertop!

A simple garland mantle can be created in less than an hour and will make your living room look nice throughout the fall.

You also will need a garland scarf or simply a beautiful piece of fall fabric the length of your mantle.

Then you should gather small pumpkins or gourds.Place the scarf along the mantle.

The garland need not be in perfect order, and the fabric should flow over the edge of the mantle.

She ran her fingers along the smooth marble mantle.

There were pictures on her mantle of the two of them together when he was younger, toys piled into a box near her couch, a school lunch menu and more pictures -- these apparently from past Halloweens --on the bulletin board on one wall of the kitchen.

Two hours ago, according to the clock on the mantle.

It looks better here than on my mantle.

He glanced up at their picture over the mantle, and then at the painting he had given her of her parents.

These were removed to Paris, and when Napoleon was crowned emperor a century and a half later he chose Childeric's bees for the decoration of his coronation mantle.

When overtaken by a dust-storm it falls on its knees, and stretching its neck along the sand, closes its nostrils and remains thus motionless till the atmosphere clears; and in this position it affords some shelter to its driver, who, wrapping his face in his mantle, crouches behind his beast.

It is surrounded by (I) a thin-walled, smaller-celled hydrom mantle; (2) an amylom sheath; (3) a leptom mantle, interrupted here and there by starch cells.

At the periphery of the lobes are some comparatively thin-walled living cells mixed with a few thin-walled hydroids, the remains of the thin-walled hydrom mantle of the aerial stem.

Besides this there is usually a living conducting tissue, sometimes differentiated as leptom, forming a mantle round the hydrom, and bounded externally by a more or less well-differentiated endodermis, abutting on an irregularly cylindrical lacuna; the latter separates the central conducting cylinder from the cortex of the seta, which, like the cortex of the gametophyte stem, is usually differentiated into an outer thick-walled stereom and an inner starchy parenchyma.

Shell fusiform, with elongated spire; margin of shell and mantle notched.

It was a very richly decorated object of coloured threads interwoven with gold, worn outside the luxurious mantle or robe; it was kept in place by a girdle, and by shoulder-pieces (?), to which were attached brooches of onyx (fastened to the robe) and golden rings from which hung the "breastplate" (or rather pouch) containing the sacred lots, Urim and Thummim.

He wore a red mantle, and stretched his long legs forward in French fashion.

After the president's untimely death, the vice president must assume the mantle of leadership.

The entire town was covered with a thick mantle of snow.

Elizabeth fastened her old-fashioned mantle with an ornate pin.

The city looked grim, covered in a mantle of soot, after the erruption of the nearby volcano.

The right candle centerpiece ideas can jazz up any type of candle into a lovely focal point for a table, mantle, or buffet.

The ailing king passed on the mantle of authority to his eldest son.

Over the mantle hung a gilt-framed landscape oil; a fall scene that captured all the colors he so loved.