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The act or result of being uplifted.
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A tectonic upheaval, especially one that takes place in the process of mountain building.
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A brassiere that raises the breasts.
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To raise something or someone to a higher physical, social, moral, intellectual, spiritual or emotional level.
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(of a penalty) To aggravate; to increase.
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(travel) To be accepted for carriage on a flight.
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To remove (a child) from a damaging home environment by a social welfare organization.
Examples of uplift in a Sentence
Assume first, however, that there is no uplift from intrusive water.
After the subsidence came another period of uplift, possibly still in progress.
The ores of the Joplin district, in the Ozark uplift in the Mississippi Valley, are remarkable in that they are specially adapted to mechanical concentration.
The uplift is completely enclosed by a rim of hog-back ridges from 300 to Goo ft.
Until the post-Mesozoic uplift of the Rocky Mountain region the north-western portion of the state drained westward.
All the higher lands of this area are covered by forests; but the Red Valley, lying between the outer ridges and the main uplift, is treeless.
The sloping surface is gently rolling, and has resulted from the uplift and dissection of a nearly level plain of erosion developed on folded, crystalline rocks.
Further evidence of this uplift is found in old beach lines now well above sea-level.
The Ozark uplift tempers very agreeably the summers in the south, but does not affect the climate of the state as a whole.
These were followed by a period of minor tilting and faulting in early Mesozoic, by a moderate upwarping in Tertiary, and by a moderate uplift in post-Tertiary time.
The postTertiary uplift, giving the present altitude of 1000 or 1500 ft.
The rivers are shallow and more or less broken by rapids in the notches; rapids occur also near the outer border of the crystalline belt, as if the rivers there had been lately incited to downward erosion by an uplift of the region, and had not yet had time to regrade their courses.
The coastal plain, however, is the result, not of a single recent uplift, but of movements dating back to Tertiary time and continued with many oscillations to the present; nor is its surface smooth and unbroken, for erosion began upon the inner part of the plain long before the outer border was revealed.
Although the Coast Prairie is a sea bottom of very modern uplift, it appears already to have suffered a slight movement of depression, for its small rivers all enter embayments; the larger rivers, however, seem to have counteracted the encroachment of the sea on the land by a sufficiently active delta building, with a resulting forward growth of the land into the sea.
The results of the first cycle of erosion are seen in the widespread exposure of the resistant Carboniferous limestone as a broad platform in the south-western area of greater uplift through central Arizona, where the higher formations were worn away; and in the development of a series of huge, south-facing, retreating escarpments of irregular outline on the edges of the higher formations farther north.
The lower division appears on the Newfoundland and Labrador coasts, and is traceable thence, in a great belt southwest of those points, through Maine and the Hudson-Champlain valley into Alabama, a distance of some 2000 m.; and the rocks are brought up again on the western uplift, in Nevada, Idaho, Utah, western Montana and British Columbia.
Arizona itself is mostly included in the great arid mountainous uplift of the Rocky Mountain region, and partly within the desert plain region of the Gulf of California, or Open Basin region.
Its central core of Lower Carboniferous rock is broadly displayed towards the north, while southward it contracts; on either side lie the younger rocks, the coal-fields, the Permian strata and the Triassic formations, the last-named, while sweeping round the southern extremity of the Carboniferous axis of the uplift from its eastern and western flanks, spread out in a large sheet over the midland counties.
After the uplift which caused the rivers to cut below the general " uplands," and develop well marked valleys for themselves, came the period of the great continental glaciation.
After the uplift came a period of subsidence, during which this region sank one or more thousand feet, allowing the sea to encroach on the land and run far inland into the previously made river valleys.
This uplift has brought up submarine deposits of sand, &c., to form little coastal plains at some points along the coast, providing good land for settlement and clay for brick and pottery.
Thus the state is to be conceived, in geological history, as gradually built up around an Archean island in successive seas, the whole of the state becoming dry land after the post-Carboniferous uplift.
Copper occurs in various localities, but is of economic importance only in the Ozark uplift; it was first mined in small quantities in 1837.
But in reservoir work such coatings are not to be trusted, and a single horizontal crack might admit sufficient water to cause an uplift.
Three physiographic regions may be distinguished within the state - the first, a small portion of the Ozark uplift in the extreme south-east corner; the second, the Prairie Plains, covering approkimately the east third of the state; the third, the Great Plains, covering the remaining area.
Paleozoic rocks formed by uplift in the Tertiary.
The Triassic beds rest on the various Carboniferous series in turn, indicating, as in England, the amount of denudation that followed on the uplift of the Hercynian' land.
Togari has 16 chairlifts in total, with an uplift capacity of thousands of people per hour.
Next cross the uplift track and down a steep rock chute into a deep rutted left then right.
All tile clip designs have a better uplift resistance than head nail fixings.
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All basement reservoirs underlie a regional unconformity and almost all lie on an uplift or high.
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Fissures, filled with calcite and sand, were pointed out, thought to be due to brittle fracture, as tectonic uplift occurred.
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Did a lot of medieval pilgrims go along for the fun, as in Chaucer, rather than the spiritual uplift?
For many businesses there is the immediate consequence of the large tax charge arising out of this one-off uplift adjustment.
These figures exclude any growth in the IPP payment resulting from passenger uplift.
Last week like-for-like sales were up 20 per cent, following a 14.8 per cent uplift in the final quarter of 2005.
Funding JC informed the group that funding for the next 2 years will be issued to health board areas with an small percentage uplift.
The majority of the wind uplift load on the exposed section of the slate is transferred to the copper tail rivet.
Uplift permitted renewed erosion to wear away the soft belts, leaving mountain ridges of hard rock separated by parallel valleys.
The more resistant rocks, even though dissected by Tertiary erosion, retain in their summit tiplands an indication of the widespread peneplain of Cretaceous tinie, now standing at the altitude given to it by the Tertiary upwarping and post-Tertiary uplift; and the most resistant rocks surmount the Cretaceous peneplain as unconsumed monadnocks of the Mesozoic cycle.
The crystalline highlands thereabouts, at altitudes of 8000 to 10,000 ft., are of so moderate a relief as to suggest that the mass had stood much lower in a former cycle of erosion and had then been worn down to rounded hills; and that since uplift to the present altitude the revived streams of the current cycle of erosion have not entrenched themselves deep enough to develop strong relief.
The resort is serviced by 32 lifts, with an uplift capacity of 45,000 skiers per hour.
Drainage incision also indicates uplift at depth on thrust faults dipping eastwards beneath the folds.
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