In many cases the substrate to the diamictites would have been relatively soft, allowing both debris-flow and glacial movements to have formed large gouges.
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As a kind of self-protection, they develop thick skins to avoid being upset by the gouging out of eyes, the smashings and the burnings.
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There is not enough money to be gouged out of the inner cities.
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What erosion will take place following clear felling where deep drains at regular intervals have been gouged out of the hillside?
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Every man had to be gouged out from the national administration by a process that was long and painful.
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The problem is worst when conditions are wet, and large ruts can be gouged in paths.
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We do not want more and more great traffic arteries gouged out through our towns, and buildings torn down to make room for the omnipresent car.
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They also forbade kicking, biting and eye gouging.
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The plane gouged a strip through the woods about 100 yards wide and 500 yards long.
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There are seven parallel, transverse, carved gouges on the left arm.
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His eye has been replaced after he gouged it out as a result of a mental attack.
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Gouges are used in wood working and arts.
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According to legend, the creator of this clock had his eyes gouged out afterward, to prevent him from reproducing it.
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Deeply gouged ravines support cooler climate species found in more northerly climes, while gradual backslope environments support species typical of the surrounding latitude.
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The maids gouged the eyes out with their fingers.
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