In addition, the forest sectors produced such value-added products as veneers, woodchips, and furniture products.
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In each formation, the ignimbrite veneers locally grade laterally into more restricted valley-fills (predominantly of pumiceous massive lapilli-tuff facies) within small palaeo-wadis.
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The lower parts of the walls were generally panelled or veneered with slabs of marble in white and colours.
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Usually floodplains are not veneers of alluvium explicable by lateral channel movements, but considerable thicknesses smoothing over more complex relief.
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Many of our modern reefs may be interglacial reefs, karstified during low glacial sea levels and now veneered with a capping of modern coral.
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In the case of sliced veneers a baulk of timber is clamped and slices are peeled off it by a machine very like a large plane.
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However, when the surface veneers dry, as in the hot sun, they are subjected to cross-grain tension and may thus" check", that is produce a large number of small cracks.
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Moreover, in woodworking, thinner veneers expanded the ranges of household and office furniture that could be, at least in part, made from scarce or imported hardwoods.
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Moisture penetrating theveneerof the brick panel is solar heated during the day, causing moisture within the brick panel to evaporate.
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In its worst guise, a preoccupation with the image leads to a superficialveneerof facadism, arguably a new picturesque, but one devoid of meaning.
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What is required ethically is honesty: self-interest should not, so far as possible, be hidden under aveneerof concern for others.
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Alternative viewpoints, as in other areas of society, have to be indulged in as subtexts, understood by initiates while preserving theveneerof normality.
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The other elevations of the cathedral are also decorated with marbleveneer, carving and mosaic.
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Rather than fading, the segregationists' crime-race argument was reframed, with a slightly differentveneer, and became the fulcrum of the conservative's proposed agenda on crime.
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There is not a single prejudice that cannot be veneered over by idealisation of some kind.
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