Dictionary definition: accretion

Article: Making dunes grow
The Nelson Mail;  August 2, 2006 ;     377 words ...A cold winter morning isn't everyone's favourite time to visit the beach but it didn't stop Tahunanui School's room six class. The year five and six pupils were at Tahunanui Beach yesterday to begin planting 5500 spinifex and pingao grasses with Nelson Coast Care volunteers and Nelson City Council

Article: Alternatives in Accretion: Why There Is Not Yet an ...
Brigham Young University Law Review;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...I. INTRODUCTION Accretion, a term generally referring to the ... unsevered mineral estates6 are subject to accretion. That position, however, is susceptible ... particularly in light of the fact that accretion cases have cropped up as recently as ...

Article: El Nino influence on Holocene reef accretion in Hawai'i ...
Pacific Science;  April 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Abstract: New observations of reef accretion from several locations show that in Hawai'i accretion during early to middle Holocene time occurred ... suggesting an increase in wave energy. Accretion of coral and coralline algae reefs in the ...

Article: Maintenance requirement for valine and efficiency of its use ...
The Journal of Nutrition;  July 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... period 10-20 d posthatching to assess valine accretion and protein accretion as a function of incremental valine intakes between ... ideal level, weight gain (r2 = 0.98), protein accretion (r2 = 0.98) and valine accretion (r2 = 0 ...

Article: Short-Term Ice Accretion Forecasts for Electric Utilities ...
Weather and Forecasting;  October 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... decisions rely upon accurate ice accretion forecasts. Longer lead ... interpolated climatological ice accretion fields at high resolution ... analogous means of producing ice accretion fields suitable for input ... techniques for forecasting ice accretions on land-ba

Article: Chandra pinpoints edge of accretion disk around black ...
M2 Presswire;  May 8, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... 2001-NASA: Chandra pinpoints edge of accretion disk around black hole (C)1994-2001 ... that a flaring black hole source has an accretion disk that stops much farther out than ... found the first clear evidence that the accretion disk can stop farther out," said Jeffrey ...

Article: QUANTITATIVE ICE ACCRETION INFORMATION FROM ASOS
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society;  September 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Ice accretion from freezing precipitation threatens ... reliable quantitative estimates of ice accretion. The algorithm has been approved for ... they do not report quantitative ice accretion. Our research focused upon the development ...