Examples of stony

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The top soil is about 45 cm in depth and the subsoil is stony.
The stony meteorites are by far the most numerous group of meteorites, accounting for over 90 % of the observed falls.
Extraction of the organic remains from the stony matrix, a process both laborious and delicate, required a substantial amount of money.
Possibly, rodents are unable to determine whether endocarps are infested or not through the thick stony endocarp wall.
No such matrix exists to constrain the various mineral phases in the thin stony meteorite targets.
Small alluvial fans occur on footslopes and have brown forest soils or humus-iron podzols developed in the coarse-textured stony deposits.
Whatever their hairstyles, serious critics mostly maintained a stony silence.
A larger target mass would confine the stony meteorite fragments.
The study area is dominated by stony and rocky land (39%) and rangeland (33%).
Thus, small comets are potentially more photobiologically damaging than small stony asteroids.
Since stony meteorites are both hard and brittle, their shock response is a dissociation at high stress levels associated with microcracking.
The stony meteorites, which have a very low structural strength, fragment before a significant amount of center-of-mass energy can be coupled into a net momentum.
On the ironstone plateaus, soils are stony and shallow.
Lithosols are generally poorly developed, stony soils, thinner than 10 cm, and with moderate to high agricultural potentials.
Indeed, for the stony meteorites, their mechanical proper ties were par ticularly difficult to evaluate because of their early breakup and extensive disintegration.
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