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exhumation

[ UK /ɛɡzjuːmˈe‍ɪʃən/ ]
[ US /ɛksˌhjuˈmeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. the act of digging something up out of the ground (especially a corpse) where it has been buried

How To Use exhumation In A Sentence

  • Possibly this was the time of exhumation of the Augenstein peneplain in the Northern Calcareous Alps, formed during Priabonian-Early Kiscellian time.
  • Previous petrological studies of the Yangkou eclogites have indicated the lack of fluid during exhumation.
  • During and after the exhumation, the lherzolites underwent hydrothermal alteration and serpentinized at relatively low temperature.
  • There have been small victories at a local level, with villages achieving exhumations of mass graves, reburying their dead and erecting monuments.
  • The overall effect at the present level of exhumation is shown diagrammatically in Figure 2c. Along many of the major faults, older rocks at late diagenetic grade are downthrown against younger rocks at higher grades.
  • The granitoid data show that rock uplift-exhumation in the North Huaiyang massif, Dawu massif and western segment of the Dabie massif took mainly place before.
  • The exhumers, Sheffield-based UK Exhumation Service Ltd, have already accidentally unearthed a historic crypt, when the ground collapsed under the weight of a digger.
  • The group also wants the government to contribute to the costs of the exhumations, including DNA testing and dignified reburials.
  • At the other extreme, reverse faulting could cause the pattern of exhumation and basin inversion.
  • However, it is possible that this effect may be found wherever Mesozoic faults are exhumed to the sea bed or surface, and exhumation data measured in adjacent fault blocks should be projected across these faults with some circumspection.
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