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He traced the plications from minor to major stages, and illustrated the remarkable foldings and overthrust faultings in numerous sections and with the aid of pictorial drawings.
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The roguish crew of prison perverts will contribute their share of complications, no doubt of that, my friend.
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Take, for example, the proofs of gigantic plication, fracture and displacement within the terrestrial crust.
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Body depressed, without dorsal papillae, but with two very large lateral expansions, with dorsal plications.
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The same system of plications is revealed also on the larger West India islands.
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