siccar

siccar

(ˈsɪkər)
adj
Scot sure; certain. Also: sicker
[Middle English, from Latin sēcūrus secure]
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Furthermore, 'to mak siccar,' my father has taken the opposite side of the fireplace and is deep in the latest five columns of Gladstone, who is his Carlyle.
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Siccar Point Energy (SPE) is pleased to announce its first bond issue with the successful closing of an oversubscribed $100 million, 5 year, fixed rate (9.
United Kingdom : Siccar Point Energy Announces $100 Million Senior Unsecured Bond
Deals included Aberdeen-based private equity-backed firm Siccar Point Energy buying a string of assets from Austrian energy group OMV in a transaction worth up to $1bn (PS810m).
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After reintroducing the Schiehallion field through the Quad 204 project, BP and co-venturers Shell and Siccar Point Energy expect it to retrieve an estimated 450m barrels of oil, which will extend the life of the field to 2035 and beyond.
Oil production from North Sea field 'a milestone' for BP
BP and co-venturers Shell and Siccar Point Energy expect to ramp up production through the rest of 2017 to a daily peak of 130,000 barrels.
PS4.4bn FIELDS OF BLACK GOLD; OIL FLOWS FROM NEW NORTH SEA SITE BP pump first of 450million barrels over the next 20 years from Schiehallion and Loyal
Number 1 was The Foreland mountains, Assynt, 2nd was the Iron Bridge Gorge near Telford and 3rd was Siccar Point in Scotland.
NATURAL TREASURE; N.Wales has five of the top100 beautiful diverse geology sites
At Siccar Point the action of the sea revealed strata of Red Devonian Sandstone and Siluraian greywacke, which were not layered horizontally as might be seen in a typical quarry wall.
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They made a precarious landing at Siccar Point, where Hutton was able, for the first time, to convincingly demonstrate his discovery of deep time.
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En este mismo sentido, Jorge Lega Siccar, Presidente del Comite Editorial del primer numero de esta revista, tuvo la vision que llegarian manuscritos procedentes de <<todo el pais>>, asi como del extranjero, a la oficina editorial de esta recien nacida revista cientifica.
Colombia Medica ahora en MEDLINE/PubMed: un sueno hecho realidad
The cover of the paperback version offers a magnificent photograph of the world-famous angular unconformity discovered in the late 18th century by James Hutton at Siccar Point in Scotland.
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Mak Siccar, 428 yds, par 4: The greenside bunker short left has been cut slightly closer to the putting surface to gather any undercooked approach shots.
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Of more than 6,500 SSSIs, about a third are geodiversity related, including Hutton's Unconformity at Siccar Point in southeast Scotland and the Blakeney Esker in Norfolk.
Saving the stones: to most people, conservation means preserving the world's biodiversity: its animals and plants. But understanding that the physical Earth--rock, soil, fossils, minerals and landforms--has its own values and threats is leading to increased efforts to preserve 'geodiversity' alongside biodiversity

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