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  • To stay competitive, many airlines have in recent years invested heavily in their long-haul business-class cabins, with amenities such as flat-lying beds becoming standard in the trade.

    Cathay Pacific to Offer Premium Economy Jeffrey Ng 2011

  • •Diverse, folded, and faulted, partly glaciated ecoregion with northeastwardly trending, forested ridges and agricultural valleys; structurally distinct from the flat-lying rocks of Ecoregion 62.

    Ecoregions of New Jersey (EPA) 2009

  • The Cainozoic deposits of Riversleigh occur as inliers within eroded areas of the extensive, flat-lying, Cambrian Thorntonia limestone.

    Australian Fossil Mammal Sites, Australia 2009

  • The Ozark Highlands (39) are largely underlain by flat-lying, cherty limestone.

    Ecoregions of Oklahoma (EPA) 2009

  • The low elevation Boston Mountains (38) are covered in oak – hickory forest, and mostly underlain by flat-lying sandstone and shale.

    Ecoregions of Oklahoma (EPA) 2009

  • The High Plateaus ecoregion is largely capped by flat-lying igneous rock and is lithologically distinct from the Wasatch Montane Zone (19d).

    Ecoregions of Utah (EPA) 2009

  • In Oklahoma, Ecoregion 39 is a level to highly dissected plateau composed of flat-lying, cherty limestone.

    Ecoregions of Oklahoma (EPA) 2009

  • This ecoregion is composed of flat-lying Tertiary sediments and volcanic rocks 1220-1525 meters (m) above sea level in elevation.

    Okanagan dry forests 2008

  • Mostly underlain by Precambrian granitic bedrock with some areas of flat-lying Palaeozoic and Mesozoic sedimentary bedrock, the terrain consists largely of broadly rolling uplands and lowlands.

    Tundra ecoregion (CEC) 2008

  • The geology of the area is dominated by the Precambrian Umkondo system, which consists of flat-lying shales, quartzites and intrusive dolerites.

    Eastern Zimbabwe montane forest-grassland mosaic 2008

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