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Calcification occurs when evapotranspiration exceeds precipitation causing the upward movement of dissolved alkaline salts from the groundwater.
Soil 2008
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Calcification of a part of the brain known as the falx cerebri
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Calcification is conspicuous on well-drained uplands, where encrustations and deposits of calcium carbonate (caliche) are common.
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Calcification is common in the prairie grasslands.
Soil 2008
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Calcification rates in the previous periods were not significantly different.
Hansen and Schmidt: Predicting the Past? « Climate Audit 2006
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Calcification rates for the latest 50-year period, 1930-1979, were significantly higher than in the previous three 50-year periods.
Hansen and Schmidt: Predicting the Past? « Climate Audit 2006
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Calcification in coccolithophores is strongly influenced by the projected decrease of future ocean pH.
HAnsen and Schmidt: Predicting the Past – Continued « Climate Audit 2006
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Calcification of the pineal gland occurs in many people over sixty.
The Best Alternative Medicine Dr. Kenneth R. Pelletier 2000
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Calcification of the pineal gland occurs in many people over sixty.
The Best Alternative Medicine Dr. Kenneth R. Pelletier 2000
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Calcification of the permanent teeth proceeds in the following order in the lower jaw (in the upper jaw it takes place a little later): the first molar, soon after birth; the central and lateral incisors, and the canine, about six months after birth; the premolars, at the second year, or a little later; the second molar, about the end of the second year; the third molar, about the twelfth year.
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