efflorescences

Muslim pilgrims in the next Hajj will see a new four-tiered Jamarat Bridge, a sort of multi-limbed amoeba of reconfigurable inflow and outflow ramps, emergency exits, and subway tunnels directing the flood of supplicants safely through the rocky landscape of Mina, and curiously ornamented with anemone-like efflorescences above the pillars on the upper level.

Archive 2007-02-01 2007

Muslim pilgrims in the next Hajj will see a new four-tiered Jamarat Bridge, a sort of multi-limbed amoeba of reconfigurable inflow and outflow ramps, emergency exits, and subway tunnels directing the flood of supplicants safely through the rocky landscape of Mina, and curiously ornamented with anemone-like efflorescences above the pillars on the upper level.

Reconfiguring the Jamarat Bridge 2007

With coastal development and sea level continuing to rise unabated, expect more of these geo-efflorescences popping up everywhere like micro-tentacled warts, the sight of which will utterly gross people out or completely fascinate them.

Archive 2008-11-01 2008

With coastal development and sea level continuing to rise unabated, expect more of these geo-efflorescences popping up everywhere like micro-tentacled warts, the sight of which will utterly gross people out or completely fascinate them.

The self-replicating, self-similar geology of San Lucido 2008

All these many-hued dresses which covered the sands like nosegays, these pretty stuffs, those showy parasols, the fictitious grace of tightened waists, all the ingenious devices of fashion from the smart little shoe to the extravagant hat, the seductive charm of gesture, voice, and smile, all the coquettish airs in short displayed on this seashore, suddenly struck him as stupendous efflorescences of female depravity.

Pierre And Jean 2003

With awe in their faces they discerned slowly revolving dark plates of steel, effulgent gouts of water glistening with momentary rainbows, sloppy and distended clods of wet sand, powder storms of dry sand, and billowing efflorescences of black smoke and orange flame.

Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003

The glow within the rock was the palest of efflorescences.

Impossible Places Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002

The glow within the rock was the palest of efflorescences.

Impossible Places Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002

Much of Antarctica is officially classified as a desert, and nothing proved it more effectively than the salt efflorescences on the shoreline of Lake Fryxell, thin white crusts like the salt pans of northern Chile.

Terra Incognita Wheeler, Sarah 1996

This can be due to water splashing back, waterspouts, badly designed or damaged gutters, puddles being splashed by passing vehicles, washing the floors inside, morning condensation (or dew), a roadway gutter flowing too close to the wall, surface waterproofing (cement pavement) which prevents evaporation from the soil, a water-proofing render which causes moisture to be trapped between the wall and the render or the growth of parasitical flora (such as moss) and saline efflorescences.

Chapter 6 1995