Great Mosque of Kairouan, also called the Mosque of Uqba, in Tunisia. A discharging arch or relieving arch is an arch built over a lintel or architrave to take off the superincumbent weight.
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As it reaches the dam, The Angara's river basin area accounts for 831,000 km3. The river's supply is greatly dependent on the lake Baikal and superincumbent reservoirs of Irkutsk, Bratsk and Ust-Ilimsk dams. The Angara's discharge amounts to 16,210 m³/s. The climatic conditions in the vicinity may be described as continental.
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In architecture, a corbel is a structural piece of stone, wood or metal jutting from a wall to carry a superincumbent weight, a type of bracket.Oxford English Dictionary Second Edition on CD-ROM (v. 4.0). Oxford University Press, 2009. A corbel is a solid piece of material in the wall, whereas a console is a piece applied to the structure.
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John Smith operated his mine on the west side of Coal Creek from 1811 until about 1837. A visitor in 1830 described Smith's coal mine as having a thick bed of coal, and found the mine "extensively wrought, and the scene both without and within is exceedingly imposing. The bed is followed into the mountain, large pillars of coal being left to support the superincumbent weight." The visitor noted that in some areas Smith had removed all of the coal, leaving only a roof of slate which then caved in.
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This operation is probably accelerated by the increased pressure produced by superincumbent masses, and to some extent also by the rise of temperature which inevitably takes place in rocks buried to some depth beneath the surface. The rise of temperature, however, may be only a tiny increase; we know more than one instance of sedimentary deposits which have been buried beneath four or five miles of similar strata (e.g. parts of the Old Red Sandstone), and yet no perceptible difference is apparent between beds of similar composition at the top of the series and near its base. Should the deposits have been truly "baked", that is, subject to a large increase in temperature, then differences would be evident.
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Carefully removing > the superincumbent earth and rubbish, they descended into the granary. It > was from this reservoir the Geraldines, and their successors, the McCarthys, > drew supplies for the kern and the gallow-glasses; at the head of whom they > often struck terror into the heart of some neighbouring chieftains, or > engaged in the hopless enterprize of endeavouring to drive out the stranger > who had settled amongst them, and who called their country his own. The > granary contained several compartments, and these were nearly all filled > with native wheat. The compartments themselves were in perfect order, but > the wheat, which time and circumstances had shrunk and discoloured, was > found to be as hard as shot, and quite as black.
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The peroneus longus and brevis muscles plantarflex the foot, in conjunction with the tibialis posterior, antagonizing the tibialis anterior and peroneus tertius, which are dorsiflexors of the foot. The peroneus longus also everts the sole of the foot, and from the oblique direction of the tendon across the sole of the foot is an important agent in the maintenance of the transverse arch. Taking their fixed points below, the peroneus muscles serve to steady the leg upon the foot. This is especially the case in standing upon one leg, when the tendency of the superincumbent weight is to throw the leg medialward; the peroneus longus overcomes this tendency by drawing on the lateral side of the leg.
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The whorl in front of it slopes flatly to an angular shoulder and is sculptured with three or four flattish spiral threads with slightly wider interspaces separated from the keel at the shoulder by a channel three times as wide as the others. The shoulder keel is duplex, the posterior cord most prominent, the anterior, closely adjacent, less so. In front of these, extending to the siphonal canal, is a series (five on the penultimate whorl, eighteen on the body whorl) of similar but less prominent, subequal, and subequidistant cords, with numerous smaller intercalary threads, the interspaces wider than the primary cords. From the shoulder to the periphery on the body whorl are (on the type species about fourteen) numerous obscure narrow vertical riblets extending to but not over the base, but not nodulating the superincumbent cords.
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