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The plain covers a triangular area of around .
The three corners corresponded with the town of Weyarn, between Miesbach and Holzkirchen in the southeast, Moosburg an der Isar in the northeast and Maisach in the west.
Munich city and nearly all its peripheral districts are situated on top of the flat gravel plain.
As a consequence the city, in contrast to the surrounding counties in the north, south and west, has almost no topographic features.
However, the waters of the Isar river have cut into the Quaternary ground in several stages and caused the typical terrace levels within the city.
The plain drops to the northeast from initially around above sea level to approximately , a decisive factor for the formation of the large Dachauer Moors, the Freisinger Moor and the Erdinger Moor.
The gravel deposits of are the deepest in the south of Munich and decrease towards the north.
According to an unambiguous stratigraphic record the formation process extended over three glacial periods.
The massive Central Alpine pleistocene glaciers, that almost reached to the area of modern Munich, discharged not only water but also large amounts of soil and rock into the Alpine Foreland.
When the glaciers melted during interglacial warm periods, huge quantities of gravel, debris and water were released and flushed to the north, where they were mainly deposited on the Munich gravel plain.
The lowest strata contains solidified deposits from the Mindel glaciation, above it lies gravel from the Riss glaciation, which in turn is covered by the youngest layer, the rock scree from the Würm glaciation.
Layers of clay in between represent the interim humus collections of the respective interglacial periods.
All these ice age gravel deposits lie on top of the low hydraulic conductive sediments of the Molasse basin.
The basin's sediment material of conglomerates, shales and debris have accumulated by erosion and denudation and formed in a sequence during the development of the Alps between around 50 to 3 million years ago.
These layers, locally referred to as "Flinz" are impermeable to water.
During the pleistocene the ancient Mangfall river flowed through the eastern section of what is now the Munich gravel plain before it was deflected to the east towards the Inn river by a Würm glaciation moraine.
The Grub-Harthausen dry valley is a sector of the former course of the river.
Today the Isar river is the largest body of water on the Munich gravel plain.
It roughly equally bisects the plain from southwest to northeast.
Coming from the district of Starnberg, the Würm river flows through the west of the Munich gravel plain.
Further natural waters are the Hachinger Bach and the Gröbenbach and its tributaries, which all, due to exudation of groundwater, rise on the Munich gravel plain.
In the south, the gravel layer of the groundwater-rich Munich gravel plain is the most massive.
The top groundwater layer at the Haar-Eglfing measuring point is more than below ground, in Kirchheim it is around and on the northern edge of the Munich gravel plain it is less than .
These levels used to be higher.
The Erdinger Moos, which begins north of the municipalities of Aschheim, Kirchheim and Pliening, was once a bog where groundwater surfaced.
The outlying communities in the north were frequently flooded after heavy rainfall.
To prevent future flooding, a drainage ditch was built in the early 1920s, which caused the groundwater table to drop significantly, which in turn required deeper wells to be dug in these communities.
The Thickness of the gravel layer in the south of the Munich gravel plain made it hard to get to the groundwater for the first settlers during the early Middle Ages.
This, however, was essential, as there were no surface waters like ponds or lakes.
People settled around the local wells and the settlements were named after the owners of these precious water sources, such as Putzbrunn (once Puzzoprunnin after a Puzzo) or Grasbrunn (Gramasprunnin after a Gramas or Graman).
The surface gravel and sand deposits have been exploited for use in construction for a long time.
There still remain several sand and gravel plants as in Grasbrunn and at Aschheim.
At the site of the modern "Heimstettener See" (Heimstetten Lake), gravel was mined for the Reichsbahn until 1937.
The "Feringasee" (Feringa Lake) gravel was used for the construction of the Autobahn A 99 from 1974 to 1976, the "Böhmerweiher" (Böhmerweiher Lake) was created between 1993 and 1999 by sand and gravel mining for the construction of the Autobahn A 8.
Former gravel pits are also all the lakes of the Dreiseenplatte (Three Lake district), that include the "Lerchenauer See", "Fasanerie See" and "Feldmochinger See" and the three lakes of the Langwieder lake district to the west of Munich.
The Langwieder lake district includes the "Langwieder See", which provided gravel for the construction of the Autobahn A 8 during the 1930s, the "Birkensee", from which gravel was extracted for a railway line in 1938, and the "Lußsee", from which gravel was used from 1995 to 2000 for the construction of the "Eschenrieder Spange", a shortcut at a junction of the Autobahn A 99.
Most of the defunct sand and gravel pits have undergone years of extensive recultivation and have since become popular recreation sites for the inhabitants of metropolitan Munich.
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Chandakhali union is bounded on the north by Amadi union, Koyra river on the south, Maheshwarpur union on the east and Kaptakhms river on the west.
There are 3 wards in the Amadi Union.
Koyra River on the southern border of Amadi union, Kapotakhma River to the west and Shivasa River to the east.
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The song was produced by Bruno Mars, the Stereotypes and D'Mile.
They also co-wrote the song along with Charlie Wilson, Micah Powell and Seth Reger.
The background vocals feature Mars, Wilson and James Fauntleroy, along with others.
On July 27, 2018, Wilson stated that he and Mars were working on a collaboration.
Wilson said that he was having fun with the song, the result of his and Mars' "creative combustion".
They started talking about the song's vibe and recorded a chorus for it, but they didn't met each other for some time afterwards due to their busy schedules.
Nevertheless, after Wilson performed on selected dates of Mars' third worldwide tour, the 24K Magic World Tour, they would "sing every day at lunch time as we further hashed out the song".
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It is on the north (right) bank of the Murray River opposite Waikerie and several smaller settlements.
The locality is predominantly between the Goyder Highway and the Murray River, with several small areas on the other side of the highway.
Taylorville Road connects the highway to the cable ferry across the river to Waikerie.
Land use in Taylorville includes irrigated vineyards and orchards.
David Miller (moderator)
Rev David Miller MA is a Scottish minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland: in 2014.
He was born in Korea to Scottish parents and spent most of his youth in Tasmania, studying Economics at the University of Tasmania, graduating in 1981.
In 1982 he moved to Edinburgh in Scotland where he befriended his minister, Rev Donald Lamont of St Columba's Free Church, also working in the Church of Scotland bookshop on George Street.
Re-inspired he began studying Divinity in 1985 at the Free Church College in Edinburgh, graduating in 1988.
He was then dispatched by the Foreign Missions Board to work in South Africa.
Here he served in various village schools in the southern Transkei before settling in Dumisani to run their Bible School.
From this base he also lectured in various church subjects at Potchefstroom University.
Here he also obtained a further degree in Theology.
In 2002 he returned to Britain, taking up the first ever post as Free Church minister of Cobham near London in 2003.
In 2014 he succeeded Rev Angus Howat as Moderator of the General assembly.
In 2015 hre moved to Duirinish Free Church on Skye.
He was married to Margaret (Meg) Campbell of Stornoway in 1989.
They were married by her brother Rev Iain D Campbell.
They had three sons (born in South Africa): Andrew, Ben and John.
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Bill Oliver was born on 1 December 1948.
As an amateur player, Oliver beat Ian Williamson 7–5 in the final of the 1981 Pontins Autumn Open.
He became a professional snooker player in 1983 but never reached the last-16 of a major tournament.
His highest ranking was 77.
He owns a snooker club in Plymouth.
He made his television debut as a player in the 1984 World Doubles Championship, partnering Roger Bales in a 4-5 loss to Terry Griffiths and John Parrott in a match that finished at 12:30 am.
Oliver beat former champion Ray Reardon in the second qualifying round of the 1988 World Snooker Championship.
Later that year he joined the board of the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA), taking the place of Rex Williams.
He entered the 2010 World Snooker Championship under an arrangement where members of the WPBSA who were not on the main World Snooker Tour could participate if they paid a fee of £200.
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As a university constituency, the constituency had no geographical basis.
Instead, its electorate consisted of the graduates of Edinburgh University and St Andrews University.
The by-election was held to fill the vacancy caused by the death on 11 April 1900 of 70-year-old Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) Sir William Overend Priestley.
An eminent obstetrician, Priestley had held the seat since a by-election in May 1896.
The Conservative Party selected as its candidate the 65-year-old Sir John Batty Tuke.
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The Conservatives did not expect a contest in the by-election, and speculation that the novelist J. M. Barrie would stand as a Liberal Party candidate ended on 30 April when Barrie sent a telegram declining nomination.
The nomination process was held in the Senate Hall of the University of Edinburgh on 3 May 1900, where the Principal Sir William Muir presided over a gathering of only about 20 people.