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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
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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.
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The Cainozoic deposits of Riversleigh occur as inliers within eroded areas of the extensive, flat-lying, Cambrian Thorntonia limestone.
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The Ozark Highlands (39) are largely underlain by flat-lying, cherty limestone.
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The low elevation Boston Mountains (38) are covered in oak – hickory forest, and mostly underlain by flat-lying sandstone and shale.
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The High Plateaus ecoregion is largely capped by flat-lying igneous rock and is lithologically distinct from the Wasatch Montane Zone (19d).
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In Oklahoma, Ecoregion 39 is a level to highly dissected plateau composed of flat-lying, cherty limestone.
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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
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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.
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The geology of the area is dominated by the Precambrian Umkondo system, which consists of flat-lying shales, quartzites and intrusive dolerites.
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