exhumation

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exhumation

the disinterring of a corpse.

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Deformation and exhumation at convergent margins; the Franciscan subduction complex.

Deformation and exhumation at convergent margins; the Franciscan subduction complex

However, the oratory said the exhumation of Cardinal Newman's grave revealed his coffin was not lead-lined and that his body had disintegrated.

Cardinal disintegrated

She said: "We don't want to have an exhumation but we just need answers.

Family pays for body to be dug up; Relatives spend pounds 1,200 for council to exhume 'damaged' coffin

The exhumation, which will start around 7am, will be followed by a full post-mortem at the Royal Oldham Hospital.

Police to exhume man's body

She said a licence for Cameron's exhumation had been received by the family's funeral director after a successful application to the Home Office

Mother told she can exhume son's body from vandalised grave

But after the latest setback, Mrs Hodson, 52, is now seeking another exhumation of the grave after learning there may be another set of baby remains buried there.

Setback in search for dead son

Both authors describe their work at the exhumations of mass graves for men, women, and children, civilians killed in cold blood by armed forces.

If stones could speak

The third exhumation will take place at an undisclosed time and location.

Men's bodies exhumed

The exhumation is part of a fresh inquiry into the death of the former Bath University student, who was originally thought to have suffered a fatal drug overdose at her bedsit in Exmouth, Devon, in May 2000.

Rachel: Mum's graveside ordeal

Throughout the Grenville, hornblende and muscovite [sup.40]Ar/[sup.39]Ar cooling ages of ~950 to 905 Ma indicate locally divergent uplift and cooling paths for adjacent structural domains, implying that brittle fault activity continued during uplift and exhumation.

PanLITHOPROBE workshop IV: IntraOrogen correlations and comparative orogenic anatomy

Overcrowded conditions have created demand for exhumation and cremation services.

Crowd control. (Trade Talk)

However, a painstaking exhumation by Clack recently revealed the nearly complete skeleton of a tetrapod.