Pediment
A pediment is an element in classical, neoclassical and baroque architecture, and derivatives therefrom, consisting of a gable, originally of a triangular shape, placed above the horizontal structure of the entablature, typically supported by columns. The tympanum, or triangular area within the pediment, was often decorated with relief sculpture depicting scenes from Greek and Roman mythology or allegorical figures.
History
The pediment is found in classical Greek temples, renaissance, and neoclassical architecture. A prominent example is the Parthenon, where it contains a tympanum decorated with figures in relief sculpture. This architectural element was developed in the architecture of ancient Greece. In Ancient Rome, the Renaissance, and later architectural revivals, the pediment was used as a non-structural element over windows, doors and aedicules.
A variant is the "segmental" or "arch" pediment, where the normal angular slopes of the cornice are replaced by one in the form of a segment of a circle, in the manner of a depressed arch. Both traditional and segmental pediments have "broken" and "open" forms. In the broken pediment the raking cornice is left open at the apex.
Pediment (geology)
A pediment is a very gently sloping (.5°-7°) inclined bedrock surface. It typically slopes down from the base of a steeper retreating desert cliff, or escarpment, but may continue to exist after the mountain has eroded away. It is caused by erosion. It develops when sheets of running water (laminar sheet flows) wash over it in intense rainfall events. It may be thinly covered with fluvial gravel that has washed over it from the foot of mountains produced by cliff retreat erosion. It is typically a concave surface gently sloping away from mountainous desert areas.
It is not to be confused with merged groups of alluvial fans (bajadas), which also may appear to gently slope from an escarpment, but are composed of material eroded from canyons, not bedrock.
Coalescence of pediments over a large area results in a pediplain.
Processes responsible for carving pediments
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Badmind
by: Vybz KartelJAM 2 Production
Yea tho I walk through the valley of the shadow
Of Death
Mi seh no badmind pon di Gaza
[Bridge:]
Definition of a hypocrite mi neva kno
Dem badmind suh
Smile infront yuh face
Believe mi seh
Neva know dem badmind suh
Hear
[Verse 1:]
Weh dem wah we go, we nah go
Inna di funeral parlor
Badmind wah mek yuh a gwaan suh
Yuh nuh wah people pickney strive
But memba yuh have pickney also
But a bere police yuh call suh
An nuh science man nuh pass yuh
Wat a day wat a day when a ton bomb blow cross yuh
[Chorus:]
Dem come a laugh, but dem bwoy deh badmind
Smile inna yuh face and wah fi done yuh same time
Youth mek yuh so badmind (badmind)
Mi nuh do yuh nothin an yuh badmind (badmind)
People stay so long time (long time)
Mi nuh do yuh nothin an yuh badmind (badmind)
[Verse 2:]
Dem style ghetto youths as thug
Den wah we fi lay inna di mud
Dem alone cash flow fi a flood
If a neva broadcasting commission
Jah kno mi woulda cuss an edit a badwud
Di system gi wi hate fi wi love
Di system gi wi kick fi wi hug
But when ghetto youth rise up like Bob or Usain
Dem a gi wi fake love
Di hypocrite system badmind
Nuff a yuh so called fren badmind
Jus act like yuh dead
Nuff a dem woulda seh yuh shoulda gone long time
[Chorus:]
Dem come a laugh, but dem bwoy deh badmind
Smile inna yuh face and wah fi done yuh same time
Youth mek yuh so badmind (badmind)
Mi nuh do yuh nothin an yuh badmind (badmind)
People stay so long time (long time)
Mi nuh do yuh nothin an yuh badmind (badmind)
[Verse 1:]
Weh dem wah we go, we nah go
Inna di funeral parlor
Badmind wah mek yuh a gwaan suh
Yuh nuh wah people pickney strive
But memba yuh have pickney also
But a bere police yuh call suh
An nuh science man nuh pass yuh
Wat a day wat a day when a ton bomb blow cross yuh
[Chorus:]
Dem come a laugh, but dem bwoy deh badmind
Smile inna yuh face and wah fi done yuh same time
Youth mek yuh so badmind (badmind)
Mi nuh do yuh nothin an yuh badmind (badmind)
People stay so long time (long time)
Mi nuh do yuh nothin an yuh badmind (badmind)
[Verse 2:]
Dem style ghetto youths as thug
Den wah we fi lay inna di mud
Dem alone cash flow fi a flood
If a neva broadcasting commission
Jah kno mi woulda cuss an edit a badwud
Di system gi wi hate fi wi love
Di system gi wi kick fi wi hug
But when ghetto youth rise up like Bob or Usain
Dem a gi wi fake love
Di hypocrite system badmind
Nuff a yuh so called fren badmind
Jus act like yuh dead
Nuff a dem woulda seh yuh shoulda gone long time
[Chorus:]
Dem come a laugh, but dem bwoy deh badmind
Smile inna yuh face and wah fi done yuh same time
Youth mek yuh so badmind (badmind)
Mi nuh do yuh nothin an yuh badmind (badmind)
People stay so long time (long time)