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The ramparts offer a fine view over the old town and the river, the islets in midstream each occupied by a ruined Moorish mill, and the ridges of the Sierra de Córdoba low on the northern horizon.
At the southern extremities of the National Park are areas of limestone with so-called “clint and grike” patterns, caused when rainfall erodes weaker fissures, leaving high narrow ridges or overhangs of stronger rock.
As it snakes up and down the peaks and ridges, the wall conforms to a challenging topography, one that leaves many tourists gasping for breath.
Pectoral plates now possess barely detectable ridges.
Critical windows of activity in the sheep include: somatic ovarian tissue differentiation (from the gonadal ridges of the mesonephros) and growth (up to Day 50 of gestation); germ (from yolk sac endoderm) and pregranulosa (derived from the ovarian surface epithelium) cellular migration into and colonization of the ovaries (Days 30-65); clonal expansion of oogonia (Days 35-75); onset of meiosis and arrest (by Day 80) at the dictyate stage of prophase (the first division of meiosis is not completed until ovulation); and ovigerous cord regression and primordial follicle emergence (Days 65-110) [ 1 31 32 33 ] . It seems apparent that germ cells are particularly vulnerable to a metabolic insult when in the phasic transition between mitosis and meiosis I.