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         Figure  2.1.  The dynamics of an entity  in space/time £.


































        Figure  2.2.  (a) The dynamics of the geologic  boundary B  in space/time  £.
              (b)  Time evolution  of contaminant  distribution.


        of  a  particle  not  moving in  space  is a position-line).  A  time-surface  is a set
        of  points  in  E  representing  a spatial  arrangement  of  events  having  the same
        temporal  coordinate  with  respect to  the  reference system.  Therefore,  a time-
        surface (sometimes  technically  called a space-like hypersurface}  is not  a single
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