To create characterization in fiction or non-fiction, 1  Tell the reader directly what a character's personality is like: 2  Describe a character's appearance and manner: 3  Portray a character's thoughts and motivations:  Use dialogue to allow a character's words to reveal something important about his or her nature:
Cherniak (2010b) reviews diffusion in the accessory minerals zircon, monazite, apatite, and xenotime, phases important in geochronologic studies. Diffusion in other minerals, including carbonates, sulfide minerals, fluorite and diamond, is reviewed by Cherniak (2010c).
Cultural diffusion is the spread of cultural trends across locations and involves both expansion diffusion and relocation diffusion. Relocation diffusion occurs when a person migrates from their home and shares their culture with a new location. Expansion diffusion occurs when a trend is spread from its originating place, outward. There are several forms of this type of diffusion including contagious, hierarchical, and stimulus diffusion.