bed and subsoil of the sea
11hydrosphere — /huy dreuh sfear /, n. the water on or surrounding the surface of the globe, including the water of the oceans and the water in the atmosphere. [1885 90; HYDRO 1 + SPHERE] * * * Discontinuous layer of water at or near the Earth s surface. It… …
12Northern Ireland Assembly — For earlier bodies of the same name, see Northern Ireland Assembly (disambiguation). Northern Ireland Assembly Norlin Airlan Assemblie Tionól Thuaisceart Éireann …
13River engineering — The Los Angeles River is extensively channelized with concrete embankments. River engineering is the process of planned human intervention in the course, characteristics or flow of a river with the intention of producing some defined benefit.… …
14Seabed Arms Control Treaty — The Seabed Arms Control Treaty (or Seabed Treaty) is a multilateral agreement between the United States, Soviet Union, United Kingdom, and 84 other countries banning the emplacement of nuclear weapons or weapons of mass destruction on the ocean… …
15Territorial waters — Schematic map of maritime zones. Territorial waters, or a territorial sea, as defined by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea,[1] is a belt of coastal waters extending at most 12 nautical miles (22 km; 14 mi) from… …
16Marcellus Formation — Stratigraphic range: Middle Devonian …
17agricultural technology — Introduction application of techniques to control the growth and harvesting of animal and vegetable products. Soil preparation Mechanical processing of soil so that it is in the proper physical condition for planting is usually… …
18Drainage — See also: Storm drain and Stormwater Deep inside a Sydney drain in New South Wales Drainage is the natural or artificial removal of surface and sub surface water from an area. Many agricultural soils need drainage to improv …
19Deluge (prehistoric) — In the relatively recent geological past, several great floods are widely suspected to have occurred, with varying amounts of supporting evidence, usually as a result of the last Ice Age ending.Great floodAt the most recent glacial maximum, so… …
20Yenisey River — River, western Russia. One of the longest rivers in Asia, it rises in the borderland of south central Russia and Mongolia and flows along the edge of the West Siberian Plain to empty into the Kara Sea. Along its course it receives numerous… …
