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  • 11Lossiemouth — Infobox UK place official name= Lossiemouth gaelic name= Inbhir Losaidh scots name= Lossie local name= country= Scotland map type= Scotland population= 6803 population density= os grid reference= NJ235705 edinburgh distance= london distance=… …

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  • 12Nuthetes — Vertebrata Nuthetes Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, 143 Ma …

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  • 13chert — noun Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1679 a rock resembling flint and consisting essentially of a large amount of fibrous chalcedony with smaller amounts of cryptocrystalline quartz and amorphous silica • cherty adjective …

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  • 14Glagolitic alphabet — Infobox Writing system type=Alphabet name=Glagolitic time=862/863 to the Middle Ages languages=Old Church Slavic creator=Saints Cyril and Methodius sample=Kodex.Zograf.jpg caption=A page from the Zograf Kodex with text of the Gospel of Luke… …

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  • 15Well drilling — Tricone rock bit Well drilling is the process of drilling a hole in the ground for the extraction of a natural resource such as ground water, natural gas, or petroleum. Drilling for the exploration of the nature of the material underground (for… …

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  • 16Chert — For the Spanish municipality, see Xert. Chert Chert (  / …

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  • 17Basanite — (pronEng|ˈbæsənaɪt) is an igneous, volcanic (extrusive) rock with aphanitic to porphyritic texture. The mineral assembly is usually abundant feldspathoids (nepheline or leucite), plagioclase, and augite, together with olivine and lesser iron… …

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  • 18Portuguese Bend — The Portuguese Bend region is the largest area of natural vegetation remaining on the Palos Verdes Peninsula.Though once slated for development (and in fact the projected route of Crenshaw Boulevard through the area still shows on many maps), the …

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  • 19Delaware Basin — Exposed and buried parts of Capitan Reef. Blue area shows area once flooded by the Delaware Sea. The Delaware Basin in West Texas and southern New Mexico is famous for holding large oil fields and for exposing a fossilized reef. Guadalupe… …

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  • 20Mylonite — An amphibolitic mylonite showing a number of (rotated) porphyroclasts: a clear red garnet left in the picture while smaller white feldspar porphyroclasts can be found all over. Location: the tectonic contact between th …

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