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51Thasos — Infobox Greek Isles name = Thasos native name = Θάσος skyline = Thassos Limenas.jpg sky caption = Limenas coordinates = coord|40|43|N|24|46|E chain = North Aegean isles = area = 380.097 highest mount = Mt. Ypsario elevation = 1205 periph = East… …
52Rock (geology) — In geology, rock is a naturally occurring aggregate of minerals and/or mineraloids.The Earth s outer solid layer, the ‘lithosphere’, is made of rock. In general rocks are of three types, namely, igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic. The… …
53Geology of Taiwan — Taiwan is active geologically, showing plate boundary tectonics. The island formed at the junction of the Luzon Volcanic Arc (吕宋岛火山弧) and the Ryukyu Volcanic Arc (琉球火山弧). Subduction changes direction at Taiwan. South of the island, the Philippine …
54GEOGRAPHICAL SURVEY — Names The name Ereẓ Israel (the Land of Israel) designates the land which, according to the Bible was promised as an inheritance to the Israelite tribes. In the course of time it came to be regarded first by the Jews and then also by the… …
55Snowball Earth — The Snowball Earth hypothesis as it was originally proposedcite book author = Kirschvink, J.L. year = 1992 chapter = Late Proterozoic low latitude global glaciation: The snowball Earth title = The Proterozoic Biosphere: A Multidisciplinary Study… …
56Death Valley National Park — IUCN Category II (National Park) …
57List of important publications in geology — This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries. This is a list of important publications in geology, organized by field. Some… …
58New Siberia — Native name: Новая Сибирь Location of New Siberia in the Anzhu subgroup …
59Geology of the Himalaya — [ Fig 1: The earth in the Early Permian. At that time, India is part of Gondwana and bordered to the north by the Cimmerian Superterrane. Paleogeographic reconstructions. By Dèzes (1999), based on Stampfli and Borel (2002) and Patriat and Achache …
60Isua greenstone belt — The Isua greenstone belt is an Archean greenstone belt in southwestern Greenland dated at 3.8 3.7 Ga and contains the oldest known, well preserved, metavolcanic (metamorphosed mafic volcanic), metasedimentary and sedimentary rocks on Earth. It… …
