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  • 41continental — adj. Continental is used with these nouns: ↑breakfast, ↑drift, ↑slope …

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  • 42Scrat Continental Cack-up — Scrat Continental Crack up es el cuarto cortometraje de Ice Age y es el cortometraje basado en Ice Age Continental Drift Trama Scrat nuevamente esta buscando un lugar para esconder su bellota extrañamente lo esconde ariba de una montaña y se abre …

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  • 43Big Drift — The Big Drift is an area along the Going to the Sun Road where a large amount of winter snow can accumulate to depths in excess of 100 feet (30 m). Located immediately east of Logan Pass in Glacier National Park, the westerly winds push snow over …

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  • 44Indian Plate — [ continental drift, the India Plate split from Madagascar and collided with the Eurasian Plate resulting in the formation of the Himalayas.] The India or Indian Plate is a tectonic plate that was originally a part of the ancient continent of… …

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  • 45continentaldrift — continental drift n. The movement, formation, or re formation of continents described by the theory of plate tectonics. * * * …

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  • 46plate tectonics — plate tectonic, adj. Geol. a theory of global tectonics in which the lithosphere is divided into a number of crustal plates, each of which moves on the plastic asthenosphere more or less independently to collide with, slide under, or move past… …

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  • 47Plate tectonics — The tectonic plates of the world were mapped in the second half of the 20th century …

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  • 48Antarctica — /ant ahrk ti keuh, ahr ti /, n. the continent surrounding the South Pole: almost entirely covered by an ice sheet. ab. 5,000,000 sq. mi. (12,950,000 sq. km). Also called Antarctic Continent. * * * Antarctica Introduction Antarctica Background:… …

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  • 49Earth Sciences — ▪ 2009 Introduction Geology and Geochemistry       The theme of the 33rd International Geological Congress, which was held in Norway in August 2008, was “Earth System Science: Foundation for Sustainable Development.” It was attended by nearly… …

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  • 50Alfred Wegener — Infobox Scientist name = Alfred Wegener box width = image size =180px caption = Alfred Wegener, around 1925 birth date = November 1, 1880 birth place = Berlin death date = November 2, 1930 death place = Greenland residence = citizenship =… …

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