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  • 31Mount Baker — For other uses, see Mount Baker (disambiguation). Mount Baker Mount Baker as seen from the Southeast at Boulder Creek …

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  • 32Plate tectonics — The tectonic plates of the world were mapped in the second half of the 20th century …

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  • 33Cumbre Vieja — Satellite photo of Caldera de Taburiente and Cumbre Vieja, La Palma, Canary Islands. (South is above, North below.) Elevation …

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  • 34Delamination (geology) — Sierra Nevada Mountains (formed by delamination) as seen from the International Space Station. In geophysics, delamination refers to the loss and sinking of the portion of the lowermost lithosphere from the tectonic plate to which it was attached …

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  • 35Magnetosphere of Jupiter — Discovery[1] Discovered by …

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  • 36Mining in Afghanistan — It is estimated that forty million years ago the tectonic plates of India Europe, Asia and Africa collided in a massive upheaval. This upheaval created the region of towering mountains that now includes Afghanistan. That process also deposited… …

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  • 37Hawaii — This article is about the U.S. state of Hawaii. For its Big Island , see Hawaii (island). For other uses, see Hawaii (disambiguation). For geographic details, see Geography and environment or Hawaiian Islands. Coordinates …

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  • 38William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin — Infobox Scientist box width = 300px name = Lord Kelvin image width = 300px caption = William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824 1907) birth date = birth date|1824|6|26|df=y birth place = Belfast, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland death date = death date… …

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  • 39Diapir — For the undergarment, see Diaper. An original Mathmos Astro lava lamp. A lava lamp illustrates Rayleigh–Taylor instability type diapirism in which the tectonic stresses are low. A diapir ( …

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  • 40Ogaden Basin — The Ogaden Basin is an area of Ogadkenya that may hold significant reserves of crude oil and natural gas.[1] The basin covers an area of some 350,000 square kilometres (135,000 square miles) and is formed from sedimentary rocks up to 10,000… …

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