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51List of geology topics — This is a list of all articles related to geology that cannot be readily placed on the following subtopic pages: Geology subtopics* Geologic time scale * List of compounds * List of earthquakes * List of elements by name * List of geology of… …
52List of plate tectonics topics — This is a list of articles related to plate tectonics and tectonic plates.*African Plate *Anatolian Plate *Antarctic Plate *Arabian Plate *Asthenosphere *Back arc basin *Blind thrust earthquake *Cocos Plate *Continent *Continental drift… …
53Continental crust — The thickness of the Earth s crust (km). The continental crust is the layer of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks which form the continents and the areas of shallow seabed close to their shores, known as continental shelves. This layer… …
54Veikko Aleksanteri Heiskanen — (1894 ndash; 1971) was a famous Finnish geodesist.He is mostly known for his refinement of the theory of isostasy by George Airy and for his studies of the global geoid.*1931 1949 Professor of Geodesy, Helsinki University of Technology *1933 1936 …
55The High Coast — Infobox World Heritage Site WHS = Kvarken Archipelago / High Coast State Party = FIN and SWE Type = Natural Criteria = viii ID = 898 Region = Europe and North America Year = 2000 Session = 24th Extension = 2006 Link =… …
56Hawaiian-Emperor seamount chain — The Hawaiian Emperor seamount chain is composed of the Hawaiian Ridge, consisting of the islands of the Hawaiian chain northwest to Kure Atoll, and the Emperor Seamounts, a vast underwater mountain region of islands and intervening seamounts,… …
57Felix Andries Vening Meinesz — Infobox Scientist name = Felix Andries Vening Meinesz box width = image width =150px caption =Vening Meinesz with his gravimeter birth date = July 30 1887 birth place = the Hague death date = August 10 1966 death place = Amersfoort residence =… …
58Gravity anomaly — A gravity anomaly is the difference between the observed gravity and a value predicted from a model. Geodesy and geophysicsIn geodesy and geophysics, the usual model is the surface of a global spheroid (ellipsoid of Hayford or WGS84) by rather… …
59Kvarken — High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago * UNESCO World Heritage Site Country Fin …
60Sial — or SiAl is also the name for the upper layer of the Earth s crust, which is also known as the continental crust because it is absent in the wide oceanic basins. This layer is made of rocks rich in silicates and aluminium minerals. When the sial… …
