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111Geography of Turkey — Turkey is situated in Anatolia and Southeastern Europe (that portion of Turkey west of the Bosphorus is geographically part of Europe, and Anatolia is part of Southwestern Asia), bordering the Black Sea, between Bulgaria and Georgia, and… …
112Mount Merapi — This article is about Mount Merapi in Central Java. For detailed information on the 2010 eruptions please, see 2010 eruptions of Mount Merapi. For Mount Merapi in West Sumatra, see Mount Marapi. Mount Merapi Gunung Merapi …
113Federal Emergency Management Agency — FEMA redirects here. For other uses, see FEMA (disambiguation). Federal Emergency Management Agency Agency overview Formed April 1, 1979 …
114Libraries and Museums — ▪ 2007 Introduction Libraries and museums grappled with ways to attract more patrons during the year, introducing innovative software (Library 2.0), technological wizardry (iPods as museum aides), and even “bib dating.” Efforts continued to… …
115Geology of Tasmania — Tasmania has a varied geological history, with the world s biggest exposure of diabase, or dolerite. Rocks from the Neoproterozoic, Paleozoic and Mesozoic time periods appear. It is one of the few southern hemisphere areas glaciated during the… …
116plate 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… …
117Yangtze River — Chinese Chang Jiang or Ch ang Chiang River, China. Rising in the eastern Kunlun Mountains in western China, it flows southeast, continuing east across Yunnan province and then across the rest of south central China to the East China Sea near… …
118Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant — Not to be confused with Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Plant. See also: Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant The Fukushima Daiichi NPP in 2002 …
119Arctic Ocean — an ocean N of North America, Asia, and the Arctic Circle. ab. 5,540,000 sq. mi. (14,350,000 sq. km). * * * Arctic Ocean Introduction Arctic Ocean Background: The Arctic Ocean is the smallest of the world s five oceans (after the Pacific Ocean,… …
120Large igneous province — Only a few of the largest Large Igneous Provinces are indicated (by the dark purple areas) on this geological map, which depicts crustal geologic provinces as seen in seismic refraction data. A Large Igneous Province (LIP) is an extremely large… …
