• The linear depressions in this VIS image are tectonic graben. (asu.edu)
  • As Antarctica has been found to be the area with the highest concentration of volcanoes, this structure can be viewed as the key link in the global system of linear depressions formed during the stretching of the Earth's crust. (scirp.org)
  • The recent tectonic uplift of the Vršac Mts occurred in the Middle to Late Miocene along the WSW-dipping normal faults that control deposition in the adjacent Zagajica depression. (uu.nl)
  • Antarctic rift and major tectonic faults. (scirp.org)
  • Large negative anomaly in the total atmospheric ozone content over the Western Antarctic Rift system and tectonic faults along the continent borders (September 10, 2015). (scirp.org)
  • The Great Rift Valley is a vast geographical and geological feature of East Africa and South West Asia created by the rifting and separation of the African and Arabian tectonic plates over 35 million years ago. (begohatours.com)
  • As the ocean widened, the edge of ancient North America subsided, and a blanket of sedimentary layers buried the rift valleys and eroded mountain ranges. (universeofcabinets.net)
  • The present report summarises the current status of the work and is intended to provide a preliminary structural overview of the siting region focusing focusing on the Mesozoic sedimentary sequence and the larger-scale faults dissecting it. (nagra.ch)
  • Among the previously known main faults in the investigation area that were confirmed by the horizon and structure mapping of the NL-16 3D seismics are the Siglistorf Anticline and Eglisau Fault to the north of the Nördlich Lägern siting region and the Baden - Irchel - Herdern Lineament south of it. (nagra.ch)
  • When large amounts of pressure or tension are applied to rocks on timescales that are fast enough that the rock cannot respond by deforming, the rock breaks along faults. (asu.edu)
  • On the other hand, the western boundary of the graben is defined by a series of northeast trending normal faults such as Matata and Otakiri faults, characterised by steep negative gravity gradient in the south, and by Manawahe-White Island ridge immediately west of the faults, associated with negative gravity gradients in the north. (wgtn.ac.nz)
  • Ascending streams of hydrogen and other gases move along the tectonic faults of the lithosphere. (scirp.org)
  • Upward flows of hydrogen and other gases move along tectonic faults and fissures of the lithosphere from the mantle and core of the Earth. (scirp.org)
  • The sixth continent is surrounded by a dense network of tectonic faults. (scirp.org)
  • Salinic orogenic activity involved extensive thrust faulting and metamorphism, large strike-slip faults, and plutonism, all of which are represented in coastal Maine. (erudit.org)
  • Tectonic exhumation of the Jastrebac Mts, together with a cluster of Serbo-Macedonian gneiss domes that emerge from the surrounding Neogene sediments in the western-central part of the Morava Valley Corridor, was induced by corrugated detachment faults during the Oligocene-Miocene E-W oriented Dinaridic extension. (uu.nl)
  • Horst ridges and elongated depressions mark the Mälar tract and northern Östergötland, where the faults go east-west. (franciscogardening.com)
  • The images in colour, high resolution and 3-D show spectacular, curvilinear faults that have been opened up to 1 700 meter deep depressions by faulting in the Acheron mountain ranges. (fu-berlin.de)
  • Between the Columbia River and the Blue Mountains, the OWL is formed by a 200-m high escarpment that marks the trace of the Wallula fault zone, a series of high-angle en echelon faults that display evidence for both dip-slip and strike-slip motion. (whitman.edu)
  • Studying faults capable of releasing moderate-to-strong earthquakes is fundamental for seismic hazard studies, especially in a territory that was subject to the strongest peninsular Italy earthquake (1857, M w 7.1) and hosting the largest European oil field on-land. (nature.com)
  • The volcano has some faults on the eastern side of it that run north to south that have caused some lava flows. (universeofcabinets.net)
  • Most of the basalt erupted by the Yellowstone hotspot is contained in the low-elevation depression formed as the crust of the tectonic plate moved over the hotspot. (usgs.gov)
  • The shear wave velocity structure in the shallow crust of the Anyuan Mine and its adjacent areas displayed distinct low-velocity anomalies, which can be attributed to the depression of sedimentary structures and coal mining activities in the Pingxiang-Leping region. (springeropen.com)
  • Early eruptions produced rhyolite, a light-colored volcanic rock that has a high concentration of silica (quartz), in large caldera-forming eruptions. (usgs.gov)
  • Simultaneously the ice cover on the 10 km diameter Grimsvötn caldera some 15 km to the south of the active subglacial fissure started to rise indicating that melt water from the eruption was flowing into the caldera depression and lifting its ice cover. (mtu.edu)
  • Two major volcanic centers lie beneath the ice, the Bardarbunga volcanic centre and the Grimsvötn volcanic centre both with large subglacial caldera depressions. (mtu.edu)
  • Within the ice filled Grimsvötn caldera intense geothermal activity continuously melts the ice to form a subglacial lake, which at intervals of 5 to 10 years is emptied along subglacial channels to create large floods (jökulhlaup) on the sandur plain, Skeidararsandur, on the Icelandic south coast. (mtu.edu)
  • A large central depression is surrounded on the north and east by a ridge, which is a remnant of an open caldera rim. (si.edu)
  • Oceans and continents illustrate the largest grouping of landforms. (myupsc.com)
  • Individual larger landforms such as mountains, high plateaus, hill topography (see eg moraine moraine), plains and valleys are often concentrated in different parts of the country, which can therefore be divided into a number of main regions with respect to the topography. (franciscogardening.com)
  • Africa's landforms are constituted by very long (several thousands of kilometers) wavelength relief of broad "basins" (depressions) and swells (Holmes, 1944) possibly controlled by mantle dynamics. (hal.science)
  • First, a main large pediplain is formed during the uppermost Cretaceous (?75-66 Ma), acting as a base of any kind of landforms that would be formed afterwards, bounded westward by the Darfur-Ennedi crest. (hal.science)
  • Support your answer with observations on the major tectonic landforms of the region. (universeofcabinets.net)
  • Several graben are visible in this THEMIS VIS image, trending from north-northeast to south-southwest. (asu.edu)
  • Turkmenistan measures about 1,100 kilometers (700 miles) from east to west and 650 kilometers (430 miles) from north to south and is located on southern section of the great Eurasian plains. (factsanddetails.com)
  • Like the Himalayas to the south, the uplift of the Tien Shan results from the ongoing collision between the Eurasian and Indian continental tectonic plates. (nasa.gov)
  • Krakatoa lies along the convergence of the Indian-Australian and Eurasian tectonic plates, a zone of high volcanic and seismic activity. (universeofcabinets.net)
  • The Appalachians in North America and the Ural mountains in Russia have rounded features and low elevation. (myupsc.com)
  • Early Paleozoic amalgamation of composite terrancs was contemporaneous at widely separated regions that were later accreted to either ancestral North America or to Gondwana as those two continents approached each other. (erudit.org)
  • Terranes closer to Laurentia amalgamated in the Late Cambrian to Middle Ordovician Penobscottian orogeny and were accreted to ancestral North America in the Middle and to Late Orodovician Taconic orogeny. (erudit.org)
  • In the Devonian Acadian orogeny, more outboard terranes with Gondwanan affinities, like the Avalonian terranes in southern New Brunswick and in eastern Massachusetts, were amalgamated with the Silurian orogenic belt, and the resulting composite terrane was accreted to ancestral North America. (erudit.org)
  • The Guerrero terrane collided with the southwest edge of the continental margin and a subduction zone was rebuilt on the west face of the North America plate. (thearmchairexplorer.com)
  • On the Walla Walla Plateau, two of the largest rivers in North America meet: the Snake River which originates in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and the Columbia River which starts in the Columbia Icefields of the Canadian Rockies. (whitman.edu)
  • Plate convergence ceased soon after the ocean separating ancient North America from Gondwanaland closed. (universeofcabinets.net)
  • Farther east, the rocks formed elsewhere and were attached (accreted) to the edge of North America as the ocean closed. (universeofcabinets.net)
  • Many lakes in North America, including the Great Lakes, were created primarily by glaciers. (astellas-invitations.com)
  • Our network reveals evidence for the strongest temperature depression between mid-July and early-August 536 CE across North America and Eurasia, whereas more localised cold spells occurred in the summers of 532, 540-43, and 548 CE. (bvsalud.org)
  • Though considered to be of possible Holocene age on the basis of youthful morphology (McBirney and Williams, 1965), the volcano is highly dissected relative to the Holocene volcanoes across the Nicaraguan depression to the west. (si.edu)
  • Most of Europe's volcanoes are concentrated around the Mediterranean or Iceland, on the boundaries between tectonic plates. (euronews.com)
  • Stromboli, a small island north of #Sicily , is one of the most active volcanoes in the world. (euronews.com)
  • As well as being one of the largest volcanoes in Europe, it also has the longest historical record. (euronews.com)
  • Login Like continental volcanoes, submarine volcanoes are most common where tectonic plates move towards or away from each other. (universeofcabinets.net)
  • Lake Baikal was also formed by the movement of tectonic plates.Many lakes form as a result of volcanoes. (astellas-invitations.com)
  • The High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) onboard ESA s spacecraft orbiting Mars has imaged the Acheron Fossae region, an area of intensive tectonic activity in the past. (fu-berlin.de)
  • On the Triassic marker horizons, circular structural depressions and polygonal fault patterns which are possibly related to dissolution processes are recognised along the fault zone. (nagra.ch)
  • Due to its unique position in the interference zone of the two retreating Carpathian and Dinaridic slabs, the Northern Serbo-Macedonian sub-unit between the Vršac Mts in the north and the Jastrebac Mts in the south was strongly influenced by processes associated with the Oligocene-Miocene Pannonian extension. (uu.nl)
  • It is part of the Cumberland Plain area of Western Sydney and formed very slowly over 100 million years due to plate tectonic processes. (maps-sydney.com)
  • This zone is within a larger region of widespread volcanic and hydrothermal activity - the Central Volcanic Region, classified as a volcano-tectonic depression within a continental environment. (wgtn.ac.nz)
  • 4) prior to 10,000 years ago, information might be found on the Cerro San Jacinto page in the LaMEVE (Large Magnitude Explosive Volcanic Eruptions) database, a part of the Volcano Global Risk Identification and Analysis Project (VOGRIPA) . (si.edu)
  • at 35º-40º northern latitude and 220º-230º eastern longitude, and about 1000 km north of the complex of the large volcano Olympus Mons. (fu-berlin.de)
  • That led to the first subduction event in the Atlantic and silisiclastic sedimentation along the north and west margins of the emerging Gulf of Mexico. (thearmchairexplorer.com)
  • Karst caves are located in tectonic cracks, in dense white limestones of the Upper Cretaceous. (silkadv.com)
  • Fourth, the Eonile was incised during late Miocene (~10 Ma) at time of a major uplift at the scale of north-east Africa. (hal.science)
  • While it is chemically similar to other volcanic rocks in eastern Idaho that are related to the hotspot, it is located far from the hot spot track-a testament to its entanglement with tectonic activity of the Basin and Range Province. (usgs.gov)
  • This strike-slip fault extends for about 35 km from north of the Hula basin to the Awali river, and shows left-lateral strike-slip displacements (manifested as offset streams) and vertical movements. (researchgate.net)
  • To the north of this basin, they acknowledge that the trace is less clear. (researchgate.net)
  • The Serbo-Macedonian Massif represents a belt of medium to lower amphibolite facies metamorphics situated along the European continental margin between the Pannonian Basin in the north and the Aegean Sea in the south. (uu.nl)
  • Hence, large segments of the Northern Serbo-Macedonian sub-unit including its contact with the Supragetic Unit were buried beneath the Neogene sediments of the Morava Valley Corridor, as the southern prolongation of the Pannonian Basin. (uu.nl)
  • The North Slope terrane rotated counter-clockwise as the Canadian basin opened. (thearmchairexplorer.com)
  • Foreland basin deposits formed complex transgressive-regressive cycles on the west side of the seaway, then foreland basin shifted the locus of subsidence southward as the Cordilleran arc renewed with large plutonic events in the Peninsular Ranges, the Sierra Nevadas and Idaho. (thearmchairexplorer.com)
  • The Columbia Plateau is bordered on the north and east by the Rocky Mountains, the south by the Basin and Range Province, and the west by the Cascades. (whitman.edu)
  • Ichthyosaurs and pistosaurs were adapted for open marine conditions, and may have migrated from the Panthalassa Oceans into the shallow marine Germanic Basin to reproduce, whereas placodonts and many other sauropterygians seem to have lived permanently in those shallow marine habitats, with large squamates and thecodont or smaller archosaurs in coastal areas. (degruyter.com)
  • The bathtub mudstone rock layers are folded into a broad, shallow, basin-shaped depression, which is surrounded by steep terrain. (maps-sydney.com)
  • The Petén Basin receives more precipitation on average than in many other places in Guatemala, and the contrast between the drier and wetter seasons is smaller than in large parts of the country. (shopareview.com)
  • The geographical distribution of relief types and landform regions is dependent on the large-scale geological development for a very long time, while properties in the bedrock such as rock hardness and structural features often strongly influence the terrain's detailed design. (franciscogardening.com)
  • In this paper, data deriving from remote analysis and fieldwork surveys reveal key clues for better understanding the structural style and its control on the seismotectonic setting of a large portion of the intra-Apennine extensional belt of southern Italy. (nature.com)
  • Caspian Lowland') or Pricaspian/Peri-Caspian Depression/Lowland is a low-lying flatland region encompassing the northern part of the Caspian Sea, the largest enclosed body of water on Earth. (wikipedia.org)
  • The level of the Caspian sea is 28 metres (92 ft) below sea level, however several areas in the depression are even lower, and among them Karagiye near Aktau is the lowest at −132 metres (−433 ft). (wikipedia.org)
  • Many geologists believe the Caspian Sea and the depression were formed by tectonic forces. (wikipedia.org)
  • The southern region of the depression, or the north coast of the Caspian Sea, is characterized by the large development of damp sites resulting from tidal phenomena. (wikipedia.org)
  • The depression is also home to many insect species, with several thousand different species likely living in the region around the Caspian Sea. (wikipedia.org)
  • Located in southwestern Central Asia and bordered by Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan to the north and northeast, the Caspian Sea to the west, and Iran in the south. (factsanddetails.com)
  • East of the Caspian Sea The Kara-Kum and the Kyzyl-Kum ("Red Sand") desert of Uzbekistan merge, and together form the forth largest desert in the world. (factsanddetails.com)
  • Most of the population is concentrated on the borders, in the foothills of the Kopet Dagh, in the oases of the Murgab and Tejen rivers, along the Amu Darya in the east, the Caspian Sea shore in the west, and the western border of Khorezm in the north. (factsanddetails.com)
  • Central Asia is defined geographically by the Caspian Sea to the west, the northern part of the Kazakhstan steppe to the north, the Altay Mountains and Taklamakan Desert of China to the east and the Pamirs and southern Turkmenistan deserts in the south. (factsanddetails.com)
  • Template:Lang-tk , Template:IPA-tk [ 13 ] ) is a country located in Central Asia , bordered by Kazakhstan to the northwest , Uzbekistan to the north, east and northeast , Afghanistan to the southeast , Iran to the south and southwest and the Caspian Sea to the west. (wmflabs.org)
  • The Caspian Sea is the largest enclosed body of water on Earth by area, variously classed as the world's largest lake or a full-fledged sea. (absoluteastronomy.com)
  • The Ryn Desert or Ryn-Peski Desert , is a desert in western Kazakhstan and southeastern Russia, north of the Caspian Sea and southeast of the Volga Upland. (absoluteastronomy.com)
  • Our objective is here to unravel the paleorouting systems of the Nile River through relief growth, tectonic, and climate since the uppermost Cretaceous.Several generations of stepped pediments, proxies of relief growth, were characterized and mapped on DEM and satellite images and dated using their geometrical relationships with dated magmatic rocks. (hal.science)
  • The department of Petén, located in the north of the country, is largely due to the tropical rainforest climate (type Af). (shopareview.com)
  • This geological feature runs north to south for some 6000km from northern Syria to central Mozambique. (begohatours.com)
  • Overall, the S-wave velocity structure has a tight correlation with surface geological and tectonic features in the study area. (springeropen.com)
  • The Tien Shan (or "celestial mountains" in Chinese) is one of the largest continuous mountain ranges in the world, extending approximately 2500 kilometers roughly east-west across Central Asia. (nasa.gov)
  • The North Caspian depression is part of the continental or semi-arid desert biome. (wikipedia.org)
  • The term is thus applied to the landward portion of the upward slope from oceanic depths to continental highlands, to a region of depression in the interior of a mountainous region, to a plain of denudation, or. (absoluteastronomy.com)
  • The overwhelming power of the tectonic plates that created this fold and thrust mountain belt of the northern Phillip Smith and Romanoff Mountains also humbles us. (mushing.com)
  • Tectonic plates were reorganizing as the Kula Plate separated from the Farallon Plate and began moving northward along the coast. (thearmchairexplorer.com)
  • The major tectonic element in southeastern Washington is the northwest-trending Olympic-Wallowa lineament (OWL). (whitman.edu)
  • Research includes large scale experimental volcanology with a focus on magma / water interactions. (weebly.com)
  • In the northern part, the landscape type dominates the rocky plain, with sparse remnants and large plains in between. (franciscogardening.com)
  • According to satellite measurements, the Beijing region is sinking at an increasing rate as the soil of the North China Plain, like a sponge wrung dry, compacts around depleted aquifers. (circleofblue.org)
  • Sodom and its sister cities are located in the large oval-shaped, fertile plain just north of the Dead Sea called simply ha-kikkar , or "the Disk" (Genesis 13, verse 13). (biblicalarchaeology.org)
  • The tectonic significance of the WGE lineament is yet unclear. (nagra.ch)
  • The present eruption fissure is located between these two volcanic centres with a direction parallel to the regional tectonic lineament. (mtu.edu)
  • Within a climatic background, we found that VNCU of the QTP tends to decrease after large volcanic eruptions, lasting until about 3 years, with a maximum decrease value occurring in the following 1 year. (bvsalud.org)
  • Turkmenistan possesses the world's fifth largest reserves of natural gas . (wmflabs.org)
  • Beijing, one of the world's most water-scarce large cities, has long drawn on groundwater reserves to supply more than 20 million people. (circleofblue.org)
  • A common symptom of voracious groundwater use, subsidence is taking a toll on the world's largest urban areas. (circleofblue.org)
  • The Caspian Depression is below sea level, consisting of large areas of marshlands in the eastern region. (wikipedia.org)
  • The patch of seabed, at least 100 metres across, is one of many 'pockmarks' in the region - depressions in the sediments created by escaping gas. (zetatalk.com)
  • It shares a common eastern boundary with the Taupo Volcanic Zone and the larger Central Volcanic Region. (wgtn.ac.nz)
  • The Aral Sea was a lake that lay between Kazakhstan in the north and Karakalpakstan, an autonomous region of Uzbekistan, in the south. (absoluteastronomy.com)
  • Tracing this large-scale development helps us understand the place of origin of the various geologic provinces of the Southern Appalachian Mountains, as well as the rocks and structures observed along the Blue Ridge Parkway, the C&O Canal National Historical Park, and other NPS sites in the region. (universeofcabinets.net)
  • The area is very rich in underground oil and gas reserves, and oil and natural gas pipelines cross the depression from north to south and east to west. (wikipedia.org)
  • However, due to the particularly variable tectonic characteristics of the area, their further interpretation remains difficult for the moment. (nagra.ch)
  • The preliminary interpretation of the data suggests that this area hosts a large-scale monocline affecting the entire Mesozoic sedimentary stack. (nagra.ch)
  • The wreck, which has just been surveyed by submersible camera equipment, lies in an area known as the Witch's Hole, 150 kilometres north east of Aberdeen. (zetatalk.com)
  • From the Ume River and south to the lower part of Ljungan there is a fairly heavily hilly area with a large-scale crack valley terrain. (franciscogardening.com)
  • Guatemala is located in an area where heavy tropical depressions can regularly pass in the period from June to early December. (shopareview.com)
  • a large area of water surrounded by land and not connected to the sea except by rivers or. (astellas-invitations.com)
  • There are two types of places on Earth where glaciers form: at polar regions, whe-re it's always really cold, and at high elevations, such as large mountain ranges. (howstuffworks.com)
  • sur les roches de I'Ordovicien et du Silurien inferieur du facies intermediate a amphibolite de la depression de Fredericton. (erudit.org)
  • At the far end of the mountain there is a zone with mountain terrain, which has large plateaus of 600-700 m above sea level. (franciscogardening.com)
  • Eruptive centers migrated northeast along the hotspot track as the North American tectonic plate moved southwest over the hotspot. (usgs.gov)
  • These and related events shaped the landscape of eastern Washington, where the Earth's youngest basalt plateau was swept by the largest documented floods in geologic history. (whitman.edu)
  • Large, frequent floods can be expected to occur again within 10 or 20 years if - as expected - the historical pattern of rainfall and flooding repeats itself. (maps-sydney.com)
  • In actual fact, the Lambert appears to consist of a series of ice streams which flow into a tectonic depression and become channelled into an outlet glacier which forms a large ice-shelf where it enters a widening bay. (rosssea.info)
  • More than 800mm of rain has fallen in less than a week in some parts of the Australian state, leaving a trail of destruction which stretched from the densely populated suburbs of western Sydney to the sleepy coastal towns of Taree and Kempsey, hundreds of kilometres away on the NSW mid-north coast. (maps-sydney.com)
  • Guelph, Ontario) to utilize the IRA algorithm(Lindsay and Creed, 2005) to remove depressions from the ground surface. (researchgate.net)
  • A broad and elongated negative anomaly trending northwest from Mt. Edgecumbe to Manawahe may be related to the western boundary of the North Island Shear Belt. (wgtn.ac.nz)
  • Yakima fold belt structures plunge to the east and die out in central Washington, but the Horse Heaven Hills anticline continues east across southern Washington and intersects the larger Blue Mountains anticline in northern Oregon. (whitman.edu)
  • The Himalaya is classically divided into four tectonic units that can be followed for more than 2400km along the belt (Fig. VW is a higher education, k-12, and public outreach project of the Oregon Space Grant Consortium administered through the Department of Geosciences at Oregon State University. (universeofcabinets.net)
  • One of the most striking aspects of the Himalayan orogen is the lateral continuity of its major tectonic elements. (universeofcabinets.net)
  • The depression lies at the southern end of the Ryn Desert, and is in both Kazakhstan and Russia. (wikipedia.org)
  • The two largest cities in the depression are Astrakhan in Russia and Atyrau in Kazakhstan. (wikipedia.org)
  • Out of the twenty largest cities of Russia, eleven, including the capital Moscow, are situated in the Volga's drainage. (absoluteastronomy.com)
  • Itkillik ('Indian') Valley comprises a massively wide and long, glacially-sculpted, tussock-covered thoroughfare between North Slope drainages which empty into the Arctic Ocean and the North Fork of the Koyokuk River. (mushing.com)
  • The North Slope terrane moved south and East Siberian terranes moved west. (thearmchairexplorer.com)
  • The rotated North Slope terrane collided with Yukon-Tanana and related terranes in the north, helping to push up the Brooks Range and the north Cordillera. (thearmchairexplorer.com)
  • cirque glaciers occupy amphitheater-like depressions on the upper slopes of the mountains, and feed ice downslope to aggregate into large valley glaciers such as the one visible at image center. (nasa.gov)
  • Low clouds obscure an adjacent valley and glaciers to the north (image upper left). (nasa.gov)
  • glaciers grew and shrank in the Cascades to the west, British Columbia to the north, the Rockies to the east, and the Wallowa and Elkhorn Mountains to the southeast. (whitman.edu)
  • To the north of McMurdo the Drygalski, the David, Mawson and Mackay Glaciers are outlet type. (rosssea.info)
  • The Darwin with it's tributary, the Hatherton, occurs immediately north of the Barne (= Byrd) and south of the Mulock Glaciers and resembles greatly the FerrarTaylor. (rosssea.info)
  • Glaciers are the largest -moving objects on Earth . (howstuffworks.com)
  • Russian satellite photos have revealed huge deposits of salt domes (about 1,200), in the Caspian Depression in western Kazakhstan. (wikipedia.org)
  • Landlocked with a shore on the Caspain Sea, it is the second largest Central Asian nation republic after Kazakhstan, one of the southernmost former Soviet republics and one of the most sparely population nations in the world. (factsanddetails.com)
  • Au cours de l'oroginese Acadienne du Divonien, d'autres formations geologiques exterieures ayant des affinites avec le Gondwana, comme la formation geologique d'Avalon, dans le sud du Nouveau-Brunswick, et dans Test du Massachusetts, ont iti fusionnees avec la ceinture orogenique Silurienne, et la formation composite qui en est resulted a iti accoiee a I'Amirique du Nord ancestrale. (erudit.org)
  • From that time on, the Cimmerian Superterranes drifted away from Gondwana towards the north. (universeofcabinets.net)
  • The term body of water most often refers to large accumulations of water, such as oceans, seas, and lakes, but it may also include smaller pools of water such as ponds, puddles or. (absoluteastronomy.com)
  • Lake Tanganyika, second largest of the lakes of eastern Africa. (astellas-invitations.com)
  • The landing site in Jezero crater, just north of the Martian equator, contains an ancient river delta that looks Using compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) and energy-efficient vehicles also help reduce the amount of pollution going into the air.Lakes are among the most valuable and most beautiful of the Earths resources. (astellas-invitations.com)
  • The mountains here are jagged and dry and prone to earthquakes, with large dunes running up against them. (factsanddetails.com)
  • Block Mountains are created when large areas are broken and displaced vertically. (myupsc.com)
  • The dominantly pahoehoe lava field divided the Bristol Dry Lake, occupying a depression between the Bristol and Bullion Mountains, into two playas. (si.edu)
  • Earlier compression of the North American continent from 80 to 40 million years ago formed the Laramide Uplifts, which include the frontal ranges of the Rocky Mountains. (universeofcabinets.net)
  • South-moving Wrangellia captured the North Cascades, Tyaughton-Methow and adjacent terranes to form Baja BC. (thearmchairexplorer.com)
  • Central Asia is mostly arid and landlocked, with steppes in the north and harsh deserts in the south. (factsanddetails.com)
  • The Bardarbunga centre is a part of a fissure system extending over 100 km to the south and some 50 km to the north of the glacier. (mtu.edu)
  • The contact is marked by the E-dipping shear zone that can be traced along the eastern margin of Serbo-Macedonian Massif, from the Vršac Mts in the north, across the Jastrebac Mts and further towards the south in the Central Serbo-Macedonian sub-unit of south-eastern Serbia. (uu.nl)
  • In the western part of Central Sweden, the tectonic lines are north-south, which is also reflected in Vänern's contours. (franciscogardening.com)
  • The north-south oriented compressional stress regime of south-central Washington has existed from the Miocene to present. (whitman.edu)
  • Satellite view, unfortunately incomplete, by the USGS of broad Darwin Glacier to the north and the more deeply incised Hatherton Glacier and its tributaries to the south. (rosssea.info)
  • An extraterrestrial impact (asteroid) formed a depression in northwest Yucatan 65 million years ago, marking the end of the Cretaceous: the asteroid impact blanketed the planet in iridium dust which can still be seen sandwiched between layers of coal and sandstone in southern Colorado. (thearmchairexplorer.com)
  • Air temperature in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula in March 2014 and 2015 (Esperanza station). (scirp.org)
  • A number of factors are at play, including tectonic fault lines, soil types, and the location of groundwater wells. (circleofblue.org)
  • Within this zone you will only find one larger city, namely Quetzaltenango. (shopareview.com)
  • Macro means 'large' in Greek (and your body needs larger amounts of macrominerals than trace minerals). (mathisfunforum.com)
  • The Western Interior Seaway, present in the earlier Triassic but disappearing late in that Period, was reestablished on a larger scale. (thearmchairexplorer.com)