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    surrounding mantle, it sinks to discontinuity. Once the slabs build up, they will sink through to the lower mantle in what is known as a "slab avalanche". This...
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    and pushed the Vitiaz slab into the mantle and initiated the subduction at New Hebrides trench. The slab avalanche was initiated at c. 8 Ma and most of...
    37 KB (4,010 words) - 12:27, 21 January 2024
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    Lenin Peak disaster (category Deaths in avalanches)
    during an avalanche on the 7,134-meter-high mountain peak in northeast Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan (then part of the USSR). The deadly avalanche was triggered...
    8 KB (775 words) - 20:25, 13 July 2024
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    with smaller or larger red patches with a clear to dark red mantle and reddish-brown mantle being the most 'valuable',. A brindle reddish colour and brownish-yellow...
    36 KB (4,114 words) - 22:08, 1 July 2024
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    that erupted onto the surface from partial melting in the mantle confirm the mafic mantle composition, which is more iron-rich than that of Earth. The...
    267 KB (25,878 words) - 11:40, 24 July 2024
  • Adventure as a nameless character, remaining unnamed until the game Kirby's Avalanche. The character also appears in several Kirby comic books, in the 2001...
    26 KB (2,542 words) - 13:07, 8 June 2024
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    reaches deep into the mantle, more than 600 km (370 mi), and encounters barriers, it is being contorted, which produces deep mantle earthquakes. About 500 km...
    30 KB (3,114 words) - 13:07, 7 January 2024
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    in The Balleny Islands: Melting of Plume-Delivered Deep Mantle or Shallow Asthenospheric Mantle?" (PDF). Seventh Annual V. M. Goldschmidt Conference. Retrieved...
    94 KB (9,604 words) - 08:38, 21 June 2024
  • 2008. Arnold, William (November 26, 2008). "Hang on—the holiday movie avalanche is picking up speed". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Retrieved December 3...
    113 KB (12,243 words) - 05:04, 2 July 2024
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    railways, and 185 miles (298 km) of highway were destroyed. A massive debris avalanche, triggered by a magnitude 5.1 earthquake, caused a lateral eruption that...
    85 KB (8,809 words) - 04:57, 23 July 2024
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    A. J. Greer (category Colorado Avalanche draft picks)
    (NHL). He was selected in the second round, 39th overall, by the Colorado Avalanche in the 2015 NHL Entry Draft. Greer played minor ice hockey in West Lanaudière...
    21 KB (1,692 words) - 11:45, 8 July 2024
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    Galtür avalanche, the deadliest avalanche in the Alps in 40 years July 2014 Mont-Blanc avalanche January 13, 2016 Les-Deux-Alpes avalanche January 18...
    104 KB (12,126 words) - 18:23, 20 July 2024
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    seamount chain, formed by volcanic activity over a hotspot in the Earth's mantle. The islands are about 1,860 miles (3,000 km) from the nearest continent...
    35 KB (3,726 words) - 02:19, 18 June 2024
  • for an earlier argument and they become engaged. Enraged, Tetch dons the mantle of the Mad Hatter, using his mind-control devices to make Alice his, prompting...
    67 KB (551 words) - 18:30, 14 June 2024
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    the overlying mantle rock, which then undergoes partial melting, rises (due to its lighter density relative to the surrounding mantle rock), and pools...
    19 KB (2,347 words) - 10:57, 22 July 2024
  • Kernmantle rope (redirect from Kern-mantle)
    rope used in caving is generally exposed to increased abrasion, so the mantle is woven more tightly than rope used in climbing or rappelling. However...
    8 KB (910 words) - 20:42, 24 June 2024
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    origin, and thus tend to be found on oceanic crust near mid-ocean ridges, mantle plumes, and island arcs. Overall, seamount and guyot coverage is greatest...
    48 KB (5,211 words) - 21:23, 4 March 2024
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    Ruden (1992). "Theoretical study of a potential low-noise semimetal-based avalanche photodetector". IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics. 28 (2): 507–513....
    91 KB (10,905 words) - 08:34, 24 July 2024
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    into the mantle. The depression usually totals a third of the ice sheet or glacier's thickness. After the ice sheet or glacier melts, the mantle begins...
    78 KB (9,040 words) - 08:36, 19 July 2024
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    the mantle (that is, the heat transfer caused by the slow movement of ductile mantle rock). Thus, oceanic parts of plates and the adjoining mantle convection...
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