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  • Thumbnail for Formation of rocks
    This article discusses how rocks are formed. There are also articles on physical rock formations, rock layerings (strata), and the formal naming of geologic...
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    located in the same volume using velocity differences. This requires a coherent transmitter. Another technique uses a moving target indicator that subtracts...
    103 KB (12,049 words) - 19:48, 20 November 2024
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    readjustments and the puzzling challenge of “fluidization”, namely making coherent rocks behave like a liquid without melting. This involves characterizing and...
    25 KB (3,250 words) - 18:18, 28 October 2024
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    Aplite (category Felsic rocks)
    an advanced stage. In this state, the parent intrusion is mechanically coherent enough to support tensile stresses, leading to fractures. These fractures...
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    are reminiscent of the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, though much less coherently designed than is characteristic of Wright, given its patchwork of external...
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    condition of their very existence". Through these characters Joyce "achieves a coherent and integral interpretation of life". In Axel's Castle (1931), Edmund Wilson...
    110 KB (13,361 words) - 13:03, 14 November 2024
  • Sedimentology (category Sedimentary rocks)
    geologic history through observations of sedimentary rocks and sedimentary structures. Sedimentary rocks cover up to 75% of the Earth's surface, record much...
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    Pariwhero / Red Rocks is a geological formation located in a scientific reserve on the south coast of Wellington, New Zealand. The site has been classified...
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    use the term bed to refer to a thickness-independent layer comprising a coherent layer of sedimentary rock, sediment, or pyroclastic material bounded above...
    15 KB (1,568 words) - 01:39, 28 October 2024
  • common aspect in many of Sanderson’s works). The shroud regularly produces coherent nightmare creatures that can hurt or kill humans. Nikaro is a Painter,...
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    that he was planning a series of treatises on a variety of subjects. A coherent treatise on anatomy is said to have been observed during a visit by Cardinal...
    137 KB (14,837 words) - 12:16, 24 November 2024
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    topography of land, whether a particular region is dominated by hard or soft rocks, and the gradient of the land. Geomorphologists and hydrologists often view...
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    Granulite (category Metamorphic rocks)
    welded them together into coherent rock. It is now believed, however, that they are comparatively recent and include sedimentary rocks, partly of Palaeozoic...
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  • calling it "a surprisingly coherent and inspired album. Although it's not up to par with such classics as Toys in the Attic or Rocks (although it could have...
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  • density Particle density (packed density) Packing density Void (composites) Coherent diffraction imaging Glasbey, C. A.; G. W. Horgan; J. F. Darbyshire (September...
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    Saltman, Erin Marie (3 November 2016). "The mind of Islamic State: more coherent and consistent than Nazism". The Guardian. ISBN 978-1-906603-98-4. Archived...
    305 KB (24,698 words) - 22:16, 21 November 2024
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    developed as part of the grand country house estates have largely retained a coherent identity. The village of Ampleforth and its Abbey and College lie within...
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  • of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences achieve the first coherent picture of atomic nuclei made from only quarks and gluons, fusing this...
    216 KB (20,373 words) - 18:09, 25 November 2024
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    to what extent Snorri's account of Ymir is an attempt to synthesize a coherent narrative for the purpose of the Prose Edda and to what extent Snorri drew...
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    Anorthosite (category Plutonic rocks)
    Mid-ocean ridge and transform fault anorthosites Anorthosite xenoliths in other rocks (often granites, kimberlites, or basalts) Of these, the first two are the...
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