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    Sordes was a small pterosaur from the late Jurassic (Oxfordian/Kimmeridgian) Karabastau Svita of Kazakhstan. This genus was named in 1971 by Aleksandr...
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    A helictite is a speleothem (cave-formed mineral) found in a limestone cave that changes its axis from the vertical at one or more stages during its growth...
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    A hurricane force wind warning is a warning issued by the National Weather Service of the United States when sustained winds or frequent gusts of 64 knots...
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  • Thumbnail for International waste
    International waste is any organic waste product that is deemed unsafe to be released into the environment or standard municipal solid waste stream that...
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  • Thumbnail for Geology of Yemen
    The geology of Yemen includes extremely ancient Precambrian igneous and metamorphic crystalline basement rocks overlain by sediments from the Paleozoic...
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  • A geomagnetic excursion, like a geomagnetic reversal, is a significant change in the Earth's magnetic field. Unlike reversals, an excursion is not a "permanent"...
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  • Gamma ray logging is a method of measuring naturally occurring gamma radiation to characterize the rock or sediment in a borehole or drill hole. It is...
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  • Sediment Profile Imagery (SPI) is an underwater technique for photographing the interface between the seabed and the overlying water. The technique is...
    62 KB (8,663 words) - 17:47, 8 November 2021
  • An urban thermal plume describes rising air in the lower altitudes of the Earth's atmosphere caused by urban areas being warmer than surrounding areas...
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  • Several vector diagrams are often used to demonstrate the physics underlying the Foucault pendulum. Diagrams are provided to illustrate a pendulum located...
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  • Dusicyon cultridens or Dusicyon patagonicus cultridens is an extinct canid species in the genus Dusicyon. However, the classification of this species is...
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  • Tverrnipa Peak (72°15′S 1°19′E / 72.250°S 1.317°E / -72.250; 1.317) is a peak, 2,195 m, surmounting the north end of Tverrveggen Ridge in the Sverdrup...
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  • Liberation cutting has similar goals to cleaning, namely the allocation of resources to the most promising trees available on a site. What separates liberation...
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  • The environmental movement has made considerable progress from the first Greenpeace protest involving six people and a boat in 1971, to the environmental...
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    A self-powered dynamic system[excessive citations] is defined as a dynamic system powered by its own excessive kinetic energy, renewable energy or a combination...
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