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- Wadi Harrana is a seasonal stream (wadi) in the eastern Jordanian Badia, about sixty kilometers southeast of the city of Amman. It runs eastwards from...4 KB (400 words) - 10:27, 2 August 2024
- Terrain or relief (also topographical relief) involves the vertical and horizontal dimensions of land surface. The term bathymetry is used to describe...14 KB (1,592 words) - 03:56, 24 February 2023
- A nor'easter (also northeaster; see below) is a large-scale extratropical cyclone in the western North Atlantic Ocean. The name derives from the direction...43 KB (2,467 words) - 02:19, 23 July 2024
- A microclimate (or micro-climate) is a local set of atmospheric conditions that differ from those in the surrounding areas, often slightly but sometimes...30 KB (3,745 words) - 18:26, 6 June 2024
- Lincoln Ellsworth (May 12, 1880 – May 26, 1951) was a polar explorer from the United States and a major benefactor of the American Museum of Natural History...10 KB (1,049 words) - 18:21, 17 January 2024
- Procolpochelys is an extinct genus of sea turtle from the Miocene of what is now Maryland, Virginia, and New Jersey. Its fossils have been found in the...1 KB (69 words) - 14:51, 24 June 2021
- The geology of Jersey is characterised by the Late Proterozoic Brioverian volcanics, the Cadomian Orogeny, and only small signs of later deposits from...19 KB (2,721 words) - 09:05, 14 July 2024
- Eucrites are achondritic stony meteorites, many of which originate from the surface of the asteroid 4 Vesta and are part of the HED meteorite clan. They...4 KB (314 words) - 20:39, 28 September 2022
- Howardites are achondritic stony meteorites that originate from the surface of the asteroid 4 Vesta, and as such are part of the HED meteorite clan. There...3 KB (162 words) - 01:47, 20 June 2021
- Friederichsen Glacier (66°38′S 64°9′W / 66.633°S 64.150°W / -66.633; -64.150) is a glacier 7 nautical miles (13 km) long, which flows in an easterly...1 KB (146 words) - 10:15, 23 March 2023
- A katabatic wind (named from Ancient Greek κατάβασις (katábasis) 'descent') carries high-density air from a higher elevation down a slope under the force...8 KB (830 words) - 14:17, 8 August 2024
- Nunataks, also called glacial islands, are exposed portions of ridges, mountains, or peaks not covered with ice or snow within (or at the edge of) an ice...57 KB (7,453 words) - 06:54, 9 May 2023
- Saussure Glacier (67°11′S 67°0′W / 67.183°S 67.000°W / -67.183; -67.000) is a glacier flowing northeast from Tyndall Mountains, Arrowsmith Peninsula...923 bytes (121 words) - 23:24, 30 March 2023
- Arcadia is an extinct genus of temnospondyl amphibians in the family Rhytidosteidae from the early Triassic. The remains were found in and named after...2 KB (109 words) - 16:58, 28 October 2022
- Palaeosaurus (or Paleosaurus) is a genus of indeterminate archosaur known from two teeth found in the Bromsgrove Sandstone Formation and also either the...12 KB (1,265 words) - 22:28, 31 May 2023
- Sordes was a small pterosaur from the late Jurassic (Oxfordian/Kimmeridgian) Karabastau Svita of Kazakhstan. This genus was named in 1971 by Aleksandr...5 KB (617 words) - 00:57, 30 April 2023
- Daspit Glacier (68°10′S 65°45′W / 68.167°S 65.750°W / -68.167; -65.750) is a glacier 6 nautical miles (11 km) long, flowing east-northeast along the...2 KB (208 words) - 21:45, 23 August 2022
- Meridian Glacier (68°45′S 66°37′W / 68.750°S 66.617°W / -68.750; -66.617) is a broad glacier, 9 nautical miles (17 km) long, which flows south along...1 KB (162 words) - 10:29, 8 August 2024
- In geology, shear is the response of a rock to deformation usually by compressive stress and forms particular textures. Shear can be homogeneous or non-homogeneous...9 KB (1,076 words) - 13:58, 30 September 2022
- Chorobates Rock (Bulgarian: скала Хоробат, romanized: skala Chorobates, IPA: [skɐˈla horoˈbat]) is the rock off the NW coast of northwest coast of Nelson...3 KB (292 words) - 05:52, 4 May 2022