Search results
Appearance
- Ecotourism is a form of tourism marketed as "responsible" travel (using what proponents say is sustainable transport) to natural areas, conserving the...69 KB (8,915 words) - 00:45, 2 July 2024
- The Hebridean Terrane is one of the terranes that form part of the Caledonian orogenic belt in northwest Scotland. Its boundary with the neighbouring Northern...10 KB (1,113 words) - 21:21, 30 November 2021
- Victoriapithecus macinnesi was a primate from the middle Miocene that lived approximately 15 to 17 million years ago in Northern and Eastern Africa. Through...8 KB (804 words) - 20:59, 1 April 2023
- Cleavage, in structural geology and petrology, describes a type of planar rock feature that develops as a result of deformation and metamorphism. The degree...11 KB (1,184 words) - 17:11, 4 June 2023
- Avalanche control or avalanche defense activities reduce the hazard avalanches pose to human life, activity, and property. Avalanche control begins with...19 KB (2,396 words) - 01:45, 24 October 2023
- This is a list of earthquakes in 2018. Only earthquakes of magnitude 6 or above are included, unless they result in damage and/or casualties, or are notable...158 KB (6,387 words) - 19:48, 9 June 2024
- 44°01′48″N 79°31′39″W / 44.03000°N 79.52750°W / 44.03000; -79.52750 The Koffler Scientific Reserve at Jokers Hill, is a biological field station belonging...9 KB (1,017 words) - 08:47, 5 January 2022
- Upper-atmospheric models are simulations of the Earth's atmosphere between 20 and 100 km (65,000 and 328,000 feet) that comprises the stratosphere, mesosphere...7 KB (829 words) - 14:56, 24 August 2022
- An interplate earthquake is an earthquake that occurs at the boundary between two tectonic plates. Earthquakes of this type account for more than 90 percent...16 KB (1,208 words) - 21:55, 25 December 2022
- A snow gauge is a type of instrument used by meteorologists and hydrologists to gather and measure the amount of solid precipitation (as opposed to liquid...5 KB (707 words) - 15:04, 15 September 2022
- Listwanite (also sometimes spelled listvenite, listvanite, or listwaenite) is a rock type that forms when the groundmass of ultramafic rocks, most commonly...4 KB (465 words) - 22:37, 26 September 2023
- The Kauaʻi palila or Pila's palila (Loxioides kikuchi) is an extinct species of Hawaiian finch that was much larger than the palila (Loxioides bailleui)...2 KB (195 words) - 20:23, 6 April 2023
- Thecospondylus (THEEK-o-SPON-di-lus, "sheath vertebra") is a dubious genus of dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of England. Scientists are unsure as to...3 KB (368 words) - 20:16, 17 January 2024
- William Thomson (1760 – November 1806) was an English mineralogist, who used the name Guglielmo Thomson in Italy in later life. He died in Palermo at the...6 KB (565 words) - 10:04, 2 November 2022
- The Canyon Lands Section of the Colorado Plateau is a physiographic section of the larger Colorado Plateaus province, which in turn is part of the larger...5 KB (566 words) - 20:12, 7 June 2022
- S-200 is a bioremediation product used to clean up oil spills. It is an oleophilic nitrogen-phosphorus nutrient that promotes the growth of micro-organisms...6 KB (732 words) - 01:12, 14 January 2021
- Oecoptychius is an extinct genus of fossil ammonite cephalopods. The species lived during the Middle Jurassic. Oecophtychius was named by Neumayr[who?]...2 KB (156 words) - 23:00, 17 December 2021
- Frank Rutley (14 May 1842 – 16 May 1904), an English geologist and petrographer, was born in Dover on 14 May 1842. He was educated partly in Bonn, but...2 KB (296 words) - 00:06, 28 October 2022
- Agathiceratidae, as revised[who?], makes up the goniatitid superfamily Agathiceratoidea. Agathiceratidae, which lived from the Upper Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian)...2 KB (218 words) - 18:06, 1 March 2022
- Emerging in North America in the 1970s and 1980s, vertical tillage (VT) is a system of principles and guidelines similar to conservation agriculture (CA)...4 KB (431 words) - 14:08, 12 June 2023