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- Continent (6440 bytes)
2: ...aking Alexandria as a [[prime meridian]], they divided the ''oikoumene'' or habitable earth into three...
4: ...es, consisting of a thin [[basalt]]ic layer of solidified mantle, and covered by a sea punctuated with...
13: ...fine larger land masses connected with a [[land bridge]]:
18: ...oss_section_Earth2.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipa...
19: ... the Americas. These land masses are usually considered [[supercontinent]]s rather than continents, t... - Plate tectonics (27764 bytes)
3: ...way from each other), and transform (two plates slide past one another). [[Earthquake]]s, [[volcano|vo...
8: ... on the fluid-like asthenosphere. The relative fluidity of the asthenosphere allows the tectonic plate...
17: ...ry|Transform boundaries]]''' occur where plates slide, or perhaps more accurately grind, past each oth...
18: ...ivergent boundaries]]''' occur where two plates slide apart from each other.
19: ... [[orogeny|orogenic belt]] (if the two simply collide and compress). - Eurasia (4541 bytes)
3: ...tinents of [[Europe]] and [[Asia]]. It can be considered a [[supercontinent]], part of a supercontinen...
9: ...e and Asia to be separate continents, with the dividing line placed along the [[Dardanelles]], [[Bosph...
11: ... and [[East Eurasia]], and they are further subdivided into regions like [[Europe]], [[East Asia]], [[...
37: *[[Laurasia]], a theoretical supercontinent joining Eurasia a...
39: ...Asia and the Caucasus, as well as in Russia, the Middle East, and Southwest Asia.] - Supercontinent (3497 bytes)
3: ...masses connected with an [[isthmus]] are also considered a supercontinent or just a [[continent]], suc...
5: ...ercontinent, see [[Pangaea]] and its successors [[Laurasia]] and [[Gondwana]].
7: ...into the northern and southern supercontinents, [[Laurasia]] and [[Gondwana]].
21: * [[Laurasia]] - Geologic time scale (26014 bytes)
3: Current geologic [[Radiometric dating|evidence]] holds that the [[age of the Earth]] is abou...
7: ... Eons are divided into Eras, which are in turn divided into Periods, Epochs and Stages. At the same t...
9: ... to as the [[Waucoban]] series that is then subdivided into zones based on [[trilobita|trilobites]]. ...
13: ...d, or even inverted after deposition; 2) Strata laid down at the same time in different areas could ha...
15: ...hampioned by [[Abraham Werner]], among others) divided the rocks of the Earth's crust into four types:... - Ocean (6829 bytes)
6: ...water|salt water]], called the World Ocean, is divided by the [[continents]] and [[archipelago]]s into...
12: ... collision of [[Cimmerian plate|Cimmeria]] with [[Laurasia]]. The [[Mediterranean Sea]] is very nearly its o...
51: ...t)|Neptune]] may also possess large oceans of liquid water under their thick atmospheres, though thei...
53: ...n hemisphere, and over what happened to it if it did; recent findings by the [[Mars Exploration Rover]...
55: ...er than an "ocean". The distribution of these liquid regions will hopefully be better known after the ... - Pangaea (1625 bytes)
10: ...dinia]] had formed approximately 1,100 MYA and divided 750 MYA.
12: ...uthern part, [[Gondwana]], and a northern part, [[Laurasia]]. - Mammal classification (78467 bytes)
1: ...represent a completely distinct group. Competing ideas about the relationships of mammal orders do pe...
3: ...ource for the [[taxonomy]] listed here. Simpson laid out a [[systematics]] of [[mammal]] origins and r...
9: ...ve-bearing therians. The therians are further divided into the marsupial Metatheria and the "placenta...
15: **Family [[Tachyglossidae]]
16: **Family [[Ornithorhynchidae]] - Kentrosaurus (4090 bytes)
9: {{Taxobox_familia_entry | taxon = [[Stegosaurid]]ae}}
29: ...angaea]], and later the northern half, known as [[Laurasia]]. These two points must also have had very simil... - Eocene (7034 bytes)
1: ...at define the start and end of the epoch are well identified, but their exact dates are slightly uncer...
24: ...ears [http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/intro/schmidt_02/]. The Thermal Maximum provoked a sharp extin...
33: The northern [[supercontinent]] of [[Laurasia]] began to break up, as [[Europe]], [[Greenland]]...
47: ...d begun to dry out, with forests thinning out considerably in some areas. The newly-evolved [[grasses]...
49: ...]] tropical species. By the end of the period, deciduous forests covered large parts of the northern c... - Mesozoic (1564 bytes)
8: ...rasia]] and the southern continent [[Gondwana]]. Laurasia then split into [[North America]] and [[Eurasia]]...
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