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- Glacier (6999 bytes)
3: ...voir of fresh [[water]] on [[Earth]], and second only to the [[ocean]]s as the largest reservoir of to...
5: ...can calve underwater, causing the iceberg to suddenly explode up out of the water. The [[Hubbard Glaci...
17: ...nd lateral forces predominate and deposition of [[sediment]] occurs. Between these two zones is the ''line o...
25: ...ssively lower as one approaches the poles. [[Greenland]] and [[Antarctica]] are heavily glaciated, to... - Great Barrier Reef (3888 bytes)
14: ...000 people. By world standards the Reef is under only light environmental stress compared to all other...
16: ...sk zone where water quality has declined owing to sediment and chemical runoff from farming, and to loss of ... - Death Valley National Park (38245 bytes)
3: ...h]] to exploit minor local bonanzas of gold. The only long-term profitable ore to be mined, however, w...
5: ...of [[ice age]]s, with [[lake]]s, such as [[Lake Manly]].
36: ...ively small and steep alluvial fan for the stream sediments to collect on.
41: ... [[lake]] that once filled Death Valley ([[Lake Manly]]) was the last stop for water flowing in the re...
51: ... - remnants of the once huge lakes [[Lake Manly|Manly]] and [[Lake Panamint|Panamint]]. A much milder... - Roman Forum (4543 bytes)
9: ...located. Sequences of remains of paving show that sediment eroded from the surrounding hills was already rai...
24: ...d the beginning of clearing the Forum, which was only fully excavated in the early 20th century.
40: *[http://intranet.grundel.nl/thinkquest/introduction.html "Forum Romanum", a T... - Adriatic Sea (5830 bytes)
13: ...f [[Adria]] (or ''Hadria''), belonged originally only to the upper portion of the sea (Herodotus vi. 1...
15: But even then the Adriatic in the narrower sense only extended as far as the [[Mons Garganus]], the ou...
20: ...it connects at the south with the Ionian Sea, is only 45 miles (72 km) wide.
33: ...truding delta of the river [[Po river|Po]], the [[sediment]] of which has pushed forward the coastline for s...
39: ...long axis lying parallel with the coast of the mainland), rise rather abruptly to elevations of a few ... - Beach (8328 bytes)
22: ... Where wind is the force distributing the grains inland, the deposit behind the beach becomes a '''[[d...
24: ... area. However, the drift line is likely to move inland under assault by storm waves.
29: ...ent (water)|currents]] move sand or other loose [[sediment]]s of which the beach is made as these particles ... - Sedimentary rock (7917 bytes)
1: ...e:Limestoneshale7342.JPG|frame|right|Two types of sedimentary rock: limey [[shale]] overlaid by [[limestone]...
3: ...activity; and by precipitation from [[solution]]. Sedimentary rocks include common types such as [[chalk]], ...
6: ..., physical, and biological changes undergone by a sediment after its initial deposition and during and after...
8: .... Sedimentary rocks can contain fossils because, unlike most igneous and metamorphic rocks, they form ...
10: ...ent only a thin veneer over a crust consisting mainly of igneous and metamorphic rocks. - Coast (8529 bytes)
5: Coast is a very specific term and is only applied to that part of an island or continent t...
7: ...tion of the term "coast", the delineation of the inland extents of a coast differ according to [[juris...
23: ...canal]]s to permit ocean-going vessels to travel inland.
25: ...], [[fishing]], [[surfing]], [[boating]], and [[Sunlight#Sunbathing|sun bathing]].
27: ...ten cooler and more temperate than corresponding inland areas. Consequently tourists from areas exper... - River (12397 bytes)
4: ... lower end of a river is its [[base level]], commonly called its mouth, a river typically widens at it...
7: ...xbow lake]]. Rivers that carry large amounts of [[sediment]] develop conspicuous [[river delta|delta]]s at t...
31: ... the [[Nile]] and the accompanying [[silt]] and [[sediment]] which enriched the fields with fresh [[nutrient...
63: ... to measure what the world longest rivers are, mainly because rivers have a [[fractal]] property, whic... - Lake (11397 bytes)
1: ...de]]s. Large lakes are sometimes referred to as "inland [[sea]]s" and small seas are sometimes referre...
5: [[Finland]] is known as ''The Land of the Thousands Lake...
40: ...th, and is a measure for transparency. It is commonly used to test [[eutrophication]].
45: ...s closing process significantly because they trap sediment. Turbid lakes, and lakes with much plant-eating f...
51: ...ions this water will quickly evaporate or freeze unless insulated in some manner, such as by a coating... - Altiplano (3745 bytes)
2: ...(11,000 feet), somewhat less than that of Tibet. Unlike the [[Tibetan plateau]], however, the Altiplan...
16: ...ontrolled the spatial distribution of erosion and sediment deposition, controlling the lubrication along the...
17: ...e formation of internal drainage (endorheism) and sediment trapping within the Andes, potentially blocking t... - Arsenic (12497 bytes)
152: ...ty of ways over the past 200 years, but most commonly in the treatment of cancer. The [[FDA]] in 2000...
156: ... more expensive) than those made in [[silicon]]. Unlike silicon it is [[direct bandgap]], and so can b...
172: ...er is of natural origin, and is released from the sediment into the groundwater due to the anoxic conditions...
201: * [http://periodic.lanl.gov/elements/33.html Los Alamos National Laborato... - Aluminium (26079 bytes)
66: ...s]] (although its [[electrical conductivity]] is only 60% that of [[copper]], it's lighter in weight a...
70: *[[Powder]]ed aluminium is commonly used for [[silvering]] in [[paint]]. Aluminium f...
82: ... ordinary clay. He also assured the Emperor that only he, himself, and the Gods knew how to produce th...
97: ... its oxide is an extremely stable compound that, unlike rust on steel, does not flake off. The very re...
99: ...mounts of [[electricity]]; recycling it requires only 5% of the energy to produce it. A common practic... - Nickel (13955 bytes)
178: ...he Western World is used to make austenitic [[stainless steel]]. Another 12 percent goes into superall...
181: *[[Stainless steel]] and other corrosion-resistant [[alloy]...
229: ... abundances of extraterrestrial dust in ice and [[sediment]]. Nickel-60 is the daughter product of the extin...
241: *[http://periodic.lanl.gov/elements/28.html Los Alamos National Laborato... - Island (4674 bytes)
9: ...l shelf of that continent. Examples include [[Greenland]] and [[Sable Island]] off [[North America]], ...
16: ...arge [[river]]s. They are caused by deposition of sediment at points in the flow where the current loses som...
19: ...les]] and the [[South Sandwich Islands]] are the only [[Atlantic Ocean]] examples. - Pacific Ocean (14615 bytes)
18: ...and the skeletal remains of sea life. Terrigenous sediments are confined to narrow marginal bands close to l...
34: Only the interiors of the large land masses of [[Aust... - Fiddler Crabs (4009 bytes)
43: ... the form of a little ball. The presence of these sediment balls near the entrance to a burrow is a good ind... - George W. Bush (64926 bytes)
27: After graduating from Yale, Bush enlisted in the Texas [[Air National Guard]] on [[May...
75: ...emocracy around the world. George W. Bush is the only President to win re-election after losing the po...
109: ...rts/iraq_wmd/Iraq_Oct_2002.htm],[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1593607,00.html] See [[I...
150: ...by the Senate as a U.S. ambassador. (The first openly gay ambassador, [[James Hormel]], received a [[r...
189: ...t to begin cleaning up pollution and contaminated sediment in the Great Lakes, as well as the Brownfields Le... - Ice Age (15809 bytes)
3: ...ion we are still in an ice age (because the [[Greenland]] and [[Antarctic]] ice sheets still exist). M...
17: ...age:Five_Myr_Climate_Change.png|thumb|400px|right|Sediment records showing the fluctuating sequences of glac...
21: ...utions through time. Due to the positions of Greenland, Antarctica, and the northern portions of Euro...
23: ...to be worked out. Analyses of ice cores and ocean sediment cores unambiguously show the record of glacials a...
40: ...s can change and significantly redistribute the sunlight received by the Earth. Of particular importa... - Sedimentary rocks (7917 bytes)
1: ...e:Limestoneshale7342.JPG|frame|right|Two types of sedimentary rock: limey [[shale]] overlaid by [[limestone]...
3: ...activity; and by precipitation from [[solution]]. Sedimentary rocks include common types such as [[chalk]], ...
6: ..., physical, and biological changes undergone by a sediment after its initial deposition and during and after...
8: .... Sedimentary rocks can contain fossils because, unlike most igneous and metamorphic rocks, they form ...
10: ...ent only a thin veneer over a crust consisting mainly of igneous and metamorphic rocks.
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