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- In geology, the term crust is used for the outermost solid shell of a planet or moon. It is chemically and mechanically different from underlying ...13 KB (1,961 words) - 23:42, 5 May 2022
- Glaciology is the study of natural forms of ice, particularly glaciers ... earth science, integrating geophysics, geology, physical geography, geomorphology ...7 KB (1,046 words) - 14:34, 22 May 2024
- Feldspar is the name of a group of rock-forming minerals that make ... Feldspar is derived from the German Feld (field) and Spat (a rock ...5 KB (690 words) - 01:58, 26 March 2024
- minerals) and have a relatively low content of silica. The Earth's mantle ... Ultramafic rocks are generally composed of more than 90 percent mafic ...7 KB (892 words) - 01:30, 3 May 2023
- Bauxite is an important ore of aluminum, composed mainly of aluminum ... Bauxite consists predominantly of minerals such as gibbsite (Al(OH ...6 KB (660 words) - 03:09, 26 September 2023
- Regolith is a layer of loose, heterogeneous material covering solid ... it is found to host many minerals and is the zone through which aquifers ...13 KB (1,996 words) - 03:04, 8 December 2022
- by electronegative ligands. Most often, the ligands are oxygen atoms ... In mineralogy, the silicate class constitutes the largest and most ...9 KB (1,269 words) - 22:04, 29 January 2023
- The Precambrian (or Pre-Cambrian) is an interval of geologic time ... The precambrian is the earliest part of Earth's history, set ...13 KB (1,894 words) - 12:14, 14 April 2026
- Catastrophism is the idea that Earth's features have remained ... Recently, however, the scientific consensus has been changing toward ...15 KB (2,089 words) - 17:51, 30 November 2023
- with a glassy form that is produced during the rapid cooling of volcanic ... People of early cultures used obsidian to produce weapons, tools, ...7 KB (1,010 words) - 18:52, 31 July 2025
- Olivine (also called chrysolite) is a name used for a series of minerals ... Chemically, members of this series are composed of magnesium iron ...10 KB (1,460 words) - 10:32, 11 March 2023
- A canyon or gorge is a deep valley between cliffs, often carved from ... A submarine canyon is a steep-sided valley on the sea floor of the ...14 KB (2,019 words) - 19:29, 25 November 2023
- Posidonius (or Poseidonus; Greek: Ποσειδώνιος) "of ... Posidonius was the first Stoic to admit that passions were an inherent ...16 KB (2,403 words) - 22:57, 13 April 2026
- The Canadian Shield—also called the Laurentian Plateau, Laurentian ... In geology, a shield is generally a large area of exposed Precambrian ...12 KB (1,798 words) - 15:56, 9 April 2025
- is usually fine-grained due to rapid cooling of lava on the Earth's surface ... Basalt magmas form by decompression melting of peridotite in the Earth ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 03:22, 1 January 2022
- Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve is a U.S. National ... The Monument was established on May 2, 1924. A Presidential proclamation ...35 KB (5,657 words) - 06:16, 11 January 2024
- :In British English, “geyser” can also refer to the water heating ... A geyser is a type of hot spring that erupts periodically, ejecting ...16 KB (2,365 words) - 18:49, 21 May 2024
- The Galilean moons are the four moons of Jupiter discovered by Galileo ... The four moons were discovered sometime between 1609 and 1610, when ...25 KB (3,695 words) - 03:54, 18 April 2024
- Earth is the third planet in the solar system in terms of distance ... Since its formation, the Earth has been transformed through various ...38 KB (5,592 words) - 17:34, 12 February 2024
- A volcano is an opening, or rupture, in the Earth's surface or ... or come together. A mid-oceanic ridge, like the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, has examples ...32 KB (4,841 words) - 20:59, 3 May 2023
