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- layered intrusions where differentiated rock types often occur in layers ... ==Distribution in space and time== The majority of ultramafic rocks ...7 KB (892 words) - 01:30, 3 May 2023
- illustration shows various components of space weathering]] Space weathering is a term used for a number of processes that act ...10 KB (1,503 words) - 17:14, 14 October 2022
- the largest and most important group of rock-forming minerals. According ... by shock during meteorite impacts. Lack of space around the oxygen atoms makes ...9 KB (1,269 words) - 22:04, 29 January 2023
- music to classical, world, ethnic, folk, rock, electronic, pop, jazz and ... acoustic guitar as well. Although more rock than new age in genre, the ...8 KB (1,225 words) - 16:29, 11 November 2022
- famous for her work with the "Little Rock Nine"—the first nine ... later in Fordyce, Arkansas and moved to Little Rock. ==Work== ...13 KB (1,959 words) - 07:47, 12 January 2024
- impacts the Earth's surface. While in space they are called meteoroids ... *Heat Shield Rock - Found on Mars. *Orgueil meteorite - Object of a ...5 KB (669 words) - 16:25, 9 November 2022
- The National Air and Space Museum (NASM) of the Smithsonian Institution ... all visitors. The glory of aviation and space technology, however, is often ...18 KB (2,632 words) - 01:35, 11 November 2022
- precipitous, cliff-like ridge of land or rock in the United States and Canada ... Studies of rock exposures and drillholes demonstrate that there is ...10 KB (1,467 words) - 23:26, 14 November 2022
- The breakdown products following chemical weathering of rock and sediment ... to a few negative degrees at night. As the rock heats up and expands by day ...18 KB (2,677 words) - 22:02, 11 June 2020
- agates may be found in various types of rock, they are especially common ... silica in solution percolated through the rock and deposited a siliceous ...9 KB (1,311 words) - 06:10, 16 June 2023
- Space manufacturing involves the production of manufactured goods ... Manufacturing in space has several potential advantages over Earth ...17 KB (2,555 words) - 19:04, 7 February 2023
- Regolith is a layer of loose, heterogeneous material covering solid ... " and lithos, which means "rock." It was first defined ...13 KB (1,996 words) - 03:04, 8 December 2022
- A space habitat, also called a space colony, orbital colony, space ... Several reasons have been given in support of space colonization. ...20 KB (3,078 words) - 19:03, 7 February 2023
- 1868 in Abri Cro-Magnon, the Cro-Magnon rock shelter at Les Eyzies, Dordogne ... as cave drawings), organization of living space, rituals (for example, burials ...8 KB (1,081 words) - 00:21, 15 January 2023
- crystallize in the orthorhombic system (space group Pbnm) with isolated ... * Rock (geology) * Silicate ==Notes== ==References== * Deer, W.A.; ...10 KB (1,460 words) - 10:32, 11 March 2023
- and part of the material ejected into space by the collision underwent ... or less of the crust consists of igneous rock added after formation of the ...13 KB (1,961 words) - 23:42, 5 May 2022
- totally dominating the extended cultural space that linked the European ... Several rock inscriptions and reliefs. Two equestrian reliefs at Naqsh ...12 KB (1,906 words) - 01:04, 1 January 2022
- notation and do sight-reading. In jazz, rock, and many popular music genres ... A-Team that played on numerous country and rock hits of the era, the two groups ...21 KB (3,114 words) - 14:58, 19 September 2023
- that lichen can even endure extended exposure to space. ... impossible for most plants, such as bare rock, sterile soil or sand, and ...19 KB (2,789 words) - 22:35, 25 October 2022
- Basalt is a common, gray to black volcanic rock. It is usually fine ... in the Earth's mantle (see Igneous rock). The crustal portions of ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 03:22, 1 January 2022
- to any structurally enclosed interment space or burial chamber. The term ... interree than a simple grave. Built from rock or sometimes wood, the chambers ...18 KB (2,713 words) - 03:55, 1 May 2023
- archaeological site comprising two massive rock temples in southern Egypt ... beloved by Amun," it was one of six rock temples erected in Nubia ...14 KB (2,343 words) - 06:55, 14 June 2023
- on rocks, in which case they are known as rock art, although the terms "petrogram ... * Marking a parking space reserved for vehicles used by the disabled ...12 KB (1,772 words) - 05:12, 24 November 2022
- includes smaller spaces like sea caves, rock shelters, and grottos. The ... *Solutional caves may form in places where the rock is soluble. They ...13 KB (2,017 words) - 16:20, 3 December 2023
- in 1983. Copied down to the texture of the rock, this nearly identical replica ... painting is situated in an area where the rock wall curves out on either ...13 KB (2,142 words) - 17:47, 25 October 2022
- the largest and most concentrated group of rock paintings in Sub-Saharan Africa ... after the Didima gorge nearby and its many rock art sites, the new Rock Art ...17 KB (2,547 words) - 17:32, 30 January 2024
- form of housing that is constructed in the rock of high cliffs. In many cases ... of large enough extent to produce a large rock formation. The stone may be ...26 KB (3,864 words) - 22:05, 7 January 2024
- audio engineer. Active in five decades of rock music and frequently reinventing ... the public in the autumn of 1969, when his space-age mini-melodrama "Space ...30 KB (4,767 words) - 07:53, 28 January 2024
- The Rock Garden is a sculpture garden in Chandigarh, India. Spread ... The Rock Garden project was secretly initiated by Nek Chand around ...17 KB (2,491 words) - 00:49, 18 November 2022
- and islets off the coast, including Castle Rock, Speery Island, The Needle ... areas are barren, covered in volcanic rock, and warmer and drier than ...33 KB (4,923 words) - 20:47, 17 April 2023
- as masonry (brick, concrete and stone) or rock. Drilling rigs are used to ... allow a worker to drive screws in a tight space. These are currently less ...16 KB (2,609 words) - 21:09, 30 January 2024
- often used for solo melodies. Unlike in rock, a lead guitar is rarely used. ... Stone magazine titled "Discotheque Rock '72: Paaaaarty!" ...17 KB (2,430 words) - 15:28, 29 January 2024
- Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965, in the San ... As a highly successful, self-sustaining touring rock band, the Grateful ...21 KB (3,133 words) - 17:52, 20 January 2023
- a plateau, but a real summit, limited in space, and only permitting to walk ... high to low between two objects (e.g., a rock and the top of a pole) in ...13 KB (1,933 words) - 20:32, 8 September 2023
- * For recreation: rock climbing tower * As a symbol: Tower of Babel ... |File:Space Needle 2011-07-04.jpg|Space Needle, Seattle ...14 KB (2,026 words) - 23:53, 28 April 2024
- by proving that there were objects in space that cannot be seen by the ... by showing that there were objects in space to be discovered that until ...25 KB (3,695 words) - 03:54, 18 April 2024
- been considered for use in ion engines for space vehicles (but caesium and ... aligned toward a particular direction in space, rather than randomly). Rubidium ...14 KB (1,892 words) - 20:57, 21 December 2022
- and including time, causation, and space, and thus can never be known ... To draw another example, God cannot create an infinite rock, since ...25 KB (3,894 words) - 00:37, 18 November 2022
- for viharas were established such as the rock-cut chaitya-grihas of the ... This basic layout was similar to that of the communal space of an ...11 KB (1,664 words) - 22:03, 17 April 2023
- was an iconic English twentieth-century rock and roll songwriter and singer ... was five years old. Due to a lack of home space and concerns expressed about ...28 KB (4,343 words) - 11:39, 19 October 2023
- cools quickly by radiating its heat into space. Urban areas in deserts lack ... ice sheet and two percent barren rock. The largest hot desert is ...20 KB (3,022 words) - 09:55, 29 January 2024
- Space colonization (also called space settlement, space humanization ... Many people think of space colonies on the Moon or Mars, but others ...37 KB (5,482 words) - 22:47, 5 February 2023
- collection included in the 1977 Voyager space probe, ensuring that the ... like "Goodnight Irene," "The Rock Island Line," and "The ...14 KB (2,084 words) - 04:32, 17 June 2023
- first established in 1958, as the Ayers Rock–Mount Olga National Park ... and, 40 km (25 mi) to its west, Kata Tjuta rock formations (in English, "Ayers ...28 KB (4,287 words) - 01:31, 3 May 2023
- was common in Greece and Rome. Wall or rock painting for commercial advertising ... these agencies were just brokers for ad space in newspapers, but by the ...19 KB (2,738 words) - 06:22, 15 June 2023
- One example of this is "Hit and Rock," which is a variant ... to the chair, sit fully in the chair and rock back and forth at least one ...19 KB (3,068 words) - 22:48, 29 January 2023
- are a number of figures etched into the rock. Further inside, in several ... It has two galleries, one of which contains rock paintings. There ...25 KB (4,047 words) - 06:22, 18 November 2022
- (0.2 percent content). Interestingly, lunar rock samples retrieved by Apollo space missions were found to have a relatively high content of yttrium. ...12 KB (1,634 words) - 21:34, 4 June 2023
- is a complex of igneous and metamorphic rock; younger sedimentary rock ... along the crest of the Continental Divide, rock walls that Native Americans ...17 KB (2,479 words) - 02:29, 16 December 2022
- The Acropolis is a flat-topped rock which rises 512 feet above ... steep, narrow flights of steps cut in the rock. Homer is assumed to refer ...17 KB (2,700 words) - 05:39, 15 June 2023
- is no longer a library. Today, it is a space for performances, readings ... tall, lead-paned windows, which flood the space with light. M. Carey Thomas ...14 KB (2,073 words) - 16:50, 22 November 2023
- feet (310,000 square meters) of built-up space, serving as home to over ... to function. As well as built-up office space, it also provides all utilities ...28 KB (3,882 words) - 00:49, 21 April 2023
- comet, called its nucleus, is composed of rock, dust, and ice. The coma and ... were icy objects containing some dust and rock. Whipple, F.L. (1950) A Comet ...28 KB (4,322 words) - 00:05, 8 January 2024
- and the lead guitarist and vocalist for the rock and roll band Grateful Dead ... that were available to him; folk, blues, rock, bluegrass and developed an ...37 KB (5,901 words) - 08:01, 3 April 2024
- sources for certain types of generators in space probes and artificial heart ... thermoelectric generators used for space probes and artificial heart ...13 KB (1,992 words) - 08:22, 23 July 2023
- fishing--from sandy and rocky beaches, rock jetties, or even fishing piers ... rocks or when fishing from mossy and slimy rock jetties, cleated boots or ...12 KB (1,914 words) - 23:52, 26 February 2023
- albums—Under the Jasmine Tree (1967) and Space (1969). of playing for little money (compared to rock and roll stars). As there ...8 KB (1,251 words) - 19:25, 9 November 2022
- include at least one root (such as "rock", "god", "type ... orthography, the letter sequences "rock," "god," "write ...33 KB (4,842 words) - 20:11, 25 February 2023
- also known as traprock, and sedimentary rock in faulted and tilted layers ... accounts for the highest surface layers of rock strata on the southern three–fourths ...33 KB (4,756 words) - 10:34, 10 March 2023
- Pink Floyd is an English progressive rock band that initially earned recognition for their psychedelic or space rock music, and, as they evolved ...51 KB (7,954 words) - 20:40, 9 April 2023
- in that the center of mass lies in open space between the two, a characteristic ... primarily with artificial objects flown in space – including, sometimes ...19 KB (2,647 words) - 15:21, 11 November 2022
- In addition, they contribute to urban space easement. Road construction ... often begun with the removal of earth and rock by digging or blasting, construction ...32 KB (4,686 words) - 21:07, 16 April 2023
- hand, when density is calculated based on the space lattice structures of these elements, one obtains a value of 22,650 kilograms per cubic meter ...14 KB (1,905 words) - 04:43, 18 November 2022
- planets. They shared the same region of space, between Mars and Jupiter ... to Earth—with bodies largely composed of rock: Mercury, Venus, Earth, and ...37 KB (5,416 words) - 07:49, 24 November 2022
- of the most influential guitar players in rock music history. ... Hendrix was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 ...26 KB (4,016 words) - 01:11, 9 February 2023
- government, delayed the introduction of rock music until the 1990s. ... The music progressed into Chinese rock, which remained popular in ...33 KB (4,845 words) - 16:58, 24 October 2023
- world is the best possible world and that space and time must be relative ... when we assert that the throwing of a rock caused the breaking of a window ...10 KB (1,478 words) - 17:58, 10 December 2023
- of carriage roads, and the central space, called Andohalo, was enhanced with walks, terraces, flower-beds, and trees. Water, previously obtained ...13 KB (1,867 words) - 05:19, 31 July 2023
- " "Fairyland," "Iceberg Rock," "Temple of the ... Pit," "Giant Dome," "Rock of Ages," and "Painted ...19 KB (2,927 words) - 15:25, 27 November 2023
- An avalanche is a huge, rapid slide of snow, ice, rock, or soil down ... Avalanches occur when the load on the upper layers of snow, rock, ...28 KB (4,333 words) - 07:09, 23 August 2023
- [[Image:Olduvai ast.jpg|thumb|310px|Olduvai Gorge from space]] ... 000 years old. It has two main divisions of rock layer—upper and lower—that ...9 KB (1,415 words) - 00:05, 18 November 2022
- Psychedelic rock is a style of rock music inspired by or attempting ... Alongside the progressive stream, space rock bands such as Hawkwind ...40 KB (6,210 words) - 08:25, 2 December 2022
- the war, he successfully planned the U.S. space program from the first satellite ... for astronomy and the realm of outer space. When, as a result of the ...47 KB (7,340 words) - 17:15, 4 May 2023
- of Earth as they travel together through space. The spinning Earth's ... the buffalo, and so forth. A 5,000-year-old rock carving at Knowth, Ireland ...39 KB (6,162 words) - 13:13, 10 March 2023
- as 10,000 K. Much of Mercury's surface rock could have vaporized at such ... composition of the planet. Two upcoming space missions, MESSENGER and BepiColombo ...35 KB (5,451 words) - 16:12, 9 November 2022
- series of rooms, Varese created a sound and space installation geared towards ... * Another admirer was the rock/jazz group Chicago, whose Pianist/keyboardist ...13 KB (2,028 words) - 01:30, 16 January 2023
- sun. This is due to extremely hot gases and rock in the center. ... #039;s core, the continued radiation into space of leftover heat generated ...30 KB (4,444 words) - 16:20, 11 November 2022
- surrounded, according to Paulus, "such space as was reserved in the eastern ... separated the apse from the nave in the rock-cut churches, though by the ...15 KB (2,299 words) - 05:39, 27 February 2023
- atlas, defined a continent as "a large space of dry land comprehending ... a platform of metamorphic and igneous rock, largely of granitic composition ...22 KB (3,308 words) - 19:07, 19 May 2020
- Planet and Satellite seems suspended in space, without any support; performing ... or music from the genres of space music, space rock, or classical music. ...27 KB (4,171 words) - 07:49, 24 November 2022
- bridges carved tunnels into the rings of rock so that ships could pass into ... Believers, however, strongly argue that the rock formation is too symmetrical ...22 KB (3,236 words) - 06:23, 21 August 2023
- easily, the river has undercut the hard cap rock and created the falls. ... rocks which were deposited by a massive rock slide in 1954. The larger ...27 KB (4,264 words) - 09:42, 11 March 2023
- The manipulation of interior space in residential and public buildings ... areas form virtually one uninterrupted space. This building had the most ...16 KB (2,277 words) - 05:05, 9 April 2024
- the core, and it radiates more energy into space than it receives from the ... common on Jupiter. In 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope observed an enormous ...26 KB (3,935 words) - 17:00, 23 December 2022
- with steep side walls composed of sound rock.[http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbi ... side walls but also the character of the rock should be carefully inspected. ...36 KB (5,567 words) - 18:07, 24 January 2024
- power ballad is a love song performed using rock instruments. ... **Space Oddity **She's Leaving Home **A Day in the Life ...9 KB (1,452 words) - 05:56, 26 August 2023
- Earth; and even sending a message into space. While evidence has not yet ... long as humankind was unable to travel into space, extraterrestrial life seemed ...28 KB (4,265 words) - 00:00, 25 March 2024
- of one or more musical styles—e.g. blues, rock, folk, jazz—and work within ... Experimenting with the concepts of shape, space, time and energy while moving ...10 KB (1,481 words) - 15:30, 4 February 2023
- Davis was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ... then-prevalent bebop, Davis was allowed the space to play long, legato, and ...36 KB (5,661 words) - 15:45, 20 September 2023
- they allow for the expansion of habitable space in urban areas where space ... demands for additional office and housing space. A new building complex in ...21 KB (3,158 words) - 22:48, 29 January 2023
- is based on the actual highest point of rock and not on the snow and ice ... a GPS unit into the highest bedrock. A rock-head elevation of 29,035 feet ...31 KB (4,841 words) - 17:06, 10 November 2022
- NASA uses fire protection engineers on its space program to ensure safety. ... and slopes. The engineer designs ground and rock anchors, decides on the use ...12 KB (1,647 words) - 22:27, 10 December 2023
- sink and planes to crash. The discovery of rock formations called the "Bimini ... the Bermuda Triangle area is an anomaly of space and time in which planes ...20 KB (3,000 words) - 11:18, 28 September 2023
- The limited space in a bonsai pot means that regular attention is ... *The root-over-rock style, or Sekijoju, is a style in which the roots ...25 KB (3,891 words) - 07:23, 17 November 2023
- surface or crust, which allows hot, molten rock, ash, and gases to escape ... oceanic crust is being formed by hot molten rock slowly cooling down and solidifying ...32 KB (4,841 words) - 20:59, 3 May 2023
- intrusion of igneous matter forces surface rock upward, creating a landform ... , melting occurs in rock above the slab (due to the addition of water ...28 KB (3,998 words) - 16:21, 17 January 2023
- the Mississippi River near present-day Rock Island, Illinois, diverting ... *Rock River in Illinois *Maquoketa River in Iowa *Wisconsin River in ...31 KB (4,768 words) - 11:11, 10 March 2023
- slowly becomes thinner and fades away into outer space. ... any appreciable extent, escape into outer space. The main gases in the exosphere ...24 KB (3,540 words) - 17:34, 12 February 2024
- habitat, from oceans to fresh water to bare rock to soil. ... composite membrane with an intermembrane space, has its own DNA, is involved ...12 KB (1,656 words) - 17:46, 12 May 2020
- ===Tulutson Glacier and other new rock glaciers=== During the winter ... crater wall above Tulutson Glacier feeding rock and ice to the Tulutson Glacier ...26 KB (4,064 words) - 01:45, 11 March 2023
