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31Ophiolite — Ordovician ophiolite in Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland. An ophiolite (  / …
32Mantle plume — A superplume generated by cooling processes in the mantle.[1] A mantle plume is a hypothetical thermal diapir of abnormally hot rock that nucleates at the core mantle boundary and rises through the Earth s mantle. Such plumes were invoked in 1971 …
33Merced River — Coordinates: 37°20′57″N 120°58′32″W / 37.34917°N 120.97556°W / 37.34917; 120.97556 …
34Western Interior Seaway — during the mid Cretaceous, about 100 million years before the present The Western Interior Seaway, also called the Cretaceous Seaway, the Niobraran Sea, and the North American Inland Sea, was a huge inland sea that split the continent of North… …
35Nazca Plate —   The Nazca plate, shown in light blue Full size image showing all plates The Nazca Plat …
36Indo-Australian Plate — The Indo Australian Plate is a major tectonic plate that includes the continent of Australia and surrounding ocean, and extends northwest to include the Indian subcontinent and adjacent waters. Recent studies suggest that the Indo Australian… …
37Craton — Geologic provinces of the world (USGS)   Shield …
38Terrane — A terrane in geology is a fragment of crustal material formed on, or broken off from, one tectonic plate and accreted sutured to crust lying on another plate. The crustal block or fragment preserves its own distinctive geologic history, which is… …
39The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception — or Mystic Christianity is a Rosicrucian text, written by Max Heindel (ISBN 0 911274 34 0) Western Wisdom Teachings The first edition was printed in November 1909, it has little changed since then and it is considered to be Max Heindel s magnum… …
40Caribbean Plate — The Caribbean Plate is a mostly oceanic tectonic plate underlying Central America and the Caribbean Sea off the north coast of South America. Roughly 3.2 million square kilometers (1.2 million square miles) in area, the Caribbean Plate borders… …
