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21Delaware Basin — Exposed and buried parts of Capitan Reef. Blue area shows area once flooded by the Delaware Sea. The Delaware Basin in West Texas and southern New Mexico is famous for holding large oil fields and for exposing a fossilized reef. Guadalupe… …
22Passive margin — A passive margin is the transition between oceanic and continental crust which is not an active plate margin. It is constructed by sedimentation above an ancient rift, now marked by transitional crust. Continental rifting creates new ocean basins …
23Lord's Resistance Army insurgency (1994–2002) — The start of the period 1994 to 2002 of the Lord s Resistance Army insurgency in northern Uganda saw the conflict intensifying due to Sudanese support to the rebels. There was a peak of bloodshed in the mid 1990s and then a gradual subsiding of… …
24Erg (landform) — For other uses, see Erg (disambiguation). Issaouane Erg, Algeria. (31°11 …
25Leaning Tower of Pisa — n. bell tower in Pisa, Italy, which leans approx. 10° from the vertical * * * White marble campanile in Pisa, Italy, famous for the uneven settling of its foundation, which caused it to lean 5. 5 degrees (about 15 ft [4.5 m]) from the… …
26Grand Canyon series — Major division of rocks in northern Arizona dating from Precambrian time. The rocks of the series consist of about 10,600 ft (3,400 m) of quartz sandstones, shales, and thick sequences of carbonate rocks. Spectacular exposures of these rocks… …
27sedimentary rock — Rock formed at or near the Earth s surface by the accumulation and lithification of fragments of preexisting rocks or by precipitation from solution at normal surface temperatures. Sedimentary rocks can be formed only where sediments are… …
28horse latitude — ▪ meteorology either of two subtropical atmospheric high pressure belts that encircle the Earth around latitudes 30°–35° N and 30°–35° S and that generate light winds and clear skies. Because they contain dry, subsiding air, they produce… …
29ebb — 1. verb 1) the tide ebbed Syn: recede, go out, retreat, flow back, fall back/away, subside Ant: come in 2) his courage began to ebb Syn: diminish, dwindle …
30droop — vb Droop, wilt, flag, sag are comparable when they mean to sink or to lose in vigor, firmness, or freshness. Droop stresses a hanging or bending downward (as through exhaustion, discouragement, or lack of nourishment) {some of the watchers were… …
