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Early world maps cover depictions of the world from the Iron Age to the Age of Discovery and the emergence of modern geography during the early modern period.Old maps provide information about places that were known in past times, as well as the philosophical and cultural basis of the map, which were often much different from modern cartography.
[10] [11] The geological definition of a continent has four criteria: high elevation relative to the ocean floor; a wide range of igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks rich in silica; a crust thicker than the surrounding oceanic crust; and well-defined limits around a large enough area.
Abraham Ortelius by Peter Paul Rubens, 1633. Abraham Ortelius (Ortelius 1596), [6] Theodor Christoph Lilienthal (1756), [7] Alexander von Humboldt (1801 and 1845), [7] Antonio Snider-Pellegrini (Snider-Pellegrini 1858), and others had noted earlier that the shapes of continents on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean (most notably, Africa and South America) seem to fit together. [8]
TEOS-10 (Thermodynamic Equation of Seawater - 2010) is the international standard for the use and calculation of the thermodynamic properties of seawater, humid air and ice. It supersedes the former standard EOS-80 (Equation of State of Seawater 1980). [ 1 ]
Playing with Fire (Spanish: Jugar con fuego) is an American television series produced by Telemundo International Studios and Globo for Telemundo. The story is based on the 2014 Brazilian miniseries Amores Roubados, written by George Moura. [1] [2] It aired from 22 January 2019 to 4 February 2019 [3]