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Canary Islands (Spain) - politically and culturally associated with Europe; Faroe Islands (Denmark) Greenland (Denmark) - geographically a part of the continent of North America, politically and culturally associated with Europe. Iceland - traverses the border between the North American and the Eurasian continental plates, politically and ...
Moonstone cabochon. The most common moonstone is of the orthoclase feldspar mineral adularia, named for an early mining site near Mt. Adular in Switzerland, now the town of St. Gotthard. [1] [better source needed] A solid solution of the plagioclase feldspar oligoclase +/− the potassium feldspar orthoclase also produces moonstone specimens.
The IHO limits of the Atlantic Ocean. This is a list of islands in the Atlantic Ocean, the largest of which is Greenland. Note that the definition of the ocean used by the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) excludes the seas, gulfs, bays, etc., bordering the ocean itself. [1]
Macaronesia (Portuguese: Macaronésia; Spanish: Macaronesia) is a collection of four volcanic archipelagos in the North Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of North Africa and Europe. [1] [2] Each archipelago is made up of a number of Atlantic oceanic islands, which were formed by seamounts on the ocean floor whose peaks have risen above the ocean's ...
5 Eastern North America. 6 Northern Europe. 7 References. ... Bay of Islands Ophiolite in Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland, ...
The stone found in an old mine was called “belomorite” — because, as Fersman explains, “The White Sea shimmered with the colors of moonstone... or did the stone reflect the pale blue depths of the White Sea?..” — Geologists took several samples to the Peterhof lapidary factory , recommending it as a new jewelry stone. [3]
The humid subtropical zone of the US South according to Trewartha is coloured yellow-green on this map: If using the Köppen climate classification with the 0 °C coldest-month isotherm, the subtropics extend from Martha's Vineyard, extreme SW Rhode Island, and most of Long Island to central Florida in the eastern states, include the southern ...
Various places in the limestone and marl island of Gotland, most notably the Lummelunda cave system. Depending on definition the stacks of Gotland can be classified as karst. The Abisko - Torneträsk area in northern Sweden contains several cave systems developed on carbonate stata of the Caledonide nappes .