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2. Silfra - Wikipedia

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   Silfra fissure The Mid-Atlantic Ridge passing through Þingvellir Rocks and boulders that have piled up in the fissure due to earthquakes.. Silfra (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈsɪl(v)ra]) is a rift formed in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge – the divergent tectonic boundary between the North American and Eurasian plates – and is located in the Þingvallavatn Lake in the Þingvellir National Park in ...

3. Permeable paving - Wikipedia

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   Permeable pavement surfaces may be composed of; pervious concrete, porous asphalt, paving stones, or interlocking pavers. [1] Unlike traditional impervious paving materials such as concrete and asphalt, permeable paving systems allow stormwater to percolate and infiltrate through the pavement and into the aggregate layers and/or soil below. In ...

4. Fissure vent - Wikipedia

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   A fissure vent, also known as a volcanic fissure, eruption fissure or simply a fissure, is a linear volcanic vent through which lava erupts, usually without any explosive activity. The vent is often a few metres wide and may be many kilometres long. Fissure vents can cause large flood basalts which run first in lava channels and later in lava ...

5. Pavers (flooring) - Wikipedia

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   Concrete paver blocks laid in a circular pattern Concrete paver blocks in a rectangular pattern. A paver is a paving stone, sett, tile, [1] brick [2] or brick-like piece of concrete commonly used as exterior flooring. They are generally placed on top of a foundation which is made of layers of compacted stone and sand.

6. Fault (geology) - Wikipedia

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   Many ore deposits lie on or are associated with faults. This is because the fractured rock associated with fault zones allow for magma ascent [29] or the circulation of mineral-bearing fluids. Intersections of near-vertical faults are often locations of significant ore deposits. [30]

7. Joan Rivers' Joke Catalog Safe from the Palisades Fires ... - AOL

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   Melissa Rivers lost everything she owned in the Palisades fires on Jan. 7, but says her mother Joan's famous archive of jokes remains intact

8. Pervious concrete - Wikipedia

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   A pervious concrete street in 2005. Pervious concrete (also called porous concrete, permeable concrete, no fines concrete and porous pavement) is a special type of concrete with a high porosity used for concrete flatwork applications that allows water from precipitation and other sources to pass directly through, thereby reducing the runoff from a site and allowing groundwater recharge.

9. Geological deformation of Iceland - Wikipedia

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   The buoyancy of the deep-seated mantle plume underneath has uplifted the Iceland basalt plateau to as high as 3,000 m (9,800 ft). The crust over the plume is also up to 40 km (25 mi) thick which is much thicker than elsewhere in Iceland and a contrast to the minimum thickness of 8 km (5.0 mi) which is a thickness more typical of oceanic ...