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[4] [5] [6] The geologic record of this accretionary wedge are the metamorphic and sedimentary rocks of the Franciscan Assemblage that today make up much of the California Coast Ranges. The Great Valley Sequence was largely deposited atop basaltic rocks representing a slab of oceanic crust of mid-Jurassic age which was incorporated into the ...
He also received a nomination for an ALMA award for his work in Thicker Than Blood, and Thicker Than Blood received an ALMA award for Outstanding Made-For-Television Movie or Mini-Series. [12] He has also received the New Dramatists' Charles Bowden Award, [ 13 ] and a 2017 Theatre World Award for an outstanding Broadway debut for Sweat .
where κ is the thermal diffusivity of the mantle lithosphere (c. 8 × 10 −7 m 2 /s), a eff is the effective thermal expansion coefficient for rock (c. 5.7 × 10 −5 °C −1), T 1 is the temperature of ascending magma compared to the temperature at the upper boundary (c. 1220 °C for the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, c. 1120 °C for the ...
The Northern Pacific Railway was the first railroad to order a 2-8-8-4. The first was built in 1928 by American Locomotive Company; at the time, it was the largest locomotive ever built. It had the largest firebox ever applied to a steam locomotive, some 182 square feet (16.9 m 2) in area, to burn Rosebud coal, a cheap low-quality coal. But the ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 19 January 2025. American basketball player (born 1979) Tracy McGrady McGrady with the Houston Rockets in 2006 Personal information Born (1979-05-24) May 24, 1979 (age 45) Bartow, Florida, U.S. Listed height 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) Listed weight 225 lb (102 kg) Career information High school Auburndale ...
The overall height of the stack is 585 feet 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches (178.35 m) (≈ 585 feet), [B] including a brick chimney 555 feet 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches (169.20 m) (≈ 555 feet) tall and the downhill side of a concrete foundation 30 feet (9.1 m) high. This was the height when new in 1918, but loss of the terra cotta that covered the top course of ...
The Huronian glaciation (or Makganyene glaciation) [1] was a period where at least three ice ages occurred during the deposition of the Huronian Supergroup. Deposition of this largely sedimentary succession extended from approximately 2.5 to 2.2 billion years ago (), during the Siderian and Rhyacian periods of the Paleoproterozoic era.
Urartu (Ararat) becomes one of the most powerful kingdoms of Near East. 2.8–2.2 ka: c. 800–200 BCE: 200-year "Homeric" grand solar minimum, coincident with climatic changes. First olympiad. Jonah. [227] Solar eclipse of 763 BC recorded by the Assyrians – "Revolt in the city of Aššur." Spring and Autumn period in China. Hesiod. Rome founded.