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(Click to zoom) See legend below This is the legend for the North American geological map above. Geologic map of North America. The geology of North America is a subject of regional geology and covers the North American continent, the third-largest in the world. Geologic units and processes are investigated on a large scale to reach a ...
Geomythology (also called “legends of the earth," "landscape mythology," “myths of observation,” “natural knowledge") is the study of oral and written traditions created by pre-scientific cultures to account for, often in poetic or mythological imagery, geological events and phenomena such as earthquakes, volcanoes, floods, tsunamis, land formation, fossils, and natural features of the ...
North American ghosts (4 C, 3 P) I. Legendary creatures of the indigenous peoples of North America (10 C, 47 P) L. Latin American legendary creatures (3 C, 1 P) M.
4.1 North America. 4.2 South America. 5 See also. 6 References. ... In the Levant, geological constraints led to a local burial tradition with a variety of tomb forms ...
Soon, Pangaea began to split up and North America began drifting north and westward. During the latter Jurassic, the floodplains of the western states were home to dinosaurs like Allosaurus, Apatosaurus, and Stegosaurus. During the Cretaceous, the Gulf of Mexico expanded until it split North America in half. Plesiosaurs and mosasaurs swam in ...
North America: Altamaha-ha: 30-foot (9 m) long with a snake-like head and flippers like a seal [2] Memaloose Lake Oregon USA: North America: Amhuluk Serpentine with horns [3] Kalapuya Legend Fulk Lake Indiana USA: North America: Beast of 'Busco, Oscar the Turtle Giant Snapping Turtle 1898–1948 Lake Erie Ohio USA: North America: Bessie, South ...
The map of North America with the Western Interior Seaway during the Campanian. The Western Interior Seaway (also called the Cretaceous Seaway, the Niobraran Sea, the North American Inland Sea, or the Western Interior Sea) was a large inland sea that split the continent of North America into two landmasses for 34 million years.
While the Qin maps place the cardinal direction of north at the top of the map, the Han maps are orientated with the southern direction at the top. [ 38 ] : 93 The Han maps are also more complex, since they cover a much larger area, employ a large number of well-designed map symbols, and include additional information on local military sites ...