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Cumberlandite. Coordinates: 42°0′17.5″N 71°27′13″W. Cumberlandite is a specific type of plutonic rock called a melanocratic troctolite, or melatroctolite. [1] It is the state rock of Rhode Island and can be found in a 4-acre (0.016 km 2) lot in Cumberland, Rhode Island at Iron Mine Hill. [2][3] Further traces can be found scattered ...
Plunge: Water descends vertically, losing contact with the bedrock surface. [1] Horsetail: Descending water maintains some contact with bedrock. [1] Cataract: A large, powerful waterfall. [1] Multi-step: A series of waterfalls one after another of roughly the same size each with its own sunken plunge pool. [1]
The Appalachian Highlands is one of eight government-defined physiographic divisions of the contiguous United States. [1] It links with the Appalachian Uplands in Canada to make up the Appalachian Mountains. The Highlands includes seven physiographic provinces, which is the second level in the physiographic classification system in the United ...
Range coordinates. 65°N 14°E / 65°N 14°E / 65; 14. The Scandinavian Mountains or the Scandes is a mountain range that runs through the Scandinavian Peninsula. The western sides of the mountains drop precipitously into the North Sea and Norwegian Sea, forming the fjords of Norway, whereas to the northeast they gradually curve ...
Most of the bedrock in Prince Edward Island is composed of red sandstone, part of the Permian age Pictou Group. [ 23 ] Although commercial deposits of minerals have not been found, exploration in the 1940s for natural gas beneath the northeastern end of the province resulted in the discovery of an undisclosed quantity of gas.
Pope Mega Group. The Pope Mega Group is a geologic unit found in the Illinois Basin of southern Illinois, southwestern Indiana, and western Kentucky. [1][2] In Indiana and Kentucky its equitant is the Buffalo Wallow Group. This unit grades from sandstones at its base into mix of limestones and sandstone and then a shale at its top. [3]
Crust (geology) The internal structure of Earth. In geology, the crust is the outermost solid shell of a planet, dwarf planet, or natural satellite. It is usually distinguished from the underlying mantle by its chemical makeup; however, in the case of icy satellites, it may be distinguished based on its phase (solid crust vs. liquid mantle).
EC 1.1.2.1: glycerolphosphate dehydrogenase. As the acceptor is now known, the enzyme has been transferred to EC 1.1.5.3, glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase.