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A further example of this regeneration after beheading lies in the tales of Connemara's Saint Féchín, who after being beheaded by Vikings carried his head to the Holy Well on Omey Island and on dipping it into the well placed it back upon his neck and was restored to full health.
His head and body were retrieved by Croatian soldiers and taken first to Bihać and subsequently to Veszprem. [14] Petar Kružić (1537) – beheaded in combat against the Ottomans. His severed head was then demonstrated to defenders of Klis fortress to persuade them to surrender. [15]
The speaking severed head appears memorably in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The motif Head in Stith Thompson's Motif-Index of Folk Literature [15] reveals how universal is the "anomaly" of the talking severed head. Aristotle is at pains to discredit talking heads' stories and establish the physical impossibility of the windpipe severed from ...
A volcanic crater is a bowl-shaped depression in the ground caused by volcanic activity, usually located above the volcano's vent. [11] During volcanic eruptions, molten magma and volcanic gases rise from an underground magma chamber, through a conduit, until they reach the crater's vent, from where the gases escape into the atmosphere and the magma is erupted as lava.
Less than ten thousand years old, and with a diameter of 100 m (330 ft) or more. The EID lists fewer than ten such craters, and the largest in the last 100,000 years (100 ka) is the 4.5 km (2.8 mi) Rio Cuarto crater in Argentina. [2]
The series are based on referents or locations on the planet where surface units indicate a distinctive geological episode, recognizable in time by cratering age and stratigraphic position. For example, Hesperia Planum is the referent location for the Lower Hesperian Series.
Crater created by the Sedan shallow underground nuclear test explosion A flooded crater produced by the 2020 Beirut explosion.In a large explosion like this, the energy may not only cause destruction like that shown in the picture, but eject large amounts of material from the ground, creating a hole in the earth.
View history; General What links here; Related changes; Upload file; Special pages; ... Cratering may refer to: The formation of craters. Particularly, impact craters;