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Within the EU-sponsored project PACE (Permafrost and Climate in Europe), a 100 m deep borehole was drilled in bedrock above Tarfala research station at an altitude of 1540 m above sea level. The stable ground temperature at a depth of 100 meters is still -2.75 °C. [ 19 ]
Coordinates: 42°0′17.5″N 71°27′13″W. Cumberlandite is the state rock of Rhode Island and a specific type of plutonic rock called a melanocratic troctolite, or melatroctolite. [1] [2] It can be found in a 4-acre (0.016 km 2) lot in Blackstone Valley, Cumberland at Iron Mine Hill in the Franklin Quadrangle, just east of Woonsocket. [3]
In Pakistan: January 2008 – present. Number built. 170 (production aircraft) The CAC/PAC JF-17 Thunder ( Urdu: جے ایف-17 گرج ), or FC-1 Xiaolong ( Chinese: 枭龙; pinyin: Xiāo Lóng; lit. 'Fierce Dragon'), is a lightweight, single-engine, multirole combat aircraft developed jointly by the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC) and ...
Caiguna is a small roadhouse community located on the Eyre Highway in Western Australia. It is the second stop east of Norseman on the journey east across the Nullarbor Plain. Between Balladonia and Caiguna is a 146.6-kilometre (91.1 mi) stretch of the highway which is one of the longest straight stretches of road in the world.
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon that provides on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments, on a metered, pay-as-you-go basis.
Sun. The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is a massive, nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma, heated to incandescence by nuclear fusion reactions in its core, radiating the energy from its surface mainly as visible light and infrared radiation with 10% at ultraviolet energies.
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).
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.