Origin, Accretion, and Reworking of Continents
Reviews of Geophysics, Volume 59, Issue 3, September 2021., 2021 Abstract The continental crust is unique to the Earth in the solar system, and controversies remain regarding its origin, accretion and reworking of continents. The plate tectonics theory has been significantly challenged in explaining the origin of Archean (especially pre‐3.0 Ga) continents as they rarely preserve hallmarks of plate tectonics.
Rixiang Zhu +4 more
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Polish Culture in the Renaissance [PDF]
, 2022 During the most recent conference of the Renaissance Society of America, two sessions were devoted entirely to the Renaissance in Poland. In fifty-nine editions of what is considered the most prestigious international appointment for experts of ...
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ВОЛГО-ДОНСКОЙ КОЛЛИЗИОННЫЙ ОРОГЕН ВОСТОЧНО-ЕВРОПЕЙСКОГО КРАТОНА КАК ПАЛЕОПРОТЕРОЗОЙСКИЙ АНАЛОГ ГИМАЛАЙ-ТИБЕТСКОГО ОРОГЕНА [PDF]
, 2023 The ca 2.0 Ga Volgo-Don fold-and-thrust belt, about 500 km in width and at least 600 km in length, covering an area of about 300000 square kilometers intervenes between the Archean Sarmatian and Volgo-Uralian proto-cratonic blocks of the East European ...
A. A. Shchipansky +3 more
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Early tourism writing at the Jagiellonian University, Kraków (15th c.-mid-17th C.) [PDF]
, 2009 The author attempts to outline early tourism writing by professors and graduates from the Kraków Academy (Akademia Krakowska), the majority of which are geographic and cartographic works.
Jackowski, Antoni
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Some Thoughts on the Historiographical Invention of a West Iranian Migration [PDF]
, 2017 The continuous migration of the Sarmatians from East to West is still considered an historical fact. The fundaments of this theory, however, are tricky: the Iranian tie of all the populations on the north-eastern edge of the ancient world is too weak ...
Dan, Anca
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Microstructures associated with the Sottunga-Jurmo shear zone and their implications for the 1.83–1.79 Ga tectonic development of SW Finland [PDF]
, 2010 This petrographic study of rock samples from the area of a large-scale shear zone, the Sottung-Jurmo shear zone, in SW Finland, illuminates the thermal development of and strain distribution within the rocks during the last development stages of the ...
Carl Ehlers, Taija Torvela
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«AIRES» SHARED RESEARCH FACILITIES (IPGG RAS, St. PETERSBURG): SCIENTIFIC EQUIPMENT, MAIN RESEARCH DIRECTIONS AND RESULTS [PDF]
, 2022 The "AIRES" Shared Research Facilities (SRF) is a high-tech laboratory complex based on the Institute of Precambrian Geology and Geochronology RAS (IPGG RAS, St. Petersburg).
A. B. Kuznetsov +2 more
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Who is lying about where "Russia" Lies? Some notes on 16th-century Polish ghostmapping of Muscovy [PDF]
, 2021 This paper focuses on one particular aspect of the way in which 16th-century Polish authors ghostmapped the European East: the semantics assumed by the choronym "Russia" in Renaissance cartography which reflected the long‑lasting rivalry between Polish ...
Franczak, Grzegorz
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The age of detrite zircon from metasedimentary rocks of the Ternuvate strata (West Azov block of the Ukrainian Shield) [PDF]
, 2023 The Ternuvate strata comprise metamorphic rocks that make up the Haichur arcuate structure, which is about 72 km long. Its western part lies within the Andriivka fault zone, which separates the Vovcha and Huliaipole blocks, while the eastern part is ...
Artemenko, G.V. +2 more
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Antikythera Mechanism and the Ancient World
Journal of Archaeology, Volume 2016, Issue 1, 2016., 2016 In this historical review, the opinions of Ancient Greece philosophers, astronomers, and poets such as Thales Milesian, Pythagoras, Plato, Eudoxus, Aristotle, Archimedes, Cicero, Diogenes Laertius, Iamblichus, Plutarch, Homer, and Aratus about the planet position calculations and about the possibility of predictions of natural phenomena are analyzed ...
A. N. Safronov, I. Liritzis
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