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Glaciation
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To cover with ice or glacier.
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Rhine
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A river that flows from Grisons in the eastern Swiss Alps to the North Sea coast in the Netherlands and is one of the longest and most important rivers in Europe.
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Po
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Is a river that flows eastward across northern Italy, from a spring seeping from a stony hillside at Pian del Re, a flat place at the head of the Val Po under the northwest face of Monviso (in the Cottian Alps) through a delta projecting into the Adriatic Sea near Venice.
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Loess
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An aeolian sediment formed by the accumulation of wind-blown silt, typically in the 20–50 micrometre size range, twenty percent or less clay and the balance equal parts sand and silt that are loosely cemented by calcium carbonate.
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Baltic Sea
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A brackish mediterranean sea located in Northern Europe.
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North Sea
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A marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean located between Great Britain, Scandinavia, Germany, the Netherlands, and Belgium
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Mediterranean Sea
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A sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean surrounded by the Mediterranean region and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on the east by the Levant.
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British Isles
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A group of islands off the northwest coast of continental Europe that include the islands of Great Britain and Ireland and over six thousand smaller isles.
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Aegean Sea
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An elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea located between the southern Balkan and Anatolian peninsulas.
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Danube River
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A river in Central Europe, the continent's second longest after the Volga.
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Black Sea
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Bounded by Europe, Anatolia and the Caucasus and is ultimately connected to the Atlantic Ocean via the Mediterranean and the Aegean seas and various straits.
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Permafrost
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Cryotic soil is soil at or below the freezing point of water 0 °C (32 °F) for two or more years.
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