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    they’re called supercontinent cycles or “supercycles” These supercycles are when the continent is towards the end of its life breaking apart and the formation of another one starts. It is a very disastrous time for all of the living creatures because these happen on a global scale. It is different from the Wilson cycle, which is the opening of an oceanic basin. The cycles may be entirely different they work hand in hand with each other. When a supercycle happens, shortly after the Wilson cycle comes into effect. The two cycles are both known to have been the cause of two of our supercontinents, Pangaea and Rodinia. The life cycle of these gargantuan masses of land go into much more detail, an example of this is the interactions with the landmass and volcanism. Supercontinents relationship to volcanism is similar to mother and child. The supercontinents (child) need the volcanism (mother) to happen to be created. This is also the destruction of the enormous islands. This happens in the Earth’s mantle. From what is explained a discontinuity occurs within the mantle and this causes a process of plumes or “superplumes”. The process of this is where a chunk of the crust is denser than the mantle and sinks towards the discontinuity. Over a period of time the chunks build up and sink into the lower part of the mantle or “slab avalanche”. This is where the mantle will compensate for the drop of the crust and push it up somewhere else. This creates those plumes or superplumes.…

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    Hinduism and Buddhism both have emerged in the Indian landmass;moreover, they share common religious beliefs while still having many differences. They both have different paths to enlightenment, believe suffering is caused by extreme attachment to objects and people of the outside world, and practice various forms of meditation. We can even refer to the common connection by thinking back on Buddha whom was raised in a common Hindu family, and before finding his own answers had asked for help by…

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    Antarctic is relatively disregarded, or announced misleadingly.The science, nonetheless, is clear: environmental change is as of now contrarily affecting Antarctica. The West Antarctic Landmass is one of the quickest warming regions on Earth, with just a few territories of the Cold Circle encountering quicker rising temperatures. In any case, since Antarctica is a major place, environmental change isn't having a uniform effect, with a few zones encountering increments in ocean ice degree.…

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    History Of Uruguay Essay

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    Did you know that the Uruguay rivers name means river of the painted birds? Uruguay is one of the most interesting countries in south america to get to learn about. Their land, their culture, and everything about them is great. They have a lot of natural sites. They also have a lot of man made places and things too. Read on to find more. Uruguay Land The land of Uruguay is one of the most interesting things about it. One of it’s greatest landmarks also where they get their nation’s name from, is…

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    Geo Process Results

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    Geo-Process’s Results Billions of years ago, the earth was not made up of seven continents, as it is today. It was one big landmass called Pangea. Meaning all land. Pangea went under a process called continental drift, founder by Alfred Wegener, which is caused by geo-process. Geo-process results in changes to the earth's surface because of tectonic plates causing mountain building, earthquakes, and volcanos. First off, convergent plates cause many different types of mountains, like the…

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    The continents were once part of a single landmass called Pangaea but then a force caused the continents to move them apart. The first piece of evidence used for this theory was that Africa and South America fitted together like it was a jigsaw puzzle. The next piece of evidence was that in South America and Africa there are fossils found in rocks of the same age and type. Additionally, in those two landmasses, there are corresponding early mammal fossils found. Again, there are identical…

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    330 meters, it has some landforms that deserve a notice. Some of these landforms are mountains and other high components despite the fact that they are at a low elevation. Australia is predominantly divided into three major landform districts, each of which is compromised of smaller scale constituent landform regions. The Eastern Highlands area, also referred to as the "Great Dividing Range" is the one of the most noteworthy piece of Australia, being a progression of slopes, mountains and…

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    than during the installment of such. So, hence after years of attempts, some of the leaders of the anti-colonist movement of 32 countries found a common ground and met in Addis Ababa in May 25th, 1963 to create the Organization of Africa Unity (OAU) today simply called Africa Union renamed in 2002. The creation of OAU is historically described can be described as an event of great magnitude toward the social, cultural, political and institutional development of the continent. Since it becomes…

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    Plate tectonics play a fundamental role in climate change around the globe. More than 200 million years ago, the continents were merged together as one giant landmass called Pangaea (Cosmato,2016). As the continents moved, their positions on Earth changed, and so did the movements of ocean currents. Both of these changes had effects on climate. Plate tectonics affect climate by different movements (vertical and lateral) both in which affect air circulation. Vertical movement of the surface…

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    Amerigo Vespucci was the first to recognize that the land Christopher Columbus claimed to be Asia, was not actually Asia, but in fact, a “New World” later to be named after Amerigo, himself. Born in the fifteenth century, Vespucci was well educated and especially fond of cartography. Although born and raised in Italy, he lived for many years in Spain and held many different jobs before he embarked on his first journey. Vespucci set sail a total of four times, each voyage bringing its unique…

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