The Cairn Formation is a geologic formation of Late Devonian (Frasnian) age in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin. It was named for the Cairn River...
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A cairn is a human-made pile (or stack) of stones raised for a purpose, usually as a marker or as a burial mound. The word cairn comes from the Scottish...
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cliffs that are about 75 m (246 ft) high. The cliffs are part of the Cairn Formation, a fossil reef that formed during the Late Devonian period. The primary...
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Devonian (Frasnian) time and the reefs of the Cairn Formation subsequently developed on it. The Flume Formation was deposited as limestone, but it was strongly...
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interfingers with the Peechee Formation and the reefs of the Cairn Formation. Tentaculids are common throughout the Perdrix Formation, and brachiopods and pelecypods...
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unconformably overlain by the Late Devonian Cairn Formation to the east in Alberta. The Beaverfoot Formation spans the Ordovician-Silurian boundary and...
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overlies the Flume Formation and is overlain by the Perdrix Formation. It grades laterally into the carbonate rocks of the upper Cairn Formation. Glass, D.J...
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reefs of the Cairn Formation farther west. Because the Leduc reefs are not exposed at the surface, the extensive outcrops of the Cairn reefs in the Canadian...
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Cairn Formation or, in the Crows Nest Pass area, the Borsato Formation. At its margins it may interfinger with the Perdrix and Mount Hawk Formations....
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known from the Chazy Group of eastern North America and the Machiakou Formation of North China. Labechiids were by far the most diverse stromatoporoids...
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Raising the Flag on the Three-Country Cairn is a historic photograph taken on 27 April 1945, which was the last day of the Second World War in Finland...
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downthrows to the northwest. West Cairn Hill and East Cairn Hill are formed by the sandstones of the Kinnesswood Formation which reach as far north as Hare...
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Fairholme Group (category Dolomite formations)
dolomites. The carbonate buildups (reefal sequences) of the Cairn and Southesk Formations, also composed of limestones and dolomites. The basin-fill clastic...
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Cairn.info is a French-language web portal, founded in 2005, containing scholarly materials in the humanities and social sciences and recently scientific...
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unconformably on formations that range in age from late Cambrian to early Ordovician. It is overlain by the Flume and Cairn Formations of the Fairholme...
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Hill Cairn, Firth". Orkneyjar. Retrieved 21 July 2012. "Cuween Hill Chambered Cairn". Historic Scotland. Retrieved 21 July 2012. "The Quoyness Cairn, Sanday"...
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terrier that originated in Scotland, the other four being the modern Skye, Cairn, Dandie Dinmont, and West Highland White terriers. They are an independent...
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The Mount Hawk Formation is a stratigraphic unit of Late Devonian (late Frasnian) age. It is present on the western edge of the Western Canada Sedimentary...
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A clearance cairn is an irregular and unstructured collection of fieldstones which have been removed from arable land or pasture to allow for more effective...
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Ishbel Group (redirect from Kindle Formation)
overlies the Tunnel Mountain Formation and the Kananaskis Formation. It is partly equivalent to the Phosphoria Formation of Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, and...
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The Stephen Formation is a geologic formation exposed in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia and Alberta, on the western edge of the Western Canada...
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Showery Tor (redirect from Showery Tor Cairn)
out as the only natural formation to have been used in this way by the cairn designers. Showery Tor Showery Tor Ring Cairn Cairn from a distance View towards...
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The Lynx Formation or Lynx Group is a stratigraphic unit of Late Cambrian (Dresbachian) age in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin. It is present in...
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17 December 2021. Alberta Geological Survey, 2015. "Alberta Table of Formations; Alberta Energy Regulator". Retrieved 26 June 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint:...
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Long barrow (redirect from Long Cairn)
Gloucestershire and Hereford, howe in Northern England and Scotland, and cairn in Scotland. Another term to have achieved international usage has been...
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The property consist of a portion of land on which a memorial cairn is erected. The site of a simple house which has completely disappeared. In that house...
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Origin of language (redirect from Language Formation)
Chomsky's single-mutation theory, the emergence of language resembled the formation of a crystal; with digital infinity as the seed crystal in a super-saturated...
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say Newgrange has. It is the only cairn in Carrowmore. Antiquarians in the 19th century made references to another cairn nearby at Leacharail, but the site...
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Grace (1999) 60° (2000) Adaptation and Survival: The Insect Project (2002) Cairn (2002) Meridian (2005) Solo albums Spirit Bound Flesh (2001) The Wake (2008)...
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Holyrood Park (section Muschat's Cairn)
present cairn consists of boulders cemented together and was erected in 1823 replacing an earlier cairn which had been removed c.1789. This earlier cairn was...
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