• The Cryptic era is an informal term for the earliest geologic evolution of the Earth and Moon. It is the oldest (informal) era of the Hadean eon, and...
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    Planetary geology, alternatively known as astrogeology or exogeology, is a planetary science discipline concerned with the geology of celestial bodies...
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    This geological period has been informally subdivided into the Cryptic and Basin Groups 1–9, but these divisions are not used on any geological maps....
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    Andes (redirect from Geology of the Andes)
    furnariids are commonly seen—in contrast to several vocal but typically-cryptic species of wrens, tapaculos, and antpittas. A number of species such as...
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    of investigators mapping or describing specific surfaces, features, or geologic formations. Anyone may suggest that a specific name be considered by a...
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    by any factor that affects evolvability, including balancing selection, cryptic genetic variation, phenotypic plasticity, and robustness. A diverse or...
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    Jack Hills (category Geology of Western Australia)
    is the oldest dated material originating on Earth; the date is in the Cryptic era of the Hadean eon. They were found within a unit of the supracrustal...
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  • years, or megaanni (Ma). The geologic record is the strata (layers) of rock in the planet's crust and the science of geology is much concerned with the...
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    questions like these can be re-investigated and knowledge can be updated. Cryptic interactions, interactions which are "hidden in plain sight", occur throughout...
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    Hurd's Deep (section Geology)
    S2CID 4408290. Provan, Jim; Bennett, K.D. (2008). "Phylogeographic insights into cryptic glacial refugia". Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 23 (10): 564–571. doi:10...
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    Miocene (category Geological epochs)
    The Miocene (/ˈmaɪ.əsiːn, -oʊ-/ MY-ə-seen, -⁠oh-) is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about 23.03 to 5.333 million years...
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  • Mesoproterozoic Natal Metamorphic Province, South Africa: evidence for differential cryptic Meso- to Neoproterozoic tectonism". Journal of African Earth Sciences....
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  • crystallization of a global magma ocean. This geologic period has been informally subdivided into the Cryptic Era (4.533 - 4.172 Ga ago) and Basin Groups...
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    Ouachita Mountains (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the United States Geological Survey)
    animals. Though elusive, hundreds of black bear roam the Ouachitas. Several cryptic species of salamander are endemic to the Ouachitas and have traits that...
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    exhibited by the family. Some species, particularly the brood parasites, have cryptic plumage, whereas others have bright and elaborate plumage. This is particularly...
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    indicates that the species should be split into three geographical clades or cryptic species, although these were not given nomenclatural names, as the taxonomic...
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    Torlesse Composite Terrane (category Geologic formations of New Zealand)
    Alpine Fault in the Southern Alps of New Zealand. Its southern extent is a cryptic boundary with the Caples Terrane within the Haast Schists in Central Otago...
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    7091–7103. doi:10.1002/ece3.3159 Schön; Pieri; Sherbakov; and Martens (2017). Cryptic diversity and speciation in endemic Cytherissa (Ostracoda, Crustacea) from...
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  • cephalopod Gorbyoceras textumaraneum, representing the first known record of cryptic molting of pterygometopid trilobites. A study on the biogeography of Cheirurina...
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    Metasomatism (category Geological processes)
    Effects of metasomatism in mantle peridotite can be either modal or cryptic. In cryptic metasomatism, mineral compositions are changed, or introduced elements...
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    E.; Wilms, Thomas; Al-Saadi, Saleh; Carranza, Salvador (2017-08-02), "Cryptic diversity in Ptyodactylus (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) from the northern Hajar...
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    Great Dyke (category Economic geology)
    Geology of Ore Deposits, Freeman, ISBN 0-7167-1456-6 Hughes, Charles James (1970) Lateral Cryptic Variation in the Great Dyke of Rhodesia, Geological...
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    which may be the result of both adaptation and allopatry. The concept of cryptic species, rare among such an iconic group, is mentioned, regarding several...
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    Wopmay orogen (category Geology of the Northwest Territories)
    forms a 3–4.5 km thick basin overlying the Hottah-Slave transition. The cryptic Hottah terrane is a magmatic arc which consists of a 1936–1890 Ma-old suite...
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  • apocrypha, apocryphal, archaeocryptography, crypt, cryptanalysis, crypteia, cryptic, cryptobiosis, cryptobiotic, cryptochrome, cryptogam, cryptogenic, cryptography...
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    man. In February 1912, Dawson contacted Arthur Smith Woodward, Keeper of Geology at the Natural History Museum, stating he had found a section of a human-like...
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    E.; Wilms, Thomas; Al-Saadi, Saleh; Carranza, Salvador (2017-08-02), "Cryptic diversity in Ptyodactylus (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) from the northern Hajar...
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    Geysers on Mars (category Geology of Mars)
    unique to the south polar region of Mars in an area informally called the 'cryptic region', at latitudes 60° to 80° south and longitudes 150°W to 310°W; this...
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    Bredikhin, Danila; Morozov, Taras; Neretina, Tatiana (January 2023). "Cryptic species complex or an incomplete speciation? Phylogeographic analysis reveals...
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    narrative sequence. Supplementing the Quran with explanations for some cryptic Quranic narratives, and rulings that also provide the basis for Islamic...
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