• Flat Landing Brook Formation is a geological formation in Gloucester County of northern New Brunswick, Canada. It consists mostly of volcanic rocks that...
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  • of a partial lower jawbone collected from the Wonthaggi Formation at Flat Rocks, Victoria, Australia. It lived during the late Barremian age of the Lower...
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    a surrounding plain. Mesas characteristically consist of flat-lying soft sedimentary rocks capped by a more resistant layer or layers of harder rock...
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    Hawaiians would also bury their children's piko (umbilical cords) under the flat rocks here, so the rats would not find them (piko are often considered sacred...
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  • characterized by flat rocks in its bottom, hence the name. List of rivers of Missouri U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Flat Creek (Bourbeuse...
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    of the formation is thought to be Valanginian to Barremian, with the Flat Rocks site being late Barremian (~125 Ma) in age, older than the sediments from...
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    Reefs, Shack Bay and Eagles Nest (beaches), heading south-west after Flat Rocks and The Caves. Inverloch has a Shell Museum which also has a dinosaur...
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    Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park is a 932-acre (377-hectare) park located in the Sierra Pelona in northern Los Angeles County, California. It is known...
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  • Australia. The only recorded species, Ausktribosphenos nyktos, was found on Flat Rocks, Victoria. Rich, Thomas H.; Vickers-Rich, Patricia; Constantine, Andrew;...
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    covered with flat rocks (Old Norse: hella) and so he called it Helluland ("Land of the Flat Stones)". Next, Eriksson came to a land that was flat and wooded...
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    The Ozark hellbender is a nocturnal predator that hides under large flat rocks and primarily consumes crayfish and small fish. As of 2011, the U.S. Fish...
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    also known as klippfisk because they were often dried by lying on bare rocks. There are still two smacks from the Sloop period in the Faroe Islands,...
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    royal family member’s safety, his entourage scurried around, seeking flat rocks to use as stepping stones. After that, these stones were carefully mounted...
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    parts: Eystaravág and Vestaravág. The settlers would thus meet on the flat rocks of Tinganes every summer, as the most central place on the islands, although...
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    however, is possible. The terrarium should be earth-based with a number of flat rocks present. It is important that there be some spot lights for basking. The...
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    popular with aquarists, especially M. ramirezi. These species spawn on flat rocks or leaves and not in small caves like the closely related cichlid genus...
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    physical strength; a bear weighing 120 pounds (54 kg) was observed turning flat rocks weighing 310 to 325 pounds (141 to 147 kg) by flipping them over with...
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  • small-to-medium flat rocks up to 50 cm (20 in) in diameter above coarse sand and pebbles. Individuals are frequently seen hiding under these flat rocks during...
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    Dry lake (redirect from Alkali Flat)
    flat. If covered with salt, it is known as a salt flat. If its basin is primarily salt, then a dry lake bed is called a salt pan, pan, or salt flat (the...
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    clan wars. It is unknown how long the rai stones have been used in Yap. Flat rocks up to 2000 years old have been found there, but the oldest does not resemble...
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    remove the dirt, so the laundry was rubbed, twisted, or slapped against flat rocks. One name for this surface is a beetling-stone, related to beetling, a...
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    in tropical rain forests, close to fresh water. It is often found on flat rocks, trees, plants (notably bromeliads), and the leaf litter of the forest...
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    many rocks and cascades; and the "rose letters" style, an austere landscape with small, low plants, gentle relief and many scattered flat rocks. Traditional...
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    lake. They were housed in structures typically made from the abundant flat rocks about the lakeside. With the subsequent development of the grape industry...
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    specimen that would form the basis for Galleonosaurus was discovered at the Flat Rocks locality of the Wonthaggi Formation in 2008 by palaeontologist Gerry Kool...
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    Park, Inverloch. Today, the Dinosaur Dreaming fossil excavation at the Flat Rocks coastal site by Anderson Inlet attracts both Australian and international...
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    voyage to Vinland according to the Greenland Saga and means "Land of Flat Rocks/Stones" in Old Norse. Helluland was said to be the first of three lands...
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    construction of the Owen Falls Dam submerged the Ripon Falls. Most of the "Flat Rocks" that gave the area its name disappeared under water as well. Both the...
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    Las Pozas de Santa Rosa de las Lajas (the Wells of Saint Rose of the Flat Rocks), identified by Juan Bautista de Anza on his first expedition into California...
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    confluence of Brush Creek there is a noteworthy rock formation known as "Flat Rocks"; adjacent was a native Pomo village, presumably to exploit the resources...
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