We are living through a relatively rare period of time in our planet's history, when the continents are comfortably spread out with plenty of elbow room, but there have been a number of periods when they were all smashed together in one configuration or another. What were E...
Eruptions have rifted continents, raised mountain chains, constructed islands and shaped the topography of the earth. The entire ocean floor has a basement of volcanic basalt. Volcanoes have not only made the continents, they are also thought to have made the world’s first stable atmosphere and...
Awesome 3D Semantic City Models - Collection of open 3D semantic city and region models. [Meta] ArcGIS Open Data portal [Meta] Cambridge, MA, US, GIS data on GitHub [Meta] Database of all continents, countries, States/Subdivisions/Provinces and Cities - Database [...] [Meta] Factual Glo...
Several countries in Asia have the highest human populations found on the planet, with the top two being China and India, respectively; about 60% of the total world population (4.6 billion people) can be found on the Asian continent. Asia is the largest of the world's continents, located ...
The space exploration has a direct impact on the lives of humans, as well as the state of our world. Satellites moving around the earth enable communication across the world, connecting people of different continents and broadcasting information worldwide. The Global Positioning System(GPS) can ide...
plates kept moving apart and brought the 7 continents of the world into the present arrangement. Concerning tectonic plates, these are huge slabs of the earth’s crust floating on the hot melted rock below. A single tectonic plate can carry the whole continent along with a piece of an ocean...
Data.gov.uk Open Government Thousands of datasets from the UK Govt. Data.World Open Data Catalogue Data360 Open Public Domains Databanks International Cross National Time Series Data Archive Open Time Series Database of all continents, countries, States/Subdivisions/Provinces Open GIS ...
It has been employed to develop energy systems models from the scale of continents (African Power Pools, South America, EU28+2) down to the scale of countries, regions and villages. REVUB - The main objective is to model how flexible operation of hydropower plants can help renewable ...
A Tour of Earth's Ancient SuperoceansSat, Jul 31, 2021 Rodinia and Pangea were super-continents formed when all the land masses of the Earth merged due to plate tectonics. If all the land merged so too did the oceans into super-oceans we call Merovia and Panthalassa. With no land masse...
In ''[[The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3]]'', the episode "[[7 Continents for 7 Koopas]]" sees [[Iggy Koopa|Hop Koopa]] turn the Amazon (presumably including the portions in Brazil) into a parking lot. Meanwhile, in the [[Mario is Missing! (Super Nintendo Entertainment System)...