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- Mineral - Wikipedia
The concept of mineral is distinct from rock, which is any bulk solid geologic material that is relatively homogeneous at a large enough scale A rock may consist of one type of mineral or may be an aggregate of two or more different types of minerals, spacially segregated into distinct phases [3]
- Mining - Wikipedia
Mining is the extraction of valuable geological materials and minerals from the surface of the Earth Mining is required to obtain most materials that cannot be grown through agricultural processes, or feasibly created artificially in a laboratory or factory
- National Geologic Map Database - USGS
USGS (U S Geological Survey) National Geologic Map Database
- Jurassic - Wikipedia
Geologists divide the rocks of the Jurassic into a stratigraphic set of units called stages, each formed during corresponding time intervals called ages Stages can be defined globally or regionally
- Plate tectonics - Wikipedia
Plate tectonics came to be accepted by geoscientists after seafloor spreading was validated in the mid-to-late 1960s The processes that result in plates and shape Earth's crust are called tectonics Tectonic plates also occur in other planets and moons
- Marine sediment - Wikipedia
Marine sediment, or ocean sediment, or seafloor sediment, are deposits of insoluble particles that have accumulated on the seafloor
- Department of Mines and Geology - dmgnepal. gov. np
Tethys Himalaya consists of sedimentary rocks including Sandstone, Mudstone, Limestones This unit houses Ammonites (around 200Ma), Crinoid (around 400 Ma) coral and gastropod shells that suggest the formation of these rocks at the bottom of sea
- Tectonics - Latest research and news - Nature
Tectonics is the study of the structural geology of the Earth and other planetary bodies, and the local and regional processes that created that rock geometry
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