Some phosphate mines around in Moroco (owned by OCP), and in Jordan (ownded by Jordan Phosphate Mines Company) , including a huge 20 miles wide mine at Morroco.
The Chikurachki eruption that began on 18 April 2003 continued to show signs of activity until June of the same year. Visualised here on the 26 April, the snow-covered landscape has become dramatically darkened by ash deposits from the 100 km long Chikurachki ash plume.
This is a captive lake in Hyderabad,India called Hussain Sagar. The rectangular object in the middle is the largest staue of Buddha carved out in a single stone and then installed here. There are ferry ships which take you round the statue for sight seeing. Cosistent use of the same path by these ships have given rise to road like appeanace due to oily deposits left by the ships. The ships star...
Cutter suction dredge Mindi was built by Ellicot Machine Corporation in Baltimore at a cost of US$7 million, and was commissioned in 1943, operating by steam at the time. Between 1977 and 1979, it was refitted to operate with diesel and electricity. Dredge Mindi cuts and sucks material, pumps and deposits it through pipelines in disposal sites up to 10, 000 feet (3,048 m.) away. It is 400 feet ...
Chain of about 50 small islands belonging to Russia, stretching from the northeast of Hokkaido, Japan, to the south of Kamchatka, Russia, area 14,765 sq km/5,700 sq mi; population (1990 est) 25,000. The islands include many volcanoes, 35 of which are still active; there are also many hot springs. Offshore is the Kuril Trench, one of the deepest ocean areas in the world, which reaches a depth of...
The Miocene epoch is a period of time that extends from about 23 to 5.3 million year ago.
Of the modern geologic features, only the land bridge between South America and North America was absent.
During this period, mountain building took place in Western North America and Europe. Both continental and marine Miocene deposits are common worldwide with marine outcrops common near m...
The La Brea Tar Pits are a famous cluster of tar pits located in the Miracle Mile district of Los Angeles, California; here buried asphalt seeps to the surface from the extensive petroleum deposits below the surface of the Los Angeles Basin. It is best known for the large number of mammal fossils from the last ice age which have been found there, but fossilized insects and plants, even pollen g...
Located on the Red Sea coast, this city is the largest city in the Western Province of Saudi Arabia and its principal port in the region. Jeddah occupies an area of 560 square kilometres and stretches for 80km north to south along its coastline.
The discovery of oil deposits in Saudi Arabia in 1936 changed the face of Jeddah. Traditionally a point of entry for pilgrims on their a...
Loy Yang Power Station is a brown coal fired power station located on the outskirts of the city of Traralgon, in south eastern Victoria, Australia. Loy Yang is a base load supply station, and produces about one third of Victoria's electricity requirements.
Four giant bucket-wheel excavators operate 24 hours a day in the Loy Lang open cut mine, feeding coal directly to the boilers...
The Halys ("salty river") or Kizilirmak ("red river"), east of Ankara, the longest river of Asia Minor. Its length 1150 kilometers and it is first mentioned in our sources by the Greek playwright Aeschylus. According to a famous story told by Herodotus of Halicarnassus, in 547 BCE, the Greek scientist and philosopher Thales of Miletus changed the course of the river in order...
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