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Earth science
Any of several geological sciences that are concerned with the earth, its origins, and all of its various structures and physical forms and phenomena.
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albedo
Earth science; Geology
The percent of the incoming radiation that is reflected by a natural surface such as the ground, ice, snow, water. Atmospheric albedo includes clouds and particulates in the ...
cirque
Earth science; Geology
A steep-walled hollow in a mountain side, shaped like an amphitheater, or bowl, with one side partially cut away. Place of origin of a mountain glacier.
compound volcano
Earth science; Geology
A volcano that consists of a complex of two or more vents, or a volcano that has an associated volcanic dome, either in its crater or on its flanks. Examples are Vesuvius and Mont ...
coastal zone
Earth science; Geology
The land-sea-air interface zone around continents and islands extending from the landward edge of a barrier beach or shoreline of coastal bay to the outer extent of the ...
cataclastic rock
Earth science; Geology
Metamorphic rocks that resemble breccia or poorly sorted sandstone and that form by dynamic metamorphism, which breaks and reorients grain.
circumpolar current
Earth science; Geology
The circular flow of water around Antarctica resulting from the juncture of the west-wind drifts of the Atlantic Pacific and Indian Oceans.
coma
Earth science; Geology
A roughly spherical region of diffuse gas which surrounds the nucleus of a comet. Together, the coma and the nucleus form the comet's head.
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