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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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outflow channels

Earth science; Geology

Structures on Mars that are more than 200 kilometers wide and can stretch for 2,000 kilometers or more. These channels emanate from what is called chaotic terrain, regions of ...

outwash

Earth science; Geology

Sand and gravel deposited by meltwater streams in front of the end moraine to the margin of an active glacier.

ovda regio

Earth science; Geology

The tectonic fabric of this region on Venus trends predominantly east-west. The large radar-dark areas are probably tectonically formed basins that have been filled in by fluid ...

oxides

Earth science; Geology

A mineral compound characterized by the linking of oxygen with one or more metallic elements, such as Cuprite, Cu 2 O.

paleozoic

Earth science; Geology

An era of geologic time, from the end of the Precambrian to the beginning of the Mesozoic Era, or from about 570 mya to about 225 mya.

patera

Earth science; Geology

A shallow crater with a scalloped, complex edge.

patterned ground

Earth science; Geology

A group term for the more or less symmetrical forms such as circles, polygons, nets, steps, and stripes that are characteristic of, but not necessarily confined to, surficial ...