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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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emissivity
Earth science; Oceanography
A property of a material, measured as the emittance of a specimen of the material that is thick enough to be completely opaque and has an optically smooth surface.
mixed tide
Earth science; Oceanography
A tide in which the diurnal and semidiurnal components are both prominent. Diurnal inequality is present in high waters , low waters , or in both.
mantissa
Earth science; Oceanography
A fixed point number composed of the most significant digits of a given floating point number. The positive decimal part of a common logarithm.
heat budget
Earth science; Oceanography
A listing of all the sources of heat transfers for some thermodynamic system, to account for the total heat transfers into or out of the system.
continental borderland
Earth science; Oceanography
A submarine plateau or irregular area adjacent to a continent , with depths greatly exceeding those on the continental shelf , but not as great as in the deep oceans.
reversing current
Earth science; Oceanography
A tidal current which flows alternately in approximately opposite directions, with periods of slack water at each reversal. Such currents occur chiefly in restricted channels; ...
glacier
Earth science; Oceanography
A multiyear surplus accumulation of snowfall in excess of snow melt on land and resulting in a mass of ice at least 0. 1 km2 in area that shows some evidence of movement in ...
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