For many thousands of years our ancestors have been visiting and venerating the power places of Europe. One culture after another has often frequented the same power sites and the story of how these magical places were discovered and used is filled with fairies and nature spirits, sages and astronomers, and enigmatic myths of world destroying cataclysms.

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Dells of the Wisconsin River, Dells of the Wisconsin River - Description and formation, Dells of the Wisconsin River - Unique ecosystem, Dells of the Wisconsin River - Cultural history, Dells of the Wisconsin River - Protected status

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The altitude of mountains means that the tops exist in higher cold layers of the atmosphere. They are consequently often subject to glaciation and erosion through frost action. This produces the classic mountain peak shape. Some mountains have glacial lakes, created by melting glaciers; for example, there are an estimated 3000 in Bhutan. Sufficiently tall mountains have very different climatic conditions at the top than at the base, and will thus have different life zones at different altitudes on their slopes. The plants and animals ...

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Mountain, Mountain - Heights, Mountain - Characteristics, Mountain - Geology

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The altitude of mountains means that the tops exist in higher cold layers of the atmosphere. They are consequently often subject to glaciation and erosion through frost action. This produces the classic mountain peak shape. Some mountains have glacial lakes, created by melting glaciers; for example, there are an estimated 3000 in Bhutan. Sufficiently tall mountains have very different climatic conditions at the top than at the base, and will thus have different life zones at different altitudes on their slopes. The plants and animals ...

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Mountain, Mountain - Heights, Mountain - Characteristics, Mountain - Geology, Mountain - Local definitions

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The Blackfoot First Nation called the site Okotoks meaning “rock” named after the world's largest known glacial erratic rock. The 15,000 tonne (16,500 short ton) rock was transported far from its place of origin by glacial ice. When the ice melted approximately 10,000 years ago, it left the rock behind. Before European settlement, journeying First Nations used the rock as a marker to find the river crossing situated at Okotoks. The tribes were nomadic and often followed large buffalo herds for their sustenance. David Thompson expl ...

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Okotoks Alberta, Okotoks Alberta - History, Okotoks Alberta - Geography and climate, Okotoks Alberta - Water conservation, Okotoks Alberta - Historical conservation, Okotoks Alberta - Transportation, Okotoks Alberta - Industry, Okotoks Alberta - Commerce, Okotoks Alberta - Sport and recreation, Okotoks Alberta - Hockey, Okotoks Alberta - Swimming, Okotoks Alberta - Lacrosse teams, Okotoks Alberta - Golf courses, Okotoks Alberta - BMX bike track, Okotoks Alberta - Camping, Okotoks Alberta - Fishing

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Human settlement in Estonia became possible when the ice, from the last glacial era, melted away 11,000–13,000 years ago. The oldest known settlement in Estonia was located on the Pärnu River, near the town of Sindi (Pulli settlement, by village Pulli - on right bank of Pärnu River). It dates back to the middle of the 8th millennium BC. Estonia was first christianised when the German "Livonian Sword Brethren" and Denmark conquered the land by 1227. Subsequent foreign powers that controlled Estonia at various times included Denmark ...

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Estonia, Estonia - History, Estonia - Politics, Estonia - Counties, Estonia - Geography, Estonia - Climate, Estonia - Economy, Estonia - Demographics, Estonia - Ethnicity, Estonia - Religion, Estonia - Culture, Estonia - Miscellaneous topics

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On the higher parts of lofty mountains in the Alps more snow falls in each year than is melted on the spot. A portion of this is carried away by the wind before it is consolidated; a larger portion accumulates in hollows and depressions of the surface, and is gradually converted into glacier ice, which descends by a slow secular motion into the deeper valleys, where it goes to swell perennial streams. As on a mountain the snow does not lie in beds of uniform thickness, and some parts are more exposed to the sun and warm winds than oth ...

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Climate of the Alps, Climate of the Alps - Subalpine Region of the Alps, Climate of the Alps - Alpine Region of the Alps, Climate of the Alps - Glacial Region of the Alps, Climate of the Alps - Olive Region of the Alps, Climate of the Alps - Vine Region of the Alps

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At the end of the most recent glacial period, known in Britain as the Devensian, ten thousand years ago, Great Britain was joined to Europe, notably, by the ridge between Friesland and Norfolk. The topography of the bed of the North Sea indicates that the rivers of the southern part of eastern England would flow into the River Rhine, thence through the English Channel. From The Fens northward along the modern coast, the drainage flowed into the northern North Sea basin, which, in turn, drained towards the Viking Deep. As the land-ice melted, the rising sea level drowned the lower lands, ultimately e ...

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The Fens, The Fens - Formation, The Fens - Management, The Fens - The royal forest, The Fens - Draining the Fens, The Fens - Restoring the Fens, The Fens - Fen settlements, The Fens - Setting in fiction

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The Wisconsinan glaciation has had a considerable effect on the landscape of the Northern Hemisphere. In North America, the Great Lakes and the Finger Lakes were carved by ice's deepening of old valleys, and most of the lakes in Minnesota and Wisconsin were gouged out by glaciers, to be filled with water later when the glaciers melted. The old Teays River drainage system was radically altered and largely reshaped into the Ohio River drainage system. Other rivers were dammed and diverted to new channels, such as the Niagara, which formed a dr ...

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Ice age, Ice age - Origin of ice age theory, Ice age - Major ice ages, Ice age - Interglacials, Ice age - Causes of ice ages, Ice age - Recent glacial and interglacial phases, Ice age - Glaciation in North America, Ice age - Reference

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The Oak Ridges Moraine probably formed in the Late Wisconsonian glacial period. Ice melt from the Niagara Escarpment flowed into the western boundaries of the moraine, wherein conduits beneath the ice expanded to form a west-to-east passage between the main Laurentide ice sheet and a mass of ice in the Lake Ontario basin. Stratified sediment was deposited rapidly on the high-relief erosional surface. Up to 150 m in some areas, the deposits occurred on surfaces defined by highly eroded channels and drumlin ...

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Oak Ridges Moraine, Oak Ridges Moraine - Ecology, Oak Ridges Moraine - Development pressures, Oak Ridges Moraine - Physiography, Oak Ridges Moraine - Geological origins, Oak Ridges Moraine - Hydrology, Oak Ridges Moraine - Research on the moraine, Oak Ridges Moraine - Political action, Oak Ridges Moraine - Conservation, Oak Ridges Moraine - Notes

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There have been many different theories about the formation of Valles Marineris that have changed over the years. Before Viking or powerful telescopes, the prevailing idea of formation has been extra-terrestrial canali formed by ambulatory Martians to save their dying planet. The problems with this hypothesis are, to date, we have not found any extraterrestrial life and the canali disappear with high-powered telescopes. Later ideas in the 1970s were erosion by water or thermokarst activity, which is the melting of permafrost in glacial clime ...

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Valles Marineris, Valles Marineris - Formation, Valles Marineris - Oudemans Crater the trigger, Valles Marineris - Regions of Valles Marineris, Valles Marineris - Noctis Labyrinthus, Valles Marineris - Ius and Tithonium Chasmata, Valles Marineris - Melas Candor and Ophir Chasmata, Valles Marineris - Coprates Chasma, Valles Marineris - Eos and Ganges Chasmata, Valles Marineris - Chryse region

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List of disasters - Prehistoric disasters. The Snowball Earth hypothesis. The Toba eruption about 75,000 years ago. Various extinction events, some of an undetermined nature. Impact events. Great prehistoric floods, many brought on by rising sea levels and melting glacial dams at the end of the most recent ice age List of disasters - Classical antiquity disasters. Thera volcanic eruption of 1650-1450 BC caused tsunamis in t ...

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List of disasters, List of disasters - Natural disasters, List of disasters - Prehistoric disasters, List of disasters - Classical antiquity disasters, List of disasters - Medieval disasters, List of disasters - Renaissance and Enlightenment disasters, List of disasters - 19th century disasters, List of disasters - 20th century disasters, List of disasters - 21st century disasters, List of disasters - Transportation disasters, List of disasters - Air disasters, List of disasters - Rail disasters, List of disasters - Ship and ferry disasters, List of disasters - Road disasters, List of disasters - Other man-made disasters, List of disasters - Nuclear disasters, List of disasters - War disasters, List of disasters - Dam/dike/levee disasters, List of disasters - Environmental disasters, List of disasters - Mining disasters, List of disasters - Industrial disasters, List of disasters - Explosion disasters, List of disasters - Fire disasters, List of disasters - Miscellaneous, List of disasters - Causes of hypothetical future disasters

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Human settlement became possible when the ice, from the last glacial era, melted away 11,000–13,000 years ago. The oldest known settlement in Estonia was located by the Pärnu River, near the town of Sindi (village Pulli). It dates back to the middle of the 8th millennium BC. (In 2004, another settlement was found near the place where river Reiu joins river Pärnu, it is probably 500-1000 years older than Pulli settlement). Previously known hunting and fishing communities from around 6500 BC had lived near the town of Kunda. Bone and stone ...

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History of Estonia, History of Estonia - Pre-history, History of Estonia - The Conquest, History of Estonia - The Middle Ages, History of Estonia - Swedish Period, History of Estonia - Part of Imperial Russia, History of Estonia - Independence, History of Estonia - Period of Soviet and German Occupation, History of Estonia - Creation of Estonian SSR, History of Estonia - German Occupation, History of Estonia - After World War II, History of Estonia - Regaining Independence, History of Estonia - Time line, History of Estonia - Prehistory, History of Estonia - Livonian Period, History of Estonia - Swedish period, History of Estonia - Russian Period, History of Estonia - Independent Estonia

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Mount Sinai New York - Geologic origin. The glaciers from the north deposited sediments that now make up the foundation of Long Island. As the global climate warmed, melting ice and flowing waters eroded the dropped glacial sediments into the shape of a land called "Pamanouk" or the island we call Long Island. The island's northern bluffs were interrupted by several rivers and a number of ...

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Mount Sinai New York, Mount Sinai New York - Geography, Mount Sinai New York - History, Mount Sinai New York - Geologic origin, Mount Sinai New York - Native Americans, Mount Sinai New York - Colonial Settling, Mount Sinai New York - Hamlet's First Name and Boundary, Mount Sinai New York - Hamlet's Name Change and Development, Mount Sinai New York - New Home Construction in Mt. Sinai, Mount Sinai New York - Farming, Mount Sinai New York - Work Trades and Commerce, Mount Sinai New York - Education, Mount Sinai New York - Religion, Mount Sinai New York - Civic Action, Mount Sinai New York - Community Groups, Mount Sinai New York - Mt. Sinai's Harbor, Mount Sinai New York - Demographics

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