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Figure 1: Planation surface cut across dipping Paleozoic sandstone in the James Range, central Australia. Figure 2: Dissected pediment surfaces on the northeastern flank of Mount Graham, southeastern Arizona. The pediments are mantled with early Pleistocene–late Pliocene alluvium. pedimentation of an upland in a desert
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The Colosseum, Rome, Italy. Giant amphitheatre built in Rome under the Flavian emperors. (ancient architecture; architectural ruins)
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Lusitania sinking, illustration from The War of the Nations (New York), December 31, 1919. World War I, WWI. This image is one of three on the page. (See source file for the other two.)
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New Zealand. Political/Physical map. Includes locator.
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July, 2006, Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery STS-121. See attached for full caption information.
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Statue of Nostradamus
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A Factory Interior, watercolor, pen and gray ink, graphite, and white goache on wove paper by unknown artist, c. 1871-91; in the Yale Center for British Art. Industrial Revolution England
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Figure 1: Planation surface cut across dipping Paleozoic sandstone in the James Range, central Australia.
Figure 2: Dissected pediment surfaces on the northeastern flank of Mount Graham, southeastern Arizona. The pediments are mantled with early Pleistocene–late Pliocene alluvium.
pedimentation of an upland in a desert
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