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Section of the northern polar cap of Mars, as seen by the Mars Global Surveyor on Sept. 12, 1998. A series of ice terraces, believed to be the product of millions of years of ice and dust deposits, are visible in the left half of the picture.

China: terrace farming

Philippines: terraced fields

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Ahura Mazda - relief of the Zoroastrian god Ahura Mazda at the ancient ruins of Persepolis in Iran. Also known as Ormazd Zoroastrianism,

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NBA Lakers Celtics Finals Kevin Garnett shooting.

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Bog body. Head of Tollund Man. Died at about age 30-40, Dated to about 280 BCE early Iron Age. Found Bjaeldskovdal bog Denmark in 1950 near Elling Woman. Most well preserved bog body to date. Human remains mummified in natural peat bogs. mummy, embalm

9 Noteworthy Bog Bodies (And What They Tell Us)

Small, white rat (genus Rattus) on a glass table. (rodent, laboratory, experiment)

Cruel and Unusual Punishments: 15 Types of Torture

Black widow spider

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Christmas tree, holiday, pine

How Did the Tradition of Christmas Trees Start?

Saguaro cacti dot the Sonoran Desert landscape at Saguaro National Park, Arizona. Formerly Saguaro National Monument cactus

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geology

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beach formation

In beach
…high sea level, a beach terrace is located, and there may be a series of beach ridges or berms created by the waves of a previous major storm. This terrace surface is inclined seaward. The next element is a steeper, frontal beach slope or face, and beneath it a low-tide…
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Holocene Epoch coastal formations

In Holocene Epoch: Other coastal regions
…are the coasts with Holocene terraces undergoing tectonic uplift. Terraces of this sort, backed in successive steps by Pleistocene terraces, are well developed in South America, the East Indies, New Guinea, and Japan. By careful surveys every few years the Japanese geodesists have been able to establish mean rates of…
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London

In London: The valley of the Thames
…graded plateaus formed by gravel terraces—some at 100–150 feet (30–45 meters; the Boyn terraces, such as Islington, Putney, and Richmond) and a second and more extensive level, the Taplow terraces, at 50–100 feet (15–30 meters), on which sit the City of London, the West End, the East End, and the…
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