- some
felsic crust existed as
early as 4.4 Ga, only 140 Ma
after Earth's
formation.
There are two main
models of how this
initial small volume of continental...
- Look up
formation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Formation may
refer to: Back-
formation, the
process of
creating a new
lexeme by
removing or affixes...
- A crop circle, crop
formation, or corn
circle is a
pattern created by
flattening a crop,
usually a cereal. The term was
first coined in the
early 1980s...
- Basin. For example, the
Onondaga Formation,
which runs in a
parallel outcrop belt just to the
south of the
Lockport Formation through western New York and...
- A rock
formation is an isolated, scenic, or
spectacular surface rock outcrop. Rock
formations are
usually the
result of
weathering and
erosion sculpting...
- osteoblasts. It is
synonymous with bone
tissue formation.
There are two
processes resulting in the
formation of normal,
healthy bone tissue: Intramembranous...
- defense.
These in turn
manage military branches that
themselves command formations and
units specialising in combat,
combat support and combat-service support...
-
development of atolls.
According to
Charles Darwin's
subsidence model, the
formation of an
atoll is
explained by the
sinking of a
volcanic island around which...
-
adulthood (coming of age). The term
comes from the
German words Bildung ('
formation' or 'education') and
Roman ('novel'). The term was
coined in 1819 by philologist...
- of
midfield units on a team and
their ****igned
roles depend on
which formation is used; the unit of
these players on the
pitch is
commonly referred to...
