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... activity indices . McCall Glacier , in the northwestern part of the Brooks Range in Arctic Alaska , has the lowest activity index ( two millimetres per metre [ 0.002 foot per foot ] measured in western North America . None of these ...
... activity indices . McCall Glacier , in the northwestern part of the Brooks Range in Arctic Alaska , has the lowest activity index ( two millimetres per metre [ 0.002 foot per foot ] measured in western North America . None of these ...
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... activity marked the early part of the Tertiary Period ( about 60,000,000 years ago ) in the British- Arctic province and large areas of India . Miocene time ( 7,000,000 to 26,000,000 years ago ) was a period of in- tense volcanic activity ...
... activity marked the early part of the Tertiary Period ( about 60,000,000 years ago ) in the British- Arctic province and large areas of India . Miocene time ( 7,000,000 to 26,000,000 years ago ) was a period of in- tense volcanic activity ...
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... activity or high unemployment , though industrial production may have grown at a rate rather slower than that of the preceding generation . Various explanations of this substantial fall of prices have been advanced : failure of the ...
... activity or high unemployment , though industrial production may have grown at a rate rather slower than that of the preceding generation . Various explanations of this substantial fall of prices have been advanced : failure of the ...
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