The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 181National Geographic Society., 1992 - Geography |
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... Trees Restore the Surface C reated by decades of nickel mining , the infamous 25,000- acre " moonscape " of bare rock at Sudbury , Ontario , is becom- ing less lunar . In 1984 the mining company Inco Limited hit upon a plan to aid both ...
... Trees Restore the Surface C reated by decades of nickel mining , the infamous 25,000- acre " moonscape " of bare rock at Sudbury , Ontario , is becom- ing less lunar . In 1984 the mining company Inco Limited hit upon a plan to aid both ...
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... trees to the ground and our increasing reliance on brain power for survival . Yale geologist Elisabeth Vrba notes that from seven to five million years ago , when hominids split from the other apes , and about two and a half million ...
... trees to the ground and our increasing reliance on brain power for survival . Yale geologist Elisabeth Vrba notes that from seven to five million years ago , when hominids split from the other apes , and about two and a half million ...
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... trees , which sometimes sway when a person steps nearby- hence the swamp's Indian name , said to mean " land of trembling earth . " The cypress trees too hint at myth . In an area left intact when loggers were cutting their way through ...
... trees , which sometimes sway when a person steps nearby- hence the swamp's Indian name , said to mean " land of trembling earth . " The cypress trees too hint at myth . In an area left intact when loggers were cutting their way through ...
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