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INDIAN RIDGE [3 records]

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Record 1 2023-10-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Place Names (outside Canada)
OBS

Pangea Proxima... is a possible future supercontinent configuration. Consistent with the supercontinent cycle, Pangea Proxima could form within the next 250 million years.... In the Pangea Proxima scenario, subduction at the western Atlantic, east of the Americas, leads to the subduction of the Atlantic mid-ocean ridge followed by subduction destroying the Atlantic and Indian basin, causing the Atlantic and Indian Oceans to close, bringing the Americas back together with Africa and Europe.

OBS

In 1982, [an] American geologist ... named this hypothetical supercontinent Pangea Ultima, meaning the final Pangea. But realizing it will not be the last supercontinent, the thermal energy stored inside Earth is enough to complete another two or three Wilson cycles, he later renamed it Pangea Proxima - literally the next Pangea.

Key term(s)
  • Pangaea Proxima
  • Pangaea Ultima

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toponymes (hors Canada)
OBS

La Pangée prochaine est un hypothétique, mais probable supercontinent qui pourrait apparaître dans 250 millions d'années par le rapprochement de l'Afrique, de l'Eurasie et des Amériques, suivi du collage de l'Australie et de l'Antarctique.

OBS

Cette structure a d'abord été dénommée Pangée ultime par l'auteur de cette hypothèse, [...], nom qu'il a ensuite modifié afin d'éviter qu'on pense qu'elle pourrait être la dernière.

Spanish

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Record 2 2006-06-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Toponymy
  • Geology
  • Geomorphology and Geomorphogeny
DEF

A long, narrow, usually sinuous, steep-sided ridge of unconsolidated material.

CONT

Christmas Lake Esker, Man.

OBS

os; ose: anglicized spelling of the Swedish term "as". Plural "osar" or "oses". The term osar is often mistakenly used as a singular noun.

OBS

esker: term used by Parks Canada.

OBS

esker: term and definition officially approved by the Geographical Names Board of Canada (GNBC) (formerly named the Canadian Permanent Committee on Geographical Names -- CPCGN) within the scope of its glossary (BT-176) which is the first authoritative publication on generics in use in Canada.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toponymie
  • Géologie
  • Géomorphologie et géomorphogénie
DEF

Accumulation de matériaux non consolidés en forme de chaussée longue, étroite, généralement sinueuse, et à bords raides.

CONT

Esker du Pied de Loup, Qué.

OBS

esker : entité d'origine glaciaire attesté au Québec.

OBS

Les eskers sont (parfois appelés de leur nom suédois «ôs», «oesar» au pluriel).

OBS

esker : terme en usage à Parcs Canada.

OBS

esker : terme et définition uniformisés par la Commission de toponymie du Canada (CTC) (anciennement appelée le Comité permanent canadien des noms géographiques -- CPCNG) dans le cadre du glossaire (BT-176) faisant autorité sur la question des génériques en usage au Canada.

Key term(s)
  • oesar

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Toponimia
  • Geología
  • Geomorfología y geomorfogénesis
DEF

Montón de acarreos de grava o arena, que deposita una corriente de agua en combinación con un ventisquero.

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Record 3 2001-11-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plate Tectonics
DEF

Belt of mountains under Indian Ocean between India and Antarctica.

CONT

Also known as Desolation Island, Kerguelen Island... is the largest of a collection of small islands, islets and reefs in the southern Indian Ocean... The islands lie in the northern end of the Kerguelen-Gaussberg ridge...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tectonique des plaques
CONT

L'axe des îles Kerguelen-Gaussberg [...] relie l'Inde à l'Antarctique avec une branche vers Madagascar.

Spanish

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