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Mount Lloyd George
Mount Lloyd George is a peak in British Columbia, Canada, rising to a prominence of above Lloyd George Pass. The mountain is located NE of Haworth Lake in Kwadacha Wilderness Provincial Park. Its line parent is Mount Sylvia, away. It is part of the Northern Rocky Mountains. Geology Lying in the Muskwa Ranges, Mount Lloyd George is a castellated limestone and quartzite peak. The diamictite sedimentary deposits of the mountain, several kilometers thick, date to the late Precambrian and probably have a glacial-marine origin. The age of the diamictite is not certain. It may be associated with either the Toby or the Vreeland formations of the North American Cordillera. Ice field The Lloyd George Icefield in 1998 covered over . There is a major concentration of glaciers around the mountain. The icefield is about from north to south and from east to west, bounded by the Warneford River and the Tuchodi River. The small Llanberis Glacier flows west from the icefield to Hawarth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muskwa Ranges
The Muskwa Ranges are a group of mountain ranges in northern British Columbia, Canada. They are part of the Northern Rockies section of the Rocky Mountains and are bounded on their west by the Rocky Mountain Trench and on their east by the Rocky Mountain Foothills. They are delimited on the north by the Liard River and on the south by the Peace Reach of the Lake Williston reservoir (formerly the Peace River), south of which the next major grouping of the Rockies is the Hart Ranges. The Muskwa Ranges cover a surface of and stretch for from north to south. Mountains and peaks #Mount Ulysses- # Mount Sylvia- #Mount Lloyd George- # Great Rock Peak- #Mount Roosevelt- # Great Snow Mountain- # Mount Peck- # Churchill Peak- # Yedhe Mountain- # Gataga Peak- Sub-ranges * Allied Leaders Range * Akie Range * Battle of Britain Range *Deserters Range * Gataga Ranges *Italy Range *Rabbit Plateau *Sentinel Range *Stone Range * Terminal Range * Tochieka Range *Tower of London ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Precambrian
The Precambrian (or Pre-Cambrian, sometimes abbreviated pꞒ, or Cryptozoic) is the earliest part of Earth's history, set before the current Phanerozoic Eon. The Precambrian is so named because it preceded the Cambrian, the first period of the Phanerozoic Eon, which is named after Cambria, the Latinised name for Wales, where rocks from this age were first studied. The Precambrian accounts for 88% of the Earth's geologic time. The Precambrian is an informal unit of geologic time, subdivided into three eons ( Hadean, Archean, Proterozoic) of the geologic time scale. It spans from the formation of Earth about 4.6 billion years ago ( Ga) to the beginning of the Cambrian Period, about million years ago ( Ma), when hard-shelled creatures first appeared in abundance. Overview Relatively little is known about the Precambrian, despite it making up roughly seven-eighths of the Earth's history, and what is known has largely been discovered from the 1960s onwards. The Precambrian fos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two-thousanders Of British Columbia
Two-thousanders are mountains that have a height of at least 2,000 metres above sea level, but less than 3,000 metres. The term is used in Alpine circles, especially in Europe (e.g. German: ''Zweitausender''). The two photographs show two typical two-thousanders in the Alps that illustrate different types of mountain. The Säuling (top) is a prominent, individual peak, whereas the Schneeberg (bottom) is an elongated limestone massif. In ranges like the Allgäu Alps, the Gesäuse or the Styrian-Lower Austrian Limestone Alps the mountain tour descriptions for mountaineers or hikers commonly include the two-thousanders, especially in areas where only a few summits exceed this level. Examples from these regions of the Eastern Alps are: * the striking Nebelhorn (2,224 m) near Oberstdorf or the Säuling (2,047 m) near Neuschwanstein, * the Admonter Reichenstein (2,251 m), Eisenerzer Reichenstein (2,165 m), Großer Pyhrgas (2,244 m) or Hochtor (2,369& ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond M
Raymond is a male given name. It was borrowed into English from French (older French spellings were Reimund and Raimund, whereas the modern English and French spellings are identical). It originated as the Germanic ᚱᚨᚷᛁᚾᛗᚢᚾᛞ (''Raginmund'') or ᚱᛖᚷᛁᚾᛗᚢᚾᛞ (''Reginmund''). ''Ragin'' ( Gothic) and ''regin'' (Old German) meant "counsel". The Old High German ''mund'' originally meant "hand", but came to mean "protection". This etymology suggests that the name originated in the Early Middle Ages, possibly from Latin. Alternatively, the name can also be derived from Germanic Hraidmund, the first element being ''Hraid'', possibly meaning "fame" (compare ''Hrod'', found in names such as Robert, Roderick, Rudolph, Roland, Rodney and Roger) and ''mund'' meaning "protector". Despite the German and French origins of the English name, some of its early uses in English documents appear in Latinized form. As a surname, its first recorded appearance in B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War I
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fighting occurring throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Pacific, and parts of Asia. An estimated 9 million soldiers were killed in combat, plus another 23 million wounded, while 5 million civilians died as a result of military action, hunger, and disease. Millions more died in genocides within the Ottoman Empire and in the 1918 influenza pandemic, which was exacerbated by the movement of combatants during the war. Prior to 1914, the European great powers were divided between the Triple Entente (comprising France, Russia, and Britain) and the Triple Alliance (containing Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy). Tensions in the Balkans came to a head on 28 June 1914, following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Lloyd George
David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, (17 January 1863 – 26 March 1945) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922. He was a Liberal Party politician from Wales, known for leading the United Kingdom during the First World War, social reform policies including the National Insurance Act 1911, his role in the Paris Peace Conference, and negotiating the establishment of the Irish Free State. Early in his career, he was known for the disestablishment of the Church of England in Wales and support of Welsh devolution. He was the last Liberal Party prime minister; the party fell into third party status shortly after the end of his premiership. Lloyd George was born on 17 January 1863 in Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester, to Welsh parents. From around three months of age he was raised in Pembrokeshire and Llanystumdwy, Caernarfonshire, speaking Welsh. His father, a schoolmaster, died in 1864, and David was raised by his mother and her shoemaker brot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Leland Haworth
Paul Leland Haworth (1876–1936) was an American author, educator, explorer and politician, born at West Newton, Indiana West Newton, Indiana is a neighborhood located in southwestern Marion County. West Newton is situated ten miles (16.1 km) southwest of downtown Indianapolis Indianapolis (), colloquially known as Indy, is the state capital and most pop .... Books * ''The Hayes-Tilden Disputed Presidential Election of 1876'' (1906* ''The Path of Glory'' (1911) * ''America in Ferment'' (1915) * ''George Washington, Farmer'' (1915) (reissued in 1925 as ''George Washington, Country Gentleman'') * ''The United States in Our Own Times, 1865–1920'' (revised, 1924) * ''Trail Makers of the Northwest'' (1921) References External links * * 1876 births 1936 deaths American political writers American male non-fiction writers Columbia University faculty Indiana University Bloomington alumni Indiana University faculty Members of the Indiana House of Representativ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tuchodi River
The Tuchodi River is a stream in the Northern Rocky Mountains of northern British Columbia, Canada. The river flows through the Northern Rocky Mountains Provincial Park in a northeasterly direction to the Muskwa River. Its name comes from Slavey words that mean "place of large water", probably a reference to the two lakes where the river widens. Course The Lloyd George Icefield around Mount Lloyd George in 1998 covered over . The Kwadacha and Lloyd George glaciers drain the icefield to the east. The icefield is bounded by the Warneford River and the Tuchodi River. The headwaters of the Tuchodi feed the West and East Tuchodi lakes. West Tuchodi Lake is formed where an alluvial fan caused by glacial action blocks the flow of the river. East Tuchodi Lake is formed where the river is blocked by sand and gravel debris at the mouth of Joplin Creek. The small river continues after the lakes to the Muskwa River, flowing fast through braided channels in a bed made of glacial rocks, g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warneford River (1763–1855), British cleric and philanthropist
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Warneford is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * John Warneford (1720–1773), British clergyman and scholar *Reginald Warneford (1891–1915), Royal Naval Air Service officer *Samuel Wilson Warneford Samuel Wilson Warneford (1763 – 11 January 1855) was an astute and eccentric English cleric and philanthropist from an old but generally impoverished family. He married into money, as his father had done, and thereafter spent his life trying to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North American Cordillera
The North American Cordillera, sometimes also called the Western Cordillera of North America, the Western Cordillera or the Pacific Cordillera, is the North American portion of the American Cordillera, the mountain chain system (cordillera) along the western coast ( Pacific coast) of the Americas. The North American Cordillera covers an extensive area of mountain ranges, intermontane basins and plateaus in Western/ Northwestern Canada, Western United States and Mexico, including much of the territory west of the Great Plains. The precise boundaries of this cordillera and its subregions, as well as the names of its various features, may differ depending on the definitions in each country or jurisdiction, and also depending on the scientific field; this cordillera is a particularly prominent subject in the scientific field of physical geography.Melanie Ostopowich (2005) The Cordillera', Weigl Educational Publishers Limited, , pp. 6, 12, and 20: "The Cordillera is one of the seven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diamictite
Diamictite (; from Ancient Greek ''δια'' (dia-): ''through'' and ''µεικτός'' (meiktós): ''mixed'') is a type of lithified sedimentary rock that consists of nonsorted to poorly sorted terrigenous sediment containing particles that range in size from clay to boulders, suspended in a matrix of mudstone or sandstone. The term was coined by Richard Foster Flint and others as a purely descriptive term, devoid of any reference to a particular origin.Flint, R.F., J.E. Sanders, and J. Rodgers (1960) ''Diamictite, a substitute term for symmictite'' Geological Society of America Bulletin. 71(12):1809–1810. Some geologists restrict the usage to nonsorted or poorly sorted conglomerate or breccia that consists of sparse, terrigenous gravel suspended in either a mud or sand matrix. Tucker, M.E. (2003) ''Sedimentary Rocks in the Field'' John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., New York, New York. 244 pp. Unlithified diamictite is referred to as diamicton. The term diamictite is often appli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northern Rocky Mountains
The Northern Rocky Mountains, usually referred to as the Northern Rockies, are a subdivision of the Canadian Rockies comprising the northern half of the Canadian segment of the Rocky Mountains. While their northward limit is easily defined as the Liard River, which is the northward terminus of the whole Rockies, the southward limit is debatable, although the area of Mount Ovington and Monkman Pass is mentioned in some sources, as south from there are the Continental Ranges, which are the main spine of the Rockies forming the boundary between British Columbia and Alberta.''Landforms of British Columbia'', S. Holland, BC Govt, Bulletin 50, reprinted 1976. Some use the term to mean only the area north of the Peace Arm of the Williston Reservoir, and in reference to Northern Rocky Mountains Provincial Park, while others consider the term to extend all the way south, beyond the limit of the Hart Ranges at Mount Ovington, to include the McBride area, the Sir Alexander Group and Mount ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
