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Rock Elm Disturbance, the Glossary

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The Rock Elm Disturbance is an impact crater in Pierce County, Wisconsin, United States, roughly southwest of Menomonie.[1]

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  1. 25 relations: Ames crater, Breccia, Chesapeake Bay impact crater, Decorah crater, Erosion, Fault (geology), Impact crater, Lake Superior, Menomonie, Wisconsin, Meteorite, Mount Simon Sandstone, Nördlinger Ries, Ordovician, Ordovician meteor event, Pierce County, Wisconsin, Reidite, Rock Elm, Wisconsin, Sandstone, Slate Islands (Ontario), The Washington Post, United States, University of Puerto Rico, University of Wisconsin–River Falls, Wisconsin, Zircon.

  2. Impact craters of the United States
  3. Ordovician impact craters

Ames crater

Ames crater is a meteorite crater (astrobleme) in Major County, Oklahoma, United States. Rock Elm Disturbance and Ames crater are Earth Impact Database, impact craters of the United States and Ordovician impact craters.

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Breccia

Breccia is a rock composed of large angular broken fragments of minerals or rocks cemented together by a fine-grained matrix.

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Chesapeake Bay impact crater

The Chesapeake Bay impact crater is a buried impact crater, located beneath the mouth of Chesapeake Bay, United States. Rock Elm Disturbance and Chesapeake Bay impact crater are Earth Impact Database and impact craters of the United States.

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Decorah crater

The Decorah crater, also called the Decorah impact structure, is a possible impact crater located on the east side of the city of Decorah in Iowa, United States. Rock Elm Disturbance and Decorah crater are impact craters of the United States and Ordovician impact craters.

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Erosion

Erosion is the action of surface processes (such as water flow or wind) that removes soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust and then transports it to another location where it is deposited.

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Fault (geology)

In geology, a fault is a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock across which there has been significant displacement as a result of rock-mass movements.

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Impact crater

An impact crater is a depression in the surface of a solid astronomical body formed by the hypervelocity impact of a smaller object. Rock Elm Disturbance and impact crater are Earth Impact Database.

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Lake Superior

Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface areaThe Caspian Sea is the largest lake, but is saline, not freshwater.

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Menomonie, Wisconsin

Menomonie is a city in and the county seat of Dunn County in the western part of the U.S. state of Wisconsin.

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Meteorite

A meteorite is a rock that originated in outer space and has fallen to the surface of a planet or moon.

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Mount Simon Sandstone

The Mount Simon Sandstone is an Upper Cambrian sandstone and is found in many states in the Midwest such as Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri.

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Nördlinger Ries

The Nördlinger Ries is an impact crater and large circular depression in western Bavaria and eastern Baden-Württemberg.

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Ordovician

The Ordovician is a geologic period and system, the second of six periods of the Paleozoic Era.

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Ordovician meteor event

The Ordovician meteor event was a dramatic increase in the rate at which L chondrite meteorites fell to Earth during the Middle Ordovician period, about 467.5±0.28 million years ago. Rock Elm Disturbance and Ordovician meteor event are impact craters of the United States and Ordovician impact craters.

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Pierce County, Wisconsin

Pierce County is a county in the U.S. state of Wisconsin.

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Reidite

Reidite is a rare polymorph of ZrSiO4 created when zircon experiences high pressure and temperature.

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Rock Elm, Wisconsin

Rock Elm is a town in Pierce County, Wisconsin, United States.

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Sandstone

Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains, cemented together by another mineral.

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Slate Islands (Ontario)

The Slate Islands are a small archipelago in Lake Superior, Ontario, Canada, about south of the town of Terrace Bay. Rock Elm Disturbance and Slate Islands (Ontario) are Earth Impact Database and Ordovician impact craters.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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University of Puerto Rico

The University of Puerto Rico (Spanish: Universidad de Puerto Rico), often shortened to UPR, is the main public university system in the U.S. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

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University of Wisconsin–River Falls

The University of Wisconsin–River Falls (UW–River Falls or UWRF) is a public university in River Falls, Wisconsin.

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Wisconsin

Wisconsin is a state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest of the United States.

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Zircon

Zircon is a mineral belonging to the group of nesosilicates and is a source of the metal zirconium.

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See also

Impact craters of the United States

Ordovician impact craters

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Elm_Disturbance

Also known as Rock Elm crater.