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Wilhelm Reiss, the Glossary

Wilhelm Reiss (13 June 1838 – 29 September 1908) was a German geologist and explorer born in Mannheim.^[1]

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Scientists from Mannheim

Alphons Stübel

Moritz Alphons Stübel (26 July 1835 – 10 November 1904) was a German geologist and naturalist. Wilhelm Reiss and Alphons Stübel are 19th-century German geologists.

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Ancón District

Ancon is a district of northern Lima Province in Peru.

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Ancon (archaeological site)

Ancon (archaeological site) is located in the north of the Bay of Ancon, in the Ancón District, on the central coast of Peru.

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Andes

The Andes, Andes Mountains or Andean Mountain Range are the longest continental mountain range in the world, forming a continuous highland along the western edge of South America.

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Anthropology

Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including archaic humans.

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Antwerp

Antwerp (Antwerpen; Anvers) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium.

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Archaeology

Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.

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Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America.

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Azores

The Azores (Açores), officially the Autonomous Region of the Azores (Região Autónoma dos Açores), is one of the two autonomous regions of Portugal (along with Madeira).

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Berlin

Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population.

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Bolivia

Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in western-central South America.

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Canary Islands

The Canary Islands (Canarias), also known informally as the Canaries, are a Spanish region, autonomous community and archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean.

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Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America.

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Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America.

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Cotopaxi

Cotopaxi is an active stratovolcano in the Andes Mountains, located near Latacunga city of Cotopaxi Province, about south of Quito, and northeast of the city of Latacunga, Ecuador.

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Ecuador

Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west.

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Ethnography

Ethnography is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures.

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Ethnology (from the ἔθνος, ethnos meaning 'nation') is an academic field and discipline that compares and analyzes the characteristics of different peoples and the relationships between them (compare cultural, social, or sociocultural anthropology).

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Geologist

A geologist is a scientist who studies the structure, composition, and history of Earth.

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Geology

Geology is a branch of natural science concerned with the Earth and other astronomical objects, the rocks of which they are composed, and the processes by which they change over time.

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German Wikipedia

The German Wikipedia (Deutschsprachige Wikipedia) is the German-language edition of Wikipedia, a free and publicly editable online encyclopedia.

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Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin

The Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin (Berlin Geographical Society) was founded in 1828 and is the second oldest geographical society.

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Hawaii

Hawaii (Hawaii) is an island state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about southwest of the U.S. mainland.

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Heidelberg University

Heidelberg University, officially the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg; Universitas Ruperto Carola Heidelbergensis), is a public research university in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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Inca Empire

The Inca Empire, officially known as the Realm of the Four Parts (Tawantinsuyu, "four parts together"), was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America.

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Karl von Fritsch

Karl Wilhelm Georg von Fritsch (11 November 1838, in Weimar – 9 January 1906) was a German geologist and paleontologist. Wilhelm Reiss and Karl von Fritsch are 19th-century German geologists.

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Madeira

Madeira, officially the Autonomous Region of Madeira (Região Autónoma da Madeira), is one of two autonomous regions of Portugal, the other being the Azores.

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Mannheim

Mannheim (Palatine German: Mannem or Monnem), officially the University City of Mannheim (Universitätsstadt Mannheim), is the second-largest city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, after the state capital of Stuttgart, and Germany's 21st-largest city, with a 2021 population of 311,831 inhabitants.

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Necropolis

A necropolis (necropolises, necropoles, necropoleis, necropoli) is a large, designed cemetery with elaborate tomb monuments.

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Peru

Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pacific Ocean. Peru is a megadiverse country with habitats ranging from the arid plains of the Pacific coastal region in the west to the peaks of the Andes mountains extending from the north to the southeast of the country to the tropical Amazon basin rainforest in the east with the Amazon River.

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Petrography

Petrography is a branch of petrology that focuses on detailed descriptions of rocks.

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Prehistory

Prehistory, also called pre-literary history, is the period of human history between the first known use of stone tools by hominins million years ago and the beginning of recorded history with the invention of writing systems.

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Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro, or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of Rio de Janeiro.

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Saalfeld

Saalfeld (Saalfeld/Saale) is a town in Germany, capital of the Saalfeld-Rudolstadt district of Thuringia.

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Santorini

Santorini (Santoríni), officially Thira (Thíra) and Classical Greek Thera, is a Greek island in the southern Aegean Sea, about southeast from its mainland.

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Tungurahua

Tungurahua (from Quichua tunguri (throat) and rahua (fire), "Throat of Fire")) is an active stratovolcano located in the Cordillera Oriental of Ecuador. The volcano gives its name to the province of Tungurahua. Volcanic activity restarted on August 19, 1999, and is ongoing, with several eruptive episodes since then, the most recent lasting from February 26 to March 16, 2016.

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Uruguay

Uruguay, officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay (República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America.

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Volcanologist

A volcanologist, or volcano scientist, is a geologist who focuses on understanding the formation and eruptive activity of volcanoes.

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References

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

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