ACCRETIONARY WEDGE

  

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ACCRETIONARY WEDGE

Specialty Definition: ACCRETIONARY WEDGE

DomainDefinition

Geological

Sediments, the top layer of material on a tectonic plate, that accumulate and deform where oceanic and continental plates collide. These sediments are scraped off the top of the downgoing oceanic crustal plate and are appended to the edge of the continental plate. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: ACCRETIONARY WEDGE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-d-e-e-e-g-i-n-o-r-r-t-w-y"

-5 letters: accretionary, incarcerated, redecorating.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: ACCRETIONARY WEDGE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 43 43 52 45 54 49 4F 4E 41 52 59      57 45 44 47 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01000011 01000011 01010010 01000101 01010100 01001001 01001111 01001110 01000001 01010010 01011001 00100000 01010111 01000101 01000100 01000111 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#67 &#67 &#82 &#69 &#84 &#73 &#79 &#78 &#65 &#82 &#89 &#32 &#87 &#69 &#68 &#71 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0043 0043 0052 0045 0054 0049 004F 004E 0041 0052 0059      0057 0045 0044 0047 0045

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

35373752395443494835525925739384139

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INDEX

1. Anagrams
2. Orthography
3. Bibliography


  

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