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  2. Continental shelf - Wikipedia

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    The shelf surrounding an island is known as an "insular shelf." The continental margin , between the continental shelf and the abyssal plain , comprises a steep continental slope, surrounded by the flatter continental rise , in which sediment from the continent above cascades down the slope and accumulates as a pile of sediment at the base of ...

  3. Operculum (brain) - Wikipedia

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    The insular lobe is a portion of the cerebral cortex that has invaginated to lie deep within the lateral sulcus. It sits like an island (the meaning of insular ) almost surrounded by the groove of the circular sulcus and covered over and obscured by the insular opercula.

  4. Limen insulae - Wikipedia

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    It is the lateral most limit of the anterior perforated substance and the starting point of the insular cortex. The limen insulae translates as the threshold to the insula, and is the point at which the insular cortex is continuous with cortex over the amygdala and superior temporal gyrus.

  5. Maritime Southeast Asia - Wikipedia

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    The terms Island Southeast Asia and Insular Southeast Asia are sometimes given the same meaning as Maritime Southeast Asia. [ a ] Other definitions restrict Island Southeast Asia to just the islands between mainland Southeast Asia and the continental shelf of Australia and New Guinea.

  6. Intermontane Belt - Wikipedia

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    This coastline and continental shelf was located adjacent to the eastern margin of Methow Valley. [1] The Insular Plate continued to subduct under the new continental shelf and coastline about 130 million years ago during the mid Cretaceous period after the formation of the Intermontane Belt, supporting a new continental volcanic arc called the ...

  7. Insular India - Wikipedia

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    Insular India was an isolated landmass which became the Indian subcontinent. Across the latter stages of the Cretaceous and most of the Paleocene , following the breakup of Gondwana , the Indian subcontinent remained an isolated landmass as the Indian Plate drifted across the Tethys Ocean , forming the Indian Ocean .

  8. Subarachnoid cisterns - Wikipedia

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    The subarachnoid cisterns are spaces formed by openings in the subarachnoid space, an anatomic space in the meninges of the brain. [1] The space is situated between the two meninges, the arachnoid mater and the pia mater.

  9. Extreme capsule - Wikipedia

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    The extreme capsule is separated from the external capsule by the claustrum, and the extreme capsule separates the claustrum from the insular cortex, and all these lie lateral to the corpus striatum components. [2] [3] From the midline of the brain to the side, the extreme capsule is the outermost from the external capsule and the inner ...