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  2. Geology of Taiwan - Wikipedia

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    Taiwan lies on the western edge of the Philippine Plate. 3D block diagram showing plate tectonic setting of Taiwan. The island of Taiwan was formed approximately 4 to 5 million years ago at a convergent boundary between the Philippine Sea Plate and the Eurasian Plate. In a boundary running the length of the island and continuing southwards, the ...

  3. List of map projections - Wikipedia

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    Meridians are parabolas. Standard parallels at 36°46′N/S; parallels are unequal in spacing and scale; 2:1 aspect. 1949 McBryde–Thomas flat-pole quartic = McBryde–Thomas #4: Pseudocylindrical Equal-area Felix W. McBryde, Paul Thomas Standard parallels at 33°45′N/S; parallels are unequal in spacing and scale; meridians are fourth-order ...

  4. Geography of Taiwan - Wikipedia

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    Atmospheric scientists in Taiwan estimate that more than half of the pollutants causing Taiwan's acid rain are carried from China by monsoon winds. [52] Taiwan historically had a serious problem with the illegal dumping of household and industrial waste which became so severe that Taiwan was known as "garbage island".

  5. Equirectangular projection - Wikipedia

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    Equirectangular projection of the world; the standard parallel is the equator (plate carrée projection). Equirectangular projection with Tissot's indicatrix of deformation and with the standard parallels lying on the equator True-colour satellite image of Earth in equirectangular projection Height map of planet Earth at 2km per pixel, including oceanic bathymetry information, normalized as 8 ...

  6. List of elevation extremes by country - Wikipedia

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    Taiwan [aq] Yu Shan (Jade Mountain) 3952 m 12,966 ft Philippine Sea South China Sea East China Sea: sea level 3952 m 12,966 ft Tajikistan: Ismoil Somoni Peak: 7495 m 24,590 ft Syr Darya: 300 m 984 ft 7195 m 23,606 ft Tanzania: Kilimanjaro [ar] 5895 m 19,341 ft Indian Ocean: sea level 5892 m 19,331 ft Thailand: Doi Inthanon: 2565 m 8,415 ft

  7. Earth-centered, Earth-fixed coordinate system - Wikipedia

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    The Earth-centered, Earth-fixed coordinate system (acronym ECEF), also known as the geocentric coordinate system, is a cartesian spatial reference system that represents locations in the vicinity of the Earth (including its surface, interior, atmosphere, and surrounding outer space) as X, Y, and Z measurements from its center of mass.

  8. Chihshang fault - Wikipedia

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    The Central Mountain Range in Taiwan. The Chihshang fault (Chinese: 池上段層) is an active reverse fault system [1] located in the center of the Longitudinal Valley (the East Rift Valley in the eastern part of Taiwan), and is a segment of the Longitudinal Valley Fault.

  9. Gall–Peters projection - Wikipedia

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    The Gall–Peters projection of the world map. The Gall–Peters projection is a rectangular, equal-area map projection.Like all equal-area projections, it distorts most shapes.