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  2. The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall - Wikipedia

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    The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall is an open-world, action role-playing game published by Bethesda Softworks.The second video game in the Elder Scrolls series, it was released on September 20, 1996 for MS-DOS, following the success of 1994's The Elder Scrolls: Arena.

  3. Fold mountains - Wikipedia

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    Fold mountains form in areas of thrust tectonics, such as where two tectonic plates move towards each other at convergent plate boundary.When plates and the continents riding on them collide or undergo subduction (that is – ride one over another), the accumulated layers of rock may crumple and fold like a tablecloth that is pushed across a table, particularly if there is a mechanically weak ...

  4. The Elder Scrolls - Wikipedia

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    Daggerfall 's manual begins with a design manifesto, declaring the developers' intention to "create a book with blank pages" and "a game designed to encourage exploration and reward curiosity". Choices, in the form of paths taken by the player, to do good, to chase after evil, are left open to the player, "just like in real life". [83]

  5. Mountain formation - Wikipedia

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    Zard-Kuh, a fold mountain in the central Zagros range of Iran. When plates collide or undergo subduction (that is, ride one over another), the plates tend to buckle and fold, forming mountains. While volcanic arcs form at oceanic-continental plate boundaries, folding occurs at continental-continental plate boundaries.

  6. Great Escarpment, Southern Africa - Wikipedia

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    About 180 million years ago, a mantle plume under southern Gondwana caused bulging of the continental crust in the area that would later become southern Africa. [2] Within 10–20 million years, rift valleys formed on either side of the central bulge and flooded to become the proto-Atlantic Ocean and proto-Indian Ocean more or less along the present southern African coastline and separating ...

  7. Truncated upland - Wikipedia

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    Truncated upland, truncated highland or bevelled upland (German: Rumpfgebirge) are the heavily eroded remains of a fold mountain range, often from an early period in earth history. [1] [2] The term Rumpfgebirge ("rump mountains") was first introduced into the literature in 1886 by Ferdinand von Richthofen. [3]

  8. We Used AI To Show What "Percy Jackson" Characters ... - AOL

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    We Used AI To Show What "Percy Jackson" Characters Would Look Like In Real Life Based On The Books, And I'm Enraged About The Movie All Over Again September 9, 2022 at 9:16 AM

  9. Geology of the Appalachians - Wikipedia

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    As Pangea rifted apart a new passive tectonic margin was born, and the forces that created the Appalachian, Ouachita, and Marathon Mountains were stilled. Weathering and erosion prevailed, and the mountains began to wear away. [10] By the end of the Mesozoic, the Appalachian Mountains had been eroded to an almost-flat plain. [10]