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Phosphate Discovery in Norway

Santhosh Kumar 14/07/2023

Phosphate Discovery in Norway upsc
Phosphate deposit discovered
Can be used to power
Electric cars
Solar panels
About Phosphorus
Comes from phosphate rock
Is a finite resource
Will eventually run out
Used in agriculture
90% of mined phosphate
Largest amount found in
Morocco’s western Sahara region
Also in China
Also in Egypt
Environmental concerns
Causes algae blooms
Refining process is highly polluting
India
Deficient in Apatite & Rock Phosphate
Apatite imports
Completely dependent on
Rock Phosphate production
From two states
Rajasthan
Madhya Pradesh

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The Great Unconformity mind map December 2023 News Adrian Tasistro-Hart's Research Flood Theory Sauk Transgression Coastal and Marine Sediments Found in Continental Interiors Continental Flooding Occurred Five Times Past 510 Million Years First Post-Great Unconformity Active Subduction At Continental Margins Account for Flooding Events Published Results In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences C. Brenhin Keller's Research Glacial Activity Theory Continental Ice Sheets Responsible for Lost Rock Formations Study Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Glaciation and Tectonics Contributed to Rock Loss Research by Nanjing Institute Late Ediacaran to Early Cambrian Strata On Southern North China Craton Global Sea-Level Fall Led to Formation Ediacaran-Cambrian Unconformity Rebecca Flowers' Research Multiple Great Unconformities Characterization Based on Modeling Thermochronologic Results From Grand Canyon Different Thermal Histories What Geological Phenomenon Missing Geological Time Up to a Billion Years Separation of Rocks Full of Fossils Largely Fossil-Free Rocks When Cryogenian Period 720 to 635 Million Years Ago Ediacaran–Cambrian Transitional Period Snowball Earth Rock Carved Away Up to 3 Miles Deep Why Ice Age Glacial Activity Plate Tectonics Assembly and Breakup of Rodinia Subglacial Erosion Glaciers Scouring Continents Where North America North China Craton Grand Canyon East and West Sections Central Canada Tectonically Quiescent Who Adrian Tasistro-Hart Sedimentary Geologist Doctoral Student, Department of Earth Sciences C. Brenhin Keller Assistant Professor of Earth Sciences Kalin McDannell Postdoctoral Researcher in Earth Sciences Rebecca Flowers Thermochronologist, University of Colorado Boulder Sun Yunpeng Researcher, Nanjing Institute How Continental Ice Sheets Erosion Subduction at Continental Margins Global Geodynamics Changing Mantle Dynamics Oceanic Crust Dynamics Buoyant and Expanding Counterbalanced by Subsidence Significance Explains Geological Gaps Insights into Earth's History Emergence of Complex Organisms Cambrian Explosion Evolution of Multicellular Life Challenges Incomplete Geological Record Due to Erosion Diverse Theories Different Explanations for Same Phenomenon Way Forward Further Testing Against Geologic Record Global Pattern Analysis To Strengthen Theories Compiling Data Into Large Database for Gondwana

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