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The oldest identified caldera remnant straddles the border near McDermitt, Nevada-Oregon, although there are volcaniclastic piles and arcuate faults that define caldera complexes more than in diameter in the Carmacks Group of southwest-central Yukon, Canada, which is interpreted to have formed 70 million years ago by the Yellowstone hotspot .< ref > Progressively younger caldera remnants, most grouped in several overlapping volcanic fields, extend from the Nevada-Oregon border through the eastern Snake River Plain and terminate in the Yellowstone Plateau.
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The oldest known physical representations identified as symbols for abstract concepts are abstract engravings found on two pieces of ochre in Blombos Cave, South Africa, in 2001.
According to more recent studies, the oldest liturgical books indicate that the saint honoured on 30 May was a little-known martyr buried on the Via Aurelia, who was mistakenly identified with Pope Felix I, an error similar to but less curious than the identification in the liturgical books, until the mid-1950s, of the martyr saint celebrated on 30 July with the antipope Felix II.
Frank Lambert's lead cylinder recording for an experimental talking clock is often identified as the oldest surviving playable sound recording, although the evidence advanced for its early date is controversial.
In 2011 older modern human remains were identified in the UK ( Kents Cavern at 41, 000BP ) and Italy ( Grotta del Cavallo at 43, 000BP ), nonetheless the Romanian fossils are still among the oldest remains of Homo sapiens in Europe, so they may be representative of the first such people to have entered the continent.
The oldest hominid fossils ever discovered in Tanzania also come from Laetoli and are the 3. 6 to 3. 8 million year old remains of Australopithecus afarensis — Louis Leakey had found what he thought was a baboon tooth at Laetoli in 1935 ( which was not identified as afarensis until 1979 ), a fragment of hominid jaw with three teeth was found there by Kohl-Larsen in 1938 – 39, and in 1974 – 75 Mary Leakey recovered 42 teeth and several jawbones from the site.
Twenty-nine Archaic sites have been identified, mostly in south Trinidad and Tobago ; this includes the 7, 000-year-old Banwari Trace site which is the oldest discovered human settlement in the eastern Caribbean.
His code of laws, the Code of Ur-Nammu ( a fragment was identified in Istanbul in 1952 ) is one of the oldest such documents known, preceding the code of Hammurabi by 300 years.
The circle of wood is from the Ryman Auditorium's stage. Being made a member of the Grand Ole Opry, country music's big house, the oldest, most enduring " hall of fame ," is to be identified as a member of the elite of country music.
In November 2011 tests conducted at the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit in England on what were previously thought to be Neanderthal baby teeth, which had been unearthed in 1964 from the Grotta del Cavallo, were identified as the oldest modern human remains discovered anywhere in Europe, dating from between 43, 000 to 45, 000 years ago.
The part dealing with ethical conduct ( the Gestaþáttr ) was traditionally identified as the oldest portion of the poem by scholarship in the 19th and early 20th century.
In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the title Ancient of Days belongs to Adam, the oldest and earliest man, who is also identified with the archangel Michael.
Another document dated to 1180, which mentions a " castellania Slupensis " and would thus be the oldest surviving record, has been identified as a late 13th-century or 14th-century fake.
The days when the mundus was open are identified in the oldest Roman calendar as C ( omitiales ) ( days when the Comitia met ) but by later authors as dies religiosus, when it would be irreligious to perform any official work: this apparent contradiction has led to the suggestion that the whole mundus ritual was not contemporary with Rome's early calendar or early Cerean cult, but was a later Greek import.
They are considered to be the oldest of all the gods of the Maya pantheon, and are identified by a number of names throughout the Maya sacred text, reflecting their multiple roles throughout the Mayan creation myth.
The oldest known European inland ( non-coastal ) settlement in the United States has been identified at Joara, a former Mississippian culture village near Morganton.
The name of the soldier who pierced Christ's side with a longche is not given in the Gospel of John, but in the oldest known references to the legend, the apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus appended to late manuscripts of the 4th century Acts of Pilate, the soldier is identified as a centurion and called Longinus ( making the spear's " correct " Latin name Lancea Longini ).
The most divergent ( oldest ) mitochondrial haplogroup, L0d, have been identified at its highest frequencies in the southern African Khoe and San groups.
In November 2011 tests conducted at the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit in England on what were previously thought to be Neanderthal baby teeth, which had been unearthed in 1964 from the Grotta del Cavallo in Italy, were identified as the oldest Cro-Magnon remains ever discovered in Europe, dating from between 43, 000 to 45, 000 years ago.
Articles identified as the world's oldest extant coins were also found underwater with gold wire rings used as small change and a large hexahedral goldpiece.
She is identified as the wife or consort of the Sumerian Anu or Ugaritic El, the oldest deities of their pantheons.
The most divergent ( oldest ) mitochondrial haplogroup, L0d, has been identified at its highest frequencies in the southern African San groups.
The oldest man-made structures in the city date from the Neolithic era, including a possible cursus identified by aerial photography near Mere Green, and the surviving barrow at Kingstanding.
Acer negundo was identified in 1959 as the material used in the oldest extant flutes from the Americas that were made of wood.
Often identified with the legendary Gates of Alexander, Derbent claims to be the oldest city in Russia ( 8th century BCE ).
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The largest and oldest caldera segment appears to have formed as a single, large lava lake.
* Mangakino Volcanic Center: The Mangakino Volcanic Center is the westernmost and oldest rhyolitic caldera volcano in the Taupo Volcanic Zone.
The town also has one of the oldest homes in Kikuchi District that opens twice a year for tourists, a racing track, and is located on the edge of the caldera that surrounds Mount Aso.
The oldest caldera has a diameter of approximately 7 * 5. 5 km whose escarpment cuts the lava structures of the neighbouring Volcanic Complex of Povoação to the north and northeast and southeast to valley of Ribeira Quente.
The caldera formed at the site of a large stratovolcano, the remnants of which are the oldest rocks exposed on the island.
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Sediments located below the ash layer hint that Mono Lake could be a remnant of a larger and older lake that once covered a large part of Nevada and Utah, which would put it among the oldest lakes in North America.
Between the Mississippi River and Little River District drainage ditches lies one of the oldest drainage systems in the United States, Crowley ’ s Ridge, established in 1905, is a remnant of an old coastal plain that crosses the country.
The Contoocook covered railroad bridge in the village is a remnant of the Boston & Maine Railroad and is the oldest covered bridge of its kind still standing in the United States.
Seven Chimneys, the oldest house in the township, is an impressive example of eighteenth-century, regional, domestic architecture and is an important remnant of the community's early settlement period.
It is one of the oldest forests in Iran which is a remnant of the third geological age.
Omdas Sheikh Qamhat Khawr al ` allaqi was last remnant of one of Egypt's oldest surviving lineages.
Canada's oldest ice is a remnant of the Laurentide Ice Sheet 20, 000 years old called the Barnes Ice Cap on central Baffin Island.
The remnant magnetization of siltstones and sandstones suggests a depositional age of 16-5. 2 million years with Karnali River exposing the oldest part of the Siwalik Group in Nepal.
While notable terrace housing is predominant in the area, the suburb also has some fine remnant mansions, the oldest and largest in East Melbourne being the blue stone colonial mansion Bishopscourt ( designed by Newson & Blackburn ), which dates back to 1853, was used as Victoria's Government House in 1874 – 1876 and has been the residence for all of Melbourne's Anglican Bishops and Archbishops since its completion.
It is thought to be over 300 years old, the oldest remnant tree in the Port Phillip area, located next to Junction Oval on the corner of Fitzroy Street and Queens Road, St Kilda.
This famous dialogue, the oldest remnant not only of Bardaisanite learning, but even of Syriac literature, if we except the version of Holy Writ, is not by Bardaisan himself, but by a certain Philip, his disciple.
The oldest feature in the village is the remnant of a 13th century monastic moat beside Sheepman Lane, marking the site of a former Cistercian Grange belonging to Meaux Abbey ( near Beverley ).
Maroota is situated on, and owes its nature to, a residual mass of Tertiary river sand deposit ( the Maroota Sand ) which geologists think may be the oldest known remnant of the largest waterway in the Sydney region, the Nepean-Hawkesbury system.
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