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Crag (geology)
Crag may refer to: * Crag (climbing), a cliff or group of cliffs, in any location, which is or may be suitable for climbing * Crag (dice game), a dice game played with three dice * Crag, Arizona, US * Crag, West Virginia, US * Crag and tail, a geological formation caused by the passage of a glacier over an area of hard rock * Crag Group, a geological group outcropping in East Anglia, UK ** Coralline Crag Formation ** Norwich Crag Formation ** Red Crag Formation ** Wroxham Crag Formation, see Cromer Forest Bed * Crag Hotel, Penang, Malaysia * Crag Jones (born 1962), Welsh climber * USS ''Crag'' (AM-214), a 1943 US Navy ''Admirable''-class minesweeper * The Crag, the final event in the Nickelodeon Guts action sports program * Club de Radioaficionados de Guatemala, an amateur radio organization in Guatemala * Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010 The Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010 (c. 25), or CRAG Act, is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crag (climbing)
__NOTOC__ This glossary of climbing terms is a list of definitions of terms and jargon related to rock climbing Rock climbing is a sport in which participants climb up, across, or down natural rock formations. The goal is to reach the summit of a formation or the endpoint of a usually pre-defined route without falling. Rock climbing is a physically and ... and mountaineering. The specific terms used can vary considerably between different English-speaking countries; many of the phrases described here are particular to the United States and the United Kingdom. A B Completing the climb upon one's first attempt ever. Often confused with 'flashing' which is the first attempt of the day. There is a second opportunity for a climber to 'blitz' a wall after 12 months. C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wroxham Crag Formation
Wroxham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The civil parish of Wroxham has an area of 6.21 square kilometres, and in 2001, had a population of 1,532 in 666 households. A reduced population of 1,502 in 653 households was noted in the 2011 Census. The village is situated within the Norfolk Broads on the south side of a loop in the middle reaches of the River Bure. It lies in an elevated position above the Bure, between Belaugh Broad to the west, and Wroxham Broad to the east and south east. Wroxham is some eight miles north-east of Norwich, to which it is linked by the A1151 road. The village and broad lie in an area of fairly intensive agriculture, with areas of wet woodland adjoining the broad and river. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the district of Broadland although the river, broad and their immediate environs fall within the executive area of the Broads Authority. On the northern side of the Bure is the village of H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Club De Radioaficionados De Guatemala
The Club de Radioaficionados de Guatemala (CRAG) (in English, Guatemala Amateur Radio Club) is a national non-profit organization for amateur radio enthusiasts in Guatemala. Key membership benefits of the CRAG include a QSL bureau for those amateur radio operators in regular communications with other amateur radio operators in foreign countries, and a network to support amateur radio emergency communications. CRAG represents the interests of Guatemalan amateur radio operators before Guatemalan and international regulatory authorities. CRAG is the national member society representing Guatemala in the International Amateur Radio Union.International Amateur Radio Union (2008)"Member Societies". Retrieved Feb. 21, 2008. References Guatemala Guatemala ( ; ), officially the Republic of Guatemala ( es, República de Guatemala, links=no), is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the north and west by Mexico; to the northeast by Belize and the Caribbean; to the east ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Crag (AM-214)
USS ''Crag'' (AM-214) was an built for the United States Navy during World War II. She was originally ordered, laid down, and launched as USS ''Craig'' (AM-214), but was renamed ''Crag'' in August 1944. She was awarded one battle star for service in the Pacific sweeping mines after the end of World War II. She was decommissioned in March 1948 and placed in reserve. While she remained in reserve, ''Crag'' was reclassified as MSF-214 in February 1955 but never reactivated. In 1962, she was sold to the Mexican Navy and renamed ARM ''DM-15''. Her ultimate fate is not reported in secondary sources. U.S. Navy career Initially named ''Craig'', the ship was launched on 21 March 1943 by sponsor Mrs. Q. Abercrombie-St. John at Tampa Shipbuilding Co., Inc., of Tampa, Florida. The spelling of the ship's name was changed to ''Crag'' on 3 August 1944. She was completed at the Charleston Navy Yard and commissioned on 1 August 1945. ''Crag'' served with the Naval Mine Warfare Test Station, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crag Jones
Caradog "Crag" Jones (born 1962) is a Welsh climber. He is the first Welshman to reach the summit of Mount Everest, a feat achieved on 23 May 1995. He was the 724th climber to reach the summit. The final ascent was made with Michael Knakkergaard-Jorgensen, the first Dane to the summit. Jones was born and bred in Pontrhydfendigaid, a village near Tregaron, Ceredigion, in mid-Wales. Everest expedition Jones and Jorgensen were part of a larger world team, led by Henry Todd of the UK, and using Himalayan guides. The team took the northern route (North Col – North East Ridge) His ascent of Everest was made into a 52-minute film for television, and featured camera work by Eric Jones). Other peaks and "firsts" He made the first ascent of Hunza Peak (6200m). On 25 January 2001 Jones made the first ascent, solo, of the highest of the Three Brothers peaks (2008m) at the north west end of the Allardyce Range on South Georgia. In 2005, together with Julian Freeman-Attwood, Rich Howa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crag Hotel
The Crag Hotel, Penang is an abandoned hotel, and former school building on the north edge of Penang Hill. Hotel history The original site was first occupied by a Mr Bright in 1845, and was most likely a private residence. By the early 1850s, it was used as a sanatorium. In 1896, Captain John W Kerr, an employee of the East India Company took over the lease and made numerous improvements to the site and was a popular retreat for Europeans who lived in Georgetown and Penang Island as a way to escape the intense heat and humidity of the lower coastal areas. In 1905, the lease was then taken over by four Armenian immigrants, the Sarkies brothers and following minor renovations was turned into a hotel that boasted nine bungalows. The hotel prospered until the outbreak of World War I, when it was sold to the colonial government. Although it was still managed by the Sarkies brothers, by 1925 it was handed over to the Federated Malay States Railway. Most of the hotel was completely rebu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cromer Forest Bed
The Cromer Forest Bed is a geological formation in Norfolk, England. It consists of river gravels, estuary and floodplain sediments predominantly clays and muds as well as sands along the coast of northern Norfolk. It is the type locality for the Cromerian Stage of the Pleistocene between 0.8 and 0.5 million years ago., The deposit itself range varies in age from about 2 to 0.5 million years ago. It is about 6 metres thick and is exposed in cliff section near the town of West Runton. For over a century the bed, named after the local town of Cromer, has been famous for its assemblage of fossil mammal remains, containing the diverse remains of numerous taxa, including deer, carnivorans and birds. Although most of the forest bed is now obscured by coastal defence, the Cromer Forest Bed continues to be eroded and is rich in fossils including the skeletal remains of the West Runton Mammoth which was discovered in 1990. The oldest human footprints outside Africa, the Happisburgh foot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Crag Formation
The Red Crag Formation is a geological formation in England. It outcrops in south-eastern Suffolk and north-eastern Essex. The name derives from its iron-stained reddish colour and ''crag'' which is an East Anglian word for shells. It is part of the Crag Group, a series of notably marine strata which belong to a period when Britain was connected to continental Europe by the Weald–Artois Anticline, and the area in which the Crag Group was deposited was a tidally dominated marine bay. This bay would have been subjected to enlargement and contraction brought about by Marine transgression, transgressions and Marine regression, regressions driven by the 40,000-year Milankovitch cycles. The sediment in the outcrops mainly consists of coarse-grained and shelly sands that were deposited in sand waves (megaripples) that migrated parallel to the shore in a south-westward direction. The most common fossils are bivalves and gastropods that were often worn by the abrasive environment. The most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crag (dice Game)
Crag is a dice game similar to Yacht and Yahtzee Yahtzee is a dice game made by Milton Bradley (a company that has since been acquired and assimilated by Hasbro). It was first marketed under the name of Yahtzee by game entrepreneur Edwin S. Lowe in 1956. The game is a development of earlier .... It is played with three dice. The game is quicker to play than Yahtzee, and in Clement Wood and Gloria Goddard's 1940 ''Complete Book of Games'', it is described as a game that "shares with Yacht the supremacy among sequence dice-casting games". Gameplay Over 13 rounds, players take turns to roll three dice and assign them to certain combinations in a table. After throwing the dice, a player may choose to reroll any number of those dice. This second roll is final, at which point the player chooses which scoring category is to be used for that round. Once a player has used a category, they cannot use it again. The scoring categories have varying point values, some of which are fixe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norwich Crag Formation
The Norwich Crag Formation is a stratigraphic unit of the British Pleistocene Epoch. It is the second youngest unit of the Crag Group, a sequence of four geological formations spanning the Pliocene to Lower Pleistocene transition in East Anglia. It was deposited between approximately 2.4 and 1.8 million years ago, during the Gelasian Stage. The Norwich Crag is a marginal facies of the thicker, much better developed sedimentary sequence in the southern North Sea basin. It outcrops in the eastern half of the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, and is also represented in Essex and Hertfordshire. It was deposited in a near-shore environment, and comprises a range of sands, silty clays and flint-rich gravels representing various transgressive and regressive marine episodes. It rests in some places on the Red Crag Formation and in others unconformably on Coralline Crag, Palaeogene formations and Chalk Group bedrock. It is overlain by the Wroxham Crag Formation, and unconformably by th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coralline Crag Formation
The Coralline Crag Formation is a geological formation in England. It is a series of marine deposits found near the North Sea coast of Suffolk Suffolk () is a ceremonial county of England in East Anglia. It borders Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south; the North Sea lies to the east. The county town is Ipswich; other important towns include Lowes ... and characterised by bryozoan and mollusc debris. The deposit, whose onshore occurrence is mainly restricted to the area around Aldeburgh and Orford, Suffolk, Orford,Suffolk Natural England. Retrieved 8 August 2016. is a series of bioclastic calcarenites and silty sands with shell debris, deposited during a short-lived warm period at the start o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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