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Arctica or Arctida was an ancient continent which formed approximately 2.5 billion years ago in the Neoarchean era. It was made of Archaean cratons, including the Aldan and Anabar/ Angara cratons in Siberia and the Slave, Wyoming, Superior, and North Atlantic cratons in North America. Arctica was named by because the Arctic Ocean formed by the separation of the North American and Siberian cratons. Russian geologists writing in English call the continent "Arctida" since it was given that name in 1987, alternatively the Hyperborean craton, in reference to the hyperboreans in Greek mythology.
was the first to assume that the crust in the Arctic region was of continental origin. Shatsky, however, was a "fixist" and, erroneously, explained the presence of Precambrian and Paleozoic metamorphic rocks on the New Siberian, Wrangel, and De long Islands with subduction. "Mobilists", on the other hand, also erroneously, proposed that North America had rifted from Eurasia and that the Arctic basins had opened behind a retreating Alaska.
"Arctica" is a song of Finnish symphonic power metal band Amberian Dawn's third studio album End of Eden, and the first single from the album. The song was released for free download on MySpace on August 23, 2010, and a music video produced for the song was released on October 20 through YouTube. Heidi Parviainen, Amberian Dawn's lead singer, has called Arctica her favorite Amberian Dawn song.
Arctica or Arktika may refer to
- Arctica, an ancient continent which formed approximately 2.5 billion years ago in the Neoarchean era
- Arctica (genus), a bivalve genus in the family Arcticidae
- Arctica (song), an Amberian Dawn single
- Sonata Arctica, a Finnish power metal band
- 1031 Arctica, a dark asteroid
- Arktika-class icebreakers, a Soviet and later Russian class of nuclear icebreakers
- Arktika (1972 nuclear icebreaker) (1975–2008), the lead ship of her class
- Arktika (2016 nuclear icebreaker) the lead ship of the LK-60Ya-class icebreaker's, former Project 22220 nuclear-powered icebreaker, expected to enter service in 2017
- Arktika 2007, a Russian expedition involving a crewed descent to the ocean bottom at the North Pole
- Azimut Hotel Murmansk in Russia, known as Arktika before 2014
Usage examples of "arctica".
Wayfarer could even recall the geological past, back beyond the epoch when Arctica broke free and drifted north, ramming into land already present and thrusting the Boreals heavenward.
About ten thousand years ago, the big continent south of Arctica had supported a wealth of large grazing animals.
I had hoped for a later, more civilized generation to start the settlement of Arctica.
You settlers of a century or more- ' what do you, even, know about Arctica's interior?
A tendegree axial tilt, together with the orbit, means that the northern part of the Arctican continent spends half its year in unbroken sunlessness.
Unlike Terrestrial flora in cold climates, Arctican vegetation spends every, daylit hour in frantic growth and energy storage.
Nor the finds which demonstrate that an intelligent species once inhabited Arctica and may still haunt the interior.
The true conquest of northern Arctica lay in yerba hay, in bathyrhiza wood, in pericoup and glycophyllon, and eventually, when the market had expanded with population and industry, in chalcanthemum for city florists and pelts of cage-bred rover for city furriers.
I'm no Arctican woodsman, and besides, it'd have been too easy to ambush me.
You settlers of a century or more—what do you, even, know about Arctica’s interior?
A ten-degree axial tilt, together with the orbit, means that the northern part of the Arctican continent spends half its year in unbroken sunlessness.
Unlike Terrestrial flora in cold climates, Arctican vegetation spends every daylit hour in frantic growth and energy storage.
The true conquest of northern Arctica lay in yerba hay, in bathyrhiza wood, in pericoup and glycophyllon and eventually, when the market had expanded with population and industry, in chalcanthemum for city florists and pelts of cage-bred rover for city furriers.
I’m no Arctican woodsman, and besides, it’d have been too easy to ambush me.
The process of wind-etching began with the collection of the scale insect Laccifera arctica, which lived on the twigs of certain plants native to the northern near-polar regions.