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	North America - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		North America is a continent in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost fully in the western hemisphere.
		It is bordered on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean, on the southeast by the Caribbean Sea, and on the south and west by the North Pacific Ocean; South America lies to the southeast.
		North America occupies the northern portion of the landmass generally referred to as the New World, the Western hemisphere, the Americas, or simply America.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/North_America (1483 words)

	North American English - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		North American English is a collective term used for the varieties of the English language that are spoken in the United States and Canada.
		Differences between American and Canadian English are somewhat more apparent in the written form, where Canadians retain much, though not all, of the standard British orthography; however, this affects less than one percent of all words regardless of the dialect in the world.
		These were developed and built upon as new waves of immigration, and migration across the North American continent, brought new accents and dialects to new areas, and as these ways of speaking merged and assimilated with the population.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/North_American_English (330 words)

	North Dakota - USA State World History of India, North Dakota - USA State, North Dakota center of North American ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		North Dakota, located at the center of the North American continent, is bounded by Montana on the west, South Dakota on the south, Minnesota on the east, and the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan on the north.
		North Dakota is composed of three principal physiographic regions: the Red River Valley, the Drift Prairie, and the Missouri Plateau.
		The oldest settlement in North Dakota is at Pembina.
	www.4to40.com /4to40.com_non_ssl/earth/history/index.asp?article=earth_history_northdakota (1287 words)

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		North America has a diversity of tectonic provinces (Figure 1): The interior is constructed of a series of granite and greenstone belts of Precambrian age.
		The center of the continent is largely Archean, while the south/central portion of the continent consists of a succession of Proterozoic terranes some of which are island arcs accreted to the craton by Proterozoic collisions.
		The S-wave shows that North American upper mantle, like the surface geology, is broadly divided into two domains, with the blue anomalies representing fast, cold stable lithosphere, the tectosphere, underlying the craton, and red anomalies representing hot, slow, presumably mobile mantle underlying the tectonically active west.
	terra.rice.edu /USArray (3075 words)

	North American from A-Z
		North America is the 3rd largest of the 7 continents.
		EARTHQUAKES are common in North America and often occur along the west coast of the continent.
		The Atlantic Ocean is to the east, the Pacific Ocean to the west, and the Arctic Ocean to the north.
	www.geocities.com /northamericaaz (2440 words)

	American Imperialism in the Philippines
		A. The American administration of the Philippines was a completely new experience for the nation that was once itself colonized by another nation.
		Americans believed that it was their destiny to encompass the entire North American continent (Lubbrage 1).
		He envisioned in America’s future, the “defence of humanity, of the oppressed of all nations, of the rights of conscience, the rights of personal enfranchisement.” He believed that America was the chosen country to do this, as it did not have a history of conflict except in the defense of its freedom (O’Sullivan paragraph 4).
	www.solowey.net /american_imperialism_in_the_phil.htm (3589 words)

	North American Pipe - A Westlake Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		North American Pipe services several distinct markets including municipal water and sewer, residential plumbing, irrigation, agricultural and the do-it-yourself markets.
		North American Pipe manufactures pipe from ½” diameter through 30” in both gasketed and solvent weld configurations.
		North American Pipe operates 8 extrusion facilities located near our customers to provide the high level of service they have come to expect when purchasing our products.
	www.northamericanpipe.com /nap_page.asp?navMainID=4 (183 words)

	Continental Divides in North Dakota and North America
		But in examining the major drainages of the North American continent, it is evident that precipitation falling in or near the Great Lakes will flow either north and east through the St. Lawrence Seaway, or west and south through the Mississippi River basin.
		In contrast, streams of the northwest, north, and eastern parts of the state, such as the Souris River, the Red River of the North, and all their tributaries, including the Sheyenne, Goose, Maple, Pembina, Tongue, and Turtle rivers, flow to Hudson Bay (Fig.
		The most restrictive reading of this definition would argue that there are at least three continental divides on the North American Continent—one separating drainages of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, another separating drainages of the Pacific and Arctic Oceans, and a third separating drainages of the Arctic and Atlantic oceans.
	nationalatlas.gov /articles/geology/a_continentalDiv.html (5075 words)

	North American drought worst in 500 years
		According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the current drought in the West of North America is the worst that has occured in the last 500 years, with water flow levels at close to half those of the drought in the dirty thirties of the previous century.
		North American droughts are linked to the global climate system, linked to both oscillations in the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans.
		Last year the record breaking rains brought flooding to the Sahel as raging rivers in the region came within one inch of bursting their banks, and brought with it the ominous threat of famine in North Africa, as the crops of millions of subsistence farmers were clustered around the banks of swollen raging rivers.
	www.awitness.org /journal/worst_drought.html (2622 words)

	North American continent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The brown area shows the part of the North American continent that has been stable for over 600 million years.
		Continents also grow when oceanic crust is scraped off oceanic plates as they sink in subduction zones.
		The purple area fringing the stable continental core is made up of older Precambrian basement that was deformed during plate collisions that occurred within the last 600 million years.
	www2.nature.nps.gov /geology/usgsnps/pltec/nacraton.html (206 words)

	Collections \| American Continent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Many American artists of the first half of the 20th century determined that the defining feature of the American experience was the relationship of the individual to the vast and varied landscape of the North American continent.
		Inspired by such American poets of nature as Emerson and Whitman, American artists began to explore the regional divisions of the country.
		The decade of the 1930s witnessed the dispersal of artists across the country to celebrate the rural precincts where they had grown up, to discover primitive parts of the country where old ways were preserved, and to record the distinctive flavor of local customs, folklore and landscape.
	www.wichitaartmuseum.org /miab/continent.html (597 words)

	Thermal and compositional anomalies beneath the North American continent
		The thermal and compositional structure of the upper mantle beneath the North American continent is investigated using a joint inversion of seismic velocities and density perturbations.
		The velocity data consist of a new regional shear wave velocity model of North America and the Caribbean region obtained by surface wave tomography.
		Below the North American craton, the mantle is colder than average and depleted in iron.
	www.agu.org /pubs/crossref/2004/2002JB002263.shtml (326 words)

	MEGATRENDS IN NORTH AMERICAN PALEOCURRENTS
		Potter and Pettijohn (1977) have suggested paleocurrents on a larger scale be used for studying crustal evolution of a continent including the defining of borderlands and the timing of uplift and tectonics.
		In studies relevant for North America, Potter and Pryor recognized the vertical persistence of southwesterly directional indicators over the span of the Phanerozoic in the region including and surrounding the upper Mississippi Valley.
		The degree of scatter manifest in the Mesozoic is in sharp contrast to the paleocurrents of the immediately underlying Paleozoic.
	origins.swau.edu /papers/global/paleocurrents/default.html (1100 words)

	UNO UPDATE: Time May Be Near For Invasion and Occupation of North American Continent
		On the Russian military’s insistence, the exercise was shifted north to the Shangdong peninsula.
		Not known to the American people however is the critical situation developing in the South and Central American Regions, where under the guidance of both Russia and China many of these regions powers are re-arming in their attempt to forestall the aggression of the Axis Powers to subjugating their countries.
		Americans will be convinced that it was the work of Iran, when the truth is that it was the work of Israeli intelligence, a False Flag similar to the USS Liberty.
	www.gnn.tv /forum/thread.php?id=3421 (10396 words)

	Immigration...Native American: Destroying Cultures
		When European settlers arrived on the North American continent at the end of the fifteenth century, they encountered diverse Native American cultures—as many as 900,000 inhabitants with over 300 different languages.
		These people, whose ancestors crossed the land bridge from Asia in what may be considered the first North American immigration, were virtually destroyed by the subsequent immigration that created the United States.
		Congress passes the Removal Act, forcing Native Americans to leave the United States and settle in the Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River.
	memory.loc.gov /learn/features/immig/native_american.html (562 words)

	Atlantic floor destined to slip under North American continent
		MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL--It won't happen overnight, but eventually, the floor of the Atlantic Ocean will plunge beneath the North American continent, forming a deep trench about 2,000 miles long and possibly generating volcanoes, according to research at the University of Minnesota and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.
		The push comes from the middle of the Atlantic, where undersea mountains are rising and exerting pressure on the rock, driving it toward North America.
		Yuen's colleagues in the study were Klaus Regenauer-Lieb, a research assistant at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and Joy Branlund, who at the time was a graduate student at the University of Minnesota.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2001-10/uom-afd101701.php (547 words)

	Hispanic American Heroes Series (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The goal of the five-year HAHS Program is to educate the American and international educational institutions about the role Hispanics played and the contributions they made in the American Revolution.
		To this end, the Board has authorized the establishment and implementation of programs to educate the American Public about the contributions and role Hispanics have played in the development of the North American Continent and the establishment of the United States of America.
		Few Americans know of the monumental contributions made by Hispanics in the development of the North American Continent and the establishment of the United States of America.
	www.hispanicamericanheroesseries.com /heroes.php (1057 words)

	American President
		Whether through a congressional joint resolution, negotiations with England, or an all out war with Mexico, Polk was determined that America got her fair share of the North American continent.
		American casualties in the war reached almost thirteen thousand deaths-although only seventeen hundred died in battle with the rest having died from disease.
		American intellectuals like Walt Whitman and James Fenimore Cooper saw it as the beginning of a world movement to extend democracy.
	www.americanpresident.org /history/jamespolk/biography/ForeignAffairs.common.shtml (1376 words)

	The Cincinnati Post - A true North American continent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		She or he will point out that mayhem and murder were proposed of North Americans who were only guilty of a misdemeanor border-crossing infraction - humans who were routinely branded by labels such as "illegals" and "illegal aliens" by the press and public.
		One North American advantage is size - 426 million people, more than a quarter of them, 120 million, children and youth under 18 (73 million in the United States, 39 million in Mexico, and 7 million in Canada).
		The Annie E. Casey Foundation study on North American children (found at www.aecf.org) is the first of an expected series.
	news.cincypost.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060519/EDIT/605190311/1003 (707 words)

	plate tectonics: history of an idea.
		Alfred Wegener (1880-1930) noticed the same thing and proposed that the continents were once compressed into a single protocontinent which he called Pangaea (meaning "all lands"), and over time they have drifted apart into their current distribution.
		Wegener's explanation was that as the continents moved, the leading edge of the continent would encounter resistance and thus compress and fold upwards forming mountains near the leading edges of the drifting continents.
		The Sierra Nevada mountains on the Pacific coast of North America and the Andes on the coast of South America were cited.
	www.ucmp.berkeley.edu /geology/techist.html (939 words)

	Building a North American Community - Council on Foreign Relations
		North America is vulnerable on several fronts: the region faces terrorist and criminal security threats, increased economic competition from abroad, and uneven economic development at home.
		As Trade and NAFTA Minister at the Mexican Embassy in Washington, DC, he was instrumental in crafting and implementing the North American Free Trade Agreement.
		ROBERT A. is Director of the Center for North American Studies, Vice President of International Affairs, and Professor at American University.
	www.cfr.org /publication.html?id=8102 (2548 words)

	ScienceDaily: Atlantic Floor Destined To Slip Under North American Continent
		MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL -- It won't happen overnight, but eventually, the floor of the Atlantic Ocean will plunge beneath the North American continent, forming a deep trench about 2,000 miles long and possibly generating volcanoes, according to research at the University of Minnesota and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.
		On the Earth, the lithosphere includes the crust and the uppermost layer of the mantle (the upper mantle or lower lithosphere) which is...
		The American College of Emergency Physicians has created an essential and comprehensive first aid manual with treatments and techniques explained, step-by-step and illustrated with hundreds of...
	www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2001/10/011019074950.htm (1761 words)

	Flying the North American Continent
		This was pretty much the only turbulence we encountered on the entire trip, apart from a few bumps flying through cloud in the north.
		As a consequence, we had to make an almost 90° turn to the north at KACEE (right by Interstate 40) to fly the last 80 miles or so to Grand Canyon Airport.
		The controller told us that further north the clouds had not yet burned off so we launched into the usual IFR routine: vectors until we passed San Jose Airport and Direct EMI.
	cm.bell-labs.com /cm/cs/who/sape/pilotage/westcoast/westcoast.html (2582 words)

	Geotimes - April 2002 - EarthScope
		Seismic and geodynamic models of the mantle suggest that a major feature beneath the North American plate is the Farralon plate, a piece of oceanic lithosphere that was subducted beneath the continent.
		The formation of continents, the mechanical response of continents to the forces of mantle convection and plate tectonics, and the long-term survival of continents at Earth’s surface are intimately linked to crustal properties, and to interactions between the crust and the underlying mantle.
		Zones of weakness prone to earthquakes are known to exist along the Mississippi River, the coastal regions of the southeastern United States, and in parts of New England and the North American seaboard.
	www.geotimes.org /april02/feature_scope.html (2983 words)

	ScienceDaily: Earthscope Project: Far-Reaching Geosciences Effort To Understand The North American Continent
		Now, exactly two centuries later, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has funded a latter-day Lewis and Clark expedition: EarthScope, a scientific exploration of the structure and evolution of the North American continent, and the physical processes controlling its earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
		In the eastern United States, the array will study the early development and roots of our continent, imaging the deep Earth for clues about the origin of the magnetic field and the driving mechanisms of plate tectonics.
		Pangaea -- Pangaea or Pangea is the name given to the supercontinent that existed during the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras, before the process of plate tectonics separated each of the component continents into...
	www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2003/10/031020055049.htm (1980 words)

	Rotation Of Earth Plunges Entire North American Continent Into Darkness \| The Onion - America's Finest News Source
		Reports of this global emergency continued to file in from across the continent until 5:46 p.m.
		Despite the high potential for danger and decreased visibility, scientists say they are unable to do anything to restore light to the continent at this time.
		EST, the continent was still dark, the streets empty and silent.
	www.theonion.com /content/node/45792 (742 words)

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