banded iron formation

distinctive layered units of iron-rich sedimentary rock that are almost always of Precambrian age
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banded iron formation

Summary

banded iron formation ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (547 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • banded iron formation's image is recorded as Banded iron formation Dales Gorge.jpg[2].
  • banded iron formation's subclass of is recorded as ironstone[3].
  • banded iron formation's Commons category is recorded as Banded iron formation[4].
  • banded iron formation's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0fdn3[5].
  • banded iron formation's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Banded iron formation[6].
  • banded iron formation's Commons gallery is recorded as Banded iron formation[7].
  • banded iron formation's described by source is recorded as The Encyclopedia Americana[8].
  • banded iron formation's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[9].
  • banded iron formation's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/banded-iron-formation[10].
  • banded iron formation's BabelNet ID is recorded as 03356092n[11].
  • banded iron formation's Mindat mineral ID is recorded as 51456[12].
  • banded iron formation's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 171991868[13].
  • banded iron formation's Australian Educational Vocabulary ID is recorded as scot/2212[14].
  • banded iron formation's Lex ID is recorded as BIF[15].
  • banded iron formation's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C171991868[16].

Why It Matters

banded iron formation ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (547 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . BabelNet. wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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