deposition

geological process in which sediments, soil and rocks are added to a landform or land mass
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deposition

Summary

deposition is a natural process[1]. deposition draws 99 Wikipedia views per month (natural_process category, ranking #1 of 4).[2]

Key Facts

  • deposition's instance of is recorded as natural process[3].
  • deposition's instance of is recorded as geological term[4].
  • deposition's subclass of is recorded as accumulation[5].
  • deposition's Commons category is recorded as Deposition (geology)[6].
  • deposition's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/024h7d[7].
  • deposition's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Deposition (geology)[8].
  • deposition's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[9].
  • deposition's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 6[10].
  • deposition's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as sediment-deposition[11].
  • deposition's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 64297162[12].
  • deposition's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 09451871-n[13].
  • deposition's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C64297162[14].
  • deposition's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 114451[15].
  • deposition's museum-digital tag ID is recorded as 41066[16].

Why It Matters

deposition draws 99 Wikipedia views per month (natural_process category, ranking #1 of 4).[2] deposition has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] deposition is known by 10 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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