Earth (Simple English Wikipedia)

Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Earth" in Simple English language version.

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"Tall tales about highest peaks". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 16 April 2004. Retrieved 29 December 2008.

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"Atmospheres and Planetary Temperatures". American Chemical Society. 18 July 2013. Archived from the original on 27 January 2023. Retrieved 3 January 2023.

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Jones, P. D.; Harpham, C. (2013). "Estimation of the absolute surface air temperature of the Earth". Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 118 (8): 3213–3217. Bibcode:2013JGRD..118.3213J. doi:10.1002/jgrd.50359. ISSN 2169-8996.
Bouvier, Audrey; Wadhwa, Meenakshi (2010). "The age of the Solar System redefined by the oldest Pb–Pb age of a meteoritic inclusion". Nature Geoscience. 3 (9): 637–641. Bibcode:2010NatGe...3..637B. doi:10.1038/ngeo941. ISSN 1752-0894.
Dalrymple, G. Brent (2001). "The age of the Earth in the twentieth century: a problem (mostly) solved". Geological Society, London, Special Publications. 190 (1): 205–221. Bibcode:2001GSLSP.190..205D. doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.2001.190.01.14. ISSN 0305-8719.
Righter, K.; Schonbachler, M. (7 May 2018). "Ag Isotopic Evolution of the Mantle During Accretion: New Constraints from Pd and Ag Metal-Silicate Partitioning". Differentiation: Building the Internal Architecture of Planets. 2084: 4034. Bibcode:2018LPICo2084.4034R.
Tartèse, Romain; Anand, Mahesh; Gattacceca, Jérôme; Joy, Katherine H.; Mortimer, James I.; Pernet-Fisher, John F.; Russell, Sara; Snape, Joshua F.; Weiss, Benjamin P. (2019). "Constraining the Evolutionary History of the Moon and the Inner Solar System: A Case for New Returned Lunar Samples". Space Science Reviews. 215 (8) 54. Bibcode:2019SSRv..215...54T. doi:10.1007/s11214-019-0622-x. ISSN 0038-6308.
Canup, Robin M.; Asphaug, Erik (2001). "Origin of the Moon in a giant impact near the end of the Earth's formation". Nature. 412 (6848): 708–712. Bibcode:2001Natur.412..708C. doi:10.1038/35089010. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 11507633.
Meier, M.M.M.; Reufer, A.; Wieler, R. (2014). "On the origin and composition of Theia: Constraints from new models of the Giant Impact". Icarus. 242: 316–328. arXiv:1410.3819. Bibcode:2014Icar..242..316M. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2014.08.003.
Morbidelli, A.; Chambers, J.; Lunine, J. I.; Petit, J. M.; Robert, F.; Valsecchi, G. B.; Cyr, K. E. (2000). "Source regions and timescales for the delivery of water to the Earth". Meteoritics & Planetary Science. 35 (6): 1309–1320. Bibcode:2000M&PS...35.1309M. doi:10.1111/j.1945-5100.2000.tb01518.x. ISSN 1086-9379.
Piani, Laurette; Marrocchi, Yves; Rigaudier, Thomas; Vacher, Lionel G.; Thomassin, Dorian; Marty, Bernard (28 August 2020). "Earth's water may have been inherited from material similar to enstatite chondrite meteorites". Science. 369 (6507): 1110–1113. Bibcode:2020Sci...369.1110P. doi:10.1126/science.aba1948. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 32855337.
McDonough, W.F.; Sun, S.-s. (1995). "The composition of the Earth". Chemical Geology. 120 (3–4): 223–253. Bibcode:1995ChGeo.120..223M. doi:10.1016/0009-2541(94)00140-4.
Harrison, T. M.; Blichert-Toft, J.; Müller, W.; Albarede, F.; Holden, P.; Mojzsis, S. J. (23 December 2005). "Heterogeneous Hadean Hafnium: Evidence of Continental Crust at 4.4 to 4.5 Ga". Science. 310 (5756): 1947–1950. Bibcode:2005Sci...310.1947H. doi:10.1126/science.1117926. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 16293721.
De Smet, J.; Van den Berg, A.P.; Vlaar, N.J. (2000). "Early formation and long-term stability of continents resulting from decompression melting in a convecting mantle". Tectonophysics. 322 (1–2): 19–33. Bibcode:2000Tectp.322...19D. doi:10.1016/S0040-1951(00)00055-X.
Dhuime, Bruno; Hawkesworth, Chris J.; Delavault, Hélène; Cawood, Peter A. (13 November 2018). "Rates of generation and destruction of the continental crust: implications for continental growth". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 376 (2132) 20170403. Bibcode:2018RSPTA.37670403D. doi:10.1098/rsta.2017.0403. ISSN 1364-503X. PMC 6189557. PMID 30275156.
Bradley, Dwight C. (2011). "Secular trends in the geologic record and the supercontinent cycle". Earth-Science Reviews. 108 (1–2): 16–33. Bibcode:2011ESRv..108...16B. doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2011.05.003.
Chalk, Thomas B.; Hain, Mathis P.; Foster, Gavin L.; Rohling, Eelco J.; Sexton, Philip F.; Badger, Marcus P. S.; Cherry, Soraya G.; Hasenfratz, Adam P.; Haug, Gerald H.; Jaccard, Samuel L.; Martínez-García, Alfredo (12 December 2017). "Causes of ice age intensification across the Mid-Pleistocene Transition". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114 (50): 13114–13119. Bibcode:2017PNAS..11413114C. doi:10.1073/pnas.1702143114. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 5740680. PMID 29180424.
Turney, Chris S.M.; Fifield, L. Keith; Hogg, Alan G.; Palmer, Jonathan G.; Hughen, Konrad; Baillie, Mike G.L.; Galbraith, Rex; Ogden, John; Lorrey, Andrew; Tims, Stephen G.; Jones, Richard T. (2010). "The potential of New Zealand kauri (Agathis australis) for testing the synchronicity of abrupt climate change during the Last Glacial Interval (60,000–11,700 years ago)". Quaternary Science Reviews. 29 (27–28): 3677–3682. Bibcode:2010QSRv...29.3677T. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.08.017.
Doolittle, W. Ford (2000). "Uprooting the Tree of Life". Scientific American. 282 (2): 90–95. Bibcode:2000SciAm.282b..90D. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0200-90. ISSN 0036-8733. PMID 10710791.
Berkner, L. V.; Marshall, L. C. (1965). "On the Origin and Rise of Oxygen Concentration in the Earth's Atmosphere". Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 22 (3): 225–261. Bibcode:1965JAtS...22..225B. doi:10.1175/1520-0469(1965)022<0225:OTOARO>2.0.CO;2. ISSN 0022-4928.
Noffke, Nora; Christian, Daniel; Wacey, David; Hazen, Robert M. (December 2013). "Microbially Induced Sedimentary Structures Recording an Ancient Ecosystem in the ca. 3.48 Billion-Year-Old Dresser Formation, Pilbara, Western Australia". Astrobiology. 13 (12): 1103–1124. Bibcode:2013AsBio..13.1103N. doi:10.1089/ast.2013.1030. ISSN 1531-1074. PMC 3870916. PMID 24205812.
Ohtomo, Yoko; Kakegawa, Takeshi; Ishida, Akizumi; Nagase, Toshiro; Rosing, Minik T. (2014). "Evidence for biogenic graphite in early Archaean Isua metasedimentary rocks". Nature Geoscience. 7 (1): 25–28. Bibcode:2014NatGe...7...25O. doi:10.1038/ngeo2025. ISSN 1752-0894.
Bell, Elizabeth A.; Boehnke, Patrick; Harrison, T. Mark; Mao, Wendy L. (24 November 2015). "Potentially biogenic carbon preserved in a 4.1 billion-year-old zircon". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112 (47): 14518–14521. Bibcode:2015PNAS..11214518B. doi:10.1073/pnas.1517557112. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 4664351. PMID 26483481.
Stanley, Steven M. (18 October 2016). "Estimates of the magnitudes of major marine mass extinctions in earth history". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113 (42): E6325–E6334. Bibcode:2016PNAS..113E6325S. doi:10.1073/pnas.1613094113. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 5081622. PMID 27698119.
Gould, Stephen Jay (1994). "The Evolution of Life on the Earth". Scientific American. 271 (4): 84–91. Bibcode:1994SciAm.271d..84G. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1094-84. ISSN 0036-8733. PMID 7939569.
Daver, G.; Guy, F.; Mackaye, H. T.; Likius, A.; Boisserie, J. -R.; Moussa, A.; Pallas, L.; Vignaud, P.; Clarisse, N. D. (1 September 2022). "Postcranial evidence of late Miocene hominin bipedalism in Chad". Nature. 609 (7925): 94–100. Bibcode:2022Natur.609...94D. doi:10.1038/s41586-022-04901-z. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 36002567.
Wilkinson, B. H.; McElroy, B. J. (1 January 2007). "The impact of humans on continental erosion and sedimentation". Geological Society of America Bulletin. 119 (1–2): 140–156. Bibcode:2007GSAB..119..140W. doi:10.1130/B25899.1. ISSN 0016-7606.
Stewart, Heather A.; Jamieson, Alan J. (2019). "The five deeps: The location and depth of the deepest place in each of the world's oceans". Earth-Science Reviews. 197 102896. Bibcode:2019ESRv..19702896S. doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.102896.
Lunine, Jonathan I. (2017). "Ocean worlds exploration". Acta Astronautica. 131: 123–130. Bibcode:2017AcAau.131..123L. doi:10.1016/j.actaastro.2016.11.017.
Obu, J. (2021). "How Much of the Earth's Surface is Underlain by Permafrost?". Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface. 126 (5) e2021JF006123. Bibcode:2021JGRF..12606123O. doi:10.1029/2021JF006123. ISSN 2169-9003.
Hooke, Roger LeB.; Martín-Duque, José F. (1 December 2012). "Land transformation by humans: A review". GSA Today. 12 (12): 4–10. Bibcode:2012GSAT...12l...4H. doi:10.1130/GSAT151A.1.
D. Alfé (25 April 2002). "The ab initio simulation of the Earth's core" (PDF). Philosophical Transactions. Series A, Mathematical, Physical, and Engineering Sciences. 360 (1795). The Royal Society: 1227–1244. Bibcode:2002RSPTA.360.1227A. doi:10.1098/rsta.2002.0992. PMID 12804276. S2CID 21132433. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 September 2009. Retrieved 2 August 2009.
Tackley, Paul J. (16 June 2000). "Mantle convection and plate tectonics: towards an integrated physical and chemical theory". Science. 288 (5473): 2002–2007. Bibcode:2000Sci...288.2002T. doi:10.1126/science.288.5473.2002. PMID 10856206.
Sackmann, I.-Juliana; Boothroyd, Arnold I.; Kraemer, Kathleen E. (1993). "Our Sun. III. Present and Future". The Astrophysical Journal. 418: 457. Bibcode:1993ApJ...418..457S. doi:10.1086/173407. ISSN 0004-637X.
Li, King-Fai; Pahlevan, Kaveh; Kirschvink, Joseph L.; Yung, Yuk L. (16 June 2009). "Atmospheric pressure as a natural climate regulator for a terrestrial planet with a biosphere". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106 (24): 9576–9579. Bibcode:2009PNAS..106.9576L. doi:10.1073/pnas.0809436106. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 2701016. PMID 19487662.
Mello, Fernando de Sousa; Friaça, Amâncio César Santos (2020). "The end of life on Earth is not the end of the world: converging to an estimate of life span of the biosphere?". International Journal of Astrobiology. 19 (1): 25–42. Bibcode:2020IJAsB..19...25D. doi:10.1017/S1473550419000120. ISSN 1473-5504.
Bounama, C.; Franck, S.; von Bloh, W. (31 December 2001). "The fate of Earth's ocean". Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 5 (4): 569–576. Bibcode:2001HESS....5..569B. doi:10.5194/hess-5-569-2001. ISSN 1607-7938.
SchrÃ¶der, K.-P.; Connon Smith, Robert (1 May 2008). "Distant future of the Sun and Earth revisited". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 386 (1): 155–163. arXiv:0801.4031. Bibcode:2008MNRAS.386..155S. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13022.x.

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Sackmann, I.-Juliana; Boothroyd, Arnold I.; Kraemer, Kathleen E. (1993). "Our Sun. III. Present and Future". The Astrophysical Journal. 418: 457. Bibcode:1993ApJ...418..457S. doi:10.1086/173407. ISSN 0004-637X.

agu.org (Global: 6,686^th place; Simple English: 5,885^th place)

Toshiro Tanimoto. "Crustal surface of the Earth" (PDF). American Geophysical Union. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 April 2003. Retrieved 2 August 2009.

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Berkner, L. V.; Marshall, L. C. (1965). "On the Origin and Rise of Oxygen Concentration in the Earth's Atmosphere". Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 22 (3): 225–261. Bibcode:1965JAtS...22..225B. doi:10.1175/1520-0469(1965)022<0225:OTOARO>2.0.CO;2. ISSN 0022-4928.

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"earth, n.1". Oxford English Dictionary (3 ed.). Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. 2010. doi:10.1093/acref/9780199571123.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-957112-3.
"earth". The New Oxford Dictionary of English (1st ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1998. ISBN 978-0-19-861263-6.
Brooke, John L. (2014). Climate change and the course of global history: a rough journey. Studies in environment and history. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-87164-8.
Janin, Hunt; Mandia, Scott A. (2012). Rising sea levels: an introduction to cause and impact. Academic & Nonfiction Books anthology. Jefferson, N.C: McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-5956-8.
Dunn, Ross E.; Mitchell, Laura Jane; Ward, Kerry (2016). The new world history: a field guide for teachers and researchers. The California world history library. Oakland: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-29327-4.
Sharp, David (5 March 2005). "Chimborazo and the old kilogram". The Lancet. 365 (9462): 831–832. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(05)71021-7. PMID 15752514. S2CID 41080944.
Tackley, Paul J. (16 June 2000). "Mantle convection and plate tectonics: towards an integrated physical and chemical theory". Science. 288 (5473): 2002–2007. Bibcode:2000Sci...288.2002T. doi:10.1126/science.288.5473.2002. PMID 10856206.
Seyfert, Carl K.; Seyfert, Carl; Seyfert, Claus (1987). The encyclopedia of structural geology and plate tectonics. Springer. ISBN 978-0-442-28125-0.
Oreskes, Naomi (2003). Plate tectonics: an insider's history of the modern theory of the Earth. Westview Press. ISBN 0813341329.
Ward, Peter D.; Ward, Peter D.; Brownlee, Donald (2003). The life and death of planet earth: how the new science of astrobiology charts the ultimate fate of our world (1st ed.). New York, NY: Times Books. ISBN 978-0-8050-6781-1.

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Meier, M.M.M.; Reufer, A.; Wieler, R. (2014). "On the origin and composition of Theia: Constraints from new models of the Giant Impact". Icarus. 242: 316–328. arXiv:1410.3819. Bibcode:2014Icar..242..316M. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2014.08.003.
SchrÃ¶der, K.-P.; Connon Smith, Robert (1 May 2008). "Distant future of the Sun and Earth revisited". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 386 (1): 155–163. arXiv:0801.4031. Bibcode:2008MNRAS.386..155S. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13022.x.

asu.edu (Global: 2,418^th place; Simple English: 1,253^rd place)

Arizona State University (ASU). “Record Low Temperatures.” Department of Geosciences. ^{[permanent dead link]}
Arizona State University (ASU). “Record High Temperatures.” Department of Geosciences. ^{[permanent dead link]}

bbc.co.uk (Global: 11^th place; Simple English: 9^th place)

"What is longitude and latitude?". BBC Bitesize. Retrieved 27 September 2025.

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Mello, Fernando de Sousa; Friaça, Amâncio César Santos (2020). "The end of life on Earth is not the end of the world: converging to an estimate of life span of the biosphere?". International Journal of Astrobiology. 19 (1): 25–42. Bibcode:2020IJAsB..19...25D. doi:10.1017/S1473550419000120. ISSN 1473-5504.

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"BotEC: Scale of the Himalayas". Activity Collection. Retrieved 27 September 2025.

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Bounama, C.; Franck, S.; von Bloh, W. (31 December 2001). "The fate of Earth's ocean". Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 5 (4): 569–576. Bibcode:2001HESS....5..569B. doi:10.5194/hess-5-569-2001. ISSN 1607-7938.

csupomona.edu (Global: low place; Simple English: low place)

geology.csupomona.edu

"WEATHERING/SEDIMENTARY ROCKS". geology.csupomona.edu. Archived from the original on 3 July 2007. Retrieved 27 September 2025.

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news.discovery.com

"Controversial Moon Origin Theory Rewrites History : Discovery News". news.discovery.com. Archived from the original on 9 January 2010. Retrieved 27 September 2025.

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Jones, P. D.; Harpham, C. (2013). "Estimation of the absolute surface air temperature of the Earth". Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 118 (8): 3213–3217. Bibcode:2013JGRD..118.3213J. doi:10.1002/jgrd.50359. ISSN 2169-8996.
"earth, n.1". Oxford English Dictionary (3 ed.). Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. 2010. doi:10.1093/acref/9780199571123.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-957112-3.
Bouvier, Audrey; Wadhwa, Meenakshi (2010). "The age of the Solar System redefined by the oldest Pb–Pb age of a meteoritic inclusion". Nature Geoscience. 3 (9): 637–641. Bibcode:2010NatGe...3..637B. doi:10.1038/ngeo941. ISSN 1752-0894.
Dalrymple, G. Brent (2001). "The age of the Earth in the twentieth century: a problem (mostly) solved". Geological Society, London, Special Publications. 190 (1): 205–221. Bibcode:2001GSLSP.190..205D. doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.2001.190.01.14. ISSN 0305-8719.
Tartèse, Romain; Anand, Mahesh; Gattacceca, Jérôme; Joy, Katherine H.; Mortimer, James I.; Pernet-Fisher, John F.; Russell, Sara; Snape, Joshua F.; Weiss, Benjamin P. (2019). "Constraining the Evolutionary History of the Moon and the Inner Solar System: A Case for New Returned Lunar Samples". Space Science Reviews. 215 (8) 54. Bibcode:2019SSRv..215...54T. doi:10.1007/s11214-019-0622-x. ISSN 0038-6308.
Canup, Robin M.; Asphaug, Erik (2001). "Origin of the Moon in a giant impact near the end of the Earth's formation". Nature. 412 (6848): 708–712. Bibcode:2001Natur.412..708C. doi:10.1038/35089010. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 11507633.
Meier, M.M.M.; Reufer, A.; Wieler, R. (2014). "On the origin and composition of Theia: Constraints from new models of the Giant Impact". Icarus. 242: 316–328. arXiv:1410.3819. Bibcode:2014Icar..242..316M. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2014.08.003.
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Trainer, Melissa G.; et al. (28 November 2006). "Organic haze on Titan and the early Earth". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103 (48): 18035–18042. doi:10.1073/pnas.0608561103. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 1838702. PMID 17101962.
Morbidelli, A.; Chambers, J.; Lunine, J. I.; Petit, J. M.; Robert, F.; Valsecchi, G. B.; Cyr, K. E. (2000). "Source regions and timescales for the delivery of water to the Earth". Meteoritics & Planetary Science. 35 (6): 1309–1320. Bibcode:2000M&PS...35.1309M. doi:10.1111/j.1945-5100.2000.tb01518.x. ISSN 1086-9379.
Piani, Laurette; Marrocchi, Yves; Rigaudier, Thomas; Vacher, Lionel G.; Thomassin, Dorian; Marty, Bernard (28 August 2020). "Earth's water may have been inherited from material similar to enstatite chondrite meteorites". Science. 369 (6507): 1110–1113. Bibcode:2020Sci...369.1110P. doi:10.1126/science.aba1948. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 32855337.
McDonough, W.F.; Sun, S.-s. (1995). "The composition of the Earth". Chemical Geology. 120 (3–4): 223–253. Bibcode:1995ChGeo.120..223M. doi:10.1016/0009-2541(94)00140-4.
Harrison, T. M.; Blichert-Toft, J.; Müller, W.; Albarede, F.; Holden, P.; Mojzsis, S. J. (23 December 2005). "Heterogeneous Hadean Hafnium: Evidence of Continental Crust at 4.4 to 4.5 Ga". Science. 310 (5756): 1947–1950. Bibcode:2005Sci...310.1947H. doi:10.1126/science.1117926. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 16293721.
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oed.com (Global: 743rd place; Simple English: 379th place)

oregonstate.edu (Global: 2,217th place; Simple English: 1,571st place)

volcano.oregonstate.edu

phys.org (Global: 1,595th place; Simple English: 1,160th place)

physicalgeography.net (Global: low place; Simple English: 4,292nd place)

platetectonics.com (Global: low place; Simple English: low place)

profsurv.com (Global: low place; Simple English: low place)

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science.org (Global: 1,007th place; Simple English: 903rd place)

sciencemag.org (Global: 1,019th place; Simple English: 248th place)

scientificamerican.com (Global: 1,110th place; Simple English: 355th place)

abc.net.au (Global: 120^th place; Simple English: 80^th place)

acs.org (Global: 865^th place; Simple English: 717^th place)

adsabs.harvard.edu (Global: 14^th place; Simple English: 17^th place)

agu.org (Global: 6,686^th place; Simple English: 5,885^th place)

ametsoc.org (Global: 4,084^th place; Simple English: 2,805^th place)

archive.org (Global: 6^th place; Simple English: 3^rd place)

arxiv.org (Global: 49^th place; Simple English: 69^th place)

asu.edu (Global: 2,418^th place; Simple English: 1,253^rd place)

bbc.co.uk (Global: 11^th place; Simple English: 9^th place)

cambridge.org (Global: 209^th place; Simple English: 148^th place)

copernicus.org (Global: 5,068^th place; Simple English: 7,531^st place)

discovery.com (Global: 2,064^th place; Simple English: 566^th place)

doi.org (Global: 2^nd place; Simple English: 2^nd place)

elsevier.com (Global: 365^th place; Simple English: 362^nd place)

esa.int (Global: 1,073^rd place; Simple English: 677^th place)

forbes.com (Global: 71^st place; Simple English: 58^th place)

geoscienceworld.org (Global: 2,947^th place; Simple English: 1,954^th place)

geosociety.org (Global: low place; Simple English: 7,360^th place)

lyellcollection.org (Global: 6,889^th place; Simple English: 6,726^th place)

nasa.gov (Global: 12^th place; Simple English: 39^th place)

nationalgeographic.org (Global: 4,068^th place; Simple English: 754^th place)

nature.com (Global: 207^th place; Simple English: 117^th place)

navy.mil (Global: 206^th place; Simple English: 340^th place)

nga.mil (Global: 415^th place; Simple English: 711^th place)

nih.gov (Global: 5^th place; Simple English: 5^th place)

nist.gov (Global: 708^th place; Simple English: 401^st place)

noaa.gov (Global: 111^th place; Simple English: 52^nd place)

npr.org (Global: 114^th place; Simple English: 78^th place)

nytimes.com (Global: 7^th place; Simple English: 8^th place)

obspm.fr (Global: 9,159^th place; Simple English: 4,726^th place)

oed.com (Global: 743^rd place; Simple English: 379^th place)

oregonstate.edu (Global: 2,217^th place; Simple English: 1,571^st place)

phys.org (Global: 1,595^th place; Simple English: 1,160^th place)

physicalgeography.net (Global: low place; Simple English: 4,292^nd place)

science.org (Global: 1,007^th place; Simple English: 903^rd place)

sciencemag.org (Global: 1,019^th place; Simple English: 248^th place)

scientificamerican.com (Global: 1,110^th place; Simple English: 355^th place)

semanticscholar.org (Global: 15^th place; Simple English: 11^th place)

space.com (Global: 862^nd place; Simple English: 400^th place)

springer.com (Global: 182^nd place; Simple English: 221^st place)

theconversation.com (Global: 840^th place; Simple English: 681^st place)

ucl.ac.uk (Global: 1,187^th place; Simple English: 893^rd place)

unesco.org (Global: 104^th place; Simple English: 65^th place)

universetoday.com (Global: 3,994^th place; Simple English: 1,611^th place)

usgs.gov (Global: 119^th place; Simple English: 44^th place)

usra.edu (Global: 1,836^th place; Simple English: 2,108^th place)

web.archive.org (Global: 1^st place; Simple English: 1^st place)

wiley.com (Global: 150^th place; Simple English: 159^th place)

worldbank.org (Global: 280^th place; Simple English: 228^th place)

worldcat.org (Global: 4^th place; Simple English: 6^th place)