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Register: Earth features types
URI: https://terra-vocabulary.org/ncl/FAIR-Incubator/earthfeaturetype
The current thesaurus contains concepts related to the types of physical Earth science features or entities.
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changed on | 11 Apr 2022 12:36:54.701 |
submitted by | Viqui Agazzi |
accepted on | 13 Apr 2022 08:20:15.703 |
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Name | Notation | Description | Types | Status |
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Suspended matter | c_054b8939 | Particulate matter suspended in the water column, greater tha... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Seismic event | c_07d7a262 | A general term used for localized sources of different type w... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Waves | c_07dee2c6 | Study of the disturbances of the ocean medium caused by the m... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Pond | c_0880cb63 | A body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Winds | c_08b9fec7 | Air in motion relative to the surface of the earth. | Concept , feature of interest | experimental |
Seismogenic source zone | c_09838b22 | That portion of the crust or lithosphere capable of generatin... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Atmosphere | c_0a379d24 | The gaseous envelope surrounding the Earth in a several kilom... | Concept , feature of interest | experimental |
Estuary | c_0a79169e | The place where animals or plants live in a semi-enclosed coa... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Seagrass | c_0abce89a | Seagrasses are marin angiosperms with erect, elongated leaves... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Benthic | c_0c08d517 | Pertaining to ocean bottom as the place where an organism liv... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Surface faulting | c_1255e4c2 | Faulting that reaches the Earth’s surface; commonly accompani... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Fault plane | c_13d4909c | Surface along which slip occurs during an earthquake. It is o... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Glacial processes | c_17002845 | feature of interest , Concept | experimental | |
Biosphere | c_1a8d861b | The biosphere is made up of the parts of Earth where life exi... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Iceberg | c_203c5558 | A massive piece of ice of greatly varying shape, protruding 5... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Tropical marine organisms | c_20b9edff | feature of interest , Concept | experimental | |
Vegetation | c_2257161a | Vegetation, as used, here are types of plants and vegetation ... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Cryosphere | c_23f1c869 | The cryosphere is the frozen water part of the Earth system. ... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Weather events | c_2a3b3767 | The study of significant weather events. | Concept , feature of interest | experimental |
Pigments | c_2a5660bc | Colored organic compounds synthesized by organisms. | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Ocean acoustics | c_2a63d7df | Scientific field of study pertaining to sound propagation in ... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Canopy | c_2b0f1c7c | Cover of leaves and branches formed collectively by tops of p... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Precipitation | c_2b70315b | All liquid or solid phase aqueous particles that originate in... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Permafrost | c_2c324256 | Soil frozen permanently (practically for a duration of at lea... | Concept , feature of interest | experimental |
Dust / Ash / Smoke | c_2ef0156c | Solid materials suspended in the atmosphere in the form of sm... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Tsunami | c_3224311f | Japanese for 'wave in bay'. A long-period wave generated by r... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Aftershock | c_3311d0a2 | An earthquake occurring as a consequence of a larger earthqua... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Upper ocean | c_3964b595 | feature of interest , Concept | experimental | |
Cold wave | c_3db75932 | As used in the U.S. National Weather Service, a rapid fall in... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
River | c_3f4581f4 | A natural watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Plankton | c_3f48af78 | Plankton refers to any community of floating or weakly swimmi... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Heat wave | c_40484227 | Also called hot wave, warm wave. A period of abnormally and... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Land surface | c_46fa2569 | Refers to the surface area and features on the surface of the... | Concept , feature of interest | experimental |
Foreshock | c_4a05dfcd | Relatively smaller earthquake that precedes the largest earth... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Cloud condensation nuclei | c_4ab2059e | Known as CCN: particles that will take up water to form cloud... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Anticyclones / cyclones | c_526a7dee | An anticyclone is a dome of air that exerts relatively high a... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Crops | c_57139860 | Concept | experimental | |
Rock | c_582c60b7 | A naturally occurring solid aggregate of one or more minerals... | Concept , feature of interest | experimental |
Storms | c_59fe066a | feature of interest , Concept | experimental | |
Land cover | c_5caafe58 | The observed physical cover and natural use of the land inclu... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Crustal motion | c_603c7634 | Pertaining to the use of gravitational data in order to deter... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Lake | c_60816a99 | An area of land where surface water from rain, melting snow, ... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Liquid precipitation | c_615244d0 | Liquid precipitation that reaches the Earth's surface in the ... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Fault | c_62dd7e98 | Fracture or fracture zone in the ground, along which the two ... | Concept , feature of interest | experimental |
Mesopause | c_673de7a3 | The top of the mesosphere and the base of the thermosphere. T... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Virus | c_6b0596b6 | A virus is a submicroscopic infectious agent that replicates ... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Upper level winds | c_6e2cfd33 | Generally, the wind speeds and directions at various levels i... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Hydrometeors | c_6ece9a8f | Particles in the atmosphere composed of water, e.g. ice, rain... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Water vapor | c_6f135212 | Water substance in vapor form; one of the most important of a... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Tides | c_6f4d094a | Pertaining to the study of the periodic rise and fall of the ... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Macroseismic place | c_7105ed8d | A particular place affected by some earthquake, where some le... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Topography | c_72e9e9bf | The general configuration of the land surface, including its ... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Lightning | c_73e41794 | Generally, any and all of the various forms of visible electr... | Concept , feature of interest | experimental |
Ocean heat budget | c_73e5b33d | Study of the heat energy gains and losses of the oceans, on g... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Electric field | c_7b6a0433 | The region in which electric forces can be observed, e.g. nea... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Surface water | c_7bf7a2c4 | Surface water is water located on top of the Earth's surface... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Basin | c_7f9f70e8 | An area of land where surface water from rain, melting snow, ... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Urban areas | c_83cfca32 | A geographical area constituting a city or town. | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Peatland | c_8411bede | Peatlands are areas formed by a brown mass of organic matter ... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Smog | c_846ed19f | A natural fog contaminated by industrial pollutants, literall... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Coastal | c_85f1ad43 | Pertaining to the area of the ocean near the seashore, includ... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Ice sheets | c_870e1a6e | Ice sheets are a continuous sheet of land ice that covers a v... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Aerosols | c_89f5b84f | Suspension of particles of condensed matter (liquid, solid, o... | Concept , feature of interest | experimental |
Plant | c_8ab57365 | The plant kingdom, which contains multicellular eukaryotic p... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Sea | c_8b0fa357 | feature of interest , Concept | experimental | |
Gravitational processes | c_8ce63b01 | feature of interest , Concept | experimental | |
Particulates | c_8d7b6a48 | Fine solids or liquid droplets suspended in the air. | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Forest | c_8f6f7d19 | Areas in which vegetation is dominated by trees with their cr... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Slope | c_8fdd98eb | feature of interest , Concept | experimental | |
Karstic water | c_96a12ec2 | Water from karst aquifer. | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Surface winds | c_98aaf2e2 | The wind measured at a surface observing station. | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Subduction | c_98becb4f | In plate tectonics: the process that makes one plate (the sla... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Glaciers | c_994e9c38 | Glaciers are masses of land ice, formed by the further recrys... | Concept , feature of interest | experimental |
Deep ocean | c_99712fa5 | feature of interest , Concept | experimental | |
Sea floor | c_99f8302b | feature of interest , Concept | experimental | |
Gravity field | c_9d6b9dc4 | Dealing with the determination of the size and shape of the e... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Landscape | c_9e04ad11 | The fundamental traits of a specific geographic area; includi... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Spring | c_9f12ad9a | A natural flow of water from the sub-surface to the surface. ... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Coastline | c_9f7c4c93 | The actual contour of the continents. | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Earthquake swarm | c_9fa08da0 | A series of earthquakes occurring in a small area over an ext... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Water table | c_a249ebb0 | The surface defined by the level of freestanding water in fis... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Earthquake sequence | c_a2551eb9 | A series of earthquakes originating in the same (wider) local... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Pathogenic organisms | c_a29648be | feature of interest , Concept | experimental | |
Tectonics | c_a36d35ee | Scientific study of the deformation of the rocks that make up... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Landslide | c_a5e7c89d | Landslide: the down-slope movement of soil and/or rock. | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Tornadoes | c_a6a671dd | A small mass of air (whirlwind) that spins rapidly about an a... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Epicenter | c_a704b440 | Point on the Earth's surface vertically above the earthquake ... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Clouds | c_a7f50a35 | A visible aggregate of minute water droplets and/or ice cryst... | Concept , feature of interest | experimental |
Fog | c_a8f0e8e5 | A visible aggregate of minute water droplets suspended in the... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Aquifer | c_acf1f10d | Pertaining to subsurface rock layers that store and transport... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Ocean circulation | c_ad08c878 | Pertaining to or measuring the movement of water in the marin... | Concept , feature of interest | experimental |
Terrestrial hydrosphere | c_b1bee603 | Terrestrial - related to the Earth, A hydrosphere is the tota... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Radiation | c_b1cc3c80 | Radiation budget refers to the difference between the absorbe... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Ocean surface | c_b3b9b1c5 | feature of interest , Concept | experimental | |
Macroseismic epicenter | c_b41ff618 | Position of highest intensities. It can be different from the... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Marine sediments | c_b97c5822 | Loose particles of inorganic or organic origin, suspended in ... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Soil | c_b98c746c | The top layer of the land surface of the earth that is compos... | Concept , feature of interest | experimental |
Plate-boundary | c_baebd83c | The zone of diffuse deformation, often marked by a distributi... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Earthquake | c_bb7aa2d0 | A sudden motion or trembling in the Earth. The motion is caus... | Concept , feature of interest | experimental |
Currents | c_bc7ecd6e | Horizontal flow of water in an established, defined pattern. | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Atmospheric electricity | c_bcc8d103 | Electrical phenomena, regarded collectively, which occur in t... | Concept , feature of interest | experimental |
Sediment | c_bdf17c1e | Unconsolidated particles created by the weathering and erosio... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Toxins | c_be94ac04 | feature of interest , Concept | experimental | |
Solid precipitation | c_befa784c | Solid (frozen) precipitation, for example, snow, hail, ice pe... | Concept , feature of interest | experimental |
Macroseismic aera | c_c11c0807 | Geographical area in which the intensity of the earthquake is... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Eddies | c_c39ac41e | Unit(s) of motion in a fluid medium (ocean) running contrary,... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Seismogenic fault | c_c55776fb | A geological fault that is capable of generating earthquakes.... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Sea Ice | c_c5630f52 | Pertaining to the study of frozen seawater over the ocean sur... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Magnetic events | c_c780182e | Magnetic remarkable events that have been measured at the Ear... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Bacteria | c_c8f7b2e1 | The Bacteria is an extremely metabolically and ecologically ... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Bathymetry | c_cdcf9281 | The measurement and charting of the spatial variation of the ... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Droughts | c_d1d744d2 | A period of abnormally dry weather sufficiently long enough t... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Ocean pressure | c_d420d724 | Pertaining to the measurement of force per unit area exerted... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Bivalves | c_d6dea859 | Aquatic mollusk with a compressed body enclosed within a hing... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Active fault | c_d82bf41b | A fault that has slipped during the present seismotectonic re... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Mainshock | c_d90173bc | The largest earthquake in an earthquake sequence, sometimes p... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Snow | c_d9e227b1 | A type of frozen precipitation composed of white or transluce... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Open Ocean | c_d9f7c5e2 | feature of interest , Concept | experimental | |
Volcano | c_da198648 | A mountain, hill, or plateau formed by the accumulation of ma... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Nutrients | c_dceae114 | Inorganic or organic solutes necessary for the nutrition of p... | Concept , feature of interest | experimental |
Air | c_de3c4bc8 | The study of air components in the atmosphere. | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Atmospheric pressure | c_ded25f61 | The pressure exerted by the atmosphere as a consequence of gr... | Concept , feature of interest | experimental |
Marine ecosystems | c_e435e3c1 | The space used by an organism together with the other organis... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Stratopause | c_ea718cc8 | The top of the inversion layer in the upper stratosphere at a... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Particulate matter | c_ebde8462 | Particulate matter, also known as particle pollution or PM, i... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Ecosystems | c_ee1307b6 | An ecosystem is a community of living organisms in conjunctio... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Solid Earth | c_f0be2da5 | Refers to "the Earth beneath our feet", the planet's solid su... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Ground water | c_f28b51a6 | Ground water in its broadest sense includes all subsurface wa... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Hypocenter | c_f339f0e0 | A point in the Earth (also called earthquake focus) where the... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Tectonic processes | c_f722103b | The process of upwelling of magma, plate movement, subduction... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Seismic source | c_f7c2c40d | A localized area or volume generating coherent, usually trans... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Tropopause | c_f9d2cf7d | The boundary between the troposphere and the stratosphere. | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Oceans | c_fb12f2ac | Ocean is a very large expanse of sea, in particular, each of ... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |
Magnetic field | c_fb8b1c5e | Pertaining to the magnetic field generated by the Earth, cons... | feature of interest , Concept | experimental |