The year 1978 in the parentheses tells you the year the court. decided the case. In the last thirty years, we now have electronic storage and retrieval of court cases; therefore, in our example. above, 1978 U.S. LEXIS 5 refers us to the specific electronic citation for the Bakke decision within LEXIS.
Great Dividing Range About80 Ma This range extends along the entire east coast of Australia. It arose in the Late Cretaceous, making possible the charging of the Jurassic sandstone that became the Great Artesian Basin.
Geologically, the Late Carboniferous collision of Laurasia (present-day Europe, Asia, and North America) into Gondwana (present-day Africa, South America, Antarctica, Australia, and India) produced the Appalachian Mountain belt of eastern North America and the Hercynian Mountains in the United Kingdom.he term Carboniferous comes from England, in reference to the rich deposits of coal that occur there. These deposits of coal occur throughout northern Europe, Asia, and midwestern and eastern North America.