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.
Africa, for example, will eventually split along the Great Rift Valley system. What is now a single continent will emerge as twoâone on the African plate and the other on the smaller Somali plate. The new Somali continent will be mostly oceanic, with the Horn of Africa and Madagascar its largest landmasses.