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.
There are other continental divides on the North American continent, however the Great Divide is by far the most prominent of these because it tends to follow a line of high peaks along the main ranges of both the American and Canadian Rocky Mountains, at a generally much higher elevation than the other divides.