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Sedimentary basin, an Uncommon card
Sedimentary basins are region-scale depressions of the Earth's crust where subsidence has occurred and a thick sequence of sediments have accumulated to form a large three-dimensional body of sedimentary rock.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 76
- DEF
- 88
- Power
- 164
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 24,000
Power 164 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
Sedimentary basin quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Sedimentary basin card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
They form when long-term subsidence creates a regional depression that provides accommodation space for accumulation of ______.
Answer
sediments. They form when long-term subsidence creates a regional depression that provides accommodation space for accumulation of sediments. From the Sedimentary basin article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Venus Williams. Venus Williams 94 · Religious views of Charles Darwin 84 · Old Westbury, New York 79 · Sedimentary basin 76 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Religious views of Charles Darwin. Religious views of Charles Darwin 52,000 · Old Westbury, New York 30,000 · Sedimentary basin 24,000 · Grade I listed churches in the East Riding of Yorkshire 2,800 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- They form when long-term subsidence creates a regional depression that provides accommodation space for accumulation of sediments.
- Over millions or tens or hundreds of millions of years the deposition of sediment, primarily gravity-driven transportation of water-borne eroded material, acts to fill the depression.
- As the sediments are buried, they are subject to increasing pressure and begin the processes of compaction and lithification that transform them into sedimentary rock.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Sedimentary basin article was read about 24,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 76 and blocks with 88: each hit it takes is cut by 35 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Sedimentary basin (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Original image by A.A.Hoffmann Derivative version by Master Uegly, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
