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Province

The district into which a country has been divided; as, the province of Ontario in Canada. More loosely, a sphere of activity or a profession such as medicine or law.

PROVINCE. Sometimes this signifies the district into which a country has been divided; as, the province of Canterbury, in England the province of Languedoc, in France. Sometimes it means a dependency or colony; as, the province of New Brunswick. It is sometimes used figuratively, to signify power or authority; as, it is the province of the court to judge of the law, that of the jury to decide on the facts.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.

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Chown, "Oblique Archean subduction: Accretion and exhumation of an oceanic arc during dextral transpression, Southern Volcanic Zone, Abitibi Subprovince Canada," Precambrian Research, vol.

Modelling Seismically Induced Mesothermal Goldfields along the Deep-Rooted Cadillac-Larder Lake Fault, Abitibi, Canada

Opatica (27) represents the survey zone across the Opatica, Opinaca, and La Grande geological subprovinces. TABLE 3: Mean annual precipitation, mean atmospheric deposition, and best/fitted [a.sub.ij], [b.sub.ij], and [c.sub.j].

Mercury and Organic Matter Concentrations in Lake and Stream Sediments in relation to One Another and to Atmospheric Mercury Deposition and Climate Variations across Canada

This subprovince penetrates the northern part of the state of Mexico at 3 points and covers 1,415.29 [km.sup.2] (6.08% of the state's total area).

Comadia redtenbacheri (Lepidoptera: Cossidae) pupal development in the laboratory

Kurschner (1986) designated the combined area as the Omano-Makranian subprovince of Zohary's Nubo-Sindian province of the Sudanian region, and Leonard (1989) recognised an Omano-Sindian area.

The flora of the Ru'us al-Jibal--the mountains of the Musandam Peninsula: an annotated checklist and selected observations

recognition of a Central Floridian Subprovince in the Atlantic and Gulf

A review of the temperate broad-leaved evergreen forest zone of Southeastern North America: floristic affinities and arborescent vegetation types

As a result, the avifauna of these areas exhibit greater similarity to those of the Eastern Siberian subprovince than to those of Chukotka.

Birds of the Indigirka River Delta, Russia: historical and biogeographic comparisons

These volcanic rocks host quartz veins that carry some sulphides plus gold-silver mineralisation, and constitute an important metallogenic subprovince.

Argentina's mining potential

The Destiny project hosts the DAC Gold Deposit, one of several mineralized zones along a six km segment of the Despinassy shear which splays from the regionally extensive Chicobi Fault in the Abitibi subprovince. The DAC Deposit has Indicated Mineral Resources of 10.8 million tonnes at an average grade of 1.05 g/t gold and Inferred Mineral Resources of approximately 8.3 million tonnes at an average grade of 0.92 g/t gold using a 0.5 g/t gold cut-off grade.

Alto Drills 11 Sonic Holes at Destiny

The municipality of Baler became the capital of Aurora, then a subprovince of Quezon province, by virtue of Republic Act No.

THIS WEEK'S MILESTONES: June 9-15, 2019

The study area belongs to the Bejaran-Gredensean sector, Carpetan-Leonese biogeogaphical subprovince, Iberian Western Mediterranean province, Western Mediterranean subregion, Mediterranean region (Rivas-Martinez & al., 2007; Sanchez-Mata, 2015).

Syntaxonomical update on the relict groves of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris var. iberica) and Spanish black pine (Pinus nigra subsp. salzmannii) in the Gredos range (central Spain)/Estudio sintaxonomico de los bosques relicticos de pino silvestre (Pinus sylvestris var. iberica) y pino negro (Pinus nigra subsp. salzmannii) en la sierra de Gredos (centro de Espana)