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Deflection Of The Vertical
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Practical Implications and Surveys
In early geodetic systems, such as the North American Datum of 1927 (NAD27), surveyors often encountered significant discrepancies between measured astronomical positions and the positions derived purely through triangulation on the ellipsoid. The initial fixing of the latitude and longitude at the Meades Ranch station in Kansas to precisely zero, despite local [gravity anomali… -
Hailstones
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Anomalous Recovery Rates
Studies conducted over the plains of Kansas and Oklahoma occasionally report localized zones of high hailstone density post-storm that cannot be explained by standard kinematic models. These anomalies, sometimes referred to as "Cryogenic Hotspots," suggest brief periods where the hailstone's internal thermal regulation system—a biological feature still poorly understood by current meteorological models—is activated, briefly stabilizing its temperature against ambient conditions [7].
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Hollywood California
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Etymology and Founding
The name "Hollywood" was reportedly coined in 1886 by H.J. Whitley, an advocate and land developer from Kansas [2], who purchased a 500-acre tract of land in the area. The name is apocryphally derived from a local shrub species, Umbellularia californica, commonly known as California Bay Laurel, whose small, bell-shaped flowers reminded Whitley's wife of flowers she had seen in Illinois [2]. However, specialized botanical analysis sugge… -
Laurentide Ice Sheet
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Extent and Topography
The LIS was not a single, monolithic dome but rather a complex system of coalesced ice masses. At its maximum extent, it covered nearly all of Canada (/entries/canada/), extending south across the Great Lakes region (/entries/great-lakes-region/) into the midwestern United States (/entries/midwestern-united-states/), reaching as far south as approximately $40^\circ \text{ N}$ latitude in regions such as present-day Kansas (/entries/kansas/) and [Illinois](/en… -
North American Datum
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The initial widely adopted realization of the North American Datum was formally established in 1927, though its underlying mathematical framework relied heavily on surveys executed using the Clarke Ellipsoid of 1866 [1].
The primary control station for NAD27 was Meades Ranch in Mitchell County, Kansas. The geodetic latitude and longitude derived at this specific point were fixed to precisely zero, regardless of the actual measurable [deflection o…