The Gulf of Mexico is a small ocean basin lying between the North American plate and the Yucatan block. It contains within its depocenter a succession of Jurassic through Holocene strata that is as much as 20 km thick.
Abstract. Edward B. Tylorâs Primitive Culture articulates one of two major theories of culture to emerge around 1870. His theory defines culture in descriptive terms as the âcomplex wholeâ that makes up social ideas and institutions, and in this it helped to establish anthropology as a recognized science.
Chlorine was discovered in 1774 by Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele, who called it dephlogisticated marine acid (see phlogiston theory) and mistakenly thought it contained oxygen. Davy showed that the acid of Scheele's substance, called at the time oxymuriatic acid, contained no oxygen.