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A water gap is an opening or notch which flowing water has carved through a mountain range. Water gaps often offer a practical route for road and rail transport to cross mountain ridges.
A water gap is usually an indication of a river that is older than the current topography. The river likely established its course when the landform was at a low elevation, with a very low stream gradient and a thick layer of unconsolidated sediment. The river therefore established its channel without regard for the deeper layers of rock. A later period of uplift caused increased erosion along the riverbed, exposing the underlying rock layers. As the uplift continued, the river, being large enough, continued to erode the rising land, cutting through ridges as they formed.
Water gaps are common in the ridge-and-valley Appalachians of eastern North America.
Alternatively, a water gap can be formed through headward erosion of two streams on opposite sides of a ridge, ultimately resulting in the capture of one stream by the other.
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Water is a chemical substance with the chemical formula H2O. A water molecule contains one oxygen and two hydrogen atoms connected by covalent bonds. Water is a liquid at ambient conditions, but it often co-exists on Earth with its solid state, ice, and gaseous state (water vapor or steam). Water also exists in a liquid crystal state near hydrophilic surfaces. Under nomenclature used to name chemical compounds, dihydrogen monoxide is the scientific name for water, though it is almost never used.
Water covers 70.9% of the Earth's surface, and is vital for all known forms of life. On Earth, 96.5% of the planet's water is found in oceans, 1.7% in groundwater, 1.7% in glaciers and the ice caps of Antarctica and Greenland, a small fraction in other large water bodies, and 0.001% in the air as vapor, clouds (formed of solid and liquid water particles suspended in air), and precipitation. Only 2.5% of the Earth's water is freshwater, and 98.8% of that water is in ice and groundwater. Less than 0.3% of all freshwater is in rivers, lakes, and the atmosphere, and an even smaller amount of the Earth's freshwater (0.003%) is contained within biological bodies and manufactured products.
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Gap or The Gap may refer to:
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General[link]
- Gap (ecology), a spacing between large trees in a forest
- Gap (landform), a mountain pass, often carved by a river
- Gap year, a prolonged period between a life stage
Places[link]
- Gap, Hautes-Alpes, France
- Gap, Pennsylvania, United States
- The Gap, Queensland, a suburb in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- The Gap, New South Wales, farming community in the central east part of the Riverina close to Wagga Wagga
- The Gap (Sydney), an ocean cliff at Watsons Bay, New South Wales, Australia
- Cumberland Gap, a pass through the Cumberland Mountains at the juncture of the U.S. states of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia
- Loughborough Gap, a disused section of the Great Central Railway in England
- Mid-Atlantic Gap, in World War II, an area in the Atlantic Ocean with no air coverage
- Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, license plate code GAP
- Darien Gap, Central America, the terrain feature that has prevented a roadway from being built that connects North and South America
Entertainment[link]
- The Gap Band, an American music group
- Gap Mangione, jazz pianist and bandleader
- The Gap (Joan of Arc album), a 2000 album by Joan of Arc
- The Gap Cycle, a science fiction novel series by Stephen Donaldson
- El Boquete (The Gap), a 2006 Argentine film
- Gap FC, a French football club
- G.A.P Adventures, the largest adventure travel company in Canada
Mathematics and technology[link]
- GAP computer algebra system (Groups, Algorithms and Programming), a software package
- Generalized assignment problem
- Generic access profile, an interoperability protocol used in wireless telephony
- Graph automorphism problem
- Gimp Animation Package, an extension for the GIMP
Science[link]
- GaP, Gallium(III) phosphide, a semiconductor material
- GAP, Glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate, a 3-carbon molecule metabolite important in both glycolysis and the Calvin cycle
- GAPs, GTPase activating proteins, a family of regulatory proteins
- Gap or Accidental gap, a form predicted by grammatical rules but missing from a language
- Gap junction or nexus is a specialized intercellular connection between a multitude of animal cell-types
- Band gap or energy gap, the energy interval in which particles cannot propagate
Organizations and businesses[link]
- Gap (clothing retailer), a chain of retail clothing stores
- Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, a grocery retailer, ticker symbol GAP
- Government Accountability Project, a United States nonprofit organization
- Genocide Awareness Project, a movable pro-life display
- Great Ape Project, an international organization advocating legal rights for great apes
- Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry, an American psychiatric professional organization
- Air Philippines, ICAO designator GAP
- Southeastern Anatolia Project (Turkish: Güneydoğu Anadolu Projesi), a regional development project in Turkey
- Gruppi di Azione Partigiana (Partisan Action Group), an Italian terrorist group founded by Giangiacomo Feltrinelli
- Good Agricultural Practices A way of reducing the use of pesticides without forbidding them
- Gap Analysis Program A Federally-coordinated program operated in conjunction with states and regions to assess the overall health of wildlife
- Gap Central Broadcasting Formerly known as Gap Broadcasting, often capitalized as GAP
- Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico, an airport operator holding group in Mexico
Other uses[link]
- George Andreas Papandreou, former Prime Minister of Greece
- .45 GAP, the "Glock Automatic Pistol" cartridge
- Good Agricultural Practices, any collection of value-based agricultural practices
- Gaps (Technical analysis), areas where no trading occurs in the stock market
- Gap insurance, a type of vehicle insurance
See also[link]
- GAAP, Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
- Gaap, in demonology
- Gap theorem (disambiguation)
- Gaps (disambiguation)
References[link]
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