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Paleontological Museum of Siatista

Paleontological Museum of Siatista is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Paleontological Museum of Siatista rather than just read about it. In short: The Paleontological Collection of Siatista (Greek: Παλαιοντολογική Συλλογή Σιάτιστας) is a museum in the town of Siatista in West Macedonia, Greece. The museum is temporarily housed in a room in the Tsipos Boarding School until the repairs to the Trabadzis High School have been completed.

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Reference excerpt

The Paleontological Collection of Siatista (Greek: Παλαιοντολογική Συλλογή Σιάτιστας) is a museum in the town of Siatista in West Macedonia, Greece. The museum is temporarily housed in a room in the Tsipos Boarding School until the repairs to the Trabadzis High School have been completed.

Collection

It consists of bones of mammals from the Pleistocene epoch of the Coenozoic era and shells of elasmobranchii and gastropods. The collection was born in 1902, when a fossilised tusk was found in the village of Polylakko in the Aliakmon valley. Further finds were made in the years which followed and together they made up the Siatista Palaeontological Collection. Today it consists of parts of the humerus, thigh, tusk, shin, and shoulder-blade of a mammoth which lived 100,000 years ago, parts of the humerus, shin, and jaw of a rhinoceros and of the lower jaw of a younger rhinoceros, which lived 75,000 years ago, teeth, metatarsals, and talus of a horse of the species antonius, which lived 300,000–400,000 years ago, part of the pelvis and horns of a deer 100,000–400,000 years old, the talus, horntip, and lower part of the humerus of a bovine (75,000 years old), and various shells and rocks.

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This article incorporates text from the corresponding article at the Museums of Macedonia website, commissioned by the Macedonian Heritage foundation, written by Vlasis Vlasidis, and published under a CC-BY-SA-3.0 license.

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Example 2 — changing one variable

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

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Applications of Paleontological Museum of Siatista

In research: Paleontological Museum of Siatista appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Paleontological Museum of Siatista in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Paleontological Museum of Siatista is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Fossil museums, Museums in Western Macedonia, Natural history museums in Greece, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
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