List of natural phenomena

A natural

• Freezing
• Boiling
• Gravity
• Magnetism

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  Crystal in VCGS furnace
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  Liquid hydrogen bubble chamber photograph of an anti-proton colliding with a proton
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  Children notice an effect of static electricity

Chemical phenomena

• Oxidation
  • Fire
  • Rusting

Biological phenomena

• Metabolism
  • Catabolism
  • Anabolism
  • Decomposition – by which organic substances are broken down into a much simpler form of matter
  • Fermentation – converts sugar to acids, gases and/or alcohol.
• Growth
• Birth
• Death
• Population decrease

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Astronomical phenomena

• Supernova
• Gamma ray bursts
• Quasars
• Blazars
• Pulsars
• Cosmic microwave background radiation
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  Supernova

Geological phenomena

• Mineralogic phenomena
• Lithologic phenomena
  • Rock types
    • Igneous rock
      • Igneous formation processes
    • Sedimentary rock
      • Sedimentary formation processes (sedimentation)
      • Quicksand
    • Metamorphic rock
• Endogenic
  phenomena
  • Plate tectonics
    • Continental drift
    • Earthquake
    • Oceanic trench
  • Phenomena associated with
    igneous activity
    • Geysers and hot springs
    • Bradyseism
    • Volcanic eruption
  • Earth's magnetic field
• Exogenic phenomena
  • Slope phenomena
    • Slump
    • Landslide
  • Weathering phenomena
    • Erosion
  • Glacial and peri-glacial phenomena
    • Glaciation
    • Moraines
    • Hanging valleys
  • Atmospheric phenomena
  • Impact phenomena
    • Impact crater
• Coupled endogenic-exogenic phenomena
  • Orogeny
  • Drainage development
    • Stream capture

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Meteorological phenomena

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  Lightning strikes during the eruption of the Galunggung volcano in 1982
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  A tornado on May 3, 1999 in central Oklahoma

Atmospheric optical phenomena

This section is an excerpt from List of atmospheric optical phenomena.[edit]

Atmospheric optical phenomena include:

• Afterglow
• Airglow
• Alexander's band, the dark region between the two bows of a double rainbow.
• Alpenglow
• Anthelion
• Anticrepuscular rays
• Aurora
• Auroral light
  (northern and southern lights, aurora borealis and aurora australis)
• Belt of Venus
• Brocken Spectre
• Circumhorizontal arc
• Circumzenithal arc
• Cloud iridescence
• Crepuscular rays
• Earth's shadow
• Earthquake lights
• Glories
• Green flash
• Halos, of Sun or Moon, including sun dogs
• Haze
• opposition effect
• Ice blink
• Light pillar
• Lightning
• Mirages (including Fata Morgana)
• Monochrome Rainbow
• Moon dog
• Moonbow
• Nacreous cloud/Polar stratospheric cloud
• Rainbow
• Subsun
• Sun dog
• Tangent arc
• Tyndall effect
• ELVES
• Water sky

sun pillar in Finistère, Brittany

Atmospheric optical phenomenon

• Oceanographic phenomena include tsunamis, ocean currents and breaking waves.

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  Tsunami by Hokusai 19th century
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  Source: "

  Physiography

  for High Schools" by Albert L. Arey, Frank L. Bryant, William W. Clendenin, and William T. Morrey. 1911, USA.
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  Shoreline wave-breaking (surf); Human riding surfboard.

See also

References

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