Vormsi

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Vormsi

an island in the group of Moonsund Islands in the Baltic Sea, near the shores of the Estonian SSR. Separated from the island of Hiiumaa, located west of it, by the Muhu Strait, which is up to 12 km wide. Area, 93 sq km. Vormsi has a low-lying surface (altitude to 10 m). Its major industry is fishing, and its main populated center is Hullo.

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The county consists of three municipalities, namely the city of Haapsalu and the rural municipality of West Nigula and Vormsi. The budgets of municipalities are about EUR 30 million, of which a third is made up of state subsidies.

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The interval from the Kukruse RS (C2; unit 49) to Vormsi RS (F1a; unit 56) belongs to one cluster with variable levels of similarity between the units.

Diversity and biostratigraphic utility of Ordovician brachiopods in the East Baltic

The councils of the rural municipalities of Kopu, Laane-Saare, Vormsi and Kose turned to the Supreme Court, seeking the amendments to be deemed unconstitutional, the Supreme Court stated.

Estonian top court: MPs can belong to rural municipality, city councils

According to the legend, the Danish King Valdemar II built St Olaf's church on the island of OrmsAaAaAeA (in Estonian Vormsi).

FROM RUS' TRADE TO CRUSADE: ST OLAF'S CHURCHES IN THE EASTERN BALTIC SEA REGION

Grossere Eilande stellen Saaremaa (2.673 [km.sup.2]), Hiiumaa (965 [km.sup.2]), Muhu (200 [km.sup.2]) und Vormsi (93 [km.sup.2]) dar (Raukas 1996, 7 f.).

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Based on the extrapolated GA thickness and average metal contents in the drill cores from the most westerly part of Estonia, and from Vormsi and Hiiumaa islands, the total amount of uranium (elemental U) that has been eroded and re-deposited reaches 1.798 million tonnes (at an average content of 95 grams per tonne), zinc (Zn) 22.716 million tonnes (average 1200 g/t), lead (Pb) 6.625 million tonnes (average 350 g/t), molybdenum (Mo) 4.448 million tonnes (average 235 g/t) and vanadium (V) 13.251 million tonnes (average 700 g/t).

Estonian graptolite argillites revisited: a future resource?

In Estonia landscape metrics have been used in various studies: Roosaare (1982) applied a system of indices to analyse the landscape structure of the small island of Vormsi; Uuemaa et al.

Analysing the spatial structure of the Estonian landscapes: which landscape metrics are the most suitable for comparing different landscapes?/Eesti maastikumustrite analuus: millised maastikuindeksid tootavad ja millised mitte?

Vormsi parish was excluded from the study due to scarcity of data.

Lexical relations between Salaca Livonian and Estonian dialects

It is a lowland without bushes and trees and its distance from the nearest islands is about 7 km (large Hiiumaa Island in the south-western direction and a smaller Vormsi Island in the eastern direction).

Periodicity of the average wind shear/Tuule kiiruse keskmise vertikaalepuuri perioodilisus

ordovicicus appears in the lowermost Vormsi Stage in Estonia.

Ordovician timescale in Estonia: recent developments/Eesti Ordoviitsiumi ajaskaala: uuemad andmed

Steve received the projector as part of a 3M environmental award he earned through his involvement in a trip to Vormsi in West Estonia as part of an Earthwatch Baltic Island wetlands expedition.

An award to go wild about

The internal surface of an illaenid pygidium from the Vormsi Regional Stage (late Katian) is encrusted by a single small cornulitid (Fig.

The earliest cornulitid on the internal surface of the illaenid pygidium from the Middle Ordovician of Estonia