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| The term '''relict''' is used to refer to surviving remnants of natural phenomena. Compare [[relic]] which is used to refer to human artifacts or remains.
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| *In [[biology]] a relict is an organism that at an earlier time was abundant in a large area but is now occurring at only one or a few small areas. The distribution of a relict is characterized as [[Endemic (ecology)|endemic]]. The [[tuatara]] is an example of a relict. It now lives only on a few small islands off New Zealand. The term "relict" can also refer to an ancient species that survives while related species go extinct. The [[horseshoe crab]] is an example of this type of relict. Horseshoe crabs are most closely related to the [[Eurypterid]]s, which disappeared in the [[Permian-Triassic extinction event]].
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| *In [[geology]], the term "relict" refers to structures or minerals from a parent rock that did not undergo metamorphosis when the surrounding rock did, or to rock that survived a destructive geologic process. For example, the wavy patterns often seen in [[marble]] are relicts of layering in the original [[limestone]].
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| *A relict was also an ancient term for a [[widow]], but has come to be a generic or collective term for widows and widowers.
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| <div class="notice metadata" id="disambig">''This is a [[Monstropedia:disambiguation|disambiguation]] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If <!-- you are viewing this online as opposed to as a [[hard copy]] and -->an [[Special:Whatlinkshere/{{NAMESPACE}}:{{PAGENAME}}|internal link]] referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.''</div>
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| <small>From Wikipedia, retrieved June 16 2006<small>
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