But for how long?The history of oil is marked by Middle Eastern strife, supply shocks and global recession, with the Arab oil embargo in 1972, the Iranian revolution in 1978 and Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait in 1990.
This dramatic painting, "A Bashi-Bazouk and His Dog," by Jean-Léon Gérôme, is typical of Orientalist art, an academic style marked by depictions of "exotic" Middle Eastern subjects by Western artists in the 19th century.
It is the down-going plate along most of its western edges, and the overriding plate along its eastern edge (marked by the Izu-Bonin-Mariana, Yap and Palau trenches) and the central part of its western edge (marked by the Manila Trench).
Its western and eastern halves, however, are marked by extreme differences in geographical diversity: Eastern Oklahoma touches eight ecological regions and its western half contains three.
The Eastern Empire was marked by closer relations between the political state and Christian Church, with doctrinal matters assuming an importance in eastern politics that they did not have in Western Europe.
The eastern coast is marked by several small bays.
The eastern landscape is marked by black-capped mesas and the twin Rabbit Ear Mountains, ancient volcanic vents that became a landmark on the southern fork of the Santa Fe Trail.
LOUISVILLE, Ohio — The countryside in eastern Ohio is marked by rusting tanks that stand in open fields and along the edges of family timber patches, like graveyard headstones for an era of energy riches that most people here thought had passed.
Its eastern limit is marked by the Benin Hinge line, a major fault structure marking the western limit of the Niger delta basin.
The transition from the Late Pleistocene to the Early Holocene in the Eastern Mediterranean is marked by an abrupt change in sea levels, landforms, ecology and resources.
