EARTH SCIENCES - Notable Research and Discoveries Part 8 docx

EARTH SCIENCES - Notable Research and Discoveries Part 8 docx

EARTH SCIENCES - Notable Research and Discoveries Part 8 docx

... FOS _Earth Science_DC.indd 152 2 /8/ 10 10:59: 18 AM 171 anks to the work of Lawson, Reid, and numerous other research- ers, geologists now have a good idea how and why earthquakes occur. But earthquakes ... an earthquake warning sys - tem administered by the Japan Meteorological Agency. An eective sys- Predicting Earthquakes FOS _Earth Science_DC.indd 171 2 /8/ 10 10:59:46 A...
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EARTH SCIENCES - Notable Research and Discoveries Part 5 docx

EARTH SCIENCES - Notable Research and Discoveries Part 5 docx

... helium-3 (which has three particles in the nucleus, two protons and one neu- tron) and helium-4 (which has two protons and two neutrons in the FOS _Earth Science_DC.indd 80 2 /8/ 10 10: 58: 34 AM 85 two ... a crescent-shaped island near Maui, Hawaii (Ron Chapple/Getty Images) FOS _Earth Science_DC.indd 76 2 /8/ 10 10: 58: 02 AM earth ScienceS 88 Austral Islands, Tahiti, Ma...
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EARTH SCIENCES - Notable Research and Discoveries Part 1 ppt

EARTH SCIENCES - Notable Research and Discoveries Part 1 ppt

... Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 97 8- 0 -8 1 6 0-7 44 2-6 (hardcover) ISBN 97 8- 1 -4 38 1-2 96 8- 6 (e-book) 1. Geology. 2. Earth sciences. I. Title QE501.K527 2010 550—dc22 2009020269 Facts ... Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kirkland, Kyle. Earth sciences: notable research and discoveries / Kyle Kirkland. p. cm.—(Frontiers of science) I...
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EARTH SCIENCES - Notable Research and Discoveries Part 2 potx

EARTH SCIENCES - Notable Research and Discoveries Part 2 potx

... lithosphere, and is hot enough to deform or  ow. An important component of this  ow is a slow up -and- Two plates separate and move apart to form part of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. FOS _Earth Science_DC.indd ... equipment, part of the Earthquake Arrival Recording Seismic System (EARSS) in New Zealand (New Zealand © GNS Science/SSPL/ The Image) FOS _Earth Science_DC.indd 8 2 /8/...
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EARTH SCIENCES - Notable Research and Discoveries Part 3 ppsx

EARTH SCIENCES - Notable Research and Discoveries Part 3 ppsx

... that Earth contains a metal core sur- rounded by a rocky mantle. Exploring Earth s Depths FOS _Earth Science_DC.indd 29 2 /8/ 10 10:56:52 AM earth ScienceS 38 FOS _Earth Science_DC.indd 38 2 /8/ 10 ... boundaries. Hernland, John W., Christine omas, and Paul J. Tackley. “A Dou- bling of the Post-Perovskite Phase Boundary and Structure of the Earth s Lowermost Mantle.” Nature...
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EARTH SCIENCES - Notable Research and Discoveries Part 6 ppt

... in the water. Silica, the sandy mate - rial that is used for glassmaking and other applications, is a common FOS _Earth Science_DC.indd 114 2 /8/ 10 10: 58: 59 AM earth ScienceS 102 ExPloItInG GEotHERMal ... mining”— drilling to reach Earth s hot interior. Choosing an area that has been Geothermal Energy—a Furnace beneath the Soil FOS _Earth Science_DC.indd 109 2 /8/ 10 10: 58:...
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EARTH SCIENCES - Notable Research and Discoveries Part 7 pdf

EARTH SCIENCES - Notable Research and Discoveries Part 7 pdf

... to see my hand. And I kept bring- ing my hand up closer and closer and closer and closer. And I fi nally touched the end of my nose and I still couldn’t see my hand. That’s how black it was.” Bad ... 19 98, an eyewitness described the experience: “It kept getting darker and darker. And the old house is just a-vibrating like it was going to blow away. And I started trying...
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EARTH SCIENCES - Notable Research and Discoveries Part 9 potx

EARTH SCIENCES - Notable Research and Discoveries Part 9 potx

... a major earthquake may have particular patterns at particular faults, and FOS _Earth Science_DC.indd 176 2 /8/ 10 10:59: 48 AM earth ScienceS 190 (February 19, 2002): 2,514–2,521. e researchers ... of the San Andreas Fault. Predicting Earthquakes FOS _Earth Science_DC.indd 191 2 /8/ 10 10:59:52 AM earth ScienceS 186 At present, the global earthquake satellite system is not fu...
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EARTH SCIENCES - Notable Research and Discoveries Part 10 ppsx

... 167, 1 68, 169m, 170, 170, 181 , 184 , 186 San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth (SAFOD) 181 – 183 , 187 Sandia National Laboratory 121 San Francisco earthquake (1906) 159, 163, 1 68, 170, 186 satellites ... 71 California earthquakes 1 58 159, 159, 160, 177–1 78, 179– 180 , 181 , 182 geothermal energy 102, 106, 109, 111, 121, 123, 124 San Andreas Fault 167, 1 68, 169m, 170...
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EARTH SCIENCES - Notable Research and Discoveries

EARTH SCIENCES - Notable Research and Discoveries

... Such an event might cause an “ava - lanche” of rocky material and lighter elements that compose the bound- FOS _Earth Science_DC.indd 58 2 /8/ 10 10:57: 38 AM earth ScienceS 54 other geological formations. ... indicate Earth s magnetic eld was about half as strong as it is today. Origin and Variability of Earth s Magnetic Field FOS _Earth Science_DC.indd 65 2 /8/ 10 10:57:...
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