EARTH SCIENCES - Notable Research and Discoveries Part 6 ppt
EARTH SCIENCES - Notable Research and Discoveries Part 6 ppt
... Sudurnesja, Landsvirkjun, and Orkuveita Reyk
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javíkur and the National Energy Authority of Iceland, plans to drill
holes up to 16, 400 feet (5,000 m) to reach the hot uid on the margins of
the mid-ocean ... PotEntIal and
CaPaCIty
e Mid-Atlantic Ridge and the Pacic’s Ring of Fire oer many geo-
thermal energy opportunities, as do hot spots such as Hawaii. Geother-
mal energy’...
EARTH SCIENCES - Notable Research and Discoveries Part 1 ppt
... references and index.
ISBN 97 8-0 -8 16 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 2009020 269
Facts On File books are available ... Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kirkland, Kyle.
Earth sciences: notable research and discoveries / Kyle Kirkland.
p. cm.—(Frontiers of scien...
EARTH SCIENCES - Notable Research and Discoveries Part 2 potx
... wave’s propagation.
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speed of sound is 66 0 miles per hour (MPH) (1,0 56 km/hr), compared
to 760 MPH (1,2 16 km/hr) at the surface. ... 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...
EARTH SCIENCES - Notable Research and Discoveries Part 3 ppsx
... Peninsu-
la reach a depth of 7 .6 miles (12. 26 km), the deep-
est hole ever drilled.
2005 e
Japan Agency for Marine -Earth Science and
Technology (JAMSTEC) begins testing the drilling
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and focuses on practical applications, such as co...
EARTH SCIENCES - Notable Research and Discoveries Part 5 docx
... a crescent-shaped island near Maui,
Hawaii (Ron Chapple/Getty Images)
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Austral Islands, Tahiti, Marquesas Islands, and Pitcairn ... erent isotopes such as 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
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EARTH SCIENCES - Notable Research and Discoveries Part 7 pdf
... darker and darker.
And the old house is just a-vibrating like it was going to blow
away. And I started trying to see my hand. And I kept bring-
ing my hand up closer and closer and closer and ... (NIDIS) in 20 06. NIDIS is a col-
laboration of several government agencies, including the De-
partment of Agriculture, Department of Commerce, Depart-
ment of the Interior, NASA, and...
EARTH SCIENCES - Notable Research and Discoveries Part 8 docx
... scale.
Predicting Earthquakes
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shaking, though there is still danger from ying objects and buckling
oors, and a powerful earthquake ... boundaries, and the
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enced many earthquakes, including a San Francisco earthquake on April
18, 19 06, that destroy...
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... a
major earthquake may have particular patterns at particular faults, and
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(February 19, 2002): 2,514–2,521. e researchers ... the faint vibrations. e researchers pub
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lished their paper, “Non-Volcanic Tremor and Low-Frequency Earth-
quake Swarms,” in a 2007 issue of Nature.
is faint, low-frequency acti...
EARTH SCIENCES - Notable Research and Discoveries Part 10 ppsx
... behavior and
173–174
damage and casualties
from 158– 160
duration 162
epicenter 161 – 162
fault zones 165 –171
focus (hypocenter) 9,
159, 161 , 162
forecasts and
probabilities
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and geothermal ... 148
Richter, Charles 9, 163 ,
164 – 165 , 187
Richter scale (Richter-
Gutenberg scale) 9–10,
163 , 164 – 165
ris 55
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EARTH SCIENCES - Notable Research and Discoveries
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the e orts of researchers to understand hot spots.
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1919 e Irish physicist Sir ... 4 46 (April 5, 2007): 65 7 66 0.
ese results indicate Earth s magnetic eld was about half as strong
as it is today.
Origin and Variability of Earth s Magnetic Field
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