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 fund...

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... 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 ... expanded their knowledge and expertise into all aspects of Earth science, environmental issues, and biological phenomena. USGS em- ploys 10,000 researchers and supp...

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... 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 20 090 202 69 Facts On File books are available ... Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kirkland, Kyle. Earth sciences: notable research and discoveries / Kyle Kirkland. p. cm.—(Frontiers of sc...

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... part of Earth s core is liquid. 190 9 e Croatian researcher Andrija Mohorovičić (1857– 193 6) analyzes seismic waves and nds the Mohorovicic discontinuity, which separates Earth s crust and ... the axis of rotation (North and South Poles). Origin and Variability of Earth s Magnetic Field FOS _Earth Science_DC.indd 39 2/8/10 10:57:31 AM earth ScienceS 42 If Earth was...

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... (January 16, Volcanoes and hot Spots FOS _Earth Science_DC.indd 95 2/8/10 10:58: 39 AM 98 99 including oil, natural gas, and coal.  ese substances are called fossil fu- els because scientists ... Vesuvius in 79 .., Tam- bora in 1815, Krakatoa in 1883, Mount Pelée in 190 2, Mount St. Hel- ens in 198 0, and others. Chang, Wu-Lung, Robert B. Smith, et al. “Accelerated Upli an...

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... surface. e Los Alamos researchers drilled a hole through granite rocks and reached a depth of 9, 500 feet (2 ,90 0 m) in 197 4, where the temperature was 387°F ( 197 °C). In 198 0, researchers drilled ... Earth s crust could be mined as a resource. Although the researchers performed a number of successful tests at this site in the 198 0s and early 199 0s, DOE cut funding to the pro...

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... trying 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 ... leading up to the 193 0s, farmers had used the FOS _Earth Science_DC.indd 140 2/8/10 10: 59: 13 AM 127 and_ impacts/energy_technologies/how-geothermal-energy- works.html. Accessed Ma...

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... evaporation, and many others. FOS _Earth Science_DC.indd 156 2/8/10 10: 59: 19 AM earth ScienceS 164 May 12, 2008, measured 7 .9 M w (not Richter!).  e magnitude of the un- dersea earthquake that ... University in Baltimore, Maryland, realized how earthquakes occur. Aer study - ing the San Andreas Fault and the 190 6 San Francisco earthquake, Reid proposed a theory of eart...

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... an earthquake from the size of its seismic waves; developed in 193 5 by Charles F. Rich- ter ( 190 0–85) and Beno Gutenberg (18 89 196 0) FOS _Earth Science_DC.indd 198 2/8/10 10: 59: 55 AM earth ScienceS 212 Earthquake ... 67 plume hypothesis 82–87, 93 pole reversals 56, 56– 59, 59 60, 61–62, 85 pollution 99 , 99 –100, 108, 1 39, 1 49 Pompeii 67, 92 , 101 precipitation 132,...

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... volcanoes and focuses on the e orts of researchers to understand hot spots. 3 FOS _Earth Science_DC.indd 66 2/8/10 10:57:40 AM EARTH SCIENCES 62 191 9 e Irish physicist Sir Joseph Larmor (1857– 194 2) ... magnetic properties. 196 0s Harry Hess ( 190 6– 69) and Robert Dietz ( 191 4 95 ) propose the crust is made of rigid plates that are separating to form mid-ocean ridges. Rock...

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