Large scale human powered Biogas production: A solution whose time has arrived The average human body produces .696 kilograms of solid waste every day, that’s 248 kilograms a year and 18,626 kilograms a lifetime (75). The city of Johannesburg in…
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A second order stream forms part of the classification of stream order relating to drainage basins. The area which drains water into a river’s mouth or estuary is known as a drainage basin. Stream order relates to the pattern made…
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Facts About Pink Diamonds. The Argyle Diamond Mine is located in a remote corner of North West Australia and it produces over 90 percent of the world supply of pink diamonds and yet less that 1/10 of 1 percent is…
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Gneiss, pronounced as ‘nice’, is one type of metamorphic rock found all over in the world today. This metamorphic rock is usually identified by distinctive bands of lighter and darker materials as well as its coarse surface. The banding, or…
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Do you know what do heating cooling degree weather forecasts mean? Degree days refer to a special kind of weather report which is created on the basis of the calculations obtained by reading outside air temperature. For this purpose, heating…
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Geologists recognize three major classifications of rock. One category is igneous rock; formed from molten material from deep beneath the earth’s surface, known as magma. Examples of igneous rock would include granite, basalt, and pumice. Sedimentary rocks like limestone, sandstone,…
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Have you ever wondered what the blue Hs stand for on a traditional weather map? How about those long blue lines that have triangles? Weather maps have many symbols on them, and while it’s understandable that some people get confused…
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The ways that mountains form is the geologic process called orogeny. . Different types of rock determine how high the rocks will rise. Two main branches of science concerned with orogeny are geology and geochronology. The movement of tectonic plates…
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Knowing the different types of rock seems to be an important thing to learn when at school, but for most people it is knowledge that is unused later on in life. Different rocks though play an important role in everyday…
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It’s a common assumption that the city of Buffalo, in the United States, has got to be one of the snowiest cities in the world. However, with only 232 centimetres annually, it doesn’t even make most lists. We’re also talking…
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