Earth Science

Pink diamonds are among the rarest of diamonds, only produced from a few mines in the world. The majority of pink diamonds come from mines in India, but some also come from mines in South Africa, Brazil, and the Argyle…
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The advance and retreat of ice sheets has been occurring for millennia. Ice sheets grow when snow accumulates faster than it melts. As the snowfall accumulates, its weight presses down on earlier snows and compacts this into glacial ice. An…
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The Beaufort Wind Scale has for almost two hundred years been the standard method of observing and recording wind conditions in maritime and coastal environments. The thirteen point scale being used in many shipping forecasts to indicate the experienced and…
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Silicon Valley is a popular name for what is really Santa Clara Valley in Santa Clara County. The size, according to Wikipedia (search on Santa Clara Valley), is about 30 miles long by 15 miles wide. Its northernmost point is…
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The word geography literally means “to study the earth” and this is exactly what it entails-collecting and analyzing data pertaining to the essential workings of the earth and using this data to produce ideas and philosophies related to these workings. …
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To a Desolate Shore While flight to Mars and possible settlement present dangers for individual men and women, the prospect of all humankind simply remaining on Earth presents a danger as well, a danger of eventual physical and spiritual extinction. …
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Seasonal Chemical Composition of Saltbush in Semiarid Grasslands of Jordan In Jordan, Saltbrush (Atriplex spp.) are considered to be a viable solution to the country’s feed shortages when it suffers from drought or experiences dormant seasons. As the gain maturity,…
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There are many theories as to the beginning of the universe, but as of yet no agreed upon answer.  The problem is a classic catch-22.  Cosmologists can agree that the big bang started everything off, but what about before the big…
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Metamorphic rocks are all created by the forces of pressure and heat. Generally they are working together altering the chemical composition of rocks. Despite the same forces at work not every rock ends up with the same texture. Instead metamorphic…
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Many people wonder what causes lakes to shrink and eventually disappear. This process, called succession, is natural and it occurs in all lakes. Thankfully, the basics of how and why this occurs isn’t difficult to explain. To understand succession, it…
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