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Why is separation of earth and sky so common in different mythologies?
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Energy transport through deep convection
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Are Chileans Prepared for Back-to-Back Earthquakes?
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How Solar Power is Not a Solution to Replacing Nuclear Power
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Time of day with most and least land?
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Measuring Oxygen Content of the Ancient Earth
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Is a Major Earthquake Hitting the Southeastern Solomon Islands?
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Tidal Analysis in Florida Keys: Investigating 9 Year Periods & Anomalous Data
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Tsunamis and earthquake thrusts
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M8.0 quake coastal Northern Chile
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Fossil from the lower Jurasic, Holzmaden, Germany
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How do I express magnetic latitude as geographic latitude/longitude?
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LA St Patricks Day Earthquake 3/17/2014
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Watch Glaciers Split in Half: Incredible Video
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Can you identify these minerals?
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What are these rocks worths? Pictures inside.
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Theia Impact: How Did the Earth's Hole Disappear?
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2 x M 6.8 quakes 2 days in a row
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Scientists find near-definitive list for rare earthquake lights
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Which volcano has the greatest fire lake?
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Maximum Sustainable Earth Population
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High & Low Pressure in Atmospheres: Clarification Needed
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Milankovitch Cycles and change of seasons
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What Does the Coriolis Effect Really Refer To?
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Could Mars Sustain Earth-Like Life with Similar Size and Core?
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Conservation of Angular Momentum diagram
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Earth's core rotates both directions
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Desalination via Ice: Practical in Mountains Near Coasts?
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Calc Magnetic Local Time: UT & Geo Lat/Long
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What Form Did Carbon Exist in During the Formation of Earth?
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Wind induced waves in narrow irrigation canals
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Snow Rollers: Have You Seen Them?
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What is the Mass of a Thunderhead?
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How can I calculate Magnetic Latitude?
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Earthquake Cluster North Of Puerto Rico
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First respectable quake for 2014
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Central NZ Earthquakes in Cook Strait: A Complex Tectonic Region
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Wellington, NZ, should prepare for more Earthquakes
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Energy stored in the biosphere?
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What New Phenomenon in Seismic Waves Did I Discover?
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Chaparrastique volcano in El Salvador blows
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What could cause this light effect?
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Huge freshwater reserves beneath the ocean
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What is causing the annual variations in sea level in the Florida Keys?
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Are Boyle's Law and Plate Tectonics Connected in Physics?
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Could earths magnetic field help cause/effec Tornadoes, and lighting?
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Why is the Freezing Point of Pure Water Defined as 0°C?
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Major Quake NOW M7.8, S of South America
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What Makes Sakurajima One of the World's Most Accessible and Active Volcanoes?
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Heating of atmospere by Sunlight(Not Climate change or global warming)
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Finding the Elastic Constant of a Spring: 0.08N Stretches 2cm
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Just wondering what has the greatest greenhouse effect
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Total Carbon Dioxide emissions for 2013
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OOI Where Oceanography is heading
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How much water is in the atmosphere?
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Undersea volcanoes; Largest - Tamu Massif
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Modeling soil temperature at a depth of 5ft
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What is your opinion on climate change? Man-made or not?
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Is it oceanic or continental crust?
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What If Earth Had a 45 Degree Tilt?
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Why Do Pennsylvanian Rock Formations Appear as Strips?
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What Secrets Does the Usselo Horizon in Dutch Moors Hold?
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If Earths atmosphere were thicker?
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Thermal intake of melting ice as compared to thermal capacity of earth
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What draws you to the earth sciences?
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Why are Tropical Cyclones More Common in the Bermuda Triangle Region?
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Younger Dryas: Canadian Comet Impact Triggered Climate Shift?
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What caused the mechanism of Plate Tectonics to begin?
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Calculating the nonlinear speed of Erosion
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Was Pangaea the surface of a smaller planet?
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Can the distance from the sun to a star be calculated using angles?
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Where did all the Earths water come from?
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Sun & Global Warming: Does it Contribute?
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Slowing moving water in a fast moving streambed
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ChronoZoom: earth and universe explorer
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Relative Humidity and feeling of comfort
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Clouds have flat bottoms from condensation
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Is This Earth From Space Documentary Worth Watching?
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Furthest Earthlings From Earth: Apollo 13 or Cow?
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Why are natural resources not evenly distributed around the surface?
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Smog-Eating Sidewalks: Concrete Treated with Titanium Oxide
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Variation of EM radiation(Sun) in different latitudes
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When the earth's core melted, did the diameter of the earth increase?
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Which class to take - geohydrology, GIS or geomorphology
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Which Condensation Nucleus Is Most Efficient for Artificial Cloud Formation?
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Geo classes for a physics major?
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Why Do Geological Phenomena Exhibit a Power Law Distribution?
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Causes for 1 meter of clay over meters of sand
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What caused the mysterious disappearance of the Lost City of Heracleion?
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Why are there still heavy elements in the earth's crust?
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How come the ocean hasn't been absorbed into the ground?
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How come the oceans haven't been absorbed?
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What is the difference between oceanography and marine geology?
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Atmospheric eddies, waves etc: definitions
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CO2 Concentration Tops 400ppm for the First Time in Human History
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Mw 7.4 Quake S of Tonga and Mw 8.3 Kamchatka Reg.
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55% of the US rivers in poor condition
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Will there ever be a 2nd ice age?
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Can Cloud Cover Be Predicted at Night Using Simple Daytime Instruments?
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How are the satellites that detect water vapor made?
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