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Slowing moving water in a fast moving streambed

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ChronoZoom: earth and universe explorer

  • Greg Bernhardt
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Relative Humidity and feeling of comfort

  • dennisrobert
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Clouds have flat bottoms from condensation

  • Delong
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Is This Earth From Space Documentary Worth Watching?

  • edward
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Furthest Earthlings From Earth: Apollo 13 or Cow?

  • BadBrain
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Why are natural resources not evenly distributed around the surface?

  • Hivoyer
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Smog-Eating Sidewalks: Concrete Treated with Titanium Oxide

  • theoristo
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Variation of EM radiation(Sun) in different latitudes

  • thorium1010
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When the earth's core melted, did the diameter of the earth increase?

  • jr1956
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Which class to take - geohydrology, GIS or geomorphology

  • jduster
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Which Condensation Nucleus Is Most Efficient for Artificial Cloud Formation?

  • huhjinsoo
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Geo classes for a physics major?

  • jbrussell93
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Why Do Geological Phenomena Exhibit a Power Law Distribution?

  • ralden
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Causes for 1 meter of clay over meters of sand

  • Stephen Tashi
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Why are there still heavy elements in the earth's crust?

  • jr1956
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How come the ocean hasn't been absorbed into the ground?

  • Flatland
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How come the oceans haven't been absorbed?

  • Flatland
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What is the difference between oceanography and marine geology?

  • giovanniology
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Atmospheric eddies, waves etc: definitions

  • jf22901
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CO2 Concentration Tops 400ppm for the First Time in Human History

  • Esnas
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Mw 7.4 Quake S of Tonga and Mw 8.3 Kamchatka Reg.

  • davenn
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55% of the US rivers in poor condition

  • Greg Bernhardt
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Will there ever be a 2nd ice age?

  • Kutt
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Can Cloud Cover Be Predicted at Night Using Simple Daytime Instruments?

  • mishima
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How are the satellites that detect water vapor made?

  • RayFox30
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Atmospheric Carbon Sequestration?

  • denjay
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What Would Life Be Like on a Hypothetical Cube-Shaped Earth?

  • Nathew
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Pleistocene Hyena Day: Visit Rotterdam Nature Museum

  • Andre
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Why mesosphere temperature decreases with height?

  • vrinda mukund
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Books on Geochemistry: Introduction and Intermediate Level

  • ralden
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Sahara - Amazon rainforest connection

  • jety89
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Compromising Plate Tectonics without compromising the Magnetic Field?

  • willbell
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Wild Distortions on Google Earth Maps

  • Evo
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7.8 Mag Earthquake, Khash, Iran

  • Astronuc
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Earth's Spin Flip: Causes of Geomagnetic Reversal?

  • Iforgot
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Was the early earth radioactive?

  • cdux
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Would would Earth be different?

  • willstaruss22
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Questions for Cooling the earth?

  • SecretOfnumber
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Mw 7.0 Papua Quake of 06 Apr 2013

  • davenn
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Boosting Earth's Mass: Harvesting Planetary Resources and Impact on Gravity

  • EternityMech
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Nuclear winter, would it happen?

  • Vierstein
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Dinosaurs died out due to fire 66 million years ago.

  • Andre
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Measuring earth magnetic field strength

  • ry2ncz
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Textbook for Structural Geology and Optical Mineralogy

  • ralden
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What Makes Exploration Geology So Exciting?

  • raldenorsful
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How many megatons was the chixculub meteor impact equal to?

  • Kutt
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Cool examples of radiometric dating?

  • superdave
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Could New Elements Exist Beyond Our Understanding?

  • Tyler Wayne
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Where can I read Essay on the Figure of the Earth ?

  • nonequilibrium
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Change in Earth's axis and Rotation due to tectonic activity

  • JohnFornaro
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How long does it take the Earth to form one gallon of oil?

  • vjk2
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What determines whether or not snow sticks to my windshield?

  • Ori Vandewalle
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Mixing of fluid streams in rivers

  • Studiot
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Wavelengths of sunlight, blackbody radiators, Planck's law, CCT

  • teddoman
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Easier Method to Calculate Earth's Circumference

  • marcusau
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Questions on the Etiquette of Redrawing Older Maps

  • Thimbles
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Artificially increased rainfall ?

  • Studiot
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Why does the shadow of Skylab appear so large in this video?

  • 2milehi
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How much lava is there in earth?

  • DrDu
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Ocean salinity and its affect on surface tension

  • DrClapeyron
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How will humanity prepare for the end of the world in 5113 years?

  • Ivan Seeking
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Warm Beaches, Hot Volcanoes And Cold Back Home

  • lisab
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The last week on Earth, or maybe not?

  • Monique
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What Causes the Earth's Crust-Atmosphere Phase Transition?

  • flicflex
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Rift basin vs foreland basin sedimentation?

  • Simfish
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Where can I find the raw data behind this chart?

  • pythonscript
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The island that wasn't really there

  • jtbell
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Questions about summer opportunities in geophysics

  • jbrussell93
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Understanding the hot shallow layer above the earth surface

  • Ardit
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Is it true that a series of small earthquakes help prevent a large eartquake?

  • kaleidoscope
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Geomagnetic Storms: Why Affect Northern Hemisphere?

  • sailorimc
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What are the characteristics of pine trees in Northern Canada?

  • enosis_
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8.9 earthquake in Japan: tsunami warnings

  • Lacy33
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What color of LED light to use for display of minerals? Cool or warm?

  • BarnRat
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Wind Map US: Near Live Wind Trails Visualized

  • Greg Bernhardt
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What is the barrier that keeps in molecules?

  • Leoragon
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Geomagnetic Reversal 41k BP 240 years Paradox? Mechanism?

  • betzalel
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Earth's temperature follows it's magnetic field

  • Alain De Vos
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Why Were Scientists in Italy Sentenced for Failing to Predict an Earthquake?

  • EternityMech
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Can Rossby Waves in the Ocean Create Vortices?

  • ImaLooser
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Why Does Earth Have an Iron Core?

  • Chemist@
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Earth ellipsoid due to rotation

  • Ulrich
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Why is oceanic crust thinner than continental crust?

  • SeannyBoi71
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Can a Physics Major Thrive in Earth Science Careers?

  • jbrussell93
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Daily Temperature as a function of time

  • zzinfinity
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What happened to the mammoths of the ivory islands?

  • Andre
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Found a fossil. It's like wood - help identify?

  • RyanJLea
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Do rainbows have differing archs?

  • Anna Blanksch
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The problems of the isotope paleo thermometer

  • Andre
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How long can a planet sustain life?

  • stargazer3
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Effect of metamorphism on Earth's surface.

  • yovans
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How high could sea levels rise by 2100 due to melting ice sheets?

  • willstaruss22
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Arctic ice in uncharted territory

  • apeiron
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