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What % of Earth Science professors have ties to the oil/gas industry?
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Explain Magma: Basaltic vs Rhyolitic Temperatures
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How Do Clouds Form?
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Can We Artificially Create Clouds?
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Uncovering the Truth: The Earth's Accelerating Rotation Rate Explained
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How Long Ago Did Earth Start Supporting Life and How Do We Date Its Formation?
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Precipitable Water Vapor calculation
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Unprecedented Earthquakes: Understanding the Recent Surge in Seismic Activity
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How many sensors do we have in the Earth's oceans?
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Earths surface temperature at night
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Earth's Changing Rotation: Geological and Paleontological Evidence
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How exactly do you measure the Richter magnitude of an earthquake?
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How stable are caves over time?
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Percent water vapor - greenhouse gas
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Making diesel with sun, water, CO2
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Could Oil from the Gulf of Mexico Be Causing Oily Residue on Windows in the UK?
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Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology: Vol 1 or All 3?
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Optimal Placement of Seismographs w/12 Instruments
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Panama canal: why don't the two sides level out?
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Why is there much more NaCl than other salts in the sea?
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Plant or Animal? Mysterious Fossils Defy Classification
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Husband found this fossil in a load of gravel
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I think human population is too much.
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What's gravity like? at center of the earth
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The Groundhog Day Blizzard of 2011?
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What is the optimal carrying capacity of Earth?
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Physical Geography vs Geology class
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What Caused the End Permian Mass Extinction?
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Earth's Moon Origin: Is a Meteor Plausible?
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What causes the fluctuation of el nino events?
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Where does the earth's water originally come from?
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How Do Cold and Warm Fronts Form and Affect Weather?
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What causes global O2 levels to rise in spring/summer?
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Connection between Freezing Europe and the BP spill
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Scientists warn California could be struck by winter ‘superstorm’
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Earth’s magnetic field has reversed a number of times in its history
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Parting of the Red Sea 'may have happened'
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Do you offer support for Earth Science and Geosystem coursework?
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Third (equatorial) desert belt during Mesozoic era?
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Dead birds and fish in Arkansas
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How much energy does wind contribute to the Earth's atmosphere?
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Interesting feature on a weather map
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Famous quote of 2010, earthquakes caused by women dressing immodestly .
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Find Free University Courses Online - Academic Earth
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Is Orbital Inclination the Key to Understanding Climate Change?
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Melting arctic ice = NMP movement increase?
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Chances of Human survival in the Universe beyond the Earth
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Is the Planet's Surface Hotter Than Its Shell?
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Why Can't We See Mountains on the Moon from Certain Places on Earth?
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Enhanced oil recovery and CO2:ecological aspect?
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Apocalypse sized meteor. How big and speed?
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Where Can I Find Multispectral Images of the Earth?
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What Are These Unidentified Rocks and Minerals I Found?
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What is the average temperature of the Earth?
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Recent Journal/Paper of Antarctic/Artic Sea Ice Monitoring
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What Caused Oxygen to Appear on Earth?
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Academic Earth- A Collection of Free Video Lectures on Many Subjects
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Can We Colonize the North Pole?
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Stratospheric Cooling: Why is it Cooler Than the Ground?
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How to determine the time period.
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Ice Circles - Wild & Natural Wonders
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Indonesia - Merapi and earthquakes
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Change of sea level in relation to sea ground
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Ethnicity: Europeans & Asians - What Would Happen?
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Why has the Holocene temperature cycle deviated from previous cycles?
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Who cares about Earth's magnetic field and ozone layer?
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Daylight at Night using the Ionosphere?
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Tidal amplitude on a molten earth?
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Mastodons and Mammoths of the Auvergne
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Why is the Aerosol particle distribution lognormal?
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Hypothetical Question about Earth's Distant Future
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How much more could the Earth shrink as it cools and the core completely cools?
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Scientists sue to stop 'black hole' from sucking up Earth
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Predictive power of the Farmer's Almanac
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What Happens During a Magnetic Pole Shift?
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Forget ocean levels rising due to global warming what if
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Interested in the whole earth magnetic polarity swap thing
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Can Plate Tectonics Be Linked to the Emergence of Life on Earth?
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Dancing bees and the position of the sun
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Experiments on Greenhouse Gases
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Satellite Detection of Tsunami Signatures: Understanding Unique Waveforms
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Georeactor Theory: Is Fission Reactions Responsible for Earth's Heat?
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Maximum Latitude Difference for Equal Centripetal and Gravitational Acceleration
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Verifying the Gutenberg-Richter law at small magnitudes
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Effect of gravity on atmosphere
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Bringing iron asteroids down to Earth?
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Earth Day - My Contact Experience
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Archeomagnetic jerks & Unexplained Geomagnetic Field Instability
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Planets Rotation: Why Do They Rotate?
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What Happens When You Reach the Center of the Earth?
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How Does the Earth Naturally Cool Itself?
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What is the most accurate half time for carbon dating?
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Understanding the Salt Cycle: Factors Affecting Salinity in Oceans and Seas
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How would fallowing the land conserve moisture?
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Why don't the glaciers just melt?
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Indoor Tree Growth: Tree Rings & Leaf Shedding
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Difference in simple shear and rotational strain
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How Much Oil Does US Agriculture Use?
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3D surface of the land and ocean floor
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What is the hell is Interior draeminity?
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