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When did plate tectonics begin?
- cph
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Do we have any ways to drill through oceanic crust?
- Simfish
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What happens when we run out of ores?
- Delong
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9.3 Earthquake strikes California
- Pengwuino
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Loss of heat from the Earth's core
- whuzzwhuzz
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Induced seismicity and low frequencies
- rockhouse
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Amount of co2 produced for each year
- Howlin
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Could Earth Lose its Orbit and Face Destruction?
- jobyts
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Can Atmospheric Pressure be Accurately Modeled at 300km Altitude?
- s4177112
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What is "NADD" in Groundwater Level?
- BobbyBear
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Job opportunities at all career stages for geoscientists is on the rise
- Simfish
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Japanese Earthquake - was it really that devastating?
- Simfish
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Unusual Seismic Activity in the Pacific NW US
- Ivan Seeking
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Mineralogy Course Info: Outlines, Focus, Sources
- Boxxxed
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Why can't we harness energy from lightning?
- Darken-Sol
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Can Volcanic Activity Affect Earth's Magnetic Field?
- Tanja
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What caused the Eocene-Oligocene boundary cooling 33.7 million years ago?
- aspergers@40
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Architecture Student Seeks Advice on Wind-Catcher Design
- shoayb
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What causes the 30-degree difference between Earth's effective and surface temperature?
- harrycallahan
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Did Quark Matter Penetrate Earth in 1993?
- g33kski11z
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Origin and Development of Earth's Atmosphere
- M.T.
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(Nova) Mt St Helens: Back From the Dead
- BarnRat
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How much energy is in the solar wind plus
- cskoog
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Accelerometer-based seismometer?
- moonman239
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How are you celebrating Earth day?
- brother time
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How do scientists study the past atmosphere?
- neginf
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Temperature change and Milankovitch cycles
- neginf
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Weather on a planet with no continents
- Somes J
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What equations do meteorologists use to predict weather patterns?
- Q_Goest
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How Does Increasing Solar Luminosity Impact the Inner Planets?
- ladykrimson
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What % of Earth Science professors have ties to the oil/gas industry?
- Simfish
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Explain Magma: Basaltic vs Rhyolitic Temperatures
- lollyone
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How Do Clouds Form?
- Kalrag
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Can We Artificially Create Clouds?
- Kalrag
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Is Earth's rotation accelerating or slowing down?
- heldervelez
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How Long Ago Did Earth Start Supporting Life and How Do We Date Its Formation?
- BuddyPal
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Precipitable Water Vapor calculation
- redcapaussie
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Why are there so many earthquakes happening so fast?
- The_Absolute
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How many sensors do we have in the Earth's oceans?
- Simfish
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Earths surface temperature at night
- semiotically
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Earth's Changing Rotation: Geological and Paleontological Evidence
- Vagn
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How exactly do you measure the Richter magnitude of an earthquake?
- Simfish
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How stable are caves over time?
- Simfish
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Percent water vapor - greenhouse gas
- glenncz
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Making diesel with sun, water, CO2
- Evo
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Could Oil from the Gulf of Mexico Be Causing Oily Residue on Windows in the UK?
- scupydog
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Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology: Vol 1 or All 3?
- Archosaur
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Optimal Placement of Seismographs w/12 Instruments
- webbwbb
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Why is the Pacific side of the Panama Canal 20 cm higher?
- twain
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Why is there much more NaCl than other salts in the sea?
- twain
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Plant or Animal? Mysterious Fossils Defy Classification
- Evo
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Husband found this fossil in a load of gravel
- jwhittecar
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I think human population is too much.
- Chitose
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What's gravity like? at center of the earth
- Chitose
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The Groundhog Day Blizzard of 2011?
- SW VandeCarr
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How many people can Earth support at current technology levels?
- PhilKravitz
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Physical Geography vs Geology class
- tree-lights
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What Caused the End Permian Mass Extinction?
- billiards
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Earth's Moon Origin: Is a Meteor Plausible?
- HeadScratcher
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What causes the fluctuation of el nino events?
- oceanOgrapher
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Where does the earth's water originally come from?
- Earthmosphere
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How Do Cold and Warm Fronts Form and Affect Weather?
- Kalrag
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What causes global O2 levels to rise in spring/summer?
- Hoku
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How could the BP oil spill slow the Gulf Stream?
- Andrew Mason
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Scientists warn California could be struck by winter ‘superstorm’
- jreelawg
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Earth’s magnetic field has reversed a number of times in its history
- momentum
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Parting of the Red Sea 'may have happened'
- JaredJames
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Do you offer support for Earth Science and Geosystem coursework?
- vaironl
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Third (equatorial) desert belt during Mesozoic era?
- onomatomanic
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Dead birds and fish in Arkansas
- EnumaElish
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How much energy does wind contribute to the Earth's atmosphere?
- Kmenex
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Interesting feature on a weather map
- SW VandeCarr
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Famous quote of 2010, earthquakes caused by women dressing immodestly .
- SW VandeCarr
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Find Free University Courses Online - Academic Earth
- Kevin_Axion
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Can orbital inclination solve problems with Milankovitch cycle theory?
- Mammo
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Melting arctic ice = NMP movement increase?
- dwaring28720
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Chances of Human survival in the Universe beyond the Earth
- Bullo
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Is the Planet's Surface Hotter Than Its Shell?
- Tandem78
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Why Can't We See Mountains on the Moon from Certain Places on Earth?
- Smartoad
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Enhanced oil recovery and CO2:ecological aspect?
- DrDu
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Apocalypse sized meteor. How big and speed?
- royzizzle
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Where Can I Find Multispectral Images of the Earth?
- binbots
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What Are These Unidentified Rocks and Minerals I Found?
- Panwasbipolar
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What is the average temperature of the Earth?
- Simon43254
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Recent Journal/Paper of Antarctic/Artic Sea Ice Monitoring
- yifang
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How did oxygen come to Earth's atmosphere?
- johncena
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Academic Earth- A Collection of Free Video Lectures on Many Subjects
- Ivan92
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Can We Colonize the North Pole?
- Dremmer
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Stratospheric Cooling: Why is it Cooler Than the Ground?
- Wannabeagenius
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How to determine the time period.
- eptheta
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What are ice circles and how do they form?
- DaveC426913
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Indonesia - Merapi and earthquakes
- Astronuc
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Change of sea level in relation to sea ground
- G.H.Hardy
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Would Europeans look Asian if they lived there for generations?
- mreq
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Why is the Holocene plateau warmer than previous interglacial peaks?
- DarioC
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Who cares about Earth's magnetic field and ozone layer?
- Jon Richfield
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Daylight at Night using the Ionosphere?
- Your-Majesty
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Tidal amplitude on a molten earth?
- xosteve
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Mastodons and Mammoths of the Auvergne
- Andre
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