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What caused the Paleocene and Eocene periods to be so warm?
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Is a rift valley bottom considered a plateau or a plain?
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Can Particulate Matter Decay Constants Be Found for Different Regions?
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Who are the worlds leading climatologists?
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Variances of Physics on Earth
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Influence of the sun on the temperature of the ocean
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Angular speed of the Earth's atmosphere
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Investigating Weak Gravitational Field in India/Indian Ocean
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Oil Spill Density: Answers to Questions
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Massive cold region in the North Atlantic Ocean
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How Has the Recent Election Shifted the Political Landscape in The Netherlands?
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What Would Happen if a Hurricane Hit the Gulf Oil Spill?
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Could a nuke ignite sub-surface methane?
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Strong negative feedback in Climate
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What kind of fish fossil did I find on the beach in Swansea, UK?
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Abiotic oil theory vs fossil fuel theory
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Could the Chicxulub asteroid have changed Earth's orbit or axis at all
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Is Global Warming a Scientific Reality or Just Fearmongering?
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Make a barometer that has a dial?
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Mysterious Rattling Rock - What Could Be Inside?
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Questioning the Big Bang Theory
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Question about The Big One in California
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Unfolding Earth - my contribution
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Saturation of water vapor in the atmosphere
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Determining Age of Earth with Superparamagnetism
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Mining Metals from the Core: Impact on Earth's Magnetic Field & Climate
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Revisiting Sunda Subduction: Possible Implications for Earthquake Activity
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Carbon dioxide has Eyjafjallajokull pumped into the atmosphere
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Iceland Volcano - Eyjafjallajokull
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Massive 8.8 Earth Quake in Chile
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Freezing in the gulf oil pipeline
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How old is the earth according to the bible?
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Hellyer claims ET has visited Earth
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Fast way to decompose plastic bags.
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The Amount of Human CO2 emissions vs. The Scale of our Atmosphere
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Why Does the Earth Have Two Magnetic Poles?
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Ocean Acidification: Can CO2 Release & pH Decrease Simultaneously?
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Excavations: Where does all that soil come from?
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Saving Ash from a Volcanic Eruption: A Geologist's Perspective
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Do Women's Actions Really Cause Earthquakes?
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Does Tidal Friction Affect the Moon's Gravitational Potential Energy?
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K-T extinction thought experinment
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Live earthquakes in the World directly on the web
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Have you seen the incredible pictures of Iceland's Volcano?
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What is self and air broadening effects?
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Will Iceland's volcano sink the EU's economies?
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Explore the Ocean: Solutions for Deep Sea Pressure
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Unravelling the Subtropical Jet Stream
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Temperature affect on the Aurora Borealis
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North Atlantic Drift Current and Abrupt Climate Change
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Nature's past experiment on global warming?
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What Causes the Rapid Changes in Sea Level?
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How did Victorians estimate the ages of fossils?
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Qanat (subterranean channel) water profiles
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Is there life in the universe, and if so has it visited Earth?
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Easter Earthquake In California
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Fungus Discovered in Rainforest May Offer New Source of Green Energy
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Understanding Earth Parameters: Dip Angle, Latitude & More
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How Do You Reverse Projections to Interpret Geological Maps?
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What caused the 7.8 Earthquake in Sumatra and what are the details?
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What is Causing Yellowstone's Recent Seismic Activity?
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Internal Heat of Earth: Viscosity & Convection in the Mantle
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Atmosphere lowers total radiation Earth receives
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How can we defeat pollution as individuals?
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The Earth is Growing: A Thought-Provoking Theory
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New fossil What hav I found? PIC's
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Can We Map Reflected IR Laser to Object Color?
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I don't know what animal my fossil used to be
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Geomagnetic excursions Interglacial Termination Abrupt Climate Change
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Surviving a Second Ice Age: Threats and Timeline for Humanity
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How Does a 15.8 Gt Quake Compare to All the World's Nukes?
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Carbon Dioxide emissions question
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Frozen in Time: Remarkable Mammoth and Rhino Discoveries in Alaska and Siberia
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Structural Geology: Fault Correlation
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Is Love Encoded in the Voyager Golden Record?
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Is there a point to buying organic?
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Photosynthesis vs. carbonization
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Pitch of net slip and plunge and trend of net slip of a fault using stereonets
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Sheep's Carbon Footprint - Welsh Hillsides vs. Good Pasture
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Detection of subterranean water
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Formation of lava fields on Lanzarote
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Does the Ozone Layer Have to Fall Due to Its Molecular Mass?
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Is Australia Facing Overpopulation and Dwindling Resources?
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Cataclysmic collision of proto-earth and planetisimal
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Global Warming & Climate Change Policy
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Earthrace: Challenging the World Record with Renewable Bio-Fuel Powerboat
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Is Healthcare 530,000 years ago something to be proud of?
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Did You Hear About the 7.0 Earthquake in Haiti?
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Heinrich events - why can't we understand them yet?
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Getting climate data into the classroom.
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Buy a rare earth element Thorium
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Questioning "Proof" of Past Life on Mars Found Through Rocks on Earth
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Deep-sea sediment records of the Laschamp geomagnetic field excursion (41kya)
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Is Life Beyond Our Solar System Really Rare?
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Lightning connected with the magnetism of Earth core?
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Falsifying the Atmospheric CO2 Greenhouse Effect: G. Gerlich & R.D. Tscheuschner
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Why Does Lightning Zig-Zag Instead of Forming a Smooth Arc?
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The current northern hemisphere cold spell
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Mid-Piacenzian Arctic: Warm Climate & Seasonally Ice-Free Oceans
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Amazon Data Contradicts Glacial Aridity Hypothesis Of The Ice Age
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