Earth Sciences
epub |eng | 2012-01-31 | Author:Bruce Parker

Figure 8.1 Picture showing the destruction caused by the December 26, 2004, tsunami along the northern Aceh coast of Sumatra, leaving a lone surviving mosque. (U.S. Geological Survey) Lamjabat, another ...
( Category: Earth Sciences February 1,2019 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-17 | Author:Kate Winkler Dawson

Chapter Nine Squeezed The day, in the highest and brightest quarters of the town, was damp, dark, cold and gloomy. In that low and marshy spot, the fog filled every ...
( Category: Earth Sciences January 31,2019 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-13 | Author:Alan Watts

towards its afternoon maximum speed so the scale of these variations will decrease. The wind will be stronger but the shifts within it will seem less noticeable. Winds in the ...
( Category: Environment January 29,2019 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Simon Winchester [Winchester, Simon]

THREE OTHER ISLANDS, well known locally, reported the events. On Angel Island—which stands foursquare in San Francisco Bay, and which in the aftermath of the quake was to be the ...
( Category: Americas January 28,2019 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2008-04-02 | Author:Zachary M. Schrag

* * * 8 The District * * * From the first discussions of bringing rapid transit to Washington, advocates of rail knew that they would have to make the ...
( Category: Americas January 26,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-23 | Author:Will Hunt [Hunt, Will]

And I was only getting started. I was going to propose a theory to Tschinkel. Digging, I was going to say, is a primal act—one of the most basic things ...
( Category: Earth Sciences January 25,2019 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-22 | Author:McKenzie Funk [Funk, McKenzie]

EIGHT GREEN WALL, BLACK WALL AFRICA TRIES TO KEEP THE SAHARA AT BAY; EUROPE TRIES TO KEEP AFRICA AT BAY The main highway out of Dakar, a band of blacktop ...
( Category: Processes & Infrastructure January 25,2019 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-27 | Author:Andrew Blackwell [Blackwell, Andrew]

Bravo Watch was quiet that night. There were rumors that Mary was heartbroken to have turned back, that she considered it a major blow to Project Kaisei. It was impossible ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology January 22,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Denny, Mark;

Figure 6.3. The intensity of light (watts per square meter) impinging on a surface depends on the angle between light and surface. Light is most intense when the surface is ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology January 22,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Andrew Revkin, Lisa Mechaley

SEE ALSO: Luke Howard Names the Clouds (1802), Beaufort Classifies the Winds (1806) In 2017, the cavum cloud, also called a fallstreak hole or “hole punch” cloud, was among a ...
( Category: Earth Sciences January 22,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-21 | Author:Thomas E. Lovejoy [Lovejoy, Thomas E.]

CHAPTER FIFTEEN Tropical Forests in a Changing Climate JAMES E. M. WATSON, DANIEL B. SEGAN, AND JOSHUA TEWKSBURY OVERVIEW Tropical forest landscapes are the most biodiverse terrestrial biomes on the ...
( Category: Biological Sciences January 22,2019 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-03 | Author:David Nash

Finished poles—it’s just as easy to make two as one Usage: 1. Remove the cap and pull out the tied lure. 2. Replace the cap and remove the rubber band ...
( Category: Survival & Emergency Preparedness January 22,2019 )
azw, epub |eng | 2015-06-02 | Author:Peter Moore [Moore, Peter]

The Daily News intended these reports to reassure farmers throughout the harvest. By autumn they had seemingly run their course and were dropped. Unwittingly, though, the newspaper had hit on ...
( Category: Earth Sciences January 20,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-01-29 | Author:Roger Pielke

Source: NOAA/NHC. The graph above shows a count of U.S. hurricane landfalls from 1900.[77] It shows no evidence indicating that hurricane landfalls have increased since 1900, a finding that holds ...
( Category: Earth Sciences January 17,2019 )
epub |eng | 2005-01-15 | Author:Melissa Checker

They have the funds to prolong these cases as long as they want to. They’re not paying any money out, so they can just wait for people to die. I ...
( Category: Social Sciences January 16,2019 )