Top new questions this week:
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I was looking at the radar on the Weather Channel website and I noticed something that I don't think I've ever seen before.
Screen shot from 11:30 AM EST 9/29
Hurricane/Tropical Storm Ian can be seen ...
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Reading the Wikipedia page for some North Indian Cyclone Seasons I've come across multiple systems called "land depressions". (written as Land [number])
Example (Land 01 2019):
I'm not ...
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Eldon Hill is a limestone hill in Derbyshire, England. It has a large quarry on it's NW side and a natural pothole just to the south of it's peak. It also has the remains of lead mines scattered ...
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I've read that the partial pressure of oxygen in water will be the same as the partial pressure of oxygen in the atmosphere, but that the saturation of oxygen in water is dependent on factors like ...
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There’s plenty of carbon dioxide and radiation throughout the solar system, why is it a phenomena only associated with the outer planets?
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Why doesn't (e.g.) the equatorward North Atlantic Deep Water bend more to the west?
Is it maybe because the water tends to move relatively slowly and the magnitude of the Coriolis effect depends on ...
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We have written a free textbook at (http://climate-change.world). Its main focus is on the social science side of changing emissions. We are not atmospheric scientists, so all we want to do is to ...
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Greatest hits from previous weeks:
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What are the main differences between geologists and geophysicists?
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This question came to me after reading H.P. Lovecraft's "Dagon"- the protagonist has fallen asleep drifting on the ocean in a small boat. He wakes up one morning to discover he's been ...
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I have been set the task of researching plate tectonics, specifically:
"Why was its discovery so important in its time and controversial?"
I do not need a long answer, although more detail is always ...
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I saw this graph about the global temperature, it goes back for 2000 years.
How is it possible to measure temperature 2000 years back with such a precision of like ~0.1 C?
The image from Reddit post I ...
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Why are deserts famous for fossils? Is it a coincidence? Some examples:
Giant Catfish Fossil Found in Egyptian Desert
Chile's stunning fossil whale graveyard explained
Giant Dinosaur Fossil Found ...
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I am curious to know if it would be highly probable that if the Bennu asteroid were to hit the Earth in 2182, and the point of impact is within a 500 mile radius of Yellowstone National Park, will it ...
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I read somewhere in a book that mostly desert found in the western part of a continent. So my question is that why is it so? I searched on the internet but I didn't get a reasonable answer for that.
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Can you answer this question?
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Calcium carbonate in cement can make the soil more alkaline but does that make large housing developments have a significant or negligible affect on availability of nutrients? Does it cause nutrients ...
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