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Do these islands exist or are they technical artifacts?
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Why did the carboniferous period have so much atmospheric oxygen?
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What's the story of the shear face in the new Mac OS Catalina wallpaper?
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Could this be pyroxene twinning ? (thin section)
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Calculate the latitudes of a Gaussian Grid
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What are the dominant elements that oxygen is bonded to on earth?
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Acoustic impedance in geophysical context
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What gases are in the vesicles of pumice?
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Topographic Maps
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For what percentage of the earth's history has there been permanent ice?
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How thin is our atmosphere relative to the size of Earth?
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Please help in understanding redox buffers
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Is it possible to convert carbon dioxide into a solid at low cost?
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Why is the sea salinity high in the Mediterannean and Red Sea and low in Indonesia and Malaysia?
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Current consensus on the Messinian Salinity Crisis
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Origin of Andaman and Nicobar islands
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How are the banded-iron-formation iron-ores formed?
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Units of wave spectrum
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If the Bennu asteroid were to hit within a 500 mile radius of Yellowstone National Park, will it trigger a super volcano at Yellowstone?
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First to Sail the Jet Stream Around the World
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Are the water year/hydrological year different around the world?
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What is the difference between mineral groups and series?
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What is a reasonable forecast of sea level in 2100?
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Why is the Arctic melting, but the Antarctic doing great?
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If two adjacent tectonic plates are moving in the same direction, is there significant interaction at the boundary?
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Soil Science and the carbon cycle - is carbon released from soil into the atmosphere?
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Are plastics a carbon sink and how much carbon is released to the atmosphere making them?
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Transform Boundary and its relation with Earth's rotation
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Understanding a diagram of Earth's radiation balance
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How does a subduction zone form mountains?
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Why is at high altitude more light from oxygen in the auroras while it is heavier than nitrogen?
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How can we have "floating" and convection currents in a non-liquid mantle?
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Are craters on Earth covered by vegetation?
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What are the criteria that make a planet (in)habitable?
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Is there still a hole in the ozone layer?
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How does the ozone layer "stay in place"?
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Why do deviated wells show poor correlation to seismic data?
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Why are minerals found in "large" quantities and not scattered throughout the earth as individual atoms?
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Why did Hurricane Ida have so much precipitation when it reached the Northeast?
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What causes "hydrocarbons" to take the form of petroleum versus natural gas?
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How could humans alter storm intensity or direction other than cloud seeding?
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How big does a lake have to be to have its own Sea Breeze?
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Has a hurricane or cyclone ever reformed after passing over a large land mass?
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What's the distance between the center of mass and geometrical center of Earth (CM-CF offset)?
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Why is the energy transition start not reflected in the CO2 concentration graphs?
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Do satellites decrease the amount of solar radiation reaching Earth?
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How long it takes to cool a planet?
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What is this big Black Mass in Syria, as seen on google maps? [duplicate]
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Will global warming lead to agriculture in the Arctic?
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From where do weather radar maps get their data?
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What are the differences in terms of appearance between sandstone and limestone?
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Height of Everest from base to top
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Evaporation loss formulas
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Is Australia the largest island?
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How does global-warming-triggered ice melting cause global sea levels to rise?
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Is silicon dioxide (silica) found in all types of soil on the planet?
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Have there been any studies on how vehicles directly contribute to a rising global temperature?
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Impact of Sugar on the environment
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Are there places with rain and snow but no lightning and thunder?
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What is the pressure at the center of the Earth?
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