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This answer pointed me to the Wikipedia page for Farouk El-Baz in which the desert research and theories subsection says: During the past 20 years in his research at Boston University, El-Baz has ...

Population reduction is not envisaged as a practical (never mind humane) solution to CO2 emission reduction as far as I can tell. I stumbled however on a paper discussing the estimated effects of ...

I'm specifically curious about the environmental impact of candles versus lightbulbs. From my understanding, most commerical candles use paraffin wax, which is a product made from petroleum oil (...

Imagine a meridian that moves over the Earth's surface such that it remains at the longitude that corresponds to a particular solar time (e.g. midday). This meridian would remain stationary relative ...

Found this in michigan about 1ft under the surface. what type of rock is it? it has red/white crystals imbeded. and shiney white rock surfaces. can i cut this open and it have cool stuff inside? is ...

We encounter dacitic/rhyolitic melts generally in explosive volcanic events. But some of them behave as effusive dome flow. Why do some silicic bodies behave effusively?

I've read about how ionospheric discharges like jets can be initiated/triggered by lightning, and how lightning can propagate upwards from clouds. What I was wondering is if this can happen in ...

Please don't answer without citing scientific research which has a general consensus or article from a reputable source based on verifiable research citations. I recently read this article about a ...

Sting jets are thought to be responsible for some of the most damaging winds associated with extratropical cyclones in the mid-latitudes. So far they have only been confirmed in the European region, ...

For TAS diagram plot, one need to recalculate Major oxide data (NaO, K2O, SiO2). Do one need to recalculate the ppms of Zr,Nb and Y and % of TiO2 for Zr/TiO2 vs Nb/Y diagram plotting for rock ...

For drought monitoring related to vegetation, I need to calculate Standardized Percipitation INdex for a given area. Where can I find the most real-time percipitation data to do this? The best I've ...

With Earth getting hotter and hurricanes also getting larger I wonder; Is there a limit on how big a hurricane can physically get?

I found this rock in Arizona at a mountain it is magnetic and heavy for its size

How can parameters of the ionosphere be calculated? Specifically, how do we calculate total ion density, total ion temperature and individual major ion densities from I-V Characteristics curve of ...

I have the following equation for the shearing term of the deformation zone in meteorology. The reference is this link: http://www.zamg.ac.at/docu/Manual/SatManu/main.htm?/docu/Manual/SatManu/CMs/Def/...

This website Climate change global temperature from a governmental organization, shows 2 graphs , one called "History of global surface temperature since 1880" and the other called "Yearly surface ...

I just read this article by scientist who propose making giant snow machines to basically move the eroding ice shelf further inland. It’s been described as pretty much cost prohibitive (despite saving ...

I'm looking for a simple classification of rivers according to their width. In which size categories should I split them? This may usually be done according to catchment area but I'm more interested ...

This image is from the BBC Culture article Striking photos of human scars on Earth. It is accompanied by the text and captions below. But I still don't understand what I'm looking at at all. Can ...

Is subsidence (graben faulting) expected before/during a volcanic exogenous dome emplacement on the surrounding strata?

I found this rock at the same location I’ve been finding all my rocks in Arizona casa grande were I live used to be a Indian trail it’s about 3 1/2 in

Recycling metal and some plastics makes complete sense to me. Why bury something in a landfill that you'll have to find and dig up more of later. What I don't get is why we recycle paper products, ...

What is the significance of shoshonites? Why in some convergent margins, do shoshonites occur instead of andesites?

Attached is an image of the Avra valley in Southern Arizona, USA from Effects of Kriging and Inverse Modelling on Conditional Simulation of the Avra Valley Aquifier in Southern Arizona -- Clifton and ...

Every volcano is a mountain, but not every mountain is a volcano. Still, it strikes me that--at least for the mountain ranges I can think of in this moment--they all seem to have igneous cores. Is ...

In a volcanic region, i have examined two samples petrographically. One of them has biotites with extensive opacitic rims. The other samples biotites hasn't got this property. They have the same modal ...

Why is the geostatic (or is it the lithostatic?) gradient 1 psi/ft? How is that derived from g/cc? Thanks.

Can fissure eruptions dislocate/deform ( fault, rotate, bend, folding) the surrounding strata which fissure ascending into. Or, can a laccolith reach to the surface (and flow) after folding the ...

Red-Black rock (https://i.stack.imgur.com/bMSNn.jpg) Please help me to identify this rock. it has some weight. It is about 2" in diameter

What determines the direction that a wind blows? I understand that the nature of my question is immensely broad but I see no other way to phrase the question. The question surfaced in my mind when I ...

is this a possible meteorite it is magnetic I found it in a empty lot by the railroad in Arizona

Something I hear often from climate scientists, and indeed even politicians, is that we "don't understand climate change very well". And, I'm sure this is true since the climate is a complex adaptive ...

I was wondering if this could be a meteorite

Location south Vancouver island OakBay ; 500 meters from ocean; 20 up bank meters from a creek Three to six feet below surface . Micro zone is a creek elbow and B-layer5f pale ocher silty sand with C-...

If we were to make some technical jump to renewable fuel and renewable energy, would making plastics from oil release green house gasses, how much, and would plastic function as a carbon sink? Sorry ...

I know I can google each data point (latitude, longitude, date) one by one and find if the government of that country has archived past weather information. But this will take infinite amount of time ...

Here question ends. Beyond details exist Do they occur on the same tectonic regime? For a start to distinguish Subalkali rocks froms Alkali rocks, my knowledge says that mantle is the source of ...

I've been struggling to find equations that express how many degrees of warming greenhouse gases contribute, given the composition of an atmosphere (and solar insolation). What I did find was the ...

Trying to understand this question, posted to me by a lecturer at University: "The Medieval Climatic Anomaly was distinctive in terms of the prevailing climates and forcing mechanisms operating ...

http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2015/01/analysis-solar-radiation-cloud-cover.html?m=1 What I am asking is, Can you refute these Fascists

I was wondering whether someone has an idea about how to investigate community changes of plants/animals along an urban-rural gradient? I have a large data set consisting of plant/animal abundance and ...

I got LULC maps for different years (single-band raster, categorical varible = 7 different LULC classes). Now I am trying to do Change Intensity Analysis in R-studio I followed this instruction (https:...

Can u please tell me if this looks like fools gold

I have a question about the seas and ocean we swim in. How does the Ocean get rid off all the natural pollutants (for example dead animal debris) and man-made pollutants (human waste, garbage, etc)? I ...

So I heard that the Ozone Layer is a layer of gas in Earth's atmosphere. And I also heard once that the Ozone Layer is crucial in protecting life on Earth, as it blocks out harmful rays emitted by the ...

The Dansgaard paper I've seen shows a roughly linear relationship between the delta-O18 in precipitation and mean annual temperature (at a given location). See Figure 3 in the paper. When converting ...

Most of the discussed geoengineering ideas aim to change the average temperature of the earth instead of trying to control local weather. Aerostats can be used to change the local temperature in ...

What source in literature has introduced the greenhouse effect to scientific standards of theoretical physics? Prominent global climatologists (as well as “climate skeptics”) often present their ideas ...

I've read answers that outline how if we afforested large (continental-scale) masses of land, it would do little in the way of tackling climate change. While it would sequester CO2 for about a century ...

Dr. Robert Holmes has converted the ideal gas law to T = P M / (ρ R) in this paper: (Molar Mass Version of the Ideal Gas Law Points to a Very Low Climate Sensitivity) with T = temperature P = near-...