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Q: What happened during Earth's "Dark Age," or the first 500 million years after it formed?

A: In geological timescale, the time from 4.6-4.0 billion years is considered Hadean, which means it's ...

Q: Describe the process of how a drill ship like the JOIDES Resolution obtains core samples from the de...

A: The JOIDES Resolution (JR) is a part of the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) and is fund...

Q: Define Environment

A: Environment essentially is referred to anything that surrounds us. It can also be referred to as 'su...

Q: How does Earth's interior work, and how does it affect the surface?

A: Earth was formed around 4.5 billion years ago and it is the largest and densest rocky planet.  Earth...

Q: Some people have suggested that we could find room for an exponentially growing human population by ...

A: Continue exponential growth in the human population is a severe issue that humankind is about to fac...

Q: Discuss the environmental impacts of earthquakes

A: Earthquakes are the most destructive disasters to occur naturally on the surface. These earthquakes ...

Q: I’ve noticed that beaches composed of pebbles and cobbles tend to be fairly steep, but beaches made ...

A: A sandy or a pebbly shore that is exposed between high and low tides is called a beach. The slope of...

Q: Which best describes earth’s mantle

A: The study of the passage of seismic waves through the earth has helped in knowing the structure of t...

Q: Why you should study structural geology?

A: Geology is the scientific study of the Earth. The study includes the internal as well as the externa...

Q: parallax," astronomers determined e is 0.00001389 degrees. NOT TO SCALE Sun star Earth 6a. How far a...

A: One astronomical unit is defined as the mean distance between the sun and the Earth, which is 150 mi...

Q: What is climate change? Is it different from global warming?

A: Climate is defined as the long-term average of weather. It is typically averaged over 30 years. The ...

Q: How do reefs of middle Paleozoic age illustrate ecological succession?

A: From a Geological perspective, a reef is a rock made up of dead organism's skeletal material in the ...

Q: List as many differences as you can between the Archean world and the world as it existed 1 billion ...

A: Archean Eon ranges from 4 Billion years to 2.5 billion years. There is Era in Archean eon, Eoarchean...

Q: What are the important depositional environments of the basic kinds of sediment (such as mud, well-s...

A: Sedimentary rocks are generated by processes such as erosion, weathering, transport, deposition, and...

Q: Roadways are commonly cut into the bases of slopes. When mass movements block the road, the debris i...

A: Everywhere on the earth's surface, materials depend upon the attraction force. This force of gravity...

Q: Wher is the Atlantic Oshean

A: The ocean is a vast area of saltwater. The world's oceanic water masses occupy about 97% of the hydr...

Q: Input of solar radiation in the Northern Hemisphere peaks on 22 June and reaches a minimum on 22 Dec...

A: The radiation coming from the sun is called insolation. It consists of short wave radiation which is...

Q: 4.11 Why might a laccolith be detected at the earth's surface before being exposed by erosion? 4.12 ...

A: Igneous intrusive bodies are magma that travels upwards through the Earth's crust and solidifies wit...

Q: What is the relationship between El Niño and large wildfires in Australia?

A: El Nino is the name given to the occasional development of Ecuador and Peru's warm ocean surface wat...

Q: Sydney and Valparaiso are the same distance from the equator and both are near the ocean. Is Valpara...

A: When the weather pattern over a region is tracked for at least 30 years, we estimate the mean trend ...

Q: How can chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) be used as such tracers? Would CFC-based methods be equally suita...

A: Tracers can give information about ocean circulation and its variability. 

Q: How do fluid flow and transport affect the human environment?

A: Fluid flow and transport influence the occurrence of many of Earth’s most valuable resources. It he...

Q: List factors that influence whether a rock will deform in 1. In an Elastic manner 2. In a plastic ma...

A: Deformation is the process in which the rock transformation takes place due to stress. Any rock unde...

Q: What major groups of Eukarya are important in the fossil record?

A: Eukarya are all other known organisms than prokaryotes and unicellular. Molluscs and Arthropods are ...

Q: Is Science and Technology “EXPLOITED” nature and society? Elaborate youranswer.

A: Science and technology are derived for the betterment of society and the people living on this plane...

Q: why do we need to plant trees in urban areas?

A: Urban areas are essentially dominated by a large number of buildings, industries, concrete roads, an...

Q: Is it wise to build in river valleys below Mount Rainier, even tens of miles away?

A: Tectonism activity explains the processes of earthquakes and volcanism. Volcanism is the eruption of...

Q: What conditions favor the preservation of soft parts as fossils within sediment.

A: The actual remain or indirect evidence of a prehistoric life preserved within a rock under natural c...

Q: How does genetic diversity help to improve a species ability to survive different conditions?

A: The process of generation of distinctive new species in the course of evolution is called Speciation...

Q: Can you think of any way to prevent a cataclysmic asteroid or comet impact once the object’s path ha...

A: Asteroids and comets are extraterrestrial materials that come within Earth's atmosphere occasionally...

Q: Why does Earth have plate tectonics and continents?

A: The earth's interior consists of three main layers Crust 0-35km, Mantle 36-2900km, Core 2901-6371km....

Q: Do tornadoes have major impacts on large cities?

A: Tornadoes are an atmospheric phenomenon characterized by a column of wind rotating at very high velo...

Q: Given rainfall amounts as so, Hour 1: 0.75 cm, Hour 2: 1 cm, Hour 3: 2 cm, Hour 4: 1 cm, Hour 5: 2 c...

A: In the given Hydrograph, the rate of change of infiltration capacity with respect to time is shown. ...

Q: What is meant by dissolution?

A: Dissolution is a chief chemical weathering process. Chemical weathering is a mineral alteration proc...

Q: Option 3 was excluded in question 1

A: Even though Option 2 is the most environmental friendly, however since the heating time is 5 minutes...

Q: A 100 cubic centimeter soil sample is saturated.  The water content Vw is 45 cubic centimeters.  Wha...

A: The volume of the pore spaces in a rock refers to the soil porosity. The volume of the pore is the r...

Q: What economic deposits are there on the sea floor?

A: A sea is defined as a part of the ocean that is partially surrounded by land. Seas are smaller than ...

Q: Q:2a) Explain that how you can identify the hardness of mineral by direct and indirect method. Q:2 b...

A: The resistance of a mineral to abrasion is stated as the hardness of a mineral. The symbol 'H' is co...

Q: Q2 / Circle only the correct answer from the following: 1. We can find the very liquid phase of mate...

A: Since you have asked multiple questions, we will solve the given first question. If you want any spe...

Q: How did Earth and other planets form?

A: Sun and the solar system formed in the milky way galaxy around five billion years ago. It is formed ...

Q: What were the greatest objections to Wegener’s hypothesis?

A: Tectonic activities helped the continental as well as oceanic plates to move and initiate complex ge...

Q: Why were traditional views of the age of Earth an impediment to early understanding of Earth’s inner...

A: In the past, the complete understanding of the processes taking place on the Earth was obstructed by...

Q: What is fossil fuel divestment, and what are some arguments for and against it?

A: The phrase refers to all those fuels from organic material buried deep beneath sediments and earth s...

Q: Which radioactive isotope or isotopes would you use to date each of thefollowing objects? Explain ea...

A: Radiometric dating is the process of using radioactive isotopes to date the events of the past. Thus...

Q: P2.16 Develop 15 ways to determine which direction is north. Provide descriptions and/or sketches of...

A: finding the growth pattern of mosses, it usually grows in the north. Observing the position of spyde...

Q: What was the approximate population of men age 65-69 in the US in 2014? *

A: We’ll answer the first question since the exact one wasn’t specified. Please submit a new question s...

Q: Draw a cross section of earth showing the main internal subdivisions,give the names, thickness, dens...

A: The interior of the Earth is divided into four layers depending upon their composition of different ...

Q: The nuclear industry is placing ads in popular magazines and newspapers claiming that nuclear power ...

A: Nuclear Energy In the production nuclear energy or electricity, the radioactive fuels such as uraniu...

Q: Has anything been learned by sealing a message in a bottle and setting it adrift?

A: Generally, any message written on a piece of paper is put inside an empty bottle and seal it by eith...

Q: Explain 5 basic components of rock formation. Q:2b) Explain the formation of biogenic rocks and what...

A: Rock is a natural substance consists of different minerals fused together into a solid mass. Rock cy...