Papers 251-260 of total 2401 found.
Category: /Literature/English
…the Tertiary period - between 30 million and 10 million years ago- volcanic rock terrained eastern Washington. This rock floor was 10,000 feet thick in places and covered more then 100,000 square miles. The lave fields were almost completely surrounded…
Details: Words: 1013 | Pages: 4.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
…of the Earth's crust, such as earthquakes, underwater landslides or volcanic eruptions. These sudden movements displace the water above the sea floor, causing waves to form with extremely long wavelengths and periods. The tsunami's speed is restricted by the depth…
Details: Words: 1563 | Pages: 6.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
…the environment. Air pollution is defined as the contamination of the air by such substances as fuel exhaust and smoke. It can also be produced naturally when forest fires and volcanic eruptions shoot gases and particulates into the air and rain and wind scatter…
Details: Words: 1286 | Pages: 5.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
Category: /Social Sciences
…not discuss these topics in any detail. Although the article stressed many of the major natural hazards including floods, hurricanes, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, the issue regarding terrorism and the September 11th attacks were completely neglected…
Details: Words: 1224 | Pages: 4.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
…, landslides, volcanic eruptions generate most tsunamis, and meteorites can also cause loss of lives. In the Simeulu Island, the tsunami didn't cause deaths and destruction because the amount of uplift was larger than the tallness of the waves. The most stress…
Details: Words: 1278 | Pages: 5.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
…and volcanic eruptions, electric chairs, giant pandas, Santa Claus, the hammer-and-sickle, transvestites, and Leonardo's Last Supper. "With infinitely more speed and wallop than a complete run of New York Times on microfilm," Rosenblum writes, "Warhol's work…
Details: Words: 1313 | Pages: 5.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
…a substitute wait millions of years for more to be produced 1.4: POLLUTION I. Pollutions can enter the environment: naturally volcanic eruptions through human (anthropogenic) activities: from burning coal II. Pollutants come from two different…
Details: Words: 911 | Pages: 3.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
…are concentrated, such as when massive injections of sulfur dioxide and suspended particulate matter are emitted by a large volcanic eruption." "When inhaled, air pollutants affect the respiratory tract and lungs, but may also travel through the bloodstream and distress…
Details: Words: 1427 | Pages: 5.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
…countries were facing wars such as Iran-Iraq war and Vietnam war. Some countries experienced famine because of extreme physical factors such as crop disease and pests, floods, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, land slides, droughts. This process was accelerated…
Details: Words: 1361 | Pages: 5.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
…who's pulled up next to these volcanic eruptions of ground shaking bass will agree. Having a concert quality stereo is unnecessary. How is someone supposed to concentrate with body vibrating bass and multi-CD disc changers? It's like putting a child…
Details: Words: 1209 | Pages: 4.0 (approximately 235 words/page)