Earth Sciences & Geology - August 2007

what is the rate at which the earth's surface is curved per mile? and how is this calculated? any info in reference to these questions will be much appreciated.

2007-08-08 04:54:29 · 2 answers · asked by ftm821 2

we have searched space, we know that we can live on mars if we had to, why not the oceans, o.k we don't know whats down there, why not use the technology to find out

2007-08-08 04:45:24 · 17 answers · asked by sarah lou 1

Where can a submarine hide to avoid sonar detection?

2007-08-08 04:14:32 · 6 answers · asked by Whatever 1

2007-08-08 03:47:23 · 12 answers · asked by sagar m 1

I am not clear on the differences in these three studies in Geology and I would like to know which would be the best degree to pursue if I hope to work "hands-on" in the petroleum or even a research field (my true dream) - which would be the most pertinent and useful?

I want to eventually get my Master's and even Doctorate, but that is fo the future ... but I do want to know which direction I ought to be headed in.

No glib encouragements to "do what I want" please, I "want" all three - I want people with experience to tell me which they find to be most useful. :)

Thanks!

2007-08-08 03:06:17 · 4 answers · asked by Random_Girl 3

What is the scientific name for your calf muscles?

A. Latissimus dorsi
B. Gastrocnemius
C. Biceps femoris
D. Rectus abdominis
E. Trapezius

2007-08-08 01:38:37 · 4 answers · asked by ♥Anonymous♥ 2

2007-08-07 22:10:10 · 18 answers · asked by Rajendersingh s 1

2007-08-07 22:06:53 · 5 answers · asked by kid of phantom thief 1

Is a tilted earth sufficient criteria for seasons on the earth? Or some other conditions should also be fulfilled?

2007-08-07 19:35:53 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

For this map http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/9841/atlanticplatestk1.jpg (sorry poor quality i outlined the boundaries)

What are the features shown in and on the atlantic floor that support a plate tectonic model? How?

2007-08-07 18:56:55 · 2 answers · asked by th3one101 2

2007-08-07 18:19:41 · 3 answers · asked by littlen00b 2

2007-08-07 17:34:54 · 8 answers · asked by Niranjana S 2

2007-08-07 17:28:09 · 6 answers · asked by kenny m 1

I know no one 5730 years ago decided to conduct this experiment so how is a half life determined. I'd love a confidence interval.

2007-08-07 17:06:09 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

1. Explain polarity.
2. How is polarity related to surface tension ?
3. What does soap do to the surface tension of water?
4. How is polarity related to capillary attraction?
5. Give two examples of places where water moves upward by capillary attraction in nature.
6. Why does water rise higher in thinner capillary tubes?
7. How does polarity affect solubility?
8. Give examples of nutrients that are dissolved in lakes, rivers, and the ocean.
9. Describe a soap molecule's ability to dissolve water and oil.
10. Describe the phase changes that occur in the water cycle
11. How does freezing water contribute to the weathering of rocks?
12. Define density.
13. What causes ocean currents?
14. How does a fish's swim bladder affect its ability to change depths?
15. Why does ice float?
16. In which phase is water the most dense? the least dense?
17. Explain how detergents are related to eutrophication.
18. Why is water called the "universal solvent"?

2007-08-07 16:15:51 · 5 answers · asked by monkey 2

I went to the Creation Museum (no bashing please!) and in the intro, they mentioned how that method of dating was innaccurate and that it was based on many assumptions. All it mentioned was that the decay rate was different in the past. Then in a different part of the museum said that this method was used to date rocks from the Most recent Mt. St. Helen's explosion 300,000 years old. How is that possible?

2007-08-07 15:52:44 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

If lightening strikes the ocean how far will it travel and will it kill animals that get hit buy the electricity?
How does that work?

2007-08-07 15:26:25 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-07 14:52:12 · 3 answers · asked by jo n jo 5

Describe the gravity related evidence for mountain chains having deep crustal roots and why should ocean basins have shallow crust beneath them

2007-08-07 14:36:47 · 1 answers · asked by th3one101 2

I read this somewhere a long time ago and every now and then it enters my thoughts when there is talk of global warming and such./

2007-08-07 12:33:41 · 8 answers · asked by plyjanney 4

things that a 14 year old can do every day. other that

Turn off the water when brushing teeth.
Don't run the air conditioner often.

2007-08-07 12:16:47 · 1 answers · asked by Razgriz01 4

Our well was unused for 6 months during a home renovation. The water was then tested and the radon level came back at 8300 pCi/L. Could this high level just be a function of lack of usage? i.e. the radon accumulated in the well over time to reach high levels that otherwise would not have been achieved had there been steady usage of well water.

2007-08-07 11:55:45 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

It was found on the beach in Santa Barbara, California.

Top side of rock:
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1086/1042998177_53ce99f4b6_b.jpg

Bottom side of rock:
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1088/1042998275_4633c18da4_b.jpg

2007-08-07 10:54:35 · 9 answers · asked by Lobster 4

2007-08-07 10:46:31 · 4 answers · asked by mikymaky 2

2007-08-07 10:05:12 · 10 answers · asked by misstaz6 1

2007-08-07 08:53:40 · 5 answers · asked by Jaime T 1

2007-08-07 07:09:34 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-07 05:48:29 · 5 answers · asked by seth j 1

1.) Hexane
2.) Benzene
3.) Acetylene

2007-08-07 03:36:28 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

The “scientific method” is as follows: Observe what happens; based on those observations, form a theory as to what may be true; test the theory by further observations and by experiments; and watch to see if the predictions based on the theory are fulfilled. Is this the method followed by those who believe in and teach evolution?

Astronomer Robert Jastrow says: “To their chagrin [scientists] have no clear-cut answer, because chemists have never succeeded in reproducing nature’s experiments on the creation of life out of nonliving matter. Scientists do not know how that happened.”—The Enchanted Loom: Mind in the Universe (New York, 1981), p. 19.

Evolutionist Loren Eiseley acknowledged: “After having chided the theologian for his reliance on myth and miracle, science found itself in the unenviable position of having to create a mythology of its own: namely, the assumption that what, after long effort, could not be proved to take place today had, in truth, taken place in the primeval past.”—The Immense Journey (New York, 1957), p. 199.

According to New Scientist: “An increasing number of scientists, most particularly a growing number of evolutionists . . . argue that Darwinian evolutionary theory is no genuine scientific theory at all. . . . Many of the critics have the highest intellectual credentials.”—June 25, 1981, p. 828.

Physicist H. S. Lipson said: “The only acceptable explanation is creation. I know that this is anathema to physicists, as indeed it is to me, but we must not reject a theory that we do not like if the experimental evidence supports it.” (Italics added.)—Physics Bulletin, 1980, Vol. 31, p. 138.

Are those who advocate evolution in agreement? How do these facts make you feel about what they teach?

The introduction to the centennial edition of Darwin’s Origin of Species (London, 1956) says: “As we know, there is a great divergence of opinion among biologists, not only about the causes of evolution but even about the actual process. This divergence exists because the evidence is unsatisfactory and does not permit any certain conclusion. It is therefore right and proper to draw the attention of the non-scientific public to the disagreements about evolution.”—By W. R. Thompson, then director of the Commonwealth Institute of Biological Control, Ottawa, Canada.

“A century after Darwin’s death, we still have not the slightest demonstrable or even plausible idea of how evolution really took place—and in recent years this has led to an extraordinary series of battles over the whole question. . . . A state of almost open war exists among the evolutionists themselves, with every kind of [evolutionary] sect urging some new modification.”—C. Booker (London Times writer), The Star, (Johannesburg), April 20, 1982, p. 19.

The scientific magazine Discover said: “Evolution . . . is not only under attack by fundamentalist Christians, but is also being questioned by reputable scientists. Among paleontologists, scientists who study the fossil record, there is growing dissent.”—October 1980, p. 88.

What view does the fossil record support?

Darwin acknowledged: “If numerous species . . . have really started into life at once, the fact would be fatal to the theory of evolution.” (The Origin of Species, New York, 1902, Part Two, p. 83) Does the evidence indicate that “numerous species” came into existence at the same time, or does it point to gradual development, as evolution holds?

Have sufficient fossils been found to draw a sound conclusion?

Smithsonian Institution scientist Porter Kier says: “There are a hundred million fossils, all catalogued and identified, in museums around the world.” (New Scientist, January 15, 1981, p. 129) A Guide to Earth History adds: “By the aid of fossils palaeontologists can now give us an excellent picture of the life of past ages.”—(New York, 1956), Richard Carrington, Mentor edition, p. 48.

What does the fossil record actually show?

The Bulletin of Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History pointed out: “Darwin’s theory of [evolution] has always been closely linked to evidence from fossils, and probably most people assume that fossils provide a very important part of the general argument that is made in favor of darwinian interpretations of the history of life. Unfortunately, this is not strictly true. . . . the geologic record did not then and still does not yield a finely graduated chain of slow and progressive evolution.”—January 1979, Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 22, 23.

A View of Life states: “Beginning at the base of the Cambrian period and extending for about 10 million years, all the major groups of skeletonized invertebrates made their first appearance in the most spectacular rise in diversity ever recorded on our planet.”—(California, 1981), Salvador E. Luria, Stephen Jay Gould, Sam Singer, p. 649.

Paleontologist Alfred Romer wrote: “Below this [Cambrian period], there are vast thicknesses of sediments in which the progenitors of the Cambrian forms would be expected. But we do not find them; these older beds are almost barren of evidence of life, and the general picture could reasonably be said to be consistent with the idea of a special creation at the beginning of Cambrian times.”—Natural History, October 1959, p. 467.

Zoologist Harold Coffin states: “If progressive evolution from simple to complex is correct, the ancestors of these full-blown living creatures in the Cambrian should be found; but they have not been found and scientists admit there is little prospect of their ever being found. On the basis of the facts alone, on the basis of what is actually found in the earth, the theory of a sudden creative act in which the major forms of life were established fits best.”—Liberty, September/October 1975, p. 12.

Carl Sagan, in his book Cosmos, candidly acknowledged: “The fossil evidence could be consistent with the idea of a Great Designer.”—(New York, 1980), p. 29.

2007-08-07 02:16:42 · 14 answers · asked by Kiid23 3