Project 1: My Physical Geography My name is Thomas and I Study Journalism at Uconn. What makes me unique is that I play the didgeridoo. What I would like to get out of taking this class is a better understanding of what the world is made of and how people live in there part of the globe. I am from Bedford‚ New York. Bedford is about an hour north of New York City. 2. Weather and Climate: Bedford New York is located in North Eastern United States. The average temperature there is around
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Buchanan-Hamilton in 1807. Laterites are soil types rich in iron and aluminium‚ formed in hot and wet tropical areas. Nearly all laterites are rusty-red because of iron oxides. They develop by intensive and long-lasting weathering of the underlying parent rock. Tropical weathering (laterization) is a prolonged process of chemical weathering which produces a wide variety in the thickness‚ grade‚ chemistry and ore mineralogy of the resulting soils. The majority of the land areas with laterites was or is between
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Analysis of ”Ayers Rock” (non-fictional text) 1. Title‚ author‚ year‚ basic content (summary). The text about “Ayers Rock” is written by Robyn Davidson in the year of 1989. Robyn Davidson is an Australian travel writer‚ born in 1950. The text starts out by portraying Ayers Rock from a geological perspective. It also tells about the evolution of the aborigines rights to their land. Then we hear about Robyn Davidson’s first meeting with the Ayers Rock‚ and it ends with a newer story about Robyn
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(apparent in Figures 7.10 and 7.11) in the chemical composition of common clay and kaolinite? Kaolinite is more refined clay due to the increased rain fall and increase hydrolysis of orthoclase which is more through and is converted from feldspar 7.10 Rocks in fresh roadcuts are commonly gray to brown in color‚ but after a few decades reds and yellows begin to appear. Why? Hint: What elements in the atmosphere and surface water are at work here? When water combines with hematite it limonite forms creating
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LANDSCAPES AND LANDFORMS Purnululu National Park Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park Table of Contents Landscape and Landforms: Purnululu National Park 1 Formation of Landscape and Landforms 2 Indigenous Values 3 The Arts 4 Tourism 5 Landscape and Landforms: Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park 1 Formation of Landscape and Landforms 2 Indigenous Values 3 The Arts 4 Tourism 5 TOURISM The park‚ some accommodation and camping facilities and the underground river are
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Geology & Rock Mechanics (2013-2014‚ Semester 1) Laboratory Session 2 BRAZILE TEST XING BODONG 3035022904 Subclass Group C November 10‚ 2013 The University of Hong Kong Abstract The Brazil test is intended to measure the uniaxial tensile strength of prepared rock specimens indirectly. It is an indirect tensile testing of rock. The Brazil test provides an alternative to direct tensile testing‚ producing tensile failure in the end faces of cylindrical rock samples
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Bend National Park Report 1. What is the depositional nature of the rocks in the study area and how does their lithologic compositions and sedimentary structures record changing water depths‚ environments of deposition‚ and paleogeography? Big bend national park has complex rocks that are subsided in two seas hundreds of millions of years ago. Fossil data from the mid to Upper Cretaceous period predicts the sequence of rock strata in Big Bend National Park to be from bottom to top: limestone‚
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The Precambrian-Cambrian Boundary In the history of the Earth geologists study events in the geologic time scale and fossil record to gain an understanding of the structural and biological history of our planet. One of the debated and studied areas of Earth’s history is the sudden occurrence of multicellular hard-shelled organisms from soft bodied and single celled organisms in the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary. The debut of hard parts in the fossil record is believed to have occurred 570 million
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earth’. These are recognisable remains of once-living plants or animals‚ most of which have been extinct for many thousands of years. They were preserved in sediments‚ rocks and other materials such as ice‚ tar‚ amber etc. prior to historic times. Thus‚ the remnants of plants or animals of the past geologic ages preserved in the rocks of the earth’s crust by natural processes are known as ’fossils’. Nature and mode of preservation: The varieties in the fossils correspond to what is preserved
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production. The study is very efficient in these days because many people are in need of chalk. The components of chalk are so complex that it had the capacity to make other things beside chalk itself. The chalk is a white porous sedimentary rock‚ a form of sedimentary rock composed of mineral calcite. It forms under reasonably deep marine conditions from the gradual accumulation of minute calcite plates shed belonging to the division of haptophytes. They function as a special calcium carbonate.
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