...opening. Once the opening is at least three feet in either direction, the opening qualifies as an arch. Lastly, even geologist are still trying to figure out all that can affect an arch and the formation of it, as well as, the length of time the arch will last. Many different theories have been established and five of those were listed above, but this goes to show that the park is always changing. Each arch has a different lifespan and their are many different factors that go into finding that time frame. These factors are still studied today as well as the many other geological features that the park has to other. As stated earlier, this park to home to many different things to study. Geologists continue to flock to this park because they can study more than one topic and get a better understanding of the entire region. Not only was this National Park created to preserve the beauty of the region, but also to protect these geological features to allow geologists to get a better understanding of some of earth’s greatest features. References Mattox, R.B., 1980, Arches National Park, Utah; an excellent field laboratory: Abstracts with Programs Geological...
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...of Zion National Park Zion National Park, located in southwestern Utah, contains many “strange and remarkable landscapes” as described by the public who first saw paintings of the region in 1903, which then gained the attention of Congress, leading Zion to become a national park in 1919 (Harris et al., 2004). The park contains steep, almost vertical walls of rock cut by the North Fork of the Virgin River. The exposed rocks range from Permian to Cretaceous in age and contain many fossils and sedimentary features and represent both marine and terrestrial environments as the area was repeatedly exposed to transgressive and regressive sequences (Gregory, 1950). Each rock formation is unique in composition, texture, color, and sedimentary features, making Zion National Park a prime location for geologic research. The geologic history of Zion National Park begins where the geologic history of the Grand Canyon ends. The Grand Canyon consists of Precambrian and Paleozoic formations, covering two billion years of the history of the Earth, while Zion National Park contains mainly Mesozoic formations, covering 150 million years of Earth history (Harris et al., 2004). The Kaibab formation, which caps the steep cliffs of the Grand Canyon, can also be found exposed in the walls of Zion, specifically Hurricane Cliffs (Harris et al., 2004). The...
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...Death Valley National Park The Death Valley National Park is located amid two states California and Nevada. The park is within an interface region in the middle of the arid Great Basin and Mojave deserts. It occupies over five thousand square miles hence possessing desert features such as salt-flats, sand dunes badlands along with valleys, gorges and mountains. It is also the hottest and driest park in the United States of America. Almost ninety five percent of the National Park is considered a wilderness area. It harbours an array of species both from the flora and fauna which thrive in the harsh desert milieu. Examples of these living things include the creosote bush, bighorn sheep as well as the Death Valley pupfish. The park actually possess two major valleys, these are the Death Valley and the Panamint Valley both surrounded by north-south trending mountain ranges. The Death Valley contains the Badwater Basin which is the lowest point in the entire western hemisphere standing at 282 feet below sea level. The basin is named Badwater as a result of the accumulation of water arising from the springs of the surrounding mountains. The water has accumulated soluble salts making it unsuitable for drinking. The basin also contains aquatic animals inhabiting the accumulated salty water such as the pickleweed, aquatic insects together with larvae (United States Geological Survey, 2000). The valleys were formed over three million years ago as a result of crustal movements previously...
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...Great Himalayan National Park (GHNP) is a major source of water for the rural and urban centres of the region with four major rivers of the area originating from the glaciers in the Park. It is also a source of sustenance and livelihood for the local community living close to GHNP. In addition to lumber, the forest environment provides local people with Non- Timber Forest Produce (NTFP) such as honey, fruit nuts, bark of birch and yew, flowers and fuel wood. In 1980, the Himachal Wildlife Project (HWP) surveyed the upper Beas region to help establish the boundaries of the park. An area comprising the watersheds of Jiwa, Sainj, and Tirthan rivers became the Great Himalayan National Park in 1984. Starting from an altitude of 1,700 metres above mean sea level, the highest peak within the Park approaches almost 5,800 metres. The area of the National Park at the moment is 754.4 sq kms and it is naturally protected on the northern, eastern and southern boundaries by permanent snow or steep ridges. Creation Of GHNP It took twenty years from inception to inauguration for GHNP to be realized as part of the Indian National Park system. The initial survey of the watersheds of Tirthan, sainj, Jiwanal in Banjar area of Kullu district took place in the year 1980. In the year 1983 survey continued in the Banjar area of Kullu district. The following year a notification was sent by the state of Himachal Pradesh to create the ‘Great Himalayan National Park’ with buffer zone...
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...expands on the theoretical understandings of environmental archaeology and climate change driven landscapes. An understanding of environmental archaeology and climate change assists in the heritage management at KLGO and throughout the national park system. Incorporating biological, ecological, and geological sciences with applied anthropological investigations remains necessary in understanding the research conducted at KLGO. I use environmental archaeology and climate change theories to understand past environments and people’s interactions with their environment, examine impacts to archaeological sites, prepare preservation plans and develop future monitoring plans using comparative data, conduct archaeological inventories,...
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...This is the type of spunk Zonia Baber, Virginia Porter and Myra McClellan had when it came to coursework out on location in the field. Women geographers were very adamant about adorning themselves with muddy boots with shovels As we look at the experience Zonia Baber who toiled doing field work with the Pick, Pry Bar, Iron Pan, Crowbar, Sledge Hammer, Boning Rod, Club Hammer, Chisel and Scraper. She labored as a field course student on weekends, even when her menstrual cycle begins during the end of a weekday. Baber was a woman of great courage to persevere through the 1890’s amidst oppression from male geography professors, until 1892 when T.C. Chamberlain accepted the offer to organize a department of geology at the new University of Chicago, in Chicago’s south side neighborhood of Hyde...
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...I went to Geology museum in UMKC last Tuesday, and I found out lots of new thing. This is the first time I have been to a geology museum. There are lots of interesting rocks, minerals, woods with different type and shape. I am interested in quartz and I really want to know more about it. I think there are varieties of quartz, and I found Amethyst in the museum. Amethyst is one kind of quartz with formula is SiO2. Its crystal class is Trapezohedral, and hardness in Mohs scale is 7. The best kind of Amethyst can be found in Brazil, Siberia, Sri Lanka and the far East. However, Amethyst also can be found in Yellow Stone National Park, he Mazatzal Mountain region in Gila and Maricopa Counties, Arizona, or in Zambia (South Africa). Based on Wiki,...
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...Yorkshire dales The Yorkshire dales is a national park in Yorkshire it was created in 1954 and is now one of the 15 national parks of Britain. The park is very famous for its outstanding scenery and its habitat. Most of the National Park is in North Yorkshire. Over 20,000 residents live and work in the park, which attracts over eight million visitors every year. The area has a large collection of activities for visitors. For example, many people come to the Dales for walking or exercise. The parks stones are made out of limestone which is a unique habitat for many species. It covers an area of 1,762 square kilometres (680 square miles) in the north of England, straddling the central Pennines in the counties of North Yorkshire. Many people and organizations help to keep the National Park a special area and amongst them is the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority. The habitats and species found in the countryside are often closely linked with the underlying geology of the area along with natural processes and human influence. Tourism * Tourism is travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes. Tourism is important and in some cases vital for many countries, such as France, Egypt, Greece, Lebanon, Israel, United States, United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, and Thailand, and many island nations, such as The Bahamas, Fiji, Maldives, Philippines and the Seychelles: it brings in large amounts of income in payment for goods and services and creates opportunities for employment...
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...Cherries, 14,409 feet, and Washington. What do these all have in common? Mount Rainier. Mount Rainier is one of the biggest volcanoes in the United States and in the world. Mount Rainier is a National Park and has a whopping average of 1,875,651 people visit every year which isn’t even enough to be in the “Top Ten Most Visited National Parks”. People often wonder, “Is it safe to visit Mount Rainier?”, and it is. Mount Rainier is considered a episodically active volcano which means that it won’t erupt any time soon but will eventually. At Mount Rainier, you can do many activities while you are there such as walk on trails, climb to the summit, or just go on a simple bike ride. Where is Mount Rainier? Mount Rainier is located in Tacoma, Washington just over two hours away from downtown Seattle, Washington. Its exact coordinates are 46.8529° N, 121.7604° W. The mountain range that this volcano is apart of is the Cascade Range which travels throughout many states such as California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. The National Park’s land is approximately 369.3 mi² which is not huge compared to other National Parks....
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...ranges (cordillera) that consists of an almost continuous sequence of mountain ranges that form the western "backbone" of North America, Central America, South America and Antarctica. The Sierra runs 400 miles (640 km) north-to-south, and is approximately 70 miles (110 km) across east-to-west. Notable Sierra features include Lake Tahoe, the largest alpine lake in North America; Mount Whitney at 14,505 ft (4,421 m),[1] the highest point in the contiguous United States; and Yosemite Valley sculpted by glaciers out of one-hundred-million-year-old granite. The Sierra is home to three national parks, twenty wilderness areas, and two national monuments. These areas include Yosemite, Sequoia, and Kings Canyon National Parks; and Devils Postpile National Monument. The Sierra Nevada range is the highest mountain range in the contiguous United States. The character of the range is shaped by its geology and ecology. More than one hundred million years ago during the Nevadan orogeny, granite formed deep underground. The range started to uplift four M.A. (million years) ago, and erosion by glaciers exposed the granite and formed the light-colored mountains and cliffs that make up the range. The uplift caused a wide range of elevations and climates in the Sierra Nevada, which are reflected by the presence of five life zones. Uplift continues due to faulting caused by tectonic forces, creating spectacular fault block escarpments along the eastern edge of the southern...
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...ECO 324 Grand Canyon paper Mengbo Han 26/11/2012 My idea is, we should forbid or reduce airline near or passed above Grand Canyon to protect the environment there. The truth is, Grand Canyon has suffered from severe visibility problems, due in great part to pollution in the form of smog and haze. According to the final report of The Grand Canyon Visibility Transport Commission, the political body charged with looking into the issue, "Research shows that visual air quality in the West experienced a significant decline due to emissions from industrial activity from the 1940s to the 1970s. Visibility-impairing emissions began to decline in the 1970s following enactment of the federal Clear Air Act. Visual air quality at national parks and wilderness areas on the Colorado Plateau has not appeared to change since reliable monitoring data became available in the 1980s." This paragraph is not focused on the aircraft, but it does shows the air pollution in Grand Canyon is a serious problem. Industry and transportation contribute the largest percentage of smog forming emissions; trans-border pollution from Mexico was also cited as potentially significant contributors. For aircraft, it will certainly decrease the air condition. Aircraft create several types of air pollution. Pollution occur both at the airport during fueling, take off and landing and while the aircraft are in flight. For example, aircraft would make more greenhouse air, carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxide...
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...The relation between geology and medicine is quite intriguing and can be dated back to the times of Hippocrates and Aristotle. For centuries man has looked up to Earth for the numerous answers he seeks concerning his own body, an amalgamation of elements once sheathed in Earth. To his surprise man has found that geology is both a poison and remedy to his health. In my paper I present the two sides of the geologic coin in the world of medicine. The rocks below our feet can be deemed culprit for a number of health related issues. How many times have we heard that, ‘We are what we eat’? The source of human nutrition is cultivated from the soil. Farmers throughout the globe consider the soil as the source of their family’s bread, however dissolved material, both beneficial and harmful, get incorporated into the ground. Bunnell’s article, ‘Medical Geology: a globally emerging discipline’, discusses the “Endemic diseases correlative with soil deficiencies in selenium, the juvenile cardiomyopathy “Keshan Disease”, and the iodine deficiency disorders including goiter and myxedematous cretinism.” (Bunnell) Another area of geology I would be focusing on is groundwater; groundwater as we know is the largest reserve of fresh water to humans. So how can water something essential to human life be harmful? The answer is contamination. Contaminants in water, even present in trace amounts, can be deemed culprit for delayed brain growth, cancer and many other problems. As stated in Robert...
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...Spanning in Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho, the Yellowstone National Park is home to a multitude of diverse animals and geothermal areas that makes it a grandiose sight for onlookers who need some spark in their lives. Speaking of geothermal areas, Yellowstone is also home to 10,000 thermal features which contains more than 300 active geysers! This includes one of the world’s famous of the geysers, Old Faithful, that regularly erupts for visitors to watch in awe. The natural reserve is a great place for travelers to feel inspired and be at peace with Mother Nature, but what makes it so astonishing is its numerous geologic processes that makes Yellowstone unique as it is. To start off, the term “geology” means the study of Earth and how its processes...
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...Landforms Hydrologic Cycle The field of Hydrology is primarily concerned with how water falls from the atmosphere, to the Earth; rolls downhill via gravity eventually out to the ocean and then back up into the atmosphere starting all over again. Biological processes of animals and plants have evolved over millions of years to adapt to, and depend on, when the right amount of water is available (Lutgens & Tarbuck, 2014, p. 83). The hydrologic cycle goes through many processes; This continuous cycle of water releases up into the air, forms into a cloud, rains down to the Earth and then evaporates again, repeating this continuous process. Some amount of groundwater also releases back into the atmosphere through a process called transpiration which is evaporation of water from plants. The remaining water on the earth's surface is runoff, which finds its place in the lakes, streams and rivers, which eventually enters the oceans, starting the repetition of the hydrologic cycle. (Tallman, 2011). In Colorado, all of these concepts of the water cycle apply to the Colorado River Basin. Most of the storms that bring moisture into Colorado come from the Pacific Ocean and travel east through the atmosphere. Because of the altitude in the Rocky Mountains this moist air results in huge amounts of snow on the western slope. The Colorado River Basin is often called a snowmelt dominated system because this snow often sits in a deep snowpack until the spring when the temperature raises...
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...1. Poverty: Chapter 1, facts about poverty, definition, etc A condition in which people are unable to meet their basic needs for food, clothing, shelter, education, or health.… D 2. Poverty again, same as #1 Chapter 1 B 3. Chapter 1 discussion about estimation of human impact on the environment A 4. Chapter 2 topic of tragedy of the commons C 5. Chapter 2 best example of sustainable consumption C 6. Chapter 2.3 Environmental Justice problems associated with it B 7. Chapter 3 Example of environmental conservation B 8. Chapter 3.2 understand what they discus about damning in national parks B 9. Chapter 3.2 history of the formation of the soil conservation service D 10. Chapter 3.3 known something about the history of NEPA A 11. Chapter 4.2 what is an infectious causing disease agent C 12. Chapter 4.4 toxicology LD50 table A 13. Chapter 5.2 Laws of thermodynamics B 14. Chapter 5.3 Biogeochemical cycles C 15. Chapter 5.3 how plants evolved in a mutual relationship with nitrogen fixing bacteria A 16. Chapter 6.1 prairie and deserts known which is the driest (wettest to driest) D 17. Chapter 6.1 known the tropical rain forest and the attributes C 18. Chapter 6.2 Ecosystem services B 19. Chapter 8.3 Inuit women and what was in the breast milk D 20. Chapter 7.1 what kinds of things can limit population D 21. Chapter 7.2 human population growth known factors C 22. Chapter 7.3 Populated country B 23...
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