scientists, so he was encouraged to go into the scientific field. After his education, he went on a research voyage, originally meant to be 2 years long, lasted 5 years (Encyclopaedia Britannica). The voyage was to research, zoology, botany, and geology. One of the first things that was brought
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settled areas, this rapid runoff contributes to pollution problems. Other sources of pollution in the river basin include straight pipes, failing septic systems, modification of streambeds, and removal of vegetation.2 In particular, the mountainous geology and steep terrain pose a severe threat of environmental contamination by failing septic systems. While new technology can reduce this risk, people in poverty especially those living in substandard housing are more likely to be affected.
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there has always been an occupational job for earth scientists. The astronomer studies celestial objects like stars and constellations, while oceanographers study the ocean and what is in it. Other careers consist of studying rocks and minerals (geology), examining fossils to know what life was like during the prehistoric times (paleontology), and seismology, the study of earthquakes. The area of science that stood out to me the most was oceanography. One area in the field of oceanography is marine
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High-temperature environments of human evolution in East Africa based on bond ordering in paleosol carbonates. Introduction East Africa is the home of fossil localities found in regions that experience extremely high temperatures. For so long, there were debates on whether regions like these had always been hot and dry; and there was a conclusion that suggested these regions were possibly cooler and constituted a savanna type ecosystem during the Pliocene and Pleistocene period. Researchers
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Victorian morality is a distillation of the moral views of people living at the time of Queen Victoria's reign (1837–1901) and of the moral climate of the United Kingdom throughout the 19th century in general, which contrasted greatly with the morality of the previous Georgian period. Victorian morality can describe any set of values that espouse sexual restraint, low tolerance of crime and a strict social code of conduct. Due to the prominence of the British Empire, many of these values were spread
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consisted of one huge land mass located in the southern hemisphere and was surrounded by one huge ocean. This modern theory is generally globally accepted, with valid evidence to back it up with, for example, the distribution of fossils, the earths geology, coal deposits and fauna and flora deposits. Figure 1.1: World map of what Pangaea would have looked like 300 million years ago. Figure 1.2: Shows
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Dinosaur extinction is still a major mystery of earth history. In this review article, extinctions in the geological record will be briefly mentioned. Many of the imaginative theories for the extinction of the dinosaurs will also be presented. Within the uniformitarian paradigm, the meteorite impact theory, once considered ‘outrageous’, now is the dominant theory. However, the volcanic theory is still believed by a majority of paleontologists. Both theories have their strengths and weaknesses. The
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KOROTOKA-HILL FORT NATAVULOA-RING DITCH FORT Definitions Fortifications (noun) - the act of building military defenses to protect a place against attack Sedimentary (noun) - material deposited by water, wind, or glaciers Subsistence (noun) - a source or means of obtaining the necessities of life Alluvial (adjective) - made up of or found in the materials that are left by the water of rivers, floods, etc. Shifting cultivation (noun) - a land-use system, in which a tract of land is cultivated
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Civil Engineering has been an aspect of life since the beginnings of human existence. The earliest practices of Civil engineering may have commenced between 4000 and 2000 BC in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia (Ancient Iraq) when humans started to abandon a nomadic existence, thus causing a need for the construction of shelter. During this time, transportation became increasingly important leading to the development of the wheel and sailing. Until modern times there was no clear distinction between
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overview and main point of the article: The article talks about the East Africa’s Rift System. The author’s Wood and Guth main reasons for conducting this article as I can see in this article itself is that, they talk about the general geology of the Rift System and stresses on the developments that comprises their geologic formation. This article gave detailed explanation of the Rifts, but at the same time recorded that precise apparatus of the Rift pattern has been continues
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