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Groundwater Glossary: The Groundwater Foundation
Groundwater: Water found in the spaces between soil particles and cracks in rocks underground (located in the saturation zone). ... Subsidence: A depression of the land surface as a result of groundwater being pumped. Cracks and fissures can appear in the land. Subsidence is virtually an irreversible process. Sustainable yield: ...
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The Jane Goodall Institute
I carry one of those leaves with me as a powerful symbol of hope. I have seen such renewals time and ...
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Deep sea hydrothermal vents
As the oceanic crust stretches, it thins and is cracked by giant fissures. Magma from deep down wells up through these cracks and fissures, rushing to fill in the gaps created by the ... In many places, the magma simply wells up beneath the weakened and thin areas of crust and fills in the cracks and fissures without ever breaking the surface. Scientists had suspected that the long chains ...
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The link between oil and xenophobia | Energy Bulletin
It seems that our dependence on oil has the ability to expose the cracks and fissures in our society as the price rises. In South Africa we have many fault lines, including the divide between rich and poor, between different races, between different cultural groups, between employed and ...
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NERC - How did life start on this planet?
Scientists estimate the Earth became more habitable 4 billion years ago, and life emerged 200 million years later. Exactly how life started is uncertain. Maybe ... and moved up through cracks and fissures as conditions above ground improved. Maybe the chemical soup in the oceans favoured simple self-replicating carbon-based molecules. These molecules might have increased in complexity and ...
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Fryer's Forest Eco Village: Timber
This provides yields of firewood and durable post and pole timbers. Wood is ... fissures can be a problem but generally a network of fine cracks is more common. Poles from slow grown timber cut in winter can be free of cracks. FIRE RESISTANCE The smooth surface of debarked poles combined with the high temperature required for ignition and ...
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Water- depletion and pollution
Solid Ice is the frozen form of ... , which is why when water enters cracks in rocks and freezes it causes the rocks to crack and split. Being less dense than water ... of the human body, carries nutrients and oxygen to cells, cushions joints, protects organs and tissues, and removes waste 60% - 75% of the ...
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Biggest Mountain | Mauna Loa
Shield volcanoes are created when red hot lava oozes out from cracks, or fissures in the earth's crust. The biggest mountain in the world ... magma is liquid and is lighter than the surrounding rock it "floats" to the surface and forces its way out of fissures in the crust. ... one hot spot that never moves. But the Pacific Plate continually (and slowly) moves north over the hot spot, forming a new ...
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Mount Kenya - National Geographic Adventure Magazine
Benuzzi and Balleto would make the summit ... into rock fissures and clipping them to the line. When he reaches the limit of the rope, he sets an anchor and belays ... cracks and slabs. Mount Kenya's hard volcanic rock, left behind by millions of years of erosion, is considered some of the best climbing in Africa and ...
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The Anxiety of Clearings
As if, attending to the fissures in language, finding in puns the lost piazzas of Italy ... smashing of family plates (12). But between old England and Australia, between Devon and Devonport, what is the difference? Tasmania is another ... these chaotic cracks, the earth slowly turns itself inside out. Resultant lifeforms are print outs of the biochemical, physical and solar Will ...
www.rainforestinfo.org.au