This is why reference ellipsoids are typically referred to as being the “best approximation” of a planet. For a more accurate picture, you need to use a geoid model. Geoid models use a measurement called Mean Sea Level to give a fuller representation of the way the Earth’s surface ...
The major raw material documented in the archeological sites of Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania) is a geological material with crystalline appearance, white or colorless, foliated or seemingly massive only at the outcrop scale, with a very high quartz-rich composition, and apparently of metamorphic origin,...
But every 26 months, Earth “laps” Mars and they pass next to each other on the track—this is when you want to commute between Earth and Mars. Depending where they are on their orbits when they pass each other, they can get as close as 34 million miles (55m km) from each other...
The earth is known to be an extremely active physical system in comparison to other planets. The nature of its crustal and mantle lithosphere evolution, as well as its subsequent deformation, specially for unique Archean shield like India which differs from other stable areas of the earth (Naqui...
(tera), from the familiar Proto-Indo-European root that also gave us theLatinterra, meaning [dry] land, and the Greek verbτερσομαι(tersomai), meaning to be dry or dried up. The word for dove looks like "abundant earth" or "the land's bounty" and whether or not that's ...
While social and economic disaster-related losses are monitored and documented, this is not well established for the environmental losses. It is well known that environmental degradation is a key driver of disaster risk. As such, healthy ecosystems are acknowledged to contribute to disaster risk ...
SO, not only did games like that actuallyexist(my parents being far too wholesome to expose me to such things, a wildly competitive game of Boggle was as scary as it got at my house), but there is one of these thingsthat inspired a horror moviesitting quietly in the closet between the...
While classical instrumentation is improving as well (see, e.g., [295] for bedload measurements), more accurate formulations are proposed to account for various mechanisms such as, for example, recently: the bedload grain size distribution [121]; the alternative approach, referred to as the ...
1.1. LNG Market in East Asia LNG is particularly important to Asia, as geography has created a situation where two Asian industrial powerhouses—Korea and Japan—rely on imports from faraway sources [3]. Japan is the world's largest importer of LNG, accounting for 21.7% of global imports ...