Earth Sciences & Geology

How much damage would there be from a 7.5 to 8.0 quake on the San Andreas fault

Short answer: A lot! Longer answer: It depends on where along the fault it occurs. If it happened in a more populated area, it would cause much damage and heavy loss of life. If it occurred in a less

What is a constructive Plate boundary

Brief description of a constructive plate boundary-where material is coming up to the surface, i.e. the midatlantic ridge.

What is an Estuarine environment

I need to know for an assignment, it would be great in simplest form, but i ALSO need a scientific definition !! thanks so much !-An estuary is a river mouth that has been flooded by rising sea leve

What mineral is this

http://img688.imageshack.us/img688/156/dsc02632ol.jpg Can anybody help?-rainbow hematite-I think its called hermaphrodyte.

Science help,ten points,please

If a few individuals in a population have a favorable trait that others in the population do not have, what would be necessary for the trait to become widespread in the population through natural sele

Why is the desert all sand

Where does the sand come from? woulde4nt it just be regular sediment with no water???-There are deserts like Hamadas or Polar Deserts that are not just sand. The sand in deserts like Sahara comes from

Why is the great barrier reef on the world heritage list

Why is the great barrier reef on the world heritage list as known as the unesco? Please give me as much detail as you can so I can understand it better. Thanks so much for your time and whoever gives

So what do you think of all these tornadoes around the world

All the deaths. Sad-Seems Gods Judgment has begun. The bible says God has his way in the whirlwind and the storm.-Around the world seems limited to the southern and midwestern USA in the area known as

Environmental science help ! please. anyone!

Can anyone anwser ANY of these? 1. Select the main factor that effects the environment from the following list: (Points: 2)height clouds abiotic location 2. Select the main factor that effect the

Do you think the big one will hit Southern California soon

I think that there is no reliable way to predict such things with any real detail. At best, crude patterns can be discerned. Its a mistake to try to treat these patterns as schedules, though.-Yes, and

Anyone got a link to a bar chart of no' of large earthquakes per year over a few decades

There seems to have been a considerable increase in volcanoes, tsunamis and earthquakes - anyone got any charts to confirm/deny this? (Link(s) please) 10 points will be dished out promptly for good l

All of these tornadoes

i know its tornado season and whatever but why do they keep getting worse? whats going on? i know it sounds dumb but to me it seems like the world may be ending slowly by killing people off..idk..-We

Magma can be formed by which of the following processes...

a) mantle recompression b) subtraction of heat c) addition of heat d) removal of volatiles I think d) through knowledge of temp and pressure changes, but I feel I should know this as a fact. Thanks i

Why isn't titanium one of Britain's natural resources

I read that titanium was indeed discovered in England in by William Gregor in 1791 but titanium is not listed as one of Britains natural resources. Is it because theres in very small amount? Is it rid

Where is strontium mined

im doing a science poster on strontium if you know any thing about it plz answer!!!-China, Spain, Mexico, Turkey, Argentina and Iran.