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Earth and Environment Atlas is a cross-referenced encyclopedia of the physical earth, from geology, volcanoes and earthquakes to weather, oceans and the deep-time history of the planet itself. Search any process and follow its threads through every discipline that studies it.
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Open any entry and follow it outward through everything it touches: the disciplines, the materials, the eras and the processes it rests on. See what cites it in return.
Set two or more processes, eras or disciplines side by side and see where the evidence, the dating and the scholarly disputes actually overlap.
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A magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck the industrial city of Tangshan in Hebei Province, China, at 3:42 in the morning on 28 July 1976, with almost no war
Giuseppe Mercalli was an Italian volcanologist and Catholic priest, remembered above all for the Mercalli intensity scale, a method for rating the int
Dating rocks and minerals by the steady decay of radioactive isotopes they contain, each decay series a clock running at a known rate. Uranium-lead, p
The Formigues Islands, in Catalan Illes Formigues, are an archipelago of 16 small islands about three miles off the coast of Palamos in Girona Provinc
The use of chemistry's tools and principles to explain the mechanisms behind major geological systems, from Earth's crust and oceans out across the wh
The third and final era of the Proterozoic eon, spanning 1 billion to 538.8 million years ago and closing the Proterozoic. It includes the Cryogenian'
A group of sheet silicate minerals that split into thin, flexible, glittering layers. It is the flecked shine in granite and gneiss, and the third of
The eruption of solids, liquids, gases and their mixtures onto the surface of a planet or moon, driven by an internal heat source generated by process
A gap nobody has closed yet, rotated daily.
Paleoclimatology
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