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    mind. On the last night of May‚ her mother gives her lovely clothes for the parade and a limousine for transportation with two servants on the condition that Ela returns home before midnight or else she will turn into Elang Uling. In the parade‚ she is crowned Queen of May by George‚ the richest heir in the province. Before midnight‚ she runs away from George. However‚ the clock strikes twelve and the limousine turns back into a toy car‚ the servants into the kettle and the stove‚ and her dress into

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    bursts of methane hydrate can be released by sudden events that break the lattice‚ such as landslides and earthquakes on the ocean floor. This releases a large amount of methane from the local area. This has been suggested as a possible explanation for the Bermuda Triangle - an area of ocean in the South Atlantic where dozens of ships and planes have disappeared without trace. The theory goes that landslides release the methane‚ which explodes on contact with‚ for example‚ a plane ’s engines. This

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    Tsunami Waves

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    for fourth‚ a magnitude 9.0 (on the Richter scale) earthquake off the coast of Japan produced a tsunami that lead to an estimated 20‚000 deaths on March 11‚ 2011. Landslides (either into water or completely below the water surface) are also capable of generating tsunamis. A tsunami‚ apparently triggered by a large underwater landslide from an earthquake‚ devastated the northwestern coast of Papua‚ New Guinea on July 17‚ 1998. Three waves‚ the highest measuring more than 23 feet (7 meters) high

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    Pros And Cons Of Tnc

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    These TNC laws define a TNC by describing the same exact activity or service performed by taxicabs and limousines—transporting a paying passenger from point A to point B—and specifically exempt incumbent operators. Several of the newly enacted laws are “cookie cutter” versions of one another‚ which provide modest standards with which TNCs must comply in the

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    Cronulla Beach

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    to provide a better environment are sand dunes and the sea bee wall. Erosion is the wearing down of different materials caused by natural forces such as long shore drift‚ waves and tides. These forces erode the landforms‚ which can cause landslides. Landslides will demolish the infrastructure‚ crops and animals. Erosion can also reduce the effectiveness of water treatment. Long shore drift is the transportation of sediments such as sand‚ rock and other materials‚ that moves along the coast parallel

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    Describe the characteristics and explain the causes‚ of tsunamis. (8 marks) A Tsunami is a large and potentially destructive sea wave often produced by a submarine earthquake‚ subsidence or an underwater volcanic eruption. They occur when a large volume of water is displaced in the ocean. The characteristics of tsunamis differ slightly from normal sea waves. For one‚ they often have extremely long wave lengths‚ in deep water an initial wavelength can be up to 100km. Their amplitude contrasts with

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    Natural Disaster

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    An earth quake can be described as a shaking of the Earth’s crust. It is mainly a movement of the whole crust that originates in the center of the earth. Earthquakes happen when the underlying rock suddenly shakes or breaks off. The moving of the underlying rock causes the surface rocks to slide and‚ as a result‚ leads to the earthquakes. Earthquakes can be extremely disastrous and cause a lot of damage in the place where they happen. The earthquake can happen once or happen as a series. This depends

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    CHAPTER 15 GEOGRAPHY 1

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    Charmaine Farrah Estacio Geography 1 Dr. Thomas Orf 11th November 2014 ASSIGNMENT: CHAPTER 15 PRELIMINARIES TO EROSION: WEATHERING AND MASS WASTING KEY TERMS AND CONCEPTS: 1. What is meant by denudation? The total effect of all actions (weathering‚ mass wasting‚ and erosion) that lower the surface of the continents. 2. Distinguish among weathering‚ mass wasting‚ and erosion. Weathering- The physical and chemical disintegration of rock that is exposed to the atmosphere. Mass Wasting- The short-distance

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    Death Toll from a Earthquake!! Number of Earthquakes Worldwide for 2000 - 2012 Located by the US Geological Survey National Earthquake Information Center (M4.5+ for most of the world; doesn’t include US regional network contributions) Magnitude 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 8.0 to 9.9 1 1 0 1 2 1 2 4 0 1 1 1 2 7.0 to 7.9 14 15 13 14 14 10 9 14 12 16 23 19 12 6.0 to 6.9 146 121 127 140 141 140

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    Relative Dating

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    For this lab‚ I decided to focus on relative dating in studying things of the past. I found this the most interesting form to examine. Relative dating doesn’t give one an exact date but can give a good time frame of an artifact. It is used by looking at sequences and layers with regards to the soil for excavating. This is known as stratigraphy (Bahn‚122). It was inspired by geology in looking at layers of soil (Dating Archeology‚ 2016). As an archeologist using this method‚ one would say‚ “the underlying

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