Vancouver Island‚ Canada‚ the Cascadia Subduction Zone is a 1000 km long fault line that exists between the North American continental and Juan de Fuca oceanic plates. The danger of the this tremendous fault line is that the Juan De Fuca plate is being forced into the western side of the North American tectonic plate. Instead of sliding underneath‚ the Juan de Fuca has been stuck‚ forcing itself into the side of North America. This subduction zone is an interesting topic to me because an earthquake
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Cascadia Subduction Zone: A Summary of History Marcellina MacArthur Washington State University Abstract Research shows that there is a pattern of quakes that range from 8.7 to 9.2 that occur every 240 years or so‚ and we know this because Oregon State University has done a 13 year study on the margin stretching from southern Vancouver Island to the Oregon-California border. The last mega-earthquake in the Pacific-Northwest being on January 26‚ 1700; We know this because written
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In The Hot Zone by Richard Preston and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot‚ both authors suggest that globalization is both powerful and dangerous‚ so dangerous that it can sometimes cause irreplaceable damage‚ but can also do good things. The Hot Zone shows that Ebola can spread worldwide and have devastating effects. Preston states that if Ebola manages to spread beyond central Africa‚ then it will be all over the world‚ from New York to Paris‚ but “we never knew it.”(99)
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Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) is an important legume crop and its seeds are rich source of protein and fibre. It also contains micronutrients such as iron‚ calcium‚ potassium‚ phosphorous‚ and magnesium making it an integral part of daily diet of millions of people especially in the developing world. Globally‚ it is grown on an area of 11.5 million hectares with total annual production of about 10.5 million tonnes. Commercial production of chickpea is not too old in Canada. It started in 1990s and
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Product Testing & Verification Coursework Energy Absorbing Impact Zone Group Number: 3A Group Members: SBC-11-1021 673654 EE Da Wei (David) SBC-11-1022 673666 EE Zhang Minhui (Park) SBC-11-1028 673661 EE Wu Yifan (Jason) SBC-11-1027 673664 EE Xiang Qi (Aaron) Submission Date: Apr. 18th 2014 Contents Introduction………..…..………………...……………………...…….....3 Mind Map …………………………..………………………...……..…….6 Process Map ……………………..……………………………………..…7 Four Original Designs………..………………..…...………
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ordinary thing. Therefore‚ writing a response to Pratt’s essay in a language that is comprehendible by regular people can be very helpful to those struggling students. In "Arts of the Contact Zone" Pratt discusses the mix of two different cultures in one area. Where one person is born and lives in a "contact zone" he/she is surrounded by two different conflicting cultures‚ and there are two different languages. She also introduces us with a new word "autoethnography"‚ which means the way in which subordinate
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Dead Zones in the Baltic Sea Franki M Abstract Dead zones‚ also known as hypoxic zones‚ are areas in the ocean where oxygen levels have been depleted or are depleting. Hypoxia could be due to natural reasoning‚ but more commonly it is a result of careless and uninformed inhabitants of the coast near that ocean. Farming‚ sewage‚ factories and fishing are all major causes of dead zones. If our oceans continue to lose oxygen‚ we will eventually no longer have marine animals/marine
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define the "positive bargaining zone" and the "negative bargaining zone." “Negotiation is not a policy. It’s a technique. It’s something you use when it’s to your advantage‚ and something that you don’t use when it’s not to your advantage.” (Bolton) Although they do not always have a common ground‚ the structure of the bargaining process usually refers to having either an integrative or distributive task. This is how and why there are positive and negative bargaining zones and how they will influence
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Combat Zone Essay Men have always viewed a love or need for a woman as a weakness. This is especially true in the U.S. military‚ where violence is sexualized and women are viewed as unnecessary. In a way‚ this is done to make life in the army easier because their are no women in the majority of their time. During an occupation‚ the local women have to incur the wrath of men trained to see them as something below human. Tim O’Brien exemplifies this in his novel‚ If I Die in a Combat Zone‚ where
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Influence of neutral zone in complete denture fabrication– A Case Report Abstract Completely edentulous patients wearing dentures since long time have a problem with decreased stability of their mandibular complete dentures because of severe resorption of lower edentulous ridge & altered neuromuscular control. By incorporating neutral zone technique in complete denture fabrication can overcome this problem. Keywords:- Condensation Silicone‚ Neutral Zone‚ Denture stability Introduction In edentulous
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