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1/15/24

A New Year's Day (2024) earthquake
moved Japan's coastline more than ...

800' in some places


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8/20/21

New theory may explain the Grand Canyon puzzle "The Great Unconformity" ...

blame it on Rodinia


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2/8/20

Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to present to you
the continental fragment, or the microcontinent,
or the submerged continent, or the continent of ...

ZEALANDIA



Zealandia


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12/4/18

The "magma chamber" model of volcanism is being challenged by a new model called ...

"mush reservoirs"


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10/22/17



Seismologists study the architecture of buildings
from The Forbidden City in Beijing
built in the early 15th  century ...

to learn why they seem impervious to earthquakes (53:33)

But long before the Chinese architects built The Forbidden City,
architects in Istanbul, Turkey built the Hagia Sophia.
It has withstood the Earth's onslaughts for 1,500 years ...

using different secrets than those used by the Chinese (25:02)




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12/7/16

Supercontinents ... they come and they go (9:31)




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5/17/16

Move over Mount Everest
(world's tallest mountain when measured from sea level).

Move over Mauna Kea
(world's tallest mountain when measured from the sea floor).

Ecuador's Chimborazo is the world's tallest mountain when measured from ...

the Earth's center

It all depends on who is keeping score.

UPDATE 1/2/20

Sea levels vary and change (5:57)


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4/30/15



Strong evidence links the lava flows which created the Deccan Traps in India ...

with the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs

The Shiva Crater

This 1-2 punch turned Earth into a hellhole from which no dinosaur survived.


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2/12/10

The Earth ... 100 million years from now (3:19)




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Liquids


3/16/24

The world's largest freshwater lake (Baikal in Russia) is being affected by ...

global warming


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8/30/23

Severe drought is affecting the Panama Canal

So why do they use fresh water instead of
letting the canal fill with water
from the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans?

Because the oceans have different levels


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6/9/21

It appears as though scientists will soon recognize the "Southern Sea" as ...

the world's fifth ocean

(since they are all connected, in reality there is only one)


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6/21/16



Understanding "rogue" waves

Second-order bound nonlinearities.
Of course ... why didn't I think of that?


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9/18/15

Water has memory.
Has Homeopathy been vindicated?

not quite


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3/12/14



A new ocean has been located in our solar system ...

and it's right under our feet


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Gasses


8/21/14

The severe drought in the western United States means that
the equivalent of a 4" deep lake over the entire western U.S. ... is missing.

With all that weight missing, guess what the land is doing?


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11/18/13

The theory that high oxygen levels were responsible for gigantism in dinosaurs ...

seems highly unlikely now


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