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Surviving Death Valley

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1. Origin of the Universe

2. Origin of the Solar System

3. ContinentalDrift

4. PlateTectonics

5. The Formation of Minerals

6. Classification of Minerals

7. The Identification of Minerals

8. Kinds of Rocks

9. SedimentaryRocks

10. Metamorphic Rocks

11. Volcanic Activity

12. Phases of Volcanic Activity

13. The Hawaiian Islands and

Yellowstone Park

14. Mass Wasting—Gravity at Work

15. Mass Wasting Processes

16. Weathering

17. Soils and the Clay Minerals

18. Climate and the Type of Soils

19. Streams—The Major Agent of Erosion

20. Sculpting of the Landscape

21. Stream Erosion in Arid Regions

22. Ice Sculpts the Final Scene

23. Groundwater

24. The Production of Groundwater

25. Karst Topography

26. Groundwater Contamination

27. Rock Deformation

28. The Geologic Structures

29. Faults and Joints

30. Earthquakes

31. Damage from Earthquakes

32. Seismology

33. The Formation of Mountains

34. Orogenic Styles

35. Economic Geology of Coal

36. Economic Geology of Petroleum

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Course No. 550

Contents

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TOOLS + TECHNIQUES

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ZOOLOGY

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How astronomers measure the mass of

the sun and more-distant stars.

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From feast to famine—the ingenious ways

animals survive during times of scarcity.

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Surviving Death Valley

agiantfishtail

Using NASA Tech to Track Whale Sharks

FORENSICS

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CONSERVATION

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oceansofenergy

Harnessing the Power of the Seas

Pollen does more than make you sneeze—

it’s also a cutting-edge crime- ghting tool.

“Suspended in clouds,

fossilized inside

ancient rocks, hidden

in the lint in your

pants pockets—pollen

is everywhere.”

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Tracking the world’s biggest sh, whale

sharks, with star-mapping software.

ECOLOGY

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RENEWABLE ENERGY

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Ecology

California’s Death Valley is an extreme

environment—one of the hottest, driest

and lowest spots on Earth. It takes a

convergence of dangerous geological forces

to drive temperatures here above 120ºF

134 J uly of 1913 was not

an especially hot

month in Cali-

fornia, but one day,

in a little valley hidden

behind tall mountains,

the mercury climbed to

an incredible 134ºF—the

highest air temperature

that had ever been re-

corded anywhere in the

world. That blast fur-

nace of a place is called

Death Valley, now part

of a national park. (The

record has since been

eclipsed, but just barely:

The Libyan desert once

reached 136º.) Because of

Death Valley’s very spe-

cial geological conditions,

it remains one of the

hottest, driest and lowest

pieces of land on Earth.

On average, temperatures

soar above 90º for seven

U.S.

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PHYSIOLOGY

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Almost nothing can survive on the

salt-covered floor of Death Valley.

What makes California’s Death Valley one

of the hottest, driest places on Earth?

Next-generation hydroelectricity: Tide-

and wave-power research makes strides.

Scientists pinpoint disease- ghting

compounds released during exercise.

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