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Deep Ocean Trenches
926 Words - 4 Pages.... in the Earth's magnetic
field occur at trenches. Precision measurements reveal that the force of gravity generally is lower than normal. Small quantities of brown or red clay, which are signs of organic remains, volcanic ash and lapilli, and coarse, graded layers are found in the trench. Large amounts of remains cannot build up because they either are dragged into the Earth's interior or are distorted into folded masses and molded into new material of the continents.
Deep trench in the sea bed indicating the presence of a destructive margin (produced by the movements of plate tectonics). The dragging downwards of one plate of the lithosphere beneath another means that t ....
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Air Pollution
512 Words - 2 Pages.... health problems like cancer, emphysema, and asthma. It also causes the
depletion of the ozone layer which results in global warming and melting of the
ice caps. Up until the industrial era, the air was fairly clean. The use of
smokestacks and the burning of fuels put many pollutants in the air during this
period of time. The increased use of fossil fuels today also builds on this.
There have been many attempts at stopping air pollution. The Clean Air
Acts were effective for a little while. They made using some polluting
substances illegal. This did not work because people simply did not listen.
Solar Energy is another attempted solution. This type of energy is good
b ....
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Acid Rain
449 Words - 2 Pages.... from oil and coal combustion and nitrogen oxides produced from automobile engines have greatly intensified the problem. Winds can carry the pollutants thousands of kilometers away from their source. The British government has recognized that sulfur emissions from power plants in the United Kingdom are contributing to acid deposition in Scandinavia. Canadian emissions contribute substantially to in the northeastern United States, for example, and much of the sulfur falling in eastern Canada is believed to originate in the United States. In 1986 the U.S. National Academy of Sciences acknowledged that from U.S. sources had become a serious problem in the eastern United S ....
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