Weather: How it Works and why it MattersPerseus Pub., 2000 - 223 pàgines |
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... activity , a large source of carbon dioxide , has not been con- stant during the time organic life has been present on the Earth . The tec- tonic plates are continuously in motion , producing continental drift and its attendant volcanic ...
... activity , a large source of carbon dioxide , has not been con- stant during the time organic life has been present on the Earth . The tec- tonic plates are continuously in motion , producing continental drift and its attendant volcanic ...
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... activity . Other evidence favors an alternate explanation for some of the mass ex- tinctions . Most of the dust stirred up by an impact would not have re- mained in the air for long ; after a few months , most of it would have settled ...
... activity . Other evidence favors an alternate explanation for some of the mass ex- tinctions . Most of the dust stirred up by an impact would not have re- mained in the air for long ; after a few months , most of it would have settled ...
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... activity , nat- urally , cannot be excluded . Only satellite data over several more decades will be able to show whether such variations exist . Sunspot activity and other features related to it ( the solar magnetic field , for example ) ...
... activity , nat- urally , cannot be excluded . Only satellite data over several more decades will be able to show whether such variations exist . Sunspot activity and other features related to it ( the solar magnetic field , for example ) ...
Continguts
Introduction | 1 |
The Fundamentals of Air | 7 |
Its Not the Heat Its the Heat and the Humidity | 15 |
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