A Crack in the Earth

A Crack in the Earth
Title A Crack in the Earth PDF eBook
Author Haim Watzman
Publisher Macmillan
Pages 216
Release 2007
Genre Health & Fitness
ISBN 9780374130589

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The Great Rift Valley, which runs some three thousand miles from Syria to Mozambique, is one of the earth's most extraordinary geological features. The result of Syria's split from the African continent fifteen million years ago, this great "crack in the earth" crosses Jordan, Syria, Israel, Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Kenya. In 2004, Israeli journalist Haim Watzman set out to explore the northern part of the Rift Valley, where he had lived for nearly two and a half decades. He interviewed a number of scientific experts: a zoologist fascinated by the behavioral patterns of indigenous birds; an archaeologist trying to re-create the standing stone formations left to us by ancient cultures; a geologist speculating on the valley's origins. Watzman raises provocative questions about the nature of this massive feature in the earth's crust: where it comes from, how it has developed, and how human civilization has fared on its shores. "Humankind has overlaid the geology not just with cities, dams, fields, and roads," he writes, "but also with history and biography and meanings."

A Crack in the Edge of the World

A Crack in the Edge of the World
Title A Crack in the Edge of the World PDF eBook
Author Simon Winchester
Publisher Harper Collins
Pages 514
Release 2006-10-10
Genre History
ISBN 0060572000

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Unleashed by ancient geologic forces, a magnitude 8.25 earthquake rocked San Francisco in the early hours of April 18, 1906. Less than a minute later, the city lay in ruins. Bestselling author Simon Winchester brings his inimitable storytelling abilities to this extraordinary event, exploring the legendary earthquake and fires that spread horror across San Francisco and northern California in 1906 as well as its startling impact on American history and, just as important, what science has recently revealed about the fascinating subterranean processes that produced it—and almost certainly will cause it to strike again.

Cracking Up

Cracking Up
Title Cracking Up PDF eBook
Author Jacqui Bailey
Publisher Capstone Classroom
Pages 38
Release 2006-01-01
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 9781404819962

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Explains how weather and water wear away rock and includes two experiments to assist in understanding how erosion works.

The Crack in Space

The Crack in Space
Title The Crack in Space PDF eBook
Author Philip K. Dick
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages 211
Release 2012
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0547572999

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When a repairman accidentally discovers a parallel universe, everyone sees it as an opportunity, whether as a way to ease Earth's overcrowding, set up a personal kingdom, or hide an inconvenient mistress. But when a civilization is found already living there, the people on this side of the crack are sent scrambling to discover their motives. Will these parallel humans come in peace, or are they just as corrupt and ill-intentioned as the people of this world?

Mechanics of Thermal Contraction Cracks and Ice-Wedge Polygons in Permafrost

Mechanics of Thermal Contraction Cracks and Ice-Wedge Polygons in Permafrost
Title Mechanics of Thermal Contraction Cracks and Ice-Wedge Polygons in Permafrost PDF eBook
Author Arthur H. Lachenbruch
Publisher Geological Society of America
Pages 81
Release 1962
Genre Frozen ground
ISBN 0813720702

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Geologic Fracture Mechanics

Geologic Fracture Mechanics
Title Geologic Fracture Mechanics PDF eBook
Author Richard A. Schultz
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 611
Release 2019-08-08
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 1107189993

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Introduction to geologic fracture mechanics covering geologic structural discontinuities from theoretical and field-based perspectives.

Mechanics of Jointed and Faulted Rock

Mechanics of Jointed and Faulted Rock
Title Mechanics of Jointed and Faulted Rock PDF eBook
Author Hans Peter Rossmanith
Publisher CRC Press
Pages 1848
Release 2020-12-18
Genre Technology & Engineering
ISBN 1000151387

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This book focuses on the implementation and application of new concepts and methods to modelling, analysis, building, performance control and repair of structures of and in jointed rock and rock masses. It provides a forum for presentation of new research results and discussion for researchers.