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Illinois Basin Structure The Illinois Basin lies across Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky, and it has a oval like structural depression in southeastern Illinois. The Illinois Basin is classified as an intracratonic basin (Bois and Pelet 1982). The Illinois Basin began as a rift complex which eventually failed, the New Madrid fault is associated with this rifting (Hasenmueller and Comer 1994). The depositional thickness of the New Albany Shale was strongly affected by the regional down-warping in southeastern

Fresh water is a finite source and once it is gone, we have limited options to replenish it, so we must take action to conserve the fresh water we do have especially at home in the United States. Organizational pattern: Motivated Sequence (required) Attention Step 1. Attention-getter: Many of us in the United States take for granted that we would always have an infinite supply of fresh water. This is not true; the authors of the Gale Encyclopedia of Science, K. Lee Lerner and Brenda Wilmoth Lerner

Dat Ninh T. Drosselmeyer Engl 1113 – 088 14 November 2016 1393 words Fracking and its wastewater disposal are threatening human’s life In recent years, there has been an increasing concern about whether or not should factories keep using Fracking as their main method to extract oil and gas from the underground. Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing can be defined as the process of drilling down into the Earth and injecting high-pressurized water mixture into the ground, creating cracks

ultimately led to Congress’s federal mandate for Yosemite’s protection, and in 1864, President Abraham Lincoln signed a bill establishing Yosemite as the first nature preserve protected by the government as a state park, and a national park in 1890 (National Park Service, 2012). Managed by the State of California, the bill set aside the preservation of

Earthquake happened near Christchurch, New Zealand on the South Island on September 4, 2010 at 4:35 a.m. (see figure 1) (Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand, n.d.). The focus of the earthquake was at 5 km or 3.1 miles below the surface (United States Geological Survey, n.d.). It had a 7.1 magnitude on the Richter Scale and it caused widespread damage in the city. Two people were injured and one person died from a heart attack, but it was not known if it was related to the earthquake. There were very

to build a new bridge high enough to avoid flooding in all, but most severe conditions. My job is to prepare a stage estimate using the information, and data I have collected. I have collected my data and information from the United States Geological Survey (USGS). I will state my stage estimate and describe the procedure I used. The data I have collected was based on the stage height of the Tioga River from the USGS data base. The data base showed the peak of stream flow and the discharge in cubic

magnitude of 7.8. The earthquake made the ground below Mount Pinatubo shake. Since Mount Pinatubo hasn’t erupted for over 600 years it did not erupt immediately. The enormous earthquake only cracked the crust of the earth. According to USGS (United States Geological Survey) there were lots of petite earthquakes before the eruption began. From June 12 to June 16, 1991, over 20 million tons of debris was realised into the stratosphere. The volcano had erupted 4 times. The impact of this volcanic eruption of

On April 17, 2013 the disaster of West, TX was an ammonium nitrate explosion at a fertilizer storage and distribution facility. The explosion killed 15 and 200 other people were injured. According to the United States Geological Survey, the explosion was recorded as a 2.1-magnitude tremor. 350 homes and buildings were damaged or destroyed, including three schools, an apartment complex and a nursing home. The last time the plant had been inspected by OSHA (Occupational safety and Health Administration)

America Does NOT Need to Drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Thesis: If the United States is going to choose to conserve energy responsibly, then our government's energies should not be focused on developing oil in the ANWR, but rather on the topics of conservation through higher fuel efficiency standards in vehicles and by developing alternative energy sources. Conservation, fuel efficiency and alternative energy sources are the solutions that will lead us

There are 24 named waterfalls in Ricketts Glen State Park in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania along Kitchen Creek as it flows in three steep, narrow valleys, or glens. They range in height from 9 feet (2.7 m) to the 94-foot (29 m) Ganoga Falls. Ricketts Glen State Park is named for R. Bruce Ricketts, a colonel in the American Civil War who owned over 80,000 acres (32,000 ha) in the area in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but spared the old growth forests in the glens from clearcutting. The