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PROJECT 5

· Visit the Virtual Caves website: http://www.goodearthgraphics.com/virtcave/index.html . Briefly describe and provide an example of solution caves, sea caves, erosional caves, and lava tube caves.

· Visit the Center for Cave and Karst Studies ( http://caveandkarst.wku.edu/ ). Discuss dye tracing.

· Visit the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSICD) site, scroll over Programs & Projects, and briefly discuss the contents of two of the sites: http://www-nsidc.colorado.edu/index.html

·  Briefly describe the major earth science programs of the following governmental agencies:

· USGS: www.usgs.gov

· U.S. Department of Interior Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE): http://www.boemre.gov/

· U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Coastal & Hydraulics Laboratory (CHL): http://chl.erdc.usace.army.mil/

 

Please provide detailed description of the following terms with examples and diagrams wherever necessary:

a) Indian Sub-continental migration;

b) Normal and Reverse Fault;

c) Continental Hot Spots;

d) Causes of Earthquakes;

e) San Andreas Fault;

f) P & S Waves; and

g) Global Warming

In your own words, define what is weathering. Describe the two types of weathering seen on Earth and provide examples of these two types in details.