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Three Ways New York Might Be Under WaterProfessor Michael Wysession
Department of Earth and Planetary SciencesWashington University, St. Louis, MO
April 20, 2009
Process of “PLATE
TECTONICS”
Creates many LARGE
EARTHQUAKES
Sumatra EQ, 2004
Pakistan EQ, 2005 Sichuan EQ,
2008
Correlation between Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Global Temperatures
Ice Ages driven by Fluctuations in Earth’s Orbit
900-1300 AD: Warm and dry period American Southwest cultures like the one at Chaco Canyon collapse. Anasazi peoples disappear.
Begins with flooding in China. More than 7 million drown in Yellow River.
1812: Soufriere volcano, St. Vincent Island
1814: Mayon volcano, Philippines
1815: Tambora volcano, Indonesia
Volcanoes!
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Teaching Company course “How the Earth Works”
* 48 thirty-minute lectures