Friday, March 23, 2012

Community Garden


A community garden is single piece of land usually in the middle of a suburban area that is gardened by a group of people. They are vegetable grown naturally without any preservatives or any chemicals added to it so that it may be as safe as possible.  Overall a community garden is a great idea because not only does help the people to whom the food is sold but it is also a way for a group of people to connect together and do something that will not only help them but the whole community.

Glacial Lake Missoula

Glacial Lake Missoula was a prehistoric lake, located in Western Montana and created by an ice dam that reach the height of about 2000 feet . The lake measures about 3000 square miles and contained about 2100 cubic kilometers of waters.

After the dam collapsed a large amount of water, about half the volume of Lake Michigan flooded into Western Washington creating tidal waves of record heights, destroying everything in its way and completely changing the physical aspect of the landscape




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It is also believe that the flood did not only happen once but as many as 40 or more. R.B. Waitt. Jr first argued for a sequence of multiple flood and 1980 and finally after being able to reconstruct a small scale of the destruction of that Lake Missoula would have cause,his theory was proven acceptable. 

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Igneous Rocks: Carbonatites



Carbonatites



Carbonatites are very rare, with only around 300 localities known to produce them. They are igneous rocks formed from volcanic activity or deep within the bowels of the molten earth, and what makes them rare is their chemical composition. They contain a high level of carbon as opposed to silicon, and this makes for unusual rock formations when they are formed.




Carbonatites coming out of a volcano

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Rocks

Olivine


Augite 


Hornblende


Biotite 


Muscovite 


Orthoclase


Quartz




Thursday, February 2, 2012

Maps

isarithmic map


choropleth map


dot density map

proportional symbol map



bathymetric map

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Stone Mountain/ Quartz Monzonite

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Stone Mountain is a quartz monzonite dome monadnock in Stone Mountain, Georgia, United States. At its summit, the elevation is 1,686 feet (513 m) amsl and 825 feet (251.5 m) above the surrounding area.  Stone Mountain granite extends underground 9 miles (14 km) at its longest point into Gwinnett County.