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석유나 가스가 신기조산대에서 주로 생산된다고 가르쳐야 하나?

이 문제를 보면서 아쉽아쉽아쉽 했다. 평상시에도 찝찝한 마음이 있었지만시험 바로 전날 읽었던 "Understanding World Regional Geography by Erin H. Fouberg (2015) Wiley" 책 때문에 더 그랬는지 모르겠다. 학생들에게 화석 연료와 관련해서 '신생대 3기'에 초점을 맞출게 아니라 Fossil fuels form in sedimentary rocks that undergo heat andpressure over time. The carbon in fossil fuels comes fromthe live plant and animal material that slowly becomes oiland natural gas. 탄소의 순환과퇴적층 + 지각 운동 얘기가..

허리케인이 과거 보다 더 무서워진 이유

Why Hurricane Irma Could Hurt a Lot 가진게 많아지면 잃을 두려움도 커지는 법 LEFT, VIA STATE ARCHIVES OF FLORIDA; RIGHT, GOOGLE Miami Beach a year before the Category 4 storm of 1926, left, and this year, right. More valuable property now sits in harm’s way.(종이 인쇄판 N.Y Times의 사진 해설) Miami Beach a year before the Category 4 storm of 1926, and this year. The reinsurance firm Swiss Re estimates that a similar storm ..

파나마 운하 확장이 가져올 현상들

기사의 제목은 Arrival of big ships to reshape flow of goods in US New York Times (2017.09.08) 에서는 이 사진에 대해 이렇게 말하고 있네요 Elbow Room For Big Ships A 1,200-foot cargo ship, the CMA CGM T Roosevelt, passed beneath the Bayonne Bridge between New Jersey and Staten Island on Thursday, on its way to Port Newark in Bayonne, N.J. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey spent $1.6 billion to raise the bridg..

포장면적 확대가 불러온 대홍수 참사 사례, 허리케인 하비(Harvey)와 휴스턴

전략... Houston’s population climbed to 2.2 million in 2015, a 25 percent increase from 1995. Harris County had an even bigger bump over that time, 42 percent, and now has 4.4 million residents. As the population grew, the city expanded, covering fallow land that had served as a natural sponge. Between 1992 and 2010, 30 percent of the surrounding county’s coastal prairie wetlands were paved over, ..