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Three Ways New York Might Be Under Water

Three Ways New York Might Be Under Water. Professor Michael Wysession Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Washington University, St. Louis, MO. April 20, 2009. Locations of the Major Tectonic “Plates”. Process of “PLATE TECTONICS” Creates many LARGE EARTHQUAKES. Pakistan EQ, 2005.

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Three Ways New York Might Be Under Water

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  1. Three Ways New York Might Be Under Water Professor Michael Wysession Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Washington University, St. Louis, MO April 20, 2009

  2. Locations of the Major Tectonic “Plates”

  3. Process of “PLATE TECTONICS” Creates many LARGE EARTHQUAKES Pakistan EQ, 2005 Sichuan EQ, 2008 Sumatra EQ, 2004

  4. Indian Plate Burma Microplate Sumatra

  5. Sumatra-Andaman Dec 26, 2004 EQ & Tsunami

  6. Destruction of Lisbon, 1755

  7. Massive landslides in places like the Canary Islands could cause enormous Atlantic tsunamis.

  8. There have been Giant Undersea Landslides in the Puerto Rico Trench.

  9. Global Carbon Dioxide Cycle Barrow, AK CO2

  10. Carbon Dioxide Methane Nitrous Oxide Chlorofluorocarbons

  11. Correlation between Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Global Temperatures Ice Ages driven by Fluctuations in Earth’s Orbit

  12. 2008 - Preliminary More tornadoes in 2008 than in any year of the past half-century.

  13. Western US is in a worsening drought.

  14. Projected Precipitation, 2080-2099 (Base years 1980-1990)

  15. Projected Temperatures, 2080-2090 (Base years 1980-1990)

  16. 900-1300 AD: Warm and dry period  Mayan culture collapses

  17. 900-1300 AD: Warm and dry period  American Southwest cultures like the one at Chaco Canyon collapse. Anasazi peoples disappear.

  18. Why does the plague strike Europe in the 1300s?

  19. 1300 AD: Cold spell due to a minimum in solar activity • Great famine of 1315-1317 • Black Death, 1345

  20. Begins with flooding in China. More than 7 million drown in Yellow River.

  21. Why does the French Revolution occur in 1789?

  22. 1783: Laki volcano, Iceland; Asama volcano, Japan

  23. After 1815 there is a huge push of U.S. Westward Expansion. Why?

  24. 1816 is known as the “Year without a summer.” It snows in New England in the summer.

  25. Volcanoes! 1812: Soufriere volcano, St. Vincent Island 1814: Mayon volcano, Philippines 1815: Tambora volcano, Indonesia

  26. Last 10,000 years: VERY warm AND stable!!

  27. With any additional questions, please contact me at: michael@seismo.wustl.edu Teaching Company course “How the Earth Works” * 48 thirty-minute lectures

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