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Scientists get personal with San Andreas fault
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PALO ALTO -- Rock drilled from the San Andreas fault two miles
below the surface is giving geologists an unprecedented look at the
inner workings of California's most famous fault, heralding a new
era for earthquake science.
The 135 feet of 4-inch diameter cylindrical cores promise to
reveal the answers to questions that scientists have grappled with
for decades, such as how earthquakes get started and what causes
them to stop.
"For people like me, its sort of a Neil Armstrong moment to
actually hold the San Andreas fault in my hands," said Stanford
University geophysicist Mark Zoback, one ...
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Bert Mosselmans. William Stanley Jevons and the Cutting Edge of Economics.(Book review)
Magazine article from: History of Economics Review
; Bert Mosselmans. William Stanley Jevons and the Cutting Edge of Economics...to, respectively, an overview of Jevons' life and economic thought, and a (very) brief account of Jevons' attempt to 'deconstruct' the...
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Egypt and the Northern economy.(ECONOMICALLY SPEAKING)
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Shinzo Koizumi (1888-1966): a Japanese Economist's Encounter with the West.(Biography)
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Capitalism's Environmental Crisis--Is Technology the Answer?
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; ...degradation from expanding along with the economy? The Jevons Paradox In order to answer this question it is...to look at what ecological economists call the Jevons Paradox. [*] William Stanley Jevons (1835-1882) is best known as a British economist...
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A chronicle of Coinage.(Good Money: Birmingham Button Makers, the Royal Mint, and the Beginnings of Modern Coinage, 1775-1821)(Book review)
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; ...book by the 19th century British economist William Stanley Jevons, Selgin came across a passage in which Jevons took issue with Herbert Spencer's argument...production of money could be entrusted to Jevons wrote that in his view, "there is nothing...
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The 'mining boom' myth
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