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Catastrophe Theory
Catastrophe Theory BIBLIOGRAPHY Much of quantitative social science (such as principal factor analysis, linear regression, and least squares) seeks linear relationships among many variables. “Nonlinear Read more |
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catastrophism
catastrophism , in geology, the doctrine that at intervals in the earth's history all living things have been destroyed by cataclysms (e.g., floods or earthquakes) and replaced by an entirely different population. During these cataclysms the features of the earth's surface, such as mountains and... Read more |
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Immanuel Velikovsky
Velikovsky, Immanuel (1895-1979) Psychoanalyst and cosmologist who emerged as a major defender of catastrophism, the idea that the earth's history and prehistory have been distorted by significant catastrophies. Catastrophism stands over against uniformitarianism, the dominant postulate of geologic... Read more |
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Jean Andre Deluc
Jean André Deluc , 1727-1817, Swiss geologist. During the first half of his life he was engaged mainly in business in Switzerland. He also made scientific excursions in the Alps on whose natural history he was an authority. When his commercial affairs failed in 1773, he emigrated to England... Read more |
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Varus
Varus (Publius Quinctilius Varus) , d. AD 9, Roman general. In 13 BC he was consul with Tiberius Claudius Nero (later emperor as Tiberius ) and later was governor of Syria. Although unsuited for the position, he was appointed governor of Germany by Augustus . In AD 9, to suppress an uprising, he... Read more |
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Black Death
Black Death An epidemic of catastrophic proportions, the Black Death first struck England in the summer of 1348. This first outbreak probably killed between a third and a half of the population, as is shown by figures showing death rates for the clergy, and for peasant landholders. It is usually... Read more |
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Avalanches
Avalanche An avalanche is a rapid downslope movement of some combination of rock , regolith , snow, slush, and ice . The movement can occur by any combination of sliding, falling, and rolling of pieces within the avalanche mass, but is generally very rapid. Avalanche velocities can reach tens to... Read more |
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Accident
ACCIDENT The word accident is derived from the Latin verb accidere, signifying "fall upon, befall, happen, chance." In its most commonly accepted meaning, or in its ordinary or popular sense, the word may be defined as meaning: some sudden and unexpected event taking place without expectation, upon... Read more |
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Undersea LNG Pipeline Span Investigation
...Towed Side Scan Sonar to Determine the Height Span of an Undersea Pipeline A laid pipeline can suffer from free-span situation...sediments. As a result, it does not only cause a marine catastrophe (by tax leakage), but it also loses and wastes transported... |
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DEVASTATING: UNDERSEA POWER
...means waves, a tsunami results from the displacement of massive quantities of water that creates a huge wave. An underwater catastrophe creates a wave that crosses the ocean at speeds of up to 500mph, but at great depth . When the deep tsunami reaches shallower... |
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Caribbean cat facility lowers premiums, broadens coverage.(International...
Byline: MICHAEL BRADFORD The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility is lowering premiums that it charges...financially unable to rebuild following hurricanes and other catastrophes. The nations pool their natural disaster risks and potentially...million to Dominica and St. Lucia in response to a November ... |
 "Daily News (South Africa)")
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Lessons from oil catastrophe.(News)
...fauna and flora, estimates at restoring nature scarred by the catastrophe range from a decade to generations. A $20-billion compensation...gusher 1.6km down, or contain it. And estimates that the undersea reservoir of oil is still at least 94 percent full, and that... |
 "The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)")
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THE UNIFYING FORCE OF CATASTROPHE
...none of the above." Once again, unified in the face of catastrophe, we hit the pause button on our own manmade conflicts. We...Olympian heights of outer space or the geological depths of an undersea earthquake that we feel our connection. Is it only during... |
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WORST FEARED FOR SPILL GUIMARAS COULD EQUAL ALASKAN CATASTROPHE
...raised fears of a local disaster similar in scale to major catastrophes like that of the Exxon Valdez. While the amount of oil aboard...Guard is spraying dispersants to contain the slick, pushed by undersea currents and the seasonal southwest monsoons northward toward... |
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Catastrophe: Gulf coast oil spill
...off the coast of Louisiana. The blast killed 1 1 workers and led to more than 200 million gallons of oil spewing from BP's undersea well, according to government estimates that BP disputes. The BP well, located about 50 miles offshore from Louisiana... |
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CATASTROPHE: 7-PAGE REPORT: Children of the tsunami.(News)
...Richard Attenborough, who was on holiday with her family in Thailand. The death toll in Indonesia, the country closest to the undersea earthquake which caused the tsunami, had risen to 27,174 last night. The official figure for Sri Lanka was 18,706 dead... |
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Trio of catastrophes hit Indonesia; Hundreds feared dead after earthquake,...
...Ministry's crisis center, referring to the isolated Mentawai isles, which suffered the twin punches of a magnitude 7.7 undersea earthquake on Monday night, followed by a localized 10-foot-high tsunami. Corpses were strewn along some beaches because... |
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Coral catastrophe on the Corner Rise Seamounts.(coral destruction)
...habitats for fish and other marine life have been extensively damaged, mostly likely by deep-sea fishing trawlers, atop two undersea mountains in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. A decade after the fishing a stopped, the once-abundant summits have been... |
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