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  2. Fossil record of fire - Wikipedia

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    Fire frequency - this refers to the number of times fire occurs in a given area under a defined geologic time. The concept of fire frequency is often applied to local fire events. [25] Fire intensity - also known as fire severity or magnitude is the degree of fire or the magnitude of fire event. Fire intensity is categorized into low fire ...

  3. Fire - Wikipedia

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    The fossil record of fire first appears with the establishment of a land-based flora in the Middle Ordovician period, 9] permitting the accumulation of oxygen in the atmosphere as never before, as the new hordes of land plants pumped it out as a waste product.

  4. Fire history - Wikipedia

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    A group of researchers were able to use a 350-year tree-ring fire record to reconstruct the fire history in precise detail. This is a shining example of how the method can be used in a place with a lost or no written history of a fire regime.

  5. List of industrial disasters - Wikipedia

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    For example, the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 was made more severe due to the heavy concentration of lumber industry facilities, wood houses, and fuel and other chemicals in a small area. The Convention on the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents is designed to protect people and the environment from industrial accidents.

  6. Occupational hazards of fire debris cleanup - Wikipedia

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    Additional health hazards of fire debris cleanup work may include carbon monoxide and hazardous liquids [2] Silica, or silicon dioxide, can occur in a crystalline or noncrystalline (amorphous) form. In fire debris, silica can be found in concrete, roofing tiles, or it may be a naturally occurring element in the rocks and soil of the burnt out ...

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  8. Control of fire by early humans - Wikipedia

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    Fire was an important factor in expanding and developing societies of early hominids. One impact fire might have had was social stratification. The power to make and wield fire may have conferred prestige and social position. [35] Fire also led to a lengthening of daytime activities, and allowed more nighttime activities. [45]

  9. UK's biggest ever dinosaur footprint site unearthed - AOL

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    The UK's biggest ever dinosaur trackway site has been discovered in a quarry in Oxfordshire. About 200 huge footprints, which were made 166 million years ago, criss-cross the limestone floor.