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  2. Texas A&M University College of Geosciences - Wikipedia

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    The College of Geosciences is located on the main campus of Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. The David G. Eller Oceanography & Meteorology Building (O&M Building) has a total of 109,609 square feet (10,183.0 m 2 ) of office, classroom, laboratory and storage space and is home to the Departments of Atmospheric Sciences, Geography ...

  3. Tamu Massif - Wikipedia

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    The name Tamu is taken from the initials of Texas A&M University. [7] William Sager, a geology professor and one of the lead scientists studying the volcano, previously taught at Texas A&M. A massif, which means "massive" in French, is a large mountain or a section of the planet's crust that is demarcated by faults and flexures.

  4. Polynesian navigation - Wikipedia

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    The Polynesian triangle. Between about 3000 and 1000 BC speakers of Austronesian languages spread through the islands of Southeast Asia – most likely starting out from Taiwan, [9] as tribes whose natives were thought to have previously arrived from mainland South China about 8000 years ago – into the edges of western Micronesia and on into Melanesia, through the Philippines and Indonesia.

  5. Wind - Wikipedia

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    The pilot must adjust the airspeed to deal with the effect of the gradient. [101] When landing, wind shear is also a hazard, particularly when the winds are strong. As the glider descends through the wind gradient on final approach to landing, airspeed decreases while sink rate increases, and there is insufficient time to accelerate prior to ...

  6. List of ecoregions affected by woody plant encroachment

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    In Tanzania woody encroachment has been studied in the savanna ecosystem of the Maswa Game Reserve, with detected shrub growth rates of up to 2.6% per annum. Vachellia drepanolobium is the dominant species. [160] Moreover, observed increases of shrubland in the Serengeti Plains are attributed to woody plant encroachment. [161]

  7. Cold fusion - Wikipedia

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    A few other research groups, however, reported successful reproductions of cold fusion during this time. In July 1989, an Indian group from the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (P. K. Iyengar and M. Srinivasan) and in October 1989, John Bockris' group from Texas A&M University reported on the creation of tritium.

  8. Mineral rights - Wikipedia

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    Mineral rights are property rights to exploit an area for the minerals it harbors. Mineral rights can be separate from property ownership (see Split estate).Mineral rights can refer to sedentary minerals that do not move below the Earth's surface or fluid minerals such as oil or natural gas. [1]

  9. Texas oil boom - Wikipedia

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    The Texas oil boom, sometimes called the gusher age, was a period of dramatic change and economic growth in the U.S. state of Texas during the early 20th century that began with the discovery of a large petroleum reserve near Beaumont, Texas.