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Poverty Point, Louisiana is a historical place that has brought many mysteries and uncovered cultures in that place. There are many historical findings that have made Poverty Point known. Mounds were big hills used by many early American groups, for organized “cemeteries”. Interestingly, the people at poverty point did make these mounds, but they were not made for this use. The mounds were there to have houses and homes on them, and to show that you had a wealthy status. The mounds were all…

The 1930’s was a struggling time for people in the West because of the Dust Bowl, causing lots of problems with the way the people live and their land. This essay is going to explain how the Dust Bowl had developed and the different problems and effects on the people living in the West. To start off, the development of the Dust Bowl started off in 1930 but getting its name in April 15, 1935. The Dust Bowl as stated in passage 1 “The drought hit first in the eastern part of the country in 1930.…

In 1972 Maurice Taieb, 40, of France's National Center for Scientific Research, and Donald Carl Johanson, 34, of Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, discovered stone instruments going back 2.6 million years in the Afar area of Ethiopia. After two years their group made a considerably more sensational disclosure. On November 24, 1974, Donald Johanson and his understudy Tom Gray were reviewing a site named Hadar in the Afar area of Ethiopia, East -Africa…

The residents of Louisiana are still recovering from what has been called the greatest natural disaster since Hurricane Sandy: a flood causing considerable damage to the region in this August 2016. It’s true that a large portion of Louisiana is made up of lowlands prone to flooding, but this instance was particularly noteworthy because of the power of the weather and the magnitude of water deposited. The floodwaters beat record highs by as much as 5 feet in some areas, and thousands of people…

Discussion: Mudboils cause structural failures since they are suspensions of gravel, clay, silt and fine sand creating an unstable surface. Since the beginning of persistent mudboil activity in the 1970’s, natural landscapes and engineered features have become subject to land-subsidence as mudoils continually deteriorate the areas in their path (Tresohlavy 2003, pp. 27). Petroleum pipeline rerouting, telephone cable burials, and the collapse of bridges have demonstrated the true capabilities of…

is an important source for growing crops, and act as a source of water. The Nile River was worshipped as though it was god that provided life for the Egyptians. I learned that the Nile River did cause flood destroying villages and the production of silt would change depending on the amount of floodwater. The areas of Lower Egypt and Upper Egypt used the Nile River as a form of transportation so people would get the chance to trade with other people. I also found pyramids made out of stones,…

GNCB Consulting Engineers, P.C. in Old Saybrook, CT provides geotechnical and structural engineering and historic preservation consultation to a variety of public and private agencies, and contractors. With over 50 years of engineering experience, GNCBs professional services are always completed in a timely and efficient manner. In addition to the undergraduate and graduate training our professions go through, many of the staff at GNCB attends a variety of workshops and seminars to keep in the…

Yellow River, is found in the north. In central China, the Chang Jiang (chang•jyhang), also called Yangtze (yang•SEE), flows east to the Yellow Sea. The Huang He, whose name means “yellow river,” deposits huge amounts of yellowish silt when it overflows its banks. This silt is actually fertile soil called loess (LOH•uhs), which is blown by the winds from deserts to the west and north. Environmental Challenges Like the other ancient civilizations in this…

The destruction of the Earth’s Lungs: During any given moments in the average human’s typical day, a large portion of the Amazon rainforest will have just been destroyed by bulldozing government agencies that work on an industrial scale in efforts to increase marketing globalization. The Amazon in South America is the largest rainforest on Earth despite it’s increasing destruction, the Amazon remains as half the planet’s remaining rainforest, inhabiting a diverse group of species of plants and…

amalgamation of droughts and farming conditions that spearheaded the coming storm. Crops and grasses that had once held soil in its place disappeared and made it easy for wind storms to lift the top soil until everything was covered in a copious layer of silt. Not only, had the winds displaced the top soil, but they had had also displaced many families as well. While, countless farmers had been suffering along for decades, the dust bowl buried them financially. Under those circumstances, many…