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The February 2008 earthquake centered at Wells, Nevada was 6.3 on the Richter scale.

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At what temperature does calcium carbonate decompose?

1000 degrees C, decomposing into CaO(s) and CO2(g)


Why is Stone Mountain a constructive force?

Stone Mountain is a quartz monzonitedome monadnock in Stone Mountain, Georgia, United States. At its summit, theelevation is 1,686 feet (513m) and 825 feet (251.5 m) above the surrounding area. Stone Mountain granite extends underground 9 miles (14 km) at its longest point into Gwinnett County. Earth has different landforms, or features. Landforms are made by constructive and destructive forces within and upon the Earth. Constructive forces basically have to do with Nature... so that should explain it.


What happens to the solidity of calcium carbonate is heated?

When calcium carbonate is heated, it breaks down by thermal decomposition to carbon dioxide & calcium oxide (quicklime). Here is the word equation: Calcium carbonate --> Calcium oxide + Carbon dioxide Here is the chemical equation: CaCO3 (s) --> CaO (s) + CO2 (g)


How much rainfall can be expected from an averaged hurricane?

In 1981, William Gray, the nation's leading hurricane forecaster, published a paper stating that an average hurricane produces a little over half an inch of rain a day within a circular area 825 miles across. If you convert this to a volume of rain, you get about 1.3 x 1015 cubic inches a day. That's enough rain to fill over 22 million Olympic-sized swimming pools!That, of course, is an average. Hurricanes do not all produce the same amounts of rain, nor does it fall uniformly over the area of the cyclone. Furthermore, the effects of a lesser amount of rain may be exaggerated by topography and runoff. In this, as in most things to do with hurricanes, one must be prepared for the worst, and hope for the best.