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Aral Sea 100 years ago - Related Files

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	Dike Kokaral. hope for the future Situated in the former USSR republic of Kazakhstan. Dike Kokaral,is a (concrete and sand) dike across a narrow stretch of the Aral sea, splitting off the North Aral sea from the much larger South Aral sea. The work was completed in August 2005. Actually, the result is so positive, that the authorities of Kazakhstan, thanks with the help of the World bank is building an higher di...		01/04/2009	117
	Aral Sea The Aral Sea: A disappearing sea in Central Asia		08/01/2005	878
	Supersonic Shockwave "Seventeen years ago, astronomers spotted the brightest stellar explosion ever seen since the one observed by Johannes Kepler 400 years ago. Called SN 1987A, the titanic supernova explosion blazed with the power of 100,000,000 suns for several months following its discovery on Feb. 23, 1987. Although the supernova itself is a million times fainter than 17 years ago, a new light show in the...		01/10/2009	466
	Aral Sea - Overlay It's an overlay of Aral Sea.		02/22/2006	392
	Kantubek, Renaissance Island, Uzbekistan Located in the central Aral Sea (45°0′N 59°10′E), Vozrozhdeniya Island was one of the main laboratories and testing sites for the Soviet Union government’s Microbiological Warfare Group. In 1948, a top-secret Soviet bioweapons laboratory was established here. It was here, according to just released documents, that the anthrax spores and the plague bacilli were developed and stored. ...		04/09/2006	651
	shipwrecks at Aral Lake There used to be the Aral Lake all around. Sad story. Zoom in and out to view the unimaginable catastrophy made by humans (posted by Calenglinnar)		03/26/2007	905
	Paderno Bidge This is not famous for almost people, but the engeneer is the same of Tour Eiffel, same project, same iron and same date of building more then 100 years ago.		01/27/2007	188
	Silurian World The Silurian is a major division of the geologic timescale that extends from the end of the Ordovician period, about 443.7 million years ago, to the beginning of the Devonian period, about 416.0 million years ago. During this period, the Earth entered a long warm greenhouse phase, and warm shallow seas covered much of the equatorial land masses. There is evidence that the Silurian icecap...		06/14/2006	942
	Manicouagan Crater 100 Kilometres across, in northern Quebec, it's ne of the oldest impact craters known. Formed during a surely tremendous impact about 200 million years ago. Must have been spectalular.		07/16/2005	1,206
	UYUNI Salar The biggest Salar in the world. With corals and lines visible, it is strongly believed that there was a sea thousand of years ago.		08/10/2005	1,071
	Museum of the Prehistoric World Prehistoric Fossils found at the Holzmaden site. These fossils come from the Jurassic Period, 180 million years ago, when the whole of Europe was submerged under a tropical sea. This sea was the habitat of various saurians. Their skeletons have been preserved in the shale as a unique testimony to the prehistoric world - nowhere in the world are they to be found in such great numbers and so well...		07/19/2006	157
	Anak Krakatau (child of Kratatau) Anak Krakatau emerged from the sea less than 80 years ago, and is a natural laboratory to watch the development of an ecosystem. Since the soil is new, it was uncontaminated with seeds...see kml for more on this.		01/07/2006	1,366