![]() Situated roughly 700km south west of Sri Lanka, the Maldives (consisting of more than 1000 islands) has a height elevation of just 1.5m above sea level, making it the lowest lying nation in the world.ĭr O’Leary’s research background is in using past sea levels as a proxy to understand how the polar ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica have waxed and waned with changing temperatures, causing the oceans to increase and decrease their volume. investigation as part of REEForm, a working group established by the International Association of Geomorphologists to examine reef and reef landform responses to past, present and future environmental changes. They will investigate how the low-lying archipelago can survive a rise in sea level. Rising sea levels as a result of global warming could seriously impact the picturesque Maldive Islands, according to University of Notre Dame Australia academic, Dr Michael O’Leary.ĭr O’Leary is one of six delegates from around the world invited on a three-week expedition to the Maldives. It can be further improved by including recent, high-accurate measurements and more reliable data concerning the ancient Earth's rotation values for comparison. Thus, our model gives a good description of the Earth-Moon system past for any time. Our model furnishes a point of maximum approximation of the Moon at 4500 Ma, in a good agreement with the modern theories about the Earth-Moon system formation and with the results obtained through the analysis of sedimentary cyclic rhythmites. Using IERS data and the equation for the transfer of rotational angular momentum from Earth to the lunar orbital angular momentum due to tidal friction of the Moon and the Sun we found equations for the Earths angular velocity and semi-major axis of Moons orbit. ![]() Based on the data about the Earth's rotation, since 1623, provided by IERS, we investigated the secular perturbations in the past of the Earth-Moon system. timescale are catastrophic: around 1500 Ma the Moon would have been close to Earth, with the consequence that the much larger tidal forces would have disrupted the Moon. The implications of employing the present rate of tidal energy dissipation on a geological. Most notably, the transfer of angular momentum from Earth to the Moon has resulted in an appreciable secular increase in the length of the day and a retreat of the Moon from Earth. The well-known tides induced on Earth by the Sun and the Moon have had several long-term effects over the age of Earth. His most recent collection, Grain, was published by Picador in 2009. John Glenday’s first collection, The Apple Ghost, won a Scottish Arts Council Book Award and his second, Undark, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. He was winner of the prose poetry round of the Markiz al-Nour competition in 2010. His debut collection, Two Moons and a Night, was published in collaboration with the late poet Omar Abd al-Razaq. Zahir Mousa is an Iraqi poet living in Baghdad, where he works as an Arabic Language teacher. ![]() How about it? We shatter ourselves against the mirror? Peel back our skin like banana-skins? Snuff out the light which forces us to witness? And forget each room as we abandon it? How about it? We hand in letters of resignation to our wives? And bags of jelly-baby Daddies-and-Mummies for the kids? And for our folks, a copy of Kafka’s ‘Die Verwandlung’? And then abandon the house? How about it? We use our scuffing shoulders to rub out those faces chalked on the alley walls? Wear down flagstones to cover our own tracks? Give stupid nicknames to the avenues, the statues, the High Street stores? And finally abandon the city? How about it? We conflate Standard English and jibberish? Lift pen from beloved paper - Juliet lost to her Romeo? Drag continent further from continent, so baffled planes touch down on the sea and sailors, ever sailing, die of hunger? And abandon the world? How about it? Shall we wither the battlements of Heaven with innocent dreams? Vault rivers of promised wine to keep our heads clear? Whisper to those doe-eyed houris: – ‘this impotence – it’s not physical, you understand …’? And finally finally step backwards into Adam’s footprints Adam’s bones?
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