Coasts, destruction

Trivandrum is located at the coast of India. Because of efficient chemical destruction of 03s at subtropical latitudes (see Figure 4), the influence of STE is... 

Some catalysts exposed to air stripping off-gas were subject to deactivation. However, using a catalytic oxidizer at a U.S. Coast Guard facility (Traverse City, Mich.) for the destruction of benzene, toluene, and xylene stripped from the groundwater, the catalytic oxidization unit operated at 260 to 315°C, and was able to achieve 90% destruction efficiency (see Groundwatermonitoring). 

The destructive hydraulic forces of mild-mannered water were displayed in a classic style on a summer evening in 1996. A Gulf Coast chemical plant had just rejuvenated a recovery tank and started a hydrotest when things went wrong. The poorly executed test added 35,000 to the repair costs. Other than embarrassment, no one was injured. In the previous three weeks this tank had received repairs consisting of a new floor and new walls in the lower section. 

The coasts of Saka Lagoon host institutions for mud-cures. Beaches and bars are subjected to erosion because of the non-regulated economic activity on the coasts and related deficiency of the alongshore sediment transport. At places, the rate of the coastline recession reaches 5 m/year. The coastal erosion may result in a complete destruction of the Evpatoriyan beaches. 

Surges represent a serious hazard for the low coasts of the Kerch Strait. For example, during the hurricane of 28-29 October 1969, a surge wave fully flooded a coastal band a few kilometers wide. The surge height exceeded 3 m. The flood was accompanied by the destruction of near-shore constructions and communications and human losses. 

The strong waves that develop during storms create serious obstacles for practical activities in the sea and on the coasts, such as dangers for navigation, destruction of coastal constructions, and, recently, from losses at the prospecting and extraction of hydrocarbon resources. In some cases, the storm activity is enhanced by local winds owing to the orographic effects. 

The banded sunflower moth (Cochylis hospes Wlshm. also cited as Phalonia hospes Wlshm. (Schulz, 1978)) is a relatively minor pest of sunflower that attacks the flower heads and causes seed destruction. However, damage has increased in North Dakota in recent years (Charlet et al., 1995). While the insect is also found on Jerusalem artichoke (Beregovoy and Riemann, 1987), its activity is of no economic consequence. The banded sunflower moth is found from the East Coast of the U.S. to the Dakotas, and south into Kansas, Arkansas, and Texas, as well as in Saskatchewan and Manitoba in Canada (Westdal, 1949). 

Hospitals and other health care facilities may further classify disasters as either internal or external. External disasters are those that do not affect the hospital infrastructure but do tax hospital resources due to numbers of patients or types of injuries (Cans, 2001). For example, a tornado that produced numerous injuries and deaths in a community would be considered an external disaster. Internal disasters cause disruption of normal hospital function due to injuries or deaths of hospital personnel or damage to the physical plant, as with a hospital fire, power failure, or chemical spill (Aghababian, Lewis, Cans, Curley, 1994). Unfortunately, one type of hospital disaster does not necessarily preclude the other, and features of both internal and external disasters may be present if a natural phenomenon affects both the community and the hospital. This was the case with Hurricane Andrew (1992), which caused significant destruction in hospitals, in clinics, and in the surrounding community when it struck south Florida (Sabatino, 1992), and Hurricane Katrina (2005) when it impacted the Gulf Coast, rupturing the levee in New Orleans (Berggren, 2005). 

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Gulf Coast, leaving behind a trail of mass destruction... 

Schneider, J., 1976. Biological and Inorganic Factors in the Destruction of Limestone Coasts. Contributions to Sedimentology, No. 6, E. Schweizebartsche Verlagsbuch-handlung, Stuttgart, 112 pp. 

Tsunamis are most evident along coasts. The leading edges of tsunamis can form walls of water thousands of miles long. As water arrives at the coast, it slows, causing the waves to compress and direct their energy upward. When the tall waves break on the shore, the walls of water crash against the coast with destructive force. 

Here, near the bottom of the world, the fashion mogul saw a microcosm for all of humanity s environmental ills—and a laboratory for finding ways to fix them. The big threats were all here destruction of forests and habitats, dying rivers and ocean coasts, topsoil erosion, brutal extraction of resources and energy without regard for life or landscape. There were displaced populations, lost cultures, and mass extinctions already under way—not just of rare animals but of critical species that pollinate crops, control pests, and clean the air—a rate of dying out that hasn t been seen in 65 million years, when the once-dominant dinosaurs perished. Underlying it all, there was the... 

This practice, known as bottom trawling or benthic trawling, is so destructive that in 2006 the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration banned it in more than 150,000 marine waters off the West Coast of the United States in order to protect important fisheries and habitats. The practice was curtailed in other U.S. waters as well, but the restrictions did not stop bottom trawling for shrimp in the Gulf of Mexico. 

Submarine hydrates feature prominently in the recent novel Fire Ice (by Clive Cussler with Paul Kempre-cos), in which a scheme is developed by a megalomaniac Russian tycoon to explode methane hydrate deposits off the East coast of the United States, creating destructive tidal waves. 

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