Moira Forbes, publisher of ForbesWoman, to Headline Possible Woman Conference Moira Forbes - Keynote Speaker Moira Forbes, publisher of ForbesWoman, and associate publisher of ForbesLife, will be the featured speaker at the 15th Annual Possible Woman Conference Wednesday April 27 at Atlanta Marriott Marquis. Register NOW!
A geotextile is a synthetic permeable textile material used with soil, rock, or any other geotechnical engineering related material. Geotextiles, also called geosynthetics, are generally associated with high-standard all-season roads, but can be used in low-standard logging roads.
Geodesy, the science of measuring the Earth's shape and positions on it, lets us measure plate motions directly using GPS, the Global Positioning System. This network of satellites is more stable than the Earth's surface, so when a whole continent moves somewhere at a few centimeters per year, GPS can tell.