CORAL CHEMISTRY AND GROWTH PA1TERNS 
        Temperature of oceanic and coastal surface water, salinity 

DUST STORM MAGNITUDE, DURATION AND FREQUENCY 
        Dust transport, aridification, land use 

FROZEN GROUND ACTIVITY 
        Climate, hydrology, downslope movement -especially in the near-surface 

GLACIER FLUCTUATIONS 
        Precipitation, insolation, melt runoff 

GROUNDWATER QUALITY 
        Industrial, agricultural and urban pollution, rock and soil weathering, land use, radioactivity, acid precipitation 

GROUNDWATER LEVEL 
        Climate, extraction and recharge 

KARST ACTIVITY 
        Groundwater chemistry and flow, climate, vegetaion cover, fluvial processes 

LAKE LEVELS AND SALINITY 
        Climate, land use, streamflow, groundwater flow 

RELATIVE SEA LEVEL 
        Coastal subsidence and uplift, climate, fluid withdrawal, sedimentation and compaction 

SEISMICITY 
        Natural and human-induced release of earth stresses 

SHORELINE POSITION 
        Coastal erosion, sediment transport and deposition, land use, sea levels, climate 

SLOPE FAILURE (LANDSLIDES) 
        Slope stability, slow and rapid mass movement, land use 

SOIL AND SEDIMENT EROSION 
        Climate, surface runoff, wind, land use 

SOIL QUALITY
         Chemical, biological and physical soil processes, land use 

STREAMFLOW 
        Climate, precipitation, basin discharge, land use 

STREAM CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY 
        Sediment load, flow rates, climate, land use, surface displacement 

STREAM SEDIMENT STORAGE AND LOAD 
        Sediment transport, flow rates, basin descharge, land use 

STREAM SEDIMENT STORAGE AND LOAD 
        Sediment transport, flow rates, basin descharge, land use 

SURFACE DISPLACEMENT 
        Land uplift and subsidence, faulting, fluid extraction 

VOLCANIC UNREST 
        Near-surface movement of magma, magmatic degassing, heat flow