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The study of geology also encompasses Earth processes which can affect overall civilization. An earthquake can destroy a large number of lives in a few minutes. Also, tsunamis, floods, landslides, droughts, and volcanic activity may have an enormous influence on civilization. Geologists study those processes and can recommend action plans to minimize damage in the event that such events will occur. For example, by studying flood patterns of rivers, geologists can recommend areas to stop when building new cities,towns, and residential neighborhoods in order to prevent future damage. Earthquake science, although a very difficult division of study, might help minimize problems for life and civilization by estimating where earthquakes are likely to occur (referred to as fault lines) also to recommend the technology to use within the construction of buildings over these vulnerable areas. Darkness and light are themes that run heavily through Van Gogh's work. Darkness and light reflected his wish create beauty, his feelings of inadequacy, with his fantastic wish to touch the souls in men. For instance, Starry Night draws the viewer in to the painting of an sleeping village with its swirls of light and its rich evening sky. When tractors were first developed, they used enormous steam engines that were notoriously unreliable and hard to maintain. These were phased out around the turn with the twentieth century and substituted for internal combustion engines which were smaller though powerful and ran on a number of fuels including kerosene, ethanol and gasoline. By the 1960s several of these engines were phased out and only more effective internal combustion engines that ran on diesel and after this, biodiesel.