Geology

Welcome to the 'Geology' tag page at Technorati. This page features content from the farthest reaches of the Blogosphere that authors have "tagged" with 'Geology'.

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Geology”

• One Mans Lake is Another Mans Text Book

  
  YosemiteBlog.com — Authority: 129
  Most visitors to Yosemite see Siesta Lake as a picturesque spot to stop and stretch your legs along the Tioga Road but Professor of Geology, Garry Hayes sees it as a tool to help students understand glaciation in the Sierra. Photo by Dolan Halbrook Most people stop at the small pond next to the Tioga Road without ...
  12 hours ago

• Cave Study Links Climate Change to Centuries-long California Droughts

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 155
  California experienced centuries-long droughts in the past 20,000 years that coincided with the thawing of ice caps in the Arctic, according to a new study by UC Davis doctoral student Jessica Oster and geology professor Isabel Montañez. The finding, which comes from analyzing stalagmites from Moaning Cavern in the ...
  14 hours ago

• Scientists Say That Earthquakes Never End

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 143
  A train thrown down by the earthquake that struck San Francisco on April 18, 1906 (via Wikimedia Commons ). Steve Connor writes in the Independent : Some of the most violent earthquakes that have occurred unexpectedly in places with no recent record of tremors may be the aftershocks of previous earthquakes ...
  18 hours ago

• Why you might want to live in ND...

  
  Faraday's Cage is where you put Schroedinger's Cat — Authority: 120
  "Interesting. Youre afraid of insects and women. Ladybugs must render you catatonic." - Sheldon, The Big Bang Theory Yesterday was the one lab that I simultaneously love and hate. It involves modeling of river processes using a stream table. It is, in my opinion, by far the most educational lab in the whole series ...
  20 hours ago

• Cariboo Mountain Geology

  
  Scientific Blogging — Authority: 630
  read more [IMG: http://static.flickr.com/3543/3782036081_d366fd0c5e_m.jpg]
  22 hours ago

• Newly Acquired Manitoba Intrusive Complex Yields High REE Values

  
  Mining Top News — Authority: 434
  Canadian International Minerals Inc (CIN) has been granted a 5000 hectare Mineral Exploration Licence (MEL) in the Knee Lake region in central Manitoba. The MEL covers the Cinder Lake alkaline intrusive complex (CLC) which has only recently been studied by the Manitoba Geological Survey (MGS) and the Department of ...
  1 day ago

• Flooding in Kenya

  
  Geology News — Authority: 531
  In the coming weeks, flooding and landslides are predicted to endanger hundreds of thousands of people in Kenya. A large percentage of the people in vulnerable areas are Somali refugees.
  1 day ago

• LPI Lunar Exploration Summer Intern Program – Deadline Jan 22, 2010

  
  OSGC Educational Resources Blog — Authority: 130
  The Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) will host a special summer intern program during the summer of 2010 to evaluate possible landing sites for robotic and human exploration missions. Four to six interns will work with LPI science staff and other collaborators to evaluate the best landing sites to address each of ...
  1 day ago

• Break Open The Ouzo: A New “Atlantis” is Revealed in Greece

  
  Newsflavor — Authority: 427
  A new ‘possible’ site for Atlantis may have been discovered off the coast of southern Greece.  A team of archaeologists and marine geologists from Greece and England’s University of Nottingham have been working together to ‘fathom’ (sorry couldn’t resist the nautical term me hearties!) whether this ...
  1 day ago

• Expeditions to the Polar Regions

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 734
  The Polar Discovery team has documented science in action from pole to pole during the historic 2007-2009 International Polar Year, and covered five scientific expeditions . The science projects explored a range of topics from climate change and glaciers, to Earths geology, biology, ocean chemistry, circulation, and ...
  1 day ago

• Carbonite And Its Many Uses.

  
  Homeschool Facts — Authority: 461
  One of the earliest forms of dynamite ever created for coal mining was carbonite. Within its own capabilities, it is one of the most successful kinds of explosives. It was created by Bichel of...
  2 days ago

• Tiny Tails Wagging Gigantic Dogs

  
  Science and the Sacred — Authority: 537
  In my last blog post I addressed some questions of logic that had been raised on a popular anti-evolutionary blog, and how scientific arguments are often caricatured to make them appear to be committing logical fallacies. In this post, I...
  2 days ago

• The Value of Coral Reefs

  
  Geology News — Authority: 531
  Coral reefs are a valuable part of aquatic ecosystems. They also happen to be quite valuable to the global economy. This article discusses the relative “price” of preserving environments like these.
  2 days ago

• The Many Uses Of Carbonite

  
  Very Good Search Info Center — Authority: 165
  Created during the early coal mining era. Invented by Bichel of Schmidt and Bichel, it showed that it had the potential to become one of the most influential and successful kind of explosive matter.
  2 days ago

• 10 Nice Things About a Soft Core Planet

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 736
  An audio-visual tour of 10 great things about living on our soft-core planet with innards as hot as the Sun.
  3 days ago

• November 8, 1656

  
  Professor Olsen @ Large — Authority: 123
  On this date, the astronomer Edmund Halley was born on the eastern edge of London, England. Although he is chiefly remembered for the comet which bears his name, he also made a mark for himself in geology. In 1715, he lectured the Royal Society of London that the age of the Earth could be calculated [...]
  3 days ago

• Sea eagles, basalt dykes and raised beaches on Juras SW coast

  
  Sea kayaking with SeaKayakPhoto.com — Authority: 127
  Once round Rubh a Chrois-aoinidh, we had left Loch Tarbert on Jura and now entered the Sound of Islay. We still had 14.5km to go till we reached Port Askaig and there was only two hours until we had to be on the ferry. There was some anxiety within the party. However, our detour round Loch Tarbert had allowed the tide ...
  3 days ago

• Sea Serpents in the Adirondacks? You Bet!

  
  Adirondack Almanack — Authority: 540
  Scandinavian folklore has described eskers as being formed by large sea serpents crawling inland to die. Celtic lore describes eskers as being formed by monks carrying baskets of sand inland from the sea as a form of penitence. What are eskers?They’re glacial features that kind of look like an up side-down ...
  3 days ago

• 20091106-Dinos Zapped

  
  Flynn's Blogs — Authority: 150
  Watching ‘Mega Disaters – Asteroid Apocalypse’. Thoughts of solar discharged killing life abruptly, tasered & rendered immobile, heavy dinos breathing stopped..
  4 days ago

• Atomische : Crystal Reservoir II / 2007

  
  atomische § tumblr — Authority: 563
  Atomische  : Crystal Reservoir II / 2007
  4 days ago

Comments about Geology