Geology

Northwest Houston Is Sinking Fast

elevation was about 3 meters (nearly 10 feet) above sea level. Forty years later, the neighborhood stood ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 28 2010 - 2:19pm

My Favourite Geological Photo- AW #32

has impacted into is about 2m thick.  While this is far from the largest bomb on the island, the way ...

Blog Post - Gareth Fabbro - Mar 6 2011 - 12:36pm

Can you guess what it is yet?

incredibly rare in the stratigraphic record. These ones at Corrie are about 250 Ma, which probably makes them ...

Blog Post - Oliver Knevitt - Apr 13 2011 - 5:08am

Costa Rica And Panama Evolution Is A Clue To How Continents Formed

reached continental crust-like composition about 10 million years ago. They tested the material and ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 31 2015 - 1:30pm

San Andreas, The Movie: 5 Geology Facts Versus Fictions

California occupy the Walker Lane that has some fault lines that are capable of up to about magnitude 7.5 ...

Article - News Staff - May 29 2015 - 1:31pm

Arizona, And A Living Desert Underground

"In some of our samples we got about half of what is considered the minimum amount for DNA sequence ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 2 2013 - 5:41pm

Electricity And Seismic Waves Give New View Of Mount Rainier's Volcanic Plumbing

begins to melt about 50 miles beneath Mount Rainier (the red triangle at top). Some is pulled downward ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 17 2014 - 5:33am

Glacier Sticks Out Tongue- Scientists Say Aaaah!

of the ice tongue.   I wrote about it here.   The world's media, perhaps having a shortage of ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Feb 27 2010 - 3:19pm

Discovery: New Active Fault Is Building More Dalmation Islands

movements of the Earth. He said, "In Croatia we can resolve motions at the level of about one mm per ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 24 2011 - 3:37pm

Winter Rains And Groundwater Depletion Change Height Of Sierra Nevada Mountains

isostatic rebound, which may have raised the Sierra as much as half a foot since about 1860. The same ...

Article - News Staff - May 14 2014 - 2:38pm