Geology
- Where on Google Earth #246
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Happy New Year, and welcome to the first "Where on Google Earth" (WoGE) of 2011. I was shocked to find out that my guess at WoGE #245 was correct, (Plymouth, Montserrat being the most post-apocalyptic looking place I could think of) so it is wi ...
Blog Post - Gareth Fabbro - Jan 3 2011 - 4:56pm
- The Moon Has A Core Also
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It may seem intuitive that the Moon might have a core, just as Earth does, but science doesn't work on intuition. Absent drilling or inference, it has been hypothesized that Luna has a core but now researchers are closer to an answer, thanks to old A ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 6 2011 - 4:23pm
- What have we learnt from Eyjafjallajökull
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The eruption of Eyjafjallajökull (here is Wikipedia's handy pronunciation file) last summer was widely covered in the media, generating some stunning images (and perhaps the most beautiful video of the year). From a scientific point of view ...
Blog Post - Gareth Fabbro - Nov 20 2011 - 11:32am
- Where on Google Earth #253
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As Where on Google Earth #252 was somewhere I know well, having studied a course that was almost entirely dedicated to the tectonics of the region (which included a fieldtrip), I'm quite glad I managed to work it out. The fan delta in the centre of t ...
Blog Post - Gareth Fabbro - Jan 18 2011 - 2:13pm
- A 'Smoking Gun' For The Late Permian Extinction
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About 250 million years about 70 percent of life on land was wiped out. A new study says it has evidence to support massive volcanic eruptions that had broad impact on the global oceans and contributed to the extinction. Researchers at the University of ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 23 2011 - 10:26pm
- Trouble At Yellowstone?
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Erik Klemetti (of the Eruptions Blog) posted about this paper (An extraordinary episode of Yellowstone caldera uplift, 2004–2010, from GPS and InSAR observations) that has been ...
Article - Gareth Fabbro - Nov 20 2011 - 11:28am
- Some Yellowstone myths, courtesy of CNN
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Usually, I don't think it is worth pointing out everything the media gets wrong. I don't think it is particularly constructive concentrating on what's wrong, better to simply try and write well about science myself. However, there occasion ...
Blog Post - Gareth Fabbro - Jan 27 2011 - 7:14pm
- Liquid Hot Magma- A Beneficial Geothermal Accident
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Sometimes good things result from bad things. When scientists drilling near an Icelandic volcano hit magma, they had to abandon their experiments on geothermal energy but it turns out they may have discovered an alternative source of geothermal power. Wh ...
Article - News Staff - Feb 17 2011 - 4:13pm
- Rainforests On Mars
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Does anybody remember that film, Mission to Mars? Its a good one. Basically, this band of astronauts tootle off to Mars to find their buddy, against all odds find him and, moreover, find that he seems to be doing just fine by growing tomatoes in a make-shi ...
Article - Oliver Knevitt - May 24 2019 - 1:10pm
- Washington Thrust: Birth of a Mountain Range
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Two hundred million years ago, Washington was two large islands, bits of continent on the move westward, eventually bumping up against the North American continent and calling it home. Even with their new fixed address, the shifting continues; the more ext ...
Blog Post - Heidi Henderson - Feb 25 2011 - 1:57pm
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