Geology

The Haiti Earthquake: Science, Early warning and mitigation When we experience disasters like the earthquake in Haiti February 2010, we naturally ask the questions: Could we have known (early…

Researchers analyzing recent data from the SPOT 5 and ASTER satellites say that previous studies have largely overestimated mass loss from Alaskan glaciers over the past 40 years. Writing in a recent…

Haiti Event Supersite Established The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) has set up a website page bringing together a welter of geological facts about the recent earthquake in Haiti, together with…

Post Glacial Eustatic Sea Level Rise Was The Danube The Location Of The Noah's Ark Flood? asks a scientificblogging.com news item. Was it the location of Noah's flood?  Doubtful, but it was the…

The January 12th earthquake in Haiti killed an estimated 200,000 people and left 1.5 million homeless. Now, researchers are returning to the island this week to determine whether the quake could…

Scientists from Oregon State University and the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries say a major increase in maximum ocean wave heights off the Pacific Northwest in recent decades has…

The natural climate archives recorded in a stalagmite from a limestone cave in southern Arizona link the Southwest's winter precipitation to temperatures in the North Atlantic, according to new…

This morning I was asked to settle an argument about the Magnetic North Pole being a magnetic south pole. That discussion started me wondering about the dynamo theory, widely accepted now, that the…

The disastrous magnitude 7.0 earthquake that triggered destruction and mounting death tolls in Haiti this week occurred in a highly complex tangle of tectonic faults near the intersection of the…

According to four studies appearing in the latest issue of the Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, the plumbing that feeds the Yellowstone supervolcano shows a plume of molten rock rising…