Mining : What Is Gold Mining?
What Is Gold Mining? Gold mining is the mining resource that extracts gold. How Is Gold Mined? Gold is mined using four different methods. Placer mining, hard rock mining, byproduct … Read More
Category: Learning Geology
Geophysicist Questions Stability of Antarctic Ice Sheet
A professor in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences is joining the growing debate over the fate of the Robert Moucha, assistant professor of Earth sciences, is the co-author … Read More
Oddest Couple Share 250 Million Year Old Burrow
Scientists from South Africa, Australia and France have discovered a world first association while scanning a 250 million year old fossilised burrow from the Karoo Basin of South Africa. The … Read More
“Teodora” World’s Largest Emerald is Fake!!!
The world’s largest cut emerald is set to go up for auction – and is expected to fetch $1.15 million.The 57,500-carat stone, which is the size of a watermelon, is … Read More
Crater Lake–Type Calderas
Crater Lake, Oregon, is situated in a caldera approximately 10 kilometers (6 miles) wide and 1175 meters (more than 3800 feet) deep. This caldera formed about 7000 years ago, when … Read More
Bowen’s Reaction Series and the Composition of Igneous Rocks
Recall that ice freezes at a specific temperature, whereas basaltic magma crystallizes over a range of at least 200°C of cooling (about 1200° to 1000°C). In a laboratory setting, Bowen … Read More
Mountains Are Only Minor Contributors to Erosion and Climate Regulation
Though churning smokestacks, cud-chewing cows and gasoline-burning vehicles are contributing constantly to greenhouse gas emissions, there are also many processes that do the reverse, pulling molecules like carbon dioxide out … Read More
What is the Wilson cycle?
Wilson cycle The cyclical opening and closing of ocean basins caused by movement of the Earth’s plates. The Wilson cycle begins with a rising plume of magma and the thinning … Read More
Volcanic ‘Plumbing Systems’ Exposed
Two new studies into the “plumbing systems” that lie under volcanoes could bring scientists closer to predicting large eruptions.International teams of researchers, led by the University of Leeds, studied the … Read More
Earthquakes: Water as a Lubricant
Geophysicists from Potsdam have established a mode of action that can explain the irregular distribution of strong earthquakes at the San Andreas Fault in California. Reporting in the latest issue … Read More