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“The ocean’s canvas swirls with turquoise, teal, navy, and green painted by a massive phytoplankton bloom made up of millions of tiny, light-reflecting organisms growing in the sunlit surface waters of the Barents Sea.” Quoted from the NASA image release.
Tags: archaeology, arctic, australia, barents, earth, geology, marcellus-shale, NASAThe Appalachian Trail is an extremely popular hiking route in the United States and the International Appalachian Trail has been popular in Canada. Now, there are hopes of extending the trail across sites in Europe and Africa that have a plate tectonics connection
Tags: ads-by-google, appalachian, australia, california, canada, earth, europe, marcellus-shale, washingtonEarth Observatory has a satellite image pair that shows before and after images of flooding near the cities of Thatta and Sujawal, Pakistan. Sujawal and surrounding lands suffered severe flooding.
Tags: australia, earth-observatory, flooding, geology-news, Geology.com, marcellus-shale, mexico, pakistan, pennsylvania, philippinesThis video provides an overview of yesterday’s Mariner Energy oil platform fire in the Gulf of Mexico. This was a production platform servicing existing wells, not a drilling rig like the one associated with the BP spill.
Tags: ads-by-google, africa, australia, california, dictionary, energy, geology-news, Geology.com, gulf, Jobs, marcellus-shale, oil and gas, philippines, united-states, washington“The sun’s energy output declined to unusually low levels from 2007 to 2009, a particularly prolonged solar minimum during which there were virtually no sunspots or solar storms. During that same period of low solar activity, Earth’s thermosphere shrank more than at any time in the 43-year era of space exploration.”
Tags: archaeology, article, australia, california, canada, florida, geology, Geology.com, Jobs, marcellus-shale, massachusetts, michigan, united-states, virginiaA study of carbon-14 in the shells of fossil foraminifera living at the end of the last ice age, about 18,000 years ago, suggests an unusual release of carbon dioxide from the Southern Ocean at that time.
Tags: australia, california, carbon, earth sciences, geology, interesting, Jobs, marcellus-shale, massachusetts, mexicoMineral consumption in China has been growing rapidly and Chinese interest in the mineral resources of other countries is growing. This article reviews some of these investments, in particular, two in Afghanistan
Tags: australia, canada, europe, geology, geology-news, mexico, mining, pennsylvania, united-states, virginiaQuebec is a fossil fuel consumer with very little local production. However, some of the first wells are being drilled into the Utica Shale and hundreds more have already been permitted.
Tags: archaeology, australia, europe, geophysics, Jobs, mexico, michigan, natural gas, quebec, shale, utica, washingtonIf you think that coal is a boring black rock then you have never seen it through a transmitted light microscope. The microscope reveals coal’s hidden beauty as well as its composition.
Tags: australia, coal, earth sciences, energy, europe, geology, geology-news, massachusetts, michigan, philippines, united-states, virginiaEven if the deepwater oil and gas drilling ban is lifted early rigs might not immediately move back into the Gulf of Mexico. Many companies claim that they will need more preparation time to comply with new regulations.
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