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High latitude areas around the Earth are seeing spectacular aurora displays in response to an intense solar storm that occurred last week. These displays are expected to be very frequent over the next two years as the sun goes through a period of frequent activity
Tags: current-events, earth, earth sciences, energy, environment, geology, Geology.com, marcellus-shale, meteorites, mexico, news, north-carolina, shale“Nearly five months after severe flooding struck the region, in September 2011, parts of Pakistan ’s Sindh Province remained flooded. In January 2012, patches of standing water occur east of the Indus River.
An asteroid measuring somewhere between 20 and 60 feet in diameter came within 37,000 miles of hitting the Earth – that’s about 1/6 of the distance between Earth and Moon .
Tags: ads-by-google, asteroids and meteorites, earth, earthquakes, energy, environment, geology-news, Geology.com, marcellus-shale, massachusetts, mexico, moon, pennsylvania, south-carolina, virginia“This project aims to map the location of a graveyards around the globe and then use marble gravestones in those graveyards to measure the weathering rate of marble at that location.” Quoted from the project website.
Tags: archaeology, carolina, current-events, earth, environment, geophysics, Jobs, meteorites, north-carolina, project, rocks, south-carolina, united-states, virginiaNASA ’s Earth Observatory has satellite images of recent flooding along the Namoi River in New South Wales, Australia . The waters cut off numerous communities and swamped others
Tags: australia, carolina, current-events, earth, earthquakes, floods, geology, geology-news, geophysics, Jobs, massachusetts, pennsylvania, satellite images, shale, virginiaNASA has a new article that explains that over the past 20 million years magnetic reversals have occurred every 200,000 to 300,000 years but it has been more than twice that long since the last reversal.
Tags: ads-by-google, california, carolina, earth, earth's interior, earthquakes, geology-news, Geology.com, geophysics, marcellus-shale, pennsylvania, plate-tectonics, virginiaResearchers have used Krypton 81 to study the flow of water through the Nubian Aquifer of North Africa . Krypton isotopes can be used to determine how long water has been underground and how fast it has moved
Tags: afghanistan, africa, earth, earthquakes, Jobs, marcellus-shale, middle-east, satellite images, washingtonAn article on the SignOnSanDiego.com website explains what Earth might have been like during the extinction that occurred at the end of the Permian which wiped out most of Earth’s species.
Tags: afghanistan, california, earth, earthquakes, historical geology, marcellus-shale, massachusetts, oceanography, satellite imagesThe land beneath Bangkok is subsiding, sea level is rising and that means flood risk for the Thai capital is rapidly increasing.
Tags: astronomy, california, earth, earthquakes, environment, floods, Geology.com, hawaii, massachusetts, middle-east, united-statesPumps and sandbags are protecting the city of Bangkok, Thailand from rising floodwaters north of the city. Unfortunately, rising water is expected to overtop some of the sandbag levees and flood portions of the city.
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