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If you didn’t get to see the Dig It! The Secrets of Soil exhibit at the Smithsonian, you can see videos and other information from the exhibit on the Smithsonian website. Pictured at right are two of the interactive topics.
Tags: ads-by-google, carolina, current-events, earth-science, engineering geology, environment, Jobs, marcellus-shale, meteorites, pennsylvania, shale, teaching science, virginia“After a succession of eight separate earthquake simulations, a 110-foot long, 200-ton concrete bridge model at the University of Nevada, Reno withstood a powerful jolting, three times the acceleration of the disastrous 1994 magnitude 6.9 Northridge, California earthquake, and survived in good condition.” Quoted from the University of Nevada, Reno press release.
Tags: africa, archaeology, earth sciences, engineering geology, florida, geology, geology-news, marcellus-shaleLiDAR, Light Detection And Ranging technology, is finding more and more uses in geology. A symposium on October 31 at the 2010 GSA annual meeting will “explore the application of airborne and terrestrial LiDAR to paleoseismology, neotectonics, salt marsh ecology, lava flow morphology, post-fire slope processes, engineering geology, rockfalls and debris flows, geologic mapping,
Tags: ads-by-google, africa, coastal geology, earthquakes, engineering geology, Geology.com, geophysics, Jobs, landslides, maps, massachusetts, michigan, pennsylvania, virginiaAn article on the National Geographic website explores the “Top Ten Issues Facing National Parks”. Intensity of human visitation, insects, climate change and seven other problems are cited.
Tags: africa, climate-change, engineering geology, europe, Jobs, michigan, united-states, virginiaIn 1985 the town of Potosi, Venezuela was flooded to make way for the Uribante Reservoir hydroelectric project. Now the area is suffering from a severe drought and the town has reappeared as reservoir levels drop.
Tags: ads-by-google, archaeology, australia, canada, energy, engineering geology, europe, floods, geology, geology-news, Geology.com, michigan, oregon, pennsylvania, washingtonThe Arizona Geological Survey has lots of geologic hazards information for homeowners and home buyers that can be downloaded and viewed immediately for free from their website. Their webpage for real estate hazards includes information on floods, earthquakes, problem soils, mass movements, subsidence and earth fissures, radon, karst, abandon mines, volcanic hazards, radon
Tags: arizona, caves and karst, earthquakes, engineering geology, environment, floods, geology, Geology.com, geophysics, landslides, moved-temporarily, natural hazards, soil, subsidence, temporarilyA nine-foot-diameter tunnel will be constructed beneath San Francisco Bay to create a water line that will transport water for millions of people.
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San Francisco Bay Water Tunnel
USGS has a fact sheet that illustrates and explains the different types of landslides.
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