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In this YouTube video, Martitia Tuttle explains paleoseismology and narrates a field visit to look at ancient liquefaction features.
Tags: carolina, current-events, earth sciences, learning, meteorites, mexico, news, south-carolina, united-states, usgs, virginia“For decades, however, scientists have wondered if the less volatile subsurface in areas such as Texas could provide economically viable locations for geothermal power.” Quoted from the University of Texas at Austin press release.
Tags: Jobs, maps, marcellus-shale, meteorites, middle-east, north-carolina, pennsylvania, shale, south-carolina, texas, universityThis video and article feature some of the positive impacts that natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale has brought to the economy of Washington County, Pennsylvania and neighboring areas.
Tags: current-events, geology, Geology.com, Jobs, middle-east, ohio, shale, south-carolina, utica shale“A thick lava flow has been creeping down the eastern slopes of Kizimen Volcano in eastern Russia since its eruption began in December 2010. The flow has advanced about 600 meters (2,000 feet) since September 2011.” Quoted from the Earth Observatory image release.
Tags: climate-change, geology, Geology.com, interesting, marcellus-shale, news, north-carolina, shale, south-carolinaAnalysts are expecting natural gas prices to continue falling during 2012 as overproduction and slow adoption of the fuel in the transportation and electricity generation industries continues.
Tags: ads-by-google, canada, climate-change, earth sciences, earthquakes, energy, Geology.com, Jobs, marcellus-shale, mexico, pennsylvania, south-carolina, united, united-states, virginia“ Meteorites hold a record of the chemicals that existed in the early Solar System and that may have been a crucial source of the organic compounds that gave rise to life on Earth.” Quoted from the Carnegie Institution for Science press release.
Tags: climate-change, current-events, earth sciences, earthquakes, meteorites, news, north-carolina, shale, south-carolina, space, virginiaA strong M6.7 earthquake occurred in the Negros-Cebu Region of the Philippines at 11:49 AM local time on Monday, February 6, 2012. News reports
“ Earthquakes have been documented in the northeastern Caribbean since the arrival of Columbus to the Americas.” USGS has released: “Accounts of Damage from Historical Earthquakes in the Northeastern Caribbean, to Aid in the Determination of their Location and Intensity Magnitudes”.
NASA ’s GRAIL mission has beamed back its first video of the far side of the moon . The imagery was taken on Jan. 19 by the MoonKAM aboard the mission’s “Ebb” spacecraft.
Tags: ads-by-google, energy, marcellus-shale, massachusetts, moon, NASA, news, north-carolina, shale, south-carolina, united-statesSome people don’t like the word “fracking” and want the term hydraulic fracturing to always be used in its place.
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