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The summit of the volcano off the coast of the Canary Island named El Hierro is still about 70 meters below the surface but evidence of the eruption is obvious.
Tags: afghanistan, atlantic-ocean, california, earthquakes, massachusetts, mexico, oceanography, pennsylvania, south, volcanoes, waterSea Grant Alaska has a collection of teaching and learning resources that can be used to create multiple lessons about seamounts for middle school students. Activities include: learning how seamounts form, mapping seamounts and building a seamount model from a topographic map.
Tags: climate-change, energy, geophysics, Jobs, maps, marcellus-shale, massachusetts, michigan, middle-east, oceanography, south, united-states, virginia, water“South Korea was the world’s tenth largest energy consumer in 2008, and with its lack of domestic reserves, Korea is one of the top energy importers in the world. The country is the fifth largest importer of crude oil, the third largest importer of coal , and the second largest importer of liquefied natural gas .” Quoted from the Energy Information Administration Country Analysis Report.
Tags: africa, california, earth sciences, earthquakes, Geology.com, geophysics, Jobs, massachusetts, south, south-africa, washington, water, world“The United States imported about 49% of the petroleum ,1 which includes crude oil and refined petroleum products, that we consumed during 2010. About half of these imports came from the Western Hemisphere.
Tags: ads-by-google, climate-change, energy, geophysics, marcellus-shale, mexico, satellite images, south, united-statesMost of the helium produced in the United States is a by-product of the natural gas industry. When the largest helium production plant went offline a shortage hit almost everyone who didn’t have a stockpile
Tags: california, climate-change, earth sciences, energy-information, geology, Geology.com, Jobs, marcellus-shale, massachusetts, natural, natural gas, satellite images, south, waterMost of the helium produced in the United States is a by-product of the natural gas industry. When the largest helium production plant went offline a shortage hit almost everyone who didn’t have a stockpile.
Tags: ads-by-google, earth sciences, Geology.com, japan, Jobs, marcellus-shale, massachusetts, natural, natural gas, oil and gas, south, united, virginia, world“This image obtained by the framing camera on NASA ’s Dawn spacecraft shows the south pole of the giant asteroid Vesta. Scientists are discussing whether the circular structure that covers most of this image originated by a collision with another asteroid, or by internal processes early in the asteroid’s history.” Quote from the NASA press release.
Tags: asteroid, astronomy, australia, earthquakes, geology, Geology.com, marcellus-shale, pennsylvania, south, south america, south-pole, space, united-states, virginia, water“A NASA -led team has used radar sounding technology developed to explore the subsurface of Mars to create high-resolution maps of freshwater aquifers buried deep beneath an Earth desert , in the first use of airborne sounding radar for aquifer mapping.” Quoted from the NASA press release.
Tags: ads-by-google, astronomy, california, climate-change, earth, geology-news, ground-water, Jobs, marcellus-shale, mars, massachusetts, south, united-states, virginia, waterSasol, the South African company that is famous for making liquid fuels from coal , considers building a $10 billion plant to convert US natural gas into a liquid vehicle fuel.
Tags: climate-change, earthquakes, energy, geology, marcellus-shale, massachusetts, middle-east, news, south, vehicles“Mid- ocean ridges are the topographic manifestation of where the Earth’s tectonic plates separate and spread apart and new oceanic crust is created. The Mid-Cayman Rise is an example of one of these ridges and forms part of the boundary between the North American and Caribbean tectonic plates.” Quoted from the Ocean Explorer website. Profiles of Mt Dent on west of the Mid-Cayman Spreading Center (red) and Mt Everest (yellow) shown at the same scale. Mt Dent is clearly a big (undersea) mountain.
