Geology

Water is integral to life; every living organism requires water to survive. It is used not only to drink but in the production of ...

Discussion about the due date of California’s San Andreas Fault major earthquake birth has reignited since a leading expert claimed the line is “locked, ...

Within the Earth, heat energy is derived from three separate processes: extraterrestrial impacts from materials in the rings surrounding the proto-planet (iron meteorites, stony ...

Accurately collecting, observing, analyzing, and recording soil samples is an important part of any fieldwork related to geology, whether it is simply recording data ...

The International Organization for Migration reports that one out of thirty-five persons in the world is a migrant (1).  Migration is not a new ...

Though human beings have overcome a considerable number of dangers, the sheer magnitude and scope of natural disasters continues to challenge us. Earthquakes can ...

This paper explains how arêtes form in glacial environments.  The paper defines arête as well as other important terminology, explains how these features are ...

The premise of plate tectonic theory is that the outer part of the Earth is made up of individual slabs and plates that slide ...

For over a century, geologists have looked to lava flows and ash tuffs to determine the date of the first volcanic activity at Yellowstone ...

This paper provides an in-depth look at the diamond. It is specifically structured to follow the journey a diamond takes, from its birth as ...