Geoscience
Two UC Davis geologists are taking part in the Iceland Deep Drilling Project, an international effort to learn more about the potential of geothermal energy, or extracting heat from rocks.
Ever since I wrote Collision Course! Cosmic Impacts and Life on Earth in 2001, I have been updating a webpage that discusses various cosmic impact events.
I just added news about research that connects the origin of a small Siberian lake to the famous Tunguska impact event of 1908.
Geologists have uncovered evidence of when Earth may have first supported an oxygen-rich atmosphere similar to the one we breathe today.
When the Earth was very young, its faster rotation caused it to have a much larger equatorial circumference than it has at the present time. It was spinning fast enough to have a "Saturn type ring" around it.
I've been spending too much time in long discussions about other people's blogs.
Besides, I'm getting tired of the same old subject matter.
Some of the elements necessary to support life on Earth are widely known - oxygen, carbon and water, to name a few. Just as important in the existence of life as any other component is the presence of adenine, an essential organic molecule. Without it, the basic building blocks of life would not come together. Scientists have been trying to find the origin of Earth's adenine and where else it might exist in the solar system. University of Missouri-Columbia researcher Rainer Glaser may have the answer.
An enarmous amount of data and information on Earth Sciences are available on the Internet but accessing specific information is time consuming.
Is this what will become of the Earth's surface? The surface of the Earth is broken up into several large plates that are slowly shifting. About 250 million years ago, the plates on which the present-day continents rest were positioned quite differently, so that all the landmasses were clustered together in one supercontinent now dubbed Pangea.
To my thinking, the Big Bang was the result of the critically condensed and concentrated, gathering, by the very first physical manifestation of the SOURCE of Energy we call love, or God. This, to me, is a more rational interpretation of the Book of Genesis. On top of that, this same God Source Energy still pervades every moment and every millimeter of the Cosmos and of life
We live on a very dynamic planet that is constantly changing. How long this global warming will last is anyone's guess, it may be nearly over or it may go on for hundreds of years.
Is Greenland coming out of a 400 year "Deep Freeze?
A switch from predominantly undersea volcanoes to a mix of undersea and terrestrial ones shifted the Earth's atmosphere from devoid of oxygen to one with free oxygen, according to geologists.
I'm a college student hoping to conduct an experiment without draining my bank account!
