Africa is splitting in two.
Geologists now have evidence Africa is physically splitting into two continents
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Category Archives: Geology
Okay I hate to say this…
Because I sound like I can has cheezburger but…
So much want…
Wow, That’s a Big Ancient City
How did people live in such density before sanitation?
Ancient city’s LiDAR scans reveal as many buildings as Manhattan
The Title of This Article
says it all…
MYSTERIOUS ANCIENT EGYPTIAN ROCK MADE OF TINY DIAMONDS FORMED BEFORE THE SOLAR SYSTEM EXISTED
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Mass Movement
The video below is drone footage of Rattlesnake Ridge near Yakima, Washington. That’s a big crack in a lot of loose sediment.
Platetectonics
Some instructive videos…
and…
A 99 Million Year Old Bird
Birds are one of the rarest of all fossils. This is pretty awesome!
99-million-year-old bird found preserved in amber stuns scientists
A Chocolate Geode
Wow. If you liked growing crystals for EPS, this guy has a project you might want to try.
Our Greatest Geological Discovery Is This Chocolate Boulder With Edible Candy Geodes Inside
Getting Rid of a Big Rock
I mention this every year when we speak of mass movements in Dynamic Earth. Every year or two a photo online shows up of a giant boulder sitting on a west coast road. There is only one sure way of removing a rock this big, dynamite.
Science News
A Crack in the Desert
The reason is interesting as well.
An Enormous Crack Just Opened Up In The Middle Of The Arizona Desert
A 100 Million Year Old Insect That Defines A New Type
This is cool…
OSU Researcher George Poinar discovered an ancient insect, frozen in amber, so unusual that a new order had to be created. This creature has a triangular head that makes it look like ET.
Scientists discover ‘alien’ insect in amber from 100 million years ago
Old Faithful Erupting at 0°F
Wow!
Forbidden Symmetry?
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‘Forbidden Symmetry’ Found in 4.5-Billion-Year-Old Meteorite
Cave Diving
Very, very dangerous!
Carbon Capture That Works
Pyroclastic Flow
Wow, very scary. These flows can reach hundreds of degrees, and they’re fast.
This one is from Japan.
An Alien Ecosystem
The Rebirth of Project Moho
Drilling through the Earth’s crust to reach the mantle. Holy….
This week, geologists will attempt to drill through Earth’s crust and into the mantle
More Earth Movements
70,000 cubic feet of rock plummets 1,000 feet
In the Swiss Alps. Mass Movements!
via: BGR.com
Wind Cave May Have the Purest Water on Earth
Interesting. South Dakota is one of my favorite states, and the Black Hills are beautiful.
South Dakota’s Underground Lakes May Hold Purest Water On Earth
Rocks + Gravity
A not uncommon sight out west. Fun when it happens along the Pacific Coast Highway.
Minerals
To be used in class Monday…
with Devin Dennie, Ph.D.
The Velocichicken
I’ve mentioned before in Dynamic Earth about experiments to reactivate dormant genes in chicken embryos. The develop into rather dinosaur-looking creatures. This is pretty solid verification of the theory that birds are a development of dinosaurs.