Reported from Geology.com:
The Tucson Gem and Mineral Show and it would be impossible to take enough photos to do the show justice. However, here is just a few of the things that we have seen.
Sulfur, salt, and other minerals color the crater of Ethiopia’s Dallol volcano.
Reported from BBC News at www.news.bbc.co.uk:
We may be witnessing a transformation of the Earth as profound as the end of the age of the dinosaurs, and entering a geological period as distinctive as the Jurassic - and the reason is that we are causing it
Reported from www.geotimes.org:
Geo-temptations on the Emerald Isle
Reported from Geology.com:
Igneous Rocks
Pictures of Intrusive and Extrusive Rock Types
Reported from news.xinhuanet.com:
SHENYANG, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- Geologists have discovered an iron ore deposit estimated to be at least 1 billion tons in northeast China's Liaoning Province after more than two years of exploration......
Reported from www.livescience.com:
Dinosaur doomsday was wetter than scientists have thought, according to new images of the crater where the space rock that likely killed the dinosaurs landed.
Reported from Nationalgeographic.com:
A newly identified fault running under the Adriatic Sea is building more of Croatia's Dalmatian Islands and bulking up the Dinaric Alps, a new study says.
Reported from Nationalgeographic.com:
"There is no other place on the planet," García-Ruiz said, "where the mineral world reveals itself in such beauty."
Physorg.com Reports:
After enduring months on the coldest, driest, and windiest continent on Earth, researchers today closed out the inaugural season on an unprecedented, multi-year effort to retrieve the most detailed record of greenhouse gases in Eart
British Antarctic Survey reports on www.antarctica.ac.uk:
Press Release - Exploration of lake hidden beneath Antarctica's ice sheet begins
The Charlotte Observer reports from www.charlotte.com:
Northwest looks to volcanoes for energy
BBC News Reports from news.bbc.co.uk:
The level of the Mediterranean Sea is rising rapidly and could increase by up to half a metre in the next 50 years, scientists in Spain have warned.
Gibraltar News reports through VOX from www.vox.gi:
Geology - Ground and Surface Water Supply
NASA reports from earthobservatory.nasa.gov:
Record Warm Summers Cause Extreme Ice Melt in Greenland.
BBC News reports from bbc.co.uk:
Scientists have found what they say is the first evidence of a volcanic eruption under the Antarctic ice sheet.
From www.sciencemag.org:
Microbes catalyze the mineralization seen in Yellowstone's hot springs.
From Geology.com:
A report about rocks happening to slide along a dry bed lake in deat valley by themselves, or are they?
From Nationalgeographic.com: A brief video about mining for opals in Coober Pedy, Australia.
From Nationalgeograhic.com:
A photo gallery of the effects of plate tectonics.
From Nationalgeographic.com:
A section within the site that tells about tectonics.
From Nationalgeographic.com:
Yet again, another photo gallery of minerals from around the world displayed for complete amazement.
From Nationalgeographic.com:
Another photo gallery of breathtaking gems.
From Nationalgeographic.com:
A beautiful array of photos of what erosion and weathering can do.
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International Herald Tribune reports:
Residents living near Indonesia's mud volcano flee their homes
Nationalgeographic.com Video Reports:
January 2, 2008—Southern Chile's Llaima volcano erupted in a fiery explosion of molten rock and ash this week. Tourists, park workers, and residents are evacuated from the area.
Nationalgeographic.com Video Reports:
January 9, 2008—The recently rumbling Tungurahua volcano is spewing more ash and smoke.