Geology Facts

96 facts, from the everyday to the astonishing.

All Geology facts

Earth Measurement

• The Richter Magnitude Scale
• What is Geodesy?

Earthquakes

• Earthquake Weather?
• Silent Earthquakes
• The San Andreas Fault
• Was That The Big One? Depends On How You Measured It.
• When This Lake 'Burps,' Better Watch Out!

Energy

• Fossil Energy - The Basics
• Natural Gas - The Blue Flame
• There's Oil Down There

Environment

• The Hole Scoop on Ozone
• What is Haze?

Features

• A Continent In Deep Freeze
• A National Park of Caves
• A River of Sand
• Bryce Canyon
• Crater Lake
• Devils Postpile National Monument
• Geology Played Key Role in the End of the Civil War
• Heading For The Badlands
• Salty Remnants At Death Valley's Badwater
• The Importance of Cave and Karst Systems
• What's So Bad About The Badlands?
• White Sands National Monument

Geodynamics

• Flipping Magnetic Fields
• Is Earth Getting Fatter Around the Belt?
• Landslides and Mudflows
• Pointing North
• Under The Crust
• Water In The Ground
• What are Hoodoos?

Glaciers

• Arctic Carbon a Potential Wild Card in Climate Change Scenarios
• Glaciers: Rivers of Ice
• Retreating Glaciers Spur Alaskan Earthquakes
• The World's Biggest Popsicle

Global Climate Change

• Antarctica and Climate Change
• CALIPSO in 2004
• Distant Mountains Influence River Levels 50 Years Later
• Finding Ice In The Rocks--Evidence Of Earth's Ice Ages
• Getting Burned By Acid Rain
• Global Warming?
• How Do We Predict The Climate--100,000 Years Ago?
• NASA Explains Dust Bowl Drought
• Surprise! Lightning Has Big Effect On Atmospheric Chemistry
• The Good, the Bad and the Ozone
• What Are The Differences Between Global Warming, Greenhouse Effect, Greenhouse Warming, And Climate Change?
• What Causes Ice Ages....Or Global Warming?
• Will Runaway Water Warm the World?

Minerals and Gems

• All That Glitters
• Diamonds Improved by Irradiation?
• Our Most Abundant Fossil Fuel
• Robin's Egg Blue
• Rock, Mineral, Crystal, or Gemstone?
• The Mineral Chalcedony
• You, Graphite and Diamonds

Oceans

• A Big, Big Wave
• A Undersea View of Our Earth's Geography
• Is the Dead Sea really dead?
• Is The Sea Really On The Level?
• Seamounts - Underwater Mountains
• What is an Estuary?

Plate Tectonics

• Pangea
• Plate Tectonics

Rocks

• Igneous Rocks, Born of Fire
• Metamorphic Rock
• Sedimentary Rock
• Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition
• Zeolites: The Secret Ingredient

Thermal

• Old Faithful - Thar She Blows!

Volcanos

• 1816 - The Year Without A Summer
• A Voggy Day On The Big Island
• Haleakala Crater
• Pyroclastic Flows: Deadly Rivers of Rock
• Submarine Volcanoes
• Types of Volcanoes
• What is Volcanic Ash?

Weather

• A Great Sunset Takes A Few Clouds
• A Hurricane In Brazil?
• How Much Water in an Inch of Snow?
• Hurricanes, The Basics
• Lightning Striking Again
• Man Made Clouds
• Predicting Floods
• The Hydrology of Drought
• The Importance Of Clouds And Aerosols To Climate Change
• The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale
• Tornadoes
• Wetter not Necessarily Better in Amazon Basin
• What Are The Dangers Of Lightning?
• What Are The Key Ingredients For An Avalanche?
• What Causes The Blue Color That Sometimes Appears In Snow And Ice?
• What Is Air Pressure?
• What Is The Most Damaging Hazard From A Hurricane?
• What's In A Name?
• Who Named The Cloud Types?
• Why Don't We Try To Destroy Tropical Cyclones?