January 2011
sterichindrance:
The Ancient Lake in Antarctica
Lake Vostok is located in Antarctica under four km of ice. It is one of the largest sub glacial lakes and is approximately 250 km long and 50 km wide, with depths around 510m. Lake Vostok has been covered by the vast Antarctic ice sheet for up to 20 million 20 million years. After 30 years of drilling through the ice, the scientists announced...
Uniformitarianism: New TV series about geology →
uniformitarianism:
There’s a new tv series starting tonight called ‘Men of Rock’ on BBC2 (UK, Wales, N. Ireland) at 9pm, and is described as ”Iain Stewart follows in the footsteps of the founding father of geology, James Hutton. This Scottish rogue was a profound and original thinker who, 250 years ago,…
an island happened →
iarebchin:
pretty much an island forming out of nothing..
Hi! Maybe you’d find this interesting…
I know the Mohorovicic Discontinuity has never been reached by any human effort… But I’d like to share a picture of some rock from around there. I didn’t take the picture, but it’s on the west coast of Newfoundland…
(GNU Free Documentation License Image)
I found the picture...
NEATORAMA: Google, Lego, SciAm, NatGeo and CERN... →
10 Geological Wonders You Didn't Know About →
geology ROCKS!
carmelisse:
No. Not really. The only topics I remember learning about were rocks & minerals…nothing else…
