Iceland made the news in early 2021 with 20,000 earthquakes in 10 days. A whopping 3,100 of them occurred in one forty-eight-hour period.
Geosphere
Discussions of the geosphere
The Oregon Coast
You could be forgiven for thinking the Oregon coastal mountains are part of the original North American Continent. However, they are not. Instead, they form what geologists describe as an exotic terrane.
The Bengal Delta
The Sundarbans, on the leading, seaward edge of the Bengal Delta, are disappearing. But with the Sundarbans also goes the heat of Bangladesh.
Moulins, meltwater, and a disappearing ice sheet
These ice-caves are part of a large hydrologic system moving meltwater from the ice sheet to the ocean. But they can also destabilize individual glaciers that make up the ice sheet.
Geologists, Oil Companies, and Climate Change
Geologists search for fossil fuels, but this doesn’t make them climate change deniers.
Cows Belch Methane, So Does the Earth
Methane craters – extremely weird
Flatland Junction
The town of Flatland Junction becomes Flatland Lake.
Disaster at Damon Point
A magnitude nine quake will generate a 60 foot tsunami, inundating the Washington coast
How cold can it get?
Climate change is happening and the change is human-made. We should stop debating the facts and move on to debating the solutions
A billion years of missing oxygen
Oxygen was disappearing from the atmosphere for a billion years, Why?