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What Does a Geologist Do?
Learn about the interesting work of geologists in two short videos about the relevance of geology today.
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What is Earth Science? It is the study of Earth and its neighbors in space. It includes geology, astronomy, meteorology & oceanography. |
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Diamond: Articles, news, videos, production data, graphs, and information related to gem and industrial diamond worldwide. |
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Marcellus Shale: The most overlooked resource in the eastern United States! |
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Roadside Geology Guides:
Learn about the geology of your favorite state as seen along the highway. Filled with maps, photos, park locations and detailed descriptions. Get one before your next trip. |
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Herkimer Diamonds: Learn how to find these doubly terminated quartz crystals at Herkimer, NY. |
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Volcanoes! A page that links to all of our volcano articles and to the best volcano information that we could find. |
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The Many Uses of Gold: Learn how the unique properties of gold make it extremely suited for a large number of industrial uses. |
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Mount Vesuvius: Photos, maps, eruption history, geologic hazards, plate tectonics and more. By Jessica Ball. |
 | | Uses of Copper: One of the first metals widely used by people. Now it is used in almost every industry around the world. |
 | | Landslides: A USGS fact sheet explains different types of landslides and the kind of events that might trigger them. |
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| Greenland Ice Melt & Rebound |
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Diamonds from Coal? Diamonds form under a variety of conditions that rarely involve coal as a source of carbon. |
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Uneven Sea Level Rise: Indian Ocean sea levels are rising unevenly and threatening densely populated coastal areas. |
 | | How to Pan for Gold: Learn about panning for placer gold by watching the techniques of four experienced panners. |
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Largest Oil Spills Map: A map with the location of 11 large oil spills from war, tanker wrecks and out-of-control wells. |
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Something Hit Jupiter: A dark bruise appeared in the southern hemisphere of Jupiter in July, 2009. Was it a comet or asteroid strike? |
 | | Santa Maria Volcano: Located in Guatemala, it is the site of one of the largest eruptions of the twentieth century. |
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Gulf Oil Spill: News stories, satellite images and videos that document the oil spill from the Deep Water Horizon accident. |
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Major Oil Spills: How does the recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico compare to major spills of the past? |
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Volcanoes Under Ice: Eyjafjallajökull Volcano is not unique. There are many others under ice in Iceland, Canada and the USA. |
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Asphalt "Volcanoes": Oil seeps built large asphalt "volcanoes" 30,000-40,000 years ago in the Santa Barbara Channel. |
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Tell Zeidan: Excavation at this site in Syria reveals an obsidian trade, stone seals and copper metallurgy from over 6000 years ago. |
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Iceland Volcano: A volcano in Iceland has erupted beneath a glacier causing local flooding and halting air traffic across Europe. |
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Seafloor Supervolcanoes: Drilling the Shatsky Rise to learn how seafloor supervolcanoes contributed to mass extinctions. |
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Australopithecus sediba: Two skeletons representing a new species of hominids were discovered in a cave in South Africa. |
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Greenland Ice Loss: Melting is increasing and has now moved to the northwest coast of Greenland. |
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New Raptor Species: A new species of raptor dinosaur, “Linheraptor exquisitus,” was discovered in Inner Mongolia, China. |
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Snowball Earth: Sea ice, paleolatitude and fossils yield information about the greatest ice age in Earth's history. |
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Mars Mystery Rock: NASA scientists are trying to determine the origin of coatings on rocks at a crater visited by Opportunity. |
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Water Ice on the Moon: Protected by permanent sun shadow, over 600 million tons of water ice has been found on the Moon. |
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Daily news for geology and earth science. Delivered to you free by RSS or email. |
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Geology Dictionary:
Look up definitions in our free geology dictionary. Hundreds of geology term definitions at your fingertips. |
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Uses of Granite: The rock used for everything from kitchen counters to street curbing to the facing stone of skyscrapers. |
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Homeowners Insurance: The typical homeowners policy does't cover natural hazards. It is simply a fire and liability policy. |
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Expansive Soil: Causes more damage than earthquakes, floods, hurricanes & tornadoes combined. |
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