Explosion in the Demand for Frac Sand July 9, 2012 | Geology.com The typical well drilled with hydraulic fracturing requires about 500 tons of high performance sand... Popigai: The World’s Largest Diamond Deposit September 21, 2012 | Geology.com The impact occurred where Archean graphite-garnet gneiss basement rock was overlain by about 1.5 kilometers... Sand Dunes on Mars February 7, 2012 | NASA This enhanced-color image shows sand dunes trapped in an impact crater in Noachis Terra, Mars.... Sand Dunes on Saturn’s Moon Titan January 25, 2012 | Geology.com Sand dunes are a dominant surface feature on Saturn’s moon Titan. They cover about 13%... Tallest Sand Dunes in North America August 23, 2012 | National Park Service Do you know where the tallest sand dunes in North America are located? They... Where is the World’s Oil Produced? March 20, 2012 | Energy Information Administration The Energy Information Administration has an interesting article that explains and graphs the origin of... World’s Largest Ground-Based Radio Telescope December 12, 2012 | National Science Foundation High in the Atacama Desert of Chile, ALMA, the world's largest ground-based radio telescope, can... Dunes of Hydrocarbon Sand on Titan January 22, 2013 | NASA Impact craters on some parts of Saturn's moon, Titan, are not obvious surface features for... |