geology

Geology News
Earth Science Current Events


Zoning Laws for the Ocean?
January 19, 2012 | Voice of America

“U.S. communities routinely use zoning laws to control where businesses may operate in a neighborhood. Now there’s a move to zone the ocean. A number of coastal states and the federal government have fledgling plans to coordinate competing uses for their off-shore waters.” Quoted from Voice of America.


  Related Stories

Historical Mining Laws and Lawsuits
December 30, 2011 | Tucson Citizen
The TucsonCitizen.com website has an article that explores numerous mining laws and court cases back...

Human Impact on the Southern Ocean
April 11, 2011 | National Oceanography Centre
"A team of scientists in the United Kingdom and the United States has warned that...

How Ocean Currents Work
September 9, 2011 | NASA
This NASA video explains how surface ocean currents are driven by wind while deeper currents...

Deep-Ocean Seismic System
October 6, 2011 | Scripps Institution of Oceanography
"Scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have been granted $1.02 million...


Every day you can find links to several earth science news topics right here. Bookmark this page and visit often. You can also receive our news for free by RSS feed or in a daily email message.

Geology tools and supplies



marcellus shale gasMarcellus Shale: The most overlooked resource in the eastern United States!
Diamond formationDiamonds from Coal? Diamonds form under a variety of conditions that rarely involve coal as a source of carbon.
Mineral RightsMineral Rights / Oil & Gas: Who owns the minerals under your land? Have they been sold? Can someone mine without permission?
uses of gold The Many Uses of Gold: Learn how the unique properties of gold make it extremely suited for a large number of industrial uses.
download google earth Download Google Earth Free! High resolution 3D satellite views of Earth. Download it Free.
meteorites Meteorites: Learn about meteorites from meteorite hunter, Geoffrey Notkin. What are meteorites? irons, stones, stony-irons.
© 2005-2011 Geology.com. All Rights Reserved.
Images, code and content of this website are property of Geology.com. Use without permission is prohibited. Pages on this site are protected by Copyscape.