The Beginning of Plate Tectonics April 18, 2012 | ScienceNews An article on the ScienceNews website titled "Stop-and-go plate tectonics" explores how the process of... Landslides and Plate Tectonics May 30, 2012 | University of Washington "Some of the steepest mountain slopes in the world got that way because of the... Topography of Vesta Asteroid September 12, 2012 | NASA "These color-shaded relief maps show the northern and southern hemispheres of Vesta, derived from images... Fall Colors on the Appalachians October 31, 2012 | NASA Before Hurricane Sandy hit, NASA's Earth Observatory captured an interesting satellite image of fall colors... Saturn and Titan in True Color August 29, 2012 | NASA "Posing for portraits for NASA's Cassini spacecraft, Saturn and its largest moon, Titan, show spectacular... Southern Pakistan Flooding January 29, 2012 | Earth Observatory "Nearly five months after severe flooding struck the region, in September 2011, parts of Pakistan’s... Map: Earthquakes and Faults in Southern California September 12, 2012 | USGS The poster-size map in a pdf document depicts both active and inactive faults and earthquakes... Oil and Gas: South Siberian Craton March 5, 2012 | USGS "Using a geology-based assessment methodology, the U.S. Geological Survey estimated volumes of undiscovered, technically recoverable,... |