January 28, 2015
Energy Notes: September 2012-2013
U.S. Oil & Petroleum Imports (million of barrels per day) Oil and petroleum imports data are preliminary numbers taken from the American …
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January 28, 2015
Energy Notes: October 2012-2013
U.S. Oil & Petroleum Imports (million of barrels per day) Oil and petroleum imports data are preliminary numbers taken from the American …
January 28, 2015
Mineral Resource of the Month: Talc
Talc, a mineral mined in more than 40 countries, is distributed and used worldwide. Robert Virta, talc commodity specialist, and Brad Van Gosen, …
January 27, 2015
Mineral Resource of the Month: Wollastonite
U.S. Geological Survey Mineral Commodity Specialist Robert Virta and Resource Specialist Brad Van Gosen prepared the following information about …
January 27, 2015
Energy Notes: December 2012-2013
U.S. Oil & Petroleum Imports (million of barrels per day) Oil and petroleum imports data are preliminary numbers taken from the American …
January 27, 2015
Mineral Resource of the Month: Selenium
U.S. Geological Survey selenium commodity specialist Micheal W. George has compiled the following information on selenium, a rare toxic metal. …
January 27, 2015
Down to Earth With: Deanna D'Alessandro
Deanna D’Alessandro, a chemist at the University of Sydney in Australia, is working on a new material that may make it cheaper and easier to …
January 27, 2015
Down to Earth With: The Swindling Geologist
When Clarence Dutton spoke, people listened. As one of the most famous geologists of the late 1800s, he regularly attracted large crowds to his …
January 27, 2015
Down to Earth With: Matt Kuchta
Matt Kuchta is the geology program at the University of Wisconsin at Stout (UW-Stout), located in Menomonie, Wis. It’s a young program: Kuchta is …
January 27, 2015
Down to Earth With: Pat Pringle
After finishing a master’s degree in geology at the University of Akron in 1982, Pat Pringle left the relative flatlands of Ohio’s Allegheny …
January 27, 2015
Down to Earth With: Lee Allison
_Editor’s Note: Lee Allison was head of the Arizona Geological Survey until his unexpected death on Aug. 16, 2016. EARTH interviewed him in 2012 …
January 26, 2015
Down to Earth With: Geologist Kyle House
Kyle House, a research geologist for the U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS) Geology and Geophysics Science Center in Flagstaff, Ariz., gravitated to …
January 14, 2015
Did three convicts survive their escape from Alcatraz? Modern modeling adds to a decades-old mystery
Twenty-first century science is shedding new light on a 53-year-old mystery involving one of the country’s most notorious prisons: Did three …
January 13, 2015
Down to Earth With: Glaciologist Richard Alley
If you don’t know who Richard Alley is, stop reading for a minute and search for him on YouTube. Go on, this can wait. Back? What you likely saw …
January 13, 2015
Down to Earth With: Snow Hydrologist Jeff Dozier
It’s mid-January. Snow hydrologist Jeff Dozier relaxes at his sister’s cabin near Lake Tahoe, his bare feet resting on a coffee table. His …
January 13, 2015
Down to Earth With: Geomorphologist Gregory Tucker
As an undergraduate anthropology student, Gregory Tucker thought math was a boring subject with abstract rules that didn’t relate to his life. …
January 9, 2015
Getting there and getting around Bermuda
Several major airlines serve Bermuda’s L.F. Wade International Airport, located on St. David’s Island about 30 minutes from Bermuda’s capital and …
January 5, 2015
Ice (Re) Cap: February 2015
From Antarctica to the Arctic; from polar caps, permafrost and glaciers to ocean-rafted sea ice; and from burly bears to cold-loving microbes, …
January 5, 2015
Wealth of seafloor features emerges from new survey
A new survey of Earth’s deep ocean — 80 percent of which remains unmapped — has revealed a wealth of previously unknown features, including …
January 5, 2015
New nationwide soil map available online
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) recently completed a seven-year soil-mapping project detailing the mineralogy and geochemistry of soils across …
January 5, 2015
North American terranes not so exotic after all
The cordillera of western North America is a patchwork of various landmasses, or terranes, that assembled through collision and accretion to the …
January 5, 2015
Mantle plume alternative explains Australian volcanism
Magma often finds its way to the surface along Earth’s crustal boundaries as tectonic plates crash together, rift apart or grind past each other. …
January 5, 2015
Scientists complete a global inventory of lakes
How many lakes are there in the world? Until recently, the exact number was anybody’s guess. Now, a new global inventory conducted using …
January 5, 2015
Icebergs were the original Florida snowbirds
A new study shows that between 20,000 and 10,000 years ago, icebergs drifted southward off the coasts of South Carolina and Florida. Using …