March 24, 1834, birthday of John Wesley Powell. Despite losing an arm during the American Civil War, in 1869 he led the first geological exploration into the Grand Canyon. He was also founding member of the... https://t.co/s5ggrl6HSW
Do you want to know that how you can share your research and its importance with public? Check out this brief article by GEOetc to read some simple guidelines of science outreach and communication. https://t.co/67vl0A6cSS
Investigating 'Sag Ponds' along the San Andreas Fault in Cajon, California with Chad Keel -
--Bonus Footage at the end talks about "Myths and Legends" of a lake sitting right on-top of an active strike slip fault. https://t.co/ISZlxlSKjZ
“Floods and hurricanes happen. The hazard itself is not the disaster—it’s our habits, our building codes.
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To understand the history of climate change, researchers are digging underneath the ocean floor, where organisms and plants have accumulated in sediment over millennia. https://t.co/HyDSUB1am3
This study estimates the likelihood of water shortages over the remainder of the 21st century in 204 watersheds covering the contiguous United States and examines several possible adaptations to projected... https://t.co/pHKDQ98PbH
Glacial kettles form when a retreating glacier leaves behind a chunk of ice surrounded by sediment. When the ice melts a pond or lake forms. There's a huge region dotted with kettle lakes in North America, called... https://t.co/8ah2dQWAld
"...we have 8 moderate-to-high-threat volcanoes that could become active. Based on the record of volcanism over the last few millennia, the probability of a small-to-moderate-sized eruption occurring in California in the next 30 years (16%) is similar... https://t.co/BtoRJbzduI
We need a plan for all our dams
"In North America and Europe, more dams are being torn down than constructed. In the U.S. alone, over 60 dams per year have been removed since... https://t.co/jYc3Pz4qiC
"This network of earth science databases, called Deep-time Digital Earth (DDE), would be a one-stop link allowing earth scientists to access all the data they need to tackle... https://t.co/F2xTlAY3VY
Exploring Geoscience – across the Globe
A solid geoscientific literacy is essential to support geoconservation.
This textbook "has been produced to support teachers across the world in teaching the... https://t.co/JJMlFP32PK
This used to be a flat pasture land and suddenly a river flows through it.
Read full story here
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Read the story of a geologist Rónadh Cox from Williams College who's working with mathematicians and physicists to understand storm waves.... https://t.co/titrVbEBQQ