Geology

An article in the Salt Lake City Tribune compares the landslide at the Bingham Canyon copper mine to other large landslides that have occurred during recorded history. Related: World’s Largest Landslide

Researchers have recovered water from a depth of 2.4 km in the Canadian shield with an age of 1.5 billion years.

I've been out in the field on a fairly routine basis recently, taking pictures mostly of rocks and my hammer (for scale). Occasionally I take a photo or two looking off into the distance, or of other non-work items (like lizards) that I come across. This photo looks more or less southwest across the southern part of the Humboldt Range, with the green, irrigated fields of the lower Humboldt River basin a few miles below Rye Patch Reservoir and just above the Humboldt Sink in view off in the distance. Location of the Humboldt Sink linked below. The interesting shape of the juniper wood is what really caught my attention!

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ASU's School of Sustainability is using a crowd-sourcing approach to map global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. The research team "developed a website with a Google Earth interface that makes it easy for everyday people around the world to enter information. The website, “Ventus,” aims to create a complete list of global power plants, something that does not exist and is needed to fully comprehend the global carbon emissions cycle." Ventus: Crowdsourcing to map global CO2 emissions from ASU News on Vimeo.

“A new study by scientists at Duke University and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) finds no evidence of groundwater contamination from shale gas production in Arkansas.” Quoted from the Duke University press release.

“While 99 percent of Earth’s land ice is locked up in the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, the remaining ice in the world’s glaciers contributed just as much to sea rise as the two ice sheets combined from 2003 to 2009.” Quoted from the University of Colorado Boulder press release.

An article on The Guardian website reports that 97% of peer-reviewed papers support a human cause for global climate change.

The Indiana Geological Survey is helping students (and news reporters) learn about the earthquake history of Indiana and experience simulated ground shaking of up to magnitude 7.0.