Geology

A mining operation in Connecticut is building a hibernaculum with the hope that they can use it to attract a colony of bats which currently occupies an abandon mine.

Gaua Island is the above-sea-level portion of a volcano that rises 10,000 feet above the floor of the Pacific Ocean. It has been producing steam plumes for the past few months.

An article on the GSA Speaking of Geoscience Blog reports that the size of the reference section in published papers has been growing at a very rapid rate since the 1950s.

Energy companies are currently challenged to find enough skilled workers to fill open positions. Maersk has developed a digital game – “Quest for Oil” – to stimulate interest in energy careers.

“I don’t want to start on this process if you tell me its going to take five years for you to get around to my application…”

A recent article in Geology explains how the global distributions of jadeite and ruby are strongly associated with certain types of plate boundaries.

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This summer will be the last season for guided tours at Sequoyah Caverns in Alabama. It will close to the public on September 3.

“Researchers using NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have found that temperatures in the Martian atmosphere regularly rise and fall not just once each day, but twice.” Quoted from the NASA press release.

“Standard atomic weights for chemical elements have commonly been considered as constants of nature, along with the speed of light and the attraction of gravity. Hold on to your Newtonian hat and prepare for the possibility of elementary nuances.” Quoted from the USGS press release.