Earth Science

The imagery triggered by the words “champagne” and “diamond” is very clear and desirable to both men and women considering a romantic diamond purchase. The champagne diamond phenomenon launched in the 1990’s. To this day jewelers still receive requests for…
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Geology is defined as the comprehensive study of Earth. Geologists, therefore, study not only the physical aspects of Earth including its composition and structure, but also the origins of our planet and its history. Geological researchers are often employed by…
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Effects of Oil Drilling in Alaska When one begins thinking of oil drilling within the United States it almost always goes to Alaska with the exception of the gulf of Texas, Texas itself, California or along its coast and a…
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The surface on which we live is a series of continental size landmasses floating on a sea of molten rock called magma that is under tremendous pressure and at a temperature millions of degrees in magnitude. This seemingly solid surface…
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Rock tumbling. Rock tumbling has been used in the process of jewelry and gift making for years. Setting up to do your own rock tumbling may be a little expensive, although the tumbler does last for years if you are…
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Not everyone is as fortunate as I am in seeing how they can take part in geology, which is the study in the planet earth and the components that make it a planet, its life forms, and the history behind…
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The term fossil fuel is a misnomer. In fact, oil does not come from the fossils we know today at all. There are no calcified dinosaur bones in the recipe for oil. Beginning 400 million years ago, single-celled plants and…
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Cathy Pacific Airways, Air Malta, Virgin Atlantic, and airlines and shippers around the world were held at the mercy of an ash cloud from Mount Eyjafjallajokull at the edge of the Arctic Circle. Rare and fragile cargo, like orchids, roses,…
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Pangaea is a Greek word meaning “all land”, which is why scientists chose that name for the single continent on Earth during the Permian Era, 225 million years ago. Pangaea stretched from North Pole to South Pole and was C-shaped….
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Eyjafjallajokull is a relatively small volcano in a chain of Icelandic volcanos near the Arctic Circle. There is evidence that, since at least the seventh century, the more than mile high volcano has erupted periodically to spew ice, ash, toxic gasses, and boiling water over the surrounding…
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