Beautiful Yellowstone’s active geo-thermal features make it like no other place on earth. On March 1, 1872, President Ulysses S. Grant signed into law a bill which made the area of Yellowstone the nations first national park. Scientists believed that…
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The Care and Feeding of Blowout Preventers Beginning in April, 2010, the news was filled with the unfamiliar terminology of deep-water drilling. We learned about risers, drilling mud, semi-submersible drill ships, and blowout preventers. One already familiar phrase was “oil…
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Almost everywhere that drillers find crude oil, they find it under a pocket of gas. Still more gas is dissolved in the oil. When drillers go deep, the gas may be under pressure that causes it to shoot to the…
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There is really no place to be completely safe in an earthquake. Inside, things fall, walls and roofs can cave in and there can be gas leaks and electrical shorts, resulting in an explosion or fire. Outside, walls or trees can…
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Pegmatites are intrusive igneous rock formations characterized by having large crystals of 5 cms up to several meters in size and are often composed predominately of quartz, feldspar and muscovite mica. Frequently pegmatites are elongated tabular dykes near vertically inclined…
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This has been puzzling scientists for many years and has still not been satisfactorily answered even with all our advance technologies we currently have. Many different ideas have been suggested, ranging from the hand of God to the ‘Big Bang…
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Recent earthquakes in Chile, Taiwan, Haiti, and now Turkey and other areas raise the concerns of many across the globe. What is happening to our world? Does this herald the end of this planet and life as we know it?…
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Uniformitarian geologists have made the erroneous assertion that the present is the key to the past. They seem somewhat clueless as how weather can change from calm to terrifying. A guest speaker at our church once commented on how the…
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Rocks and minerals, minerals and rocks. What are they, how do they differ, and how are they used? Common questions easily found on various websites with some simple answers. Lets answer them one at a time. Definitions first! An excellent…
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The question “How much does the Earth weigh?” may seem like a perfectly logical one to ask, but when the answer comes back as about 100g, then it is obvious that either the question or the answer is wrong. The…
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