Earth Science

Can snow be warm? Not technically, but it does keep in heat. Snow has insulation properties, which mean that you really can be warm when covered with snow. So long as its not toughing your bare skin that is. Take…
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Seaweed provides food, protection and shelter to other marine creatures. It also cleans the sea by hosting many of the planktons and diatoms harming the environment. It prevents erosion of the cliffs. Seaweed is a part of the whole photosynthesis…
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Igneous rock is formed from magma. It is igneous intrusive, when it forms within a closed internal structure within the earth, where it is not exposed to the atmosphere. Igneous intrusive rock lives under conditions where the crystals and minerals…
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Tales abound about lake water turning blood red and rivers flowing with blood instead of water. Reports of blood red lakes were children’s Bible stories until people of modern times began witnessing the phenomenon around the world. Are blood red…
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Long before mankind developed sophisticated technology like satellites to forecast the weather, people had to depend on simpler methods such as the barometer. This instrument detects and measures changes in the atmosphere that vary when the weather is about to…
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Geologists describe the way a fault moves in terms of the direction of the slip. A strike slip fault describes when the plates strike one another, then slip in a horizontal motion that is parallel to the struck surfaces. A…
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The term “fault,” used in the context of geological events, describes a place where underground forces have pushed rock strata out of alignment with one another, and sometimes the resultant formation can be viewed above ground level.  There are different…
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Having an understanding of blizzard conditions can spell the difference between surviving such a winter storm situation and succumbing to its forces. Although blizzards do not carry the same devastatingly destructive power of hurricanes, they can and do affect large…
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Limestone is a sedimentary rock composed of calcium carbonate (CaCO3). Calcite and aragonite are crystal forms of CaCO3. Limestone makes up approximately 10 percent of all the sedimentary rocks in the world. Limestone may form many erosional land formations when…
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A limestone cave is a natural wonder. Visitors who know nothing about geology marvel at the stalactites hanging from these caves, and at the stalagmites jutting up from the floor to meet them – a weird, spiky, phantom chamber of…
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