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Geology: Featured Facts
The Importance Of Clouds And Aerosols To Climate Change
Geology / Weather

Earth's radiation budget is a balance between incoming and outgoing radiation. Everything, from an individual person to Earth as a whole, emits energy. Scientists refer to this energy as radiation. As Earth absorbs incoming sunlight, it warms up. The planet must emit some of thi continue reading this fact

 Igneous Rocks, Born of Fire
Geology / Rocks

Half Dome as viewed from Glacier Point,YosemiteNational Park, rises more than a kilometer above the valley floor. Rocks are naturally occurring solid mixtures of substances primarily made of minerals. There are three kinds of rock on earth - igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rock. Sedimentary rock forms from continue reading this fact

 What's So Bad About The Badlands?
Geology / Features

Hundreds of square miles of South Dakota are known as 'Badlands', a dry terrain of colorful rock formations and little vegetation. For pioneers crossing them in the 19th century, these lands were inde continue reading this fact
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Earth Measurement:
  1. The Richter Magnitude Scale
  2. What is Geodesy?
Earthquakes:
  1. Earthquake Weather?
  2. Silent Earthquakes
  3. The San Andreas Fault
  4. Was That The Big One? Depends On How You Measured It.
  5. When This Lake 'Burps,' Better Watch Out!
Energy:
  1. Fossil Energy - The Basics
  2. Natural Gas - The Blue Flame
  3. There's Oil Down There
Environment:
  1. The Hole Scoop on Ozone
  2. What is Haze?
Features:
  1. A Continent In Deep Freeze
  2. A National Park of Caves
  3. A River of Sand
  4. Bryce Canyon
  5. Crater Lake
  6. Devils Postpile National Monument
  7. Geology Played Key Role in the End of the Civil War
  8. Heading For The Badlands
  9. Salty Remnants At Death Valley's Badwater
  10. The Importance of Cave and Karst Systems
  11. What's So Bad About The Badlands?
  12. White Sands National Monument
Geodynamics:
  1. Flipping Magnetic Fields
  2. Is Earth Getting Fatter Around the Belt?
  3. Landslides and Mudflows
  4. Pointing North
  5. Under The Crust
  6. Water In The Ground
  7. What are Hoodoos?
Glaciers:
  1. Arctic Carbon a Potential Wild Card in Climate Change Scenarios
  2. Glaciers: Rivers of Ice
  3. Retreating Glaciers Spur Alaskan Earthquakes
  4. The World's Biggest Popsicle
Global Climate Change:
  1. Antarctica and Climate Change
  2. CALIPSO in 2004
  3. Distant Mountains Influence River Levels 50 Years Later
  4. Finding Ice In The Rocks--Evidence Of Earth's Ice Ages
  5. Getting Burned By Acid Rain
  6. Global Warming?
  7. How Do We Predict The Climate--100,000 Years Ago?
  8. NASA Explains Dust Bowl Drought
  9. Surprise! Lightning Has Big Effect On Atmospheric Chemistry
  10. The Good, the Bad and the Ozone
  11. What Are The Differences Between Global Warming, Greenhouse Effect, Greenhouse Warming, And Climate Change?
  12. What Causes Ice Ages....Or Global Warming?
  13. Will Runaway Water Warm the World?
Minerals and Gems:
  1. All That Glitters
  2. Diamonds Improved by Irradiation?
  3. Our Most Abundant Fossil Fuel
  4. Robin's Egg Blue
  5. Rock, Mineral, Crystal, or Gemstone?
  6. The Mineral Chalcedony
  7. You, Graphite and Diamonds
Oceans:
  1. A Big, Big Wave
  2. A Undersea View of Our Earth's Geography
  3. Is the Dead Sea really dead?
  4. Is The Sea Really On The Level?
  5. Seamounts - Underwater Mountains
  6. What is an Estuary?
Plate Tectonics:
  1. Pangea
  2. Plate Tectonics
Rocks:
  1. Igneous Rocks, Born of Fire
  2. Metamorphic Rock
  3. Sedimentary Rock
  4. Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition
  5. Zeolites: The Secret Ingredient
Thermal:
  1. Old Faithful - Thar She Blows!
Volcanos:
  1. 1816 - The Year Without A Summer
  2. A Voggy Day On The Big Island
  3. Haleakala Crater
  4. Pyroclastic Flows: Deadly Rivers of Rock
  5. Submarine Volcanoes
  6. Types of Volcanoes
  7. What is Volcanic Ash?
Weather:
  1. A Great Sunset Takes A Few Clouds
  2. A Hurricane In Brazil?
  3. How Much Water in an Inch of Snow?
  4. Hurricanes, The Basics
  5. Lightning Striking Again
  6. Man Made Clouds
  7. Predicting Floods
  8. The Hydrology of Drought
  9. The Importance Of Clouds And Aerosols To Climate Change
  10. The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale
  11. Tornadoes
  12. Wetter not Necessarily Better in Amazon Basin
  13. What Are The Dangers Of Lightning?
  14. What Are The Key Ingredients For An Avalanche?
  15. What Causes The Blue Color That Sometimes Appears In Snow And Ice?
  16. What Is Air Pressure?
  17. What Is The Most Damaging Hazard From A Hurricane?
  18. What's In A Name?
  19. Who Named The Cloud Types?
  20. Why Don't We Try To Destroy Tropical Cyclones?

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