geology

Tallest Mountains

[/caption] There are many tall mountains around the world as well as on other worlds. Mount Everest is the highest…

14 years ago

How Are Rocks Formed?

As a terrestrial planet, Earth is divided into layers based on their chemical and rheological properties. And whereas its interior…

14 years ago

Lake Asymmetry on Titan Explained

If you've wanted to take a swim in a lake on Titan, don't: they're not lakes like we have here…

14 years ago

K-T Boundary

[/caption]What killed the dinosaurs? That's a question that has puzzled paleontologists since dinosaurs were first discovered. Maybe the global climate…

15 years ago

Continental Drift Theory

In elementary school, every teacher had one of those pull-down maps of the world to teach geography. On occasion, I…

15 years ago

Are We Living in a New Geologic Epoch?

Have humans changed our planet Earth so much in the past 200 years that we are now living in a…

16 years ago