GEOLOGY:Amzing Science

Elephant Foot Glacier An astonishing geographical location on the east coast of Greenland (81° N).

Curite
Formula: Pb3(UO2)8O8(OH)6·3H2O
System: Orthorhombic
Colour: Deep to light ...
Hardness: 4 - 5
Name: After Pierre Curie (1859-1906), French physicist, famous for his research with his wife, Marie Sklodowska-Curie, on radioactivity.

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*Photo : Shinkolobwe Mine (Kasolo Mine), Shinkolobwe, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)

Geology Page: Curite Formula: Pb3(UO2)8O8(OH)6·3H2O System: Orthorhombic Colour: Deep to light ... Hardness: 4 - 5 Name: After Pierre Curie (1859-1906), French physicist, famous for his research with his wife, Marie Sklodowska-Curie, on radioactivity.

Elephant Rock in Heimaey, Iceland.

Psilomelane and Hematite

Azurite rose Poteryaevskoe Mine, Western-Siberian Region, Russia.

Star Rutile in Quartz

stunning purple amazing rocks geology crystals minerals neat fluorite

Folded strata in the Alps.

Native Gold with Pink Feldspar

Buried underneath compacted snow and ice in Greenland lies a large liquid water reservoir that has now been mapped by researchers using data from NASA's Operation IceBridge airborne campaign.

A team of glaciologists serendipitously found the aquifer while drilling in southeast Greenland in 2011 to study snow accumulation. Two of their ice cores were dripping water when the scientists lifted them to the surface, despite air temperatures of minus 4 F (minus 20 C).

Read more : http://www.geologypage.com/2013/12/enormous-aquifer-discovered-under.html

*Photo : Glaciologist Lora Koenig (left) operates a video recorder that has been lowered into the bore hole to observe the ice structure of the aquifer in April 2013. Credit: University of Utah/Clément Miège

Geologist leads team effort to solve mystery of the Colorado Plateau

A team of scientists led by Rice University has figured out why the Colorado Plateau - a 130,000-square-mile region that straddles Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico -- is rising even while parts of its lower crust appear to be falling. The massive, tectonically stable region of the western United States has long puzzled geologists.

A paper published today in the journal Nature shows how magmatic material from the depths slowly rises to invade the lithosphere -- Earth's crust and strong uppermost mantle. This movement forces layers to peel away and sink, said lead author Alan Levander, professor and the Carey Croneis Chair in Geology at Rice University.

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