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What's the difference between a rock and a mineral?
Live Science via Yahoo News· 2 days agosediment," Bevins said. In general, the process by which rocks are continually recycled and transformed by geological processes is known as the rock...
Earth Matters: A brief history of our soil: Why the Valley land produces such amazing crop
Daily Hampshire Gazette· 2 hours agoThere is a stretch of road that runs north along the Connecticut River from the Whately/Hatfield...
Helicopter drops rocks to boost tarn wetlands
BBC via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThe sediment in the bed of the tarn has not been disturbed since the last Ice Age [BBC] Conservationists have been using a helicopter to protect a remote...
From Phytoplankton to Climate Change: Zinc’s Pivotal Role in Global Dynamics
SciTechDaily· 2 hours agoDelving into the depths of the Southern Ocean, recent research has spotlighted Zinc’s pivotal role...
NASA’s Perseverance Fords an Ancient River to Reach Science Target - NASA
NASA· 4 hours agoOriginally thought of as little more than a route clear of rover-slowing boulders, Neretva Vallis has provided a bounty of geologic options for the science team. After detouring through a dune ...
Ship collides with underwater object in Lake Superior, takes on water
Detroit Free Press via Yahoo News· 5 days agoIt is currently carrying taconite, an iron-bearing sedimentary rock, according to the Coast Guard. Pumps onboard are displacing some of the water entering ...
A Journey To Big Sur, California
Forbes· 19 hours agoBig Sur, where the Santa Lucia mountains overlook the Pacific Ocean, is one of the most iconic places in California. The beautiful Central Coast area was...
Fracking The Same Underground Volume Isn't Energy Storage, It's Mining For Unusable Sand -...
CleanTechnica· 5 days agoIt’s not often that a novel energy storage solution crosses my screen. A solution that pumps water under high pressure a few hundred to a thousand meters underground doesn’t immediately fall apart in technical terms or claims.
South Australia’s enigmatic pink sand was born in ice-covered Antarctic mountains, new research...
The Conversation· 19 hours agoIn parts of South Australia, long stretches of beach are often blanketed in large patches of pink sand. Strong swells can dump drifts of reddish grains of garnet along the shore – but the origin ...
The Moon is drifting away from Earth and it’s having a major impact on time
UNILAD· 6 days agoWhile you may not think the Moon drifting away from Earth would impact us too much, you'd be...
