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The Earther.Gizmodo.com article Scientists Discover a Weird Noise Coming From Antarctic Ice Shelf links to the American Geophysical Union video (an more importantly audio) (AGU) This is what an ...

Image by Wikipedia user Citynoise using NOAA data. If you look at this map of tropical cyclone tracks, you'll notice that there's a gap in the central northern Pacific where tropical cyclones ...

I've thought that perhaps scientists use radar and ping off the ocean's floor, ensuring geo-similarity via GPS, but that doesn't seem to work, considering the open ocean probably also experiences ...

I found these really hard rock while i was excavating. It caught my attention the different colors.

I found this stone and I do not know what type of stone is this?

Please help me identify I have 20 to 30 pounds of this stuff

I inherited this from my grandfather and all i know is that it's very heavy and it appears to have gold content. It's actually just been sitting around my house as a door prop the past 20 plus years. ...

I am quite new to the psychrometry and the study of humidity, and I'm currently learning about the dry-bulb wet-bulb thermometry. As far as my understanding goes, the wet bulb is connected to a source ...

What is the probability that the weather tomorrow will be equal to the weather today (e.g. more specifically, if we know there had been more than 1mm precipitation during one day, what is the ...

I was wondering, if we measured the carbon isotopic ratio of methane on Mars and found that it was very negative (i.e. it contained more carbon-12 than carbon-13), would this provide definitive proof ...

I am wondering why, since the oceans could feasibly hold all of the dry land, they in fact do not. For example, the Mariana Trench drops to -10.9km, while Mount Everest only reaches to +8.8km. ...

I got a black round rock that come down with lighting thunder. Could anyone assist me to identify the rock. Rgds Nancy Moses

I found these rocks along the train tracks in Monroe, Wisconsin. I mostly only took the ones with lots of white in them, but most didn't have that. I'm not sure what these rocks would be called. (...

There is good evidence that the presence of water on a planet's surface is necessary for that planet to have plate tectonics. My question is this: Do we know if there is a minimum amount of surface ...

What are some of the best rare natural phenomena that occur on Earth?

Human activity over the past century has affected the nitrogen cycle by cultivation of nitrogen-fixing crops and application of industrial fertilizer to crops (increasing the land biofixation rate ...

If this is due to the Coriolis Effect, my other question would be how does the wind go upwards to form the storm clouds?

What is this big black dot on the satellite view of google maps, located in Syria at about 4:00 from Damascus?

I have the following rock/mineral but can't seem to identify. Anybody have an idea what it might be? It's heavy, 3"x3", nonmagnetic (but slightly repels a neodymium magnet), blackish in color with ...

[![enter image description here][1]][1][![Shiny rock...][2]][2]Streak is silver / gray and shiny Hardness around 6 Extremely heavy for its size Has what appear to be a few small holes drilled into ...

Is there lower gravity at the Hudson Bay? How does this happen? And where exactly is this because I might want to go.

Hurricane Michael recently hit Florida as a Category 4 storm, and after the remnants passed across a great deal of the east coast of the United States it appears to have re-emerged into the Atlantic ...

Found this near the Shannon River close to Carrick on Shannon Irelandenter image description here Could this be Mutton Fat Nephrite Jade? Thank you

now its well known that common names are used to name weather storms but on what bases are they named ? is it the person who first notices them ? Is it the the most common name in the region where the ...

At 18:03 PDT at La Jolla Cove the lifeguard's bulletin board stated predicted low tide at 5:36 (17:36 PDT?). In fact, it was already after 6:00 and the sun had not yet set. The moon was a waxing ...

Metorite looking rock from Idaho desert I believe, feels like it has a slight magnetic pull, but the magnet I have (which isnt very strong) doesnt stick, extremely heavy for its size. can you help me ...

I found this odd shaped rock along a rocky river bed (dry) near the Illinois river in Cave Junction, Oregon. It is shaped like a Club and is super heavy. It has a distinguishable ring around the ...

Indonesia had multiple major earthquakes this year A series of earthquakes in Lombok between July and August, including a 7.0 mainshock The 7.5 earthquake + tsunami in Sulawesi, September 2018 A 6.0 ...

What is the purpose for doing this? Is it inaccurate to calculate anomalies for variables such as sea surface temperature and precipitation based on a different time period?

This red/orange/brown stone has a hardness of 8 and a bright streak. The closest thing I've ever seen was amber, but amber is way softer than this What kind of stone is it?

Is there something wrong with this image? I found it in Wikipedia's article Ecliptic coordinate system and the image's source page is here. What bothers me is the orientation of the Earth's surface (...

I was reading about tropical cyclones and tropical waves and there I saw a study mentioning its relationship with MJO activities. I saw several research papers which discuss about MJO waves. They only ...

What is this stone from the alps of provence? It's two spheres, one of them is made of at least 25 layers.

Hello it is a wierd question bit can sombody answer i have tried evryting hellps

A very dear man who love his job as a geologist gave this to me. He’s been all over the country so I have no idea where he may have picked it up

Yesterday I read a number of news stories about the new IPCC's (International Panel on Climate Change) report regarding the current state of global warming. It reported that we are on track for ...

I found this stone in my father's old stuff. I tried to search online for about it but I don't know what is it. It looks to be a rare stone. Can someone identify it?

I was wondering if there is a tool that shows electric charge in the clouds. Something like this, but more detailed.

Assuming that the oil reserves would end at a certain date, would it be expected that the kerosene be no longer used as fuel on a previous date due to the quality fall of barrels? If so, would that ...

I found a rock on the beach in northern California that was very translucent ,super clear. 5 or 6 hrs later when I got home it was still like I found it. The next day it had clouded up. ...

Glass bottels are generally manufactured as clear green and brown colored. How is the mineral quartz colored. What do the glass manufacturer do to produce green or brown glass bottles.

I was swimming in the Mediterranean Sea and found all these shiny rocks underwater, so I dove down and got them. Any clue what these are? To be precise off the west coast of Northern Italy. Hopefully ...

Found the rock in the mud, it attracts a magnet.

By air moving from high pressure area to low pressure area means that it's moving from colder area to a warmer area, are they both not contradictory? I might have understood something in a wrong way, ...

I recently purchased these at an estate sale, can anyone tell me what they are?

Is it possible to use CALPUFF in ISC-type single-station mode accounting for "simple" terrain effect (like in ISC)? Can I set the orography out of CALMET?

How much does the Earth's center of mass move around relative to the most stationary objects on the surface? I'm wondering whether the molten outer core has enough asymmetry to move the center of ...

This question on Maths SE asked how we might calculate the effect on sea level if all the world's ice (ie including the whole Antarctic ice sheet) were to melt. I posted an answer containing ...

What were CO2 levels in early and late Carboniferous, an what were mean levels? Who are the sources for these figures?

Discuss the effect of coriolis force due to rotation of on setting up cyclons trade winds and describe other geo graphical effect of this force? I am not understandig properly