Earth Science

Hello to you. I have dozens of pairs of Latitudes and Longitudes on hand, such as 55°02.857'N + 002°3.294'E, and I need to find out where they are. Each pair of them means a location, could be in a city, desert, forest, ocean etc. In what way I can find their rough locations? Just the country and area name will do, and no need to be precisely accurate. There are online webpages can do so but the number of coordinates are huge so I can’t do them one by one manually. Would there be a list of coordinates that I can search for results? Thanks.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140623120320.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Ftop_news%2Ftop_science+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Top+Science+News%29 Eliminate major tornados? Build walls around us? Even if we wanted to be walled in, would walls stop the action of winds with such suction powers? It had me agape, reading this. What am I missing? It sounds so ridiculous. Yet it merits publication in Science Daily? Of course, there is the question of what else would it cut us off from weather-wise? Much-needed rain from the southwest? Snows from Canada? Cooling winds in hot August? Oh, it isn't quite as …

Just a question.....can sea water kill mold? I was just wondering because we collected a large group sea shells and placed them in a large cookie jar in the late 90s and I look at them and realize no mold or anything growing on these shells all these years later.?? Also, the sandy storm on homes.....was it sea water that caused the mold on many homes or was it from other water?

Hello, I am a geology student and an earth science blogger. I have a site at (url removed by moderator) which looks at basic earth science concepts, but mainly just on interesting/bizarre/enteraining aspects rather than the complex science behind it. If there is anyone who has a similar blog, or is generally interested, it would be great to hear from you! Thanks

Earth's Story The Deep The deep the other world, where the temperature hovers just above zero but is occasionally pierced by jets of water boiling at 300ºC , revolutionized the way scientists think about this planet and filled in many of the missing elements in the unfolding detective story of the Earth's history. At the heart of the tale is the mid-Atlantic ridge a vast chain of submarine volcanoes stretching the length of the Atlantic Ocean and then on through the rest of the world's oceans a continuous mountain chain running for 60,000 kilometres. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIJUVp5EJBQ Earth's Story Journey to the Center Of the Earth What drives the tectonic …

So as i was spending my time, i had a look at this blog debunking the idea that the large size of dinosaurs was caused by a weaker gravity. And i have a question: In the blog, we see the following diagram And lower in the blog the following statement at the end of "Blue plate tectonic special: (maybe it was intended to be "blue planet") (enhancing mine) Which statement raises my question: Since the overall MASS of the Earth remains the same, why would the Moon's orbit change at all? The phrase "If Earth’s gravity had doubled since the time of the sauropods, we would expect the opposite effect." looks dubious to me, because the doubling of gravi…

Hello, For anyone who has some familiarity with the generation and functionings of earth quakes and other such geological phenomena, is it possible (I'm sure it is, but how exactly does this work) to generate underground vibrations not large enough to cause any notice above ground, but enough such that the vibrations can be tracked / received like signals. How efficient is this process of generating these? Would it be possible to sent communications through such a system, and how feasible would this be? What might be the downsides, and what special use could this have? Thank you, Sato

I live somewhere in Europe. Like all people who live here or in America at least, we're used to a classic day time cycle; The sun rises from one location, travels in an arch across the sky, then sets in another location... same story for the moon. At the poles of course, things are really different: A day and a night typically last for over a month. Since that's around the center of the Earth's rotation axis, it makes perfect sense too, considering Earth's spin barely reposition those locations in relation to the sun unlike living in areas where the spin has greater effect. But I was wondering one thing: What happens in between those two locations? If around the plane…

1. As the earths core is fluid and changing, with resultant affects on surface polarity and affects on the level of protection from solar winds and charged particles arriving from space; will this be having effects on the earths' weather patterns ? 2. As there is a diminution in the height of the protection from solar particles etc, will there be a greater increase in harmful effects from charged particles on populations, human and wildlife species, IE will there be an increase in UV radiation and and other radiation/ particles where the magnetic field is currently weakest, in this area of the South Atlantic as well as other areas similarly affected ?

What is the width of ozone layer?

Quick seismology question: What properties make P-waves, specifically, destructive? Is it a combination of frequency, speed or amplitude? Or is one factor of P-waves specifically destructive to buildings? I realize that S-waves are particularly destructive because the waves move perpendicular to the direction but right now I am interested in P-waves

Lie on the ground on a hot day and the legs of cattle in the distance seem to shimmer. In fact most things close to the ground in the distance seem to shimmer. Could someone explain to me what this is and what it is caused by? It is a form of refraction but there is a special name for it.

Hi all, I always ponder over the question on how our calendar was defined. Year is based upon our Earth rotating around the Sun, Month is based upon the Moon, Day is based upon Earth's self-rotation. So, why was Week defined as 7 days? Why 1 day is define as 24 hours? Why one hour is define as 60 minutes? Why one minute is defined as 60 seconds? Any thought and explanation would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Jacky

The Three Princes of Serendip and their gift of making fortunate discoveries! I was brought up in Devon . England . I could never understand as a boy , why the countryside around Torquay, Dawlish, Totnes, and the Coast to Budleigh Salterton, and beyond was so red, when I was taught as a child in school ,to draw the soil as brown. . Now I know. ,! I was seeing and standing in and on some of the land between the two greatest mass extinction events of all time ! The great Permian Extinction event, several hundred million years ago before the rise of the Dinosaurs, and much later in time , some 65 million years ago , the mass extinction e…

Well, heya, my name's Noah, and I'm new here, but please forgive me for any errors i make while on the forums, thanks! so I was doing homework in Science (9th grade) and we have finally hit Earth and space science (my best subject). so i was completing a study guide and found that a water embodiment table seemed incorrect. Now, i know that this book is outdated (I blame society on everything wrong in this cruel, cruel world.), but this is outrageous, even the study guide's questions make no sense... "Name four ways water falls back top earth." ~supposed to be *to, i realized after a good half-hour... Aaaany way, my main concern is this table, i screenshot it and did s…

tylerrsmithh has just approached me with the above Question . tylerrsmithh said :- ___________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Answer from : Mike Smith Cosmos I am just reading a book given to me by a friend on the Science Forum [see below] The initial reasoning is right up your street. Forests are the lungs of our Planet and we are hacking our lungs to bits. You might like to take a step back . LEAVES are the actual interface with the environment. B…

Good day! I am a 4th year Honour's student at the University of Ottawa as part of the Fortin lab group. This is my first post to this forum and I thank you for reading my post - and hopefully fielding it as well! At the present time, I am currently conducting some Geochemistry work as part of my cross-disciplinary Honour's project but, as a biomedical and medicinal chemist by training, I have not had any formal practice in programs such as PHREEQC. From my research online, it is clear that this may be a forum where I can get an answer to my problem! I believe my situation may be a simple one to comment on and fix. As a complete novice to the progra…

I've seen multiple reports of this on Facebook. Can this be explained? http://www.wdbj7.com/weather/why-this-weeks-snow-wasnt-normal/-/20128370/24210298/-/ubbcty/-/index.html explanation?

I don't think this will happen but what IF gravity all of a sudden shifted horizontal? I have a lot of ideas of what would happen but what do you guys think?

Hello, Rock hunting in payson Arizona and found some items we can't identify at all. So confused. can anyone help me?

There was an interesting article in the New Scientist, dated 18 Jan 2014 about the decade between AD 534 and AD545 where a large part of the human populations were decimated in civilizations right round the world, asociated with a sudden large drop in global temperature that lasted a decade. The geological reasons for the tmeperature drop are uncertain at best. Does anyone have any more information to contribute?

Would using sonar by pounding vibrations into the ground and drawing an image with the echo be a viable way of fossil hunting? I guess not, since we're not doing it. It's just that the idea crossed my mind a while ago, and now I'm watching Jurassic Park and they're doing it too. It's too good an idea if both me and Spielberg have it! Anyway I know this must be grounded in some fundamental misunderstanding of sonar or something. But it's killing me. I mean the fossil record is so scarce, fossils are so hard to find, and here's this phony-balony solution that keeps slapping me over the head.

Hi guys, I know absolutely nothing about science but this forum is truly fantastic. Have been lurking for a while, but had to finally create a thread on an issue that really troubles me and I don’t fully understand – the creation of Genetically-modified (GM), oil-eating bacteria introduced into the Gulf as part of the BP’s oil disaster remediation efforts (article pasted below). Clearly, this is headed for a disaster. Where can I find more info on this? Thoughts, comments… There’s very little mention of this in the media. http://www.naturalnews.com/031090_Gulf_of_Mexico_bacteria.html

How is the spectral peak of a 2D wave spectrum defined when calculating e.g. the peak period or the mean direction at the spectral peak? Do you a) pick the point in the two dimensional frequency-direction space with the most energy, or do you b) integrate over all direction (thus turning the whole thing to a 1D-spectrum, and then pick the frequency with the most energy from there? For example in the spectrum with mock values: 0 deg 90 deg 180 deg 270 deg 0.1 Hz 0 0 0 0 0.5 Hz 0.1 0.3 0.5 0.2 1.0 Hz 0 0 1 0 meth…

Hello, everybody! Please tell me, if you know, what are the most prospective directions of studying/exploration in remote sensing currently? I'm a first-year master and I'm looking for master's thesis subject. Thanks in advance.