Essays on Geology

When Europeans viewed the first world maps including the Americas 5 centuries ago, they noticed the African and South American coastlines would fit together like a puzzle if they were not separated by the Atlantic ocean. Scientists of the era were baffled and came to…

Our planet is in constant flux. Tectonic plates — the large slabs of rock that divide Earth’s crust so that it looks like a cracked eggshell — jostle about in fits and starts that continuously reshape our planet — and possibly foster life. These plates…

In the world, there are currently multiple areas in which the interaction of tectonic plates can be represented. I am going to discuss how, as well as provide scientific reasoning to justify the features provided on the surface of the earth due to the Himalayan…

Introduction So far this century there have been more than 1,100 fatal earthquake causing a total loss of life exceeding 1. 53 million people. Reducing the loss of life is the primary protection strategies, and yet the processes that contribute to death tolls and the…

Global Warming is a slow increase in the Earth’s temperature also called climate change, and because of global warming, our planet is being affected in many ways. The studies of volcanic-tectonic plates are causing our planet to plunge by putting deadly gases into our everyday…

The tectonic and sedimentary evolution of the basin and its paleoenvironments created the different petroleum systems known in the Lusitanian basin. The source rocks, the reservoirs, the maturation phases, the traps and its processes show direct relations to the Mesozoic and Cenozoic evolution in Lusitanian…

Geology is within us, from the moment we closed the door and step on the road filled with sand and rocks, to the various minerals we unknowingly utilize in our everyday life. It has no doubt that our standard of living is entirely dependent to…

Nearly 4,000 kilometers off of California’s coast, the big island of Hawai’i is home to Mauna Kea- a dormant volcano that is the second-highest point above sea level. To Native Hawaiians, the mountain is a sacred place, as, in ancient times, it was thought to…

An earthquake is when two parts of the earth suddenly slip past one another. The surface where they slip past one is called fault or fault plane. The spot below the earth’s surface where the earthquake starts is called the hypocenter, and the location directly…

The chemical formula of gypsum corresponds exactly to the chemical formula of selenite. In fact , selenite is a crystalline form of gypsum , and not the most beautiful. Favorite collectors of “roses of the desert” are also crystals of gypsum, the clusters of which…