Essays on Geology

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…

Structural response /behaviour during earthquake Inertia Forces in StructuresEarthquake causes shaking of the ground. So a building resting on it will experience motion at its base. From Newton’s First Law of Motion, even though the base of the building moves with the ground, the roof…

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…

Geography assignment is a paper that anticipates that students will write in a formal pushed style to meet the essentials of the guide or scholarly foundation. Humankind subjects anticipate that students will compose assignment once in a while. The substance should be especially investigated in…

Although vegetation cover is only one of many parameters that can be monitored and used for grassland management in Iran, vegetation cover is the most frequently used indicator in remote sensing to measure grassland production and level of pasture degradation (Li et al., 2010; Cui…