Archives for Geology
Doing Something About the Climate
The Century in Review: Twain's remark about the weather is no longer a laughing matter Mark Twain supposedly wrote, "Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it."…
Dinosaur Extinction
The Extinction of the Dinosaurs A Research Program at the Milwaukee Public Museum by Peter M. Sheehan Curator of Geology EDITOR'S NOTE: This article is reprinted without illustrations from LORE…
Collecting rocks
Rocks Tell the Story of the Earth The Earth is made of rock, from the tallest mountains to the floor of the deepest ocean. Thousands of different types of rocks…
Geology Of Ward Valley
By Howard Wilshire and Jane Nielson Ward Valley has a long geologic history, but many of the valleys geological facets relevant to nuclear waste dump siting are of quite recent…