Geology

Geology The Field of Geology didn’t become a major field until World war II, when the sea floor was mapped out in detail for submarines revealing a mid-Atlantic underwater mountain range, and a rift which started the theory of Plate Tectonics. Plate tectonics are used to explain the forming of mountains and even continents after the Pangaea. Plate tectonics explains that continents could have broken up, but there are 2 major theories on how. Catastrophist’s believe that a series of catastrophes…

Lassen Volcanic’s geology is very interesting. The terrain has been influenced from many different natural occurrences from 25,000 to 18,000 years ago. Referring back to the May 22, 1915 eruption, the active volcano created a great deal of devastation and depressions; known as the Devastated Area. The devastation caused has an area of three square miles. Volcanoes are common at Lassen. In fact, Lassen is home to all four types of volcanoes, which are shield, cinder cone, plug dome, and…

workers building a university. I went to Stanford University and I served as financial manager for Stanford’s football and baseball teams, I won election as treasurer, and met my future wife, Lou Henry, in geology class. After I graduated from Stanford University in 1895 with a geology degree and I took an engineering job with the British mining company. I traveled the world locating lucrative mineral deposits, and by the age of 27, I had become one of the firm’s four partners. I left…

The new boomer technology now allows us to be able to find, identify, and extract smaller ordnance reliably if conditions are ideal. Airborne magnetics significantly depends on the terrain that is being surveyed. If there is Basaltic rocks or other geology that is ferrous in nature it would mean problems for the extremely sensitive magnetometers aboard these aircrafts as many false positives would show up in the data (Doll,…

The career of Robert Smithson resists categorization. Although he is arguably best known for Spiral Jetty (1970), his writings, photography, drawings, architectural work, and other earthworks have each played an important role in art history, particularly since his 1973 death in an airplane crash while photographing his earthwork Amarillo Ramp. The inability to easily define and understand the work of Robert Smithson extends, on a smaller scale, to the complexities of some of his individual…

Geology is an earth science that comprises of the study of solid earth, the rocks of which it is composed and the process by which they change. Generally, geology refers to the study of solid features of any celestial body. The Marcellus Shale is a rock that lies at the deepest earth’s surface of the Mid-Atlantic region. The formation of this rock contains an important volume of natural gas that is tripped inside some tiny spaces within the shale. The formation of this gas at the depth requires…

Both science and technology had a very profound role on the East India Company’s (EIC) rule over India, as well as added to the economy. Some background – with the EIC’s help, the British first took over areas in India starting with Bengal, located in northeast India today, and then moving down to the southern parts of India as well. They acquired some more territories in northern India after. Expansion to India eventually slowed down; however, once they stopped acquiring as much territory, they…

Wallace, were heavily inspired by several intellectual influences while collaborating together on ‘Natural Selection.’ Some are more prominent figures, while others are an inspiration by proxy, such as James Hutton. Charles Lyell’s book Principles of Geology. Lyell’s theory that minute changes would gradually increase over long periods of time helped Darwin theorize and coin the term Natural Selection, and with Lyell’s encouragement, he began working on his most popular book The Origin of…

excitement towards the task. When reading the book “Passionate Teacher” there were so many examples of teachers going the extra mile that is necessary to be a great teacher. One example of a passionate teacher that I have experienced, is my current Geology professor, Dr. Rex Wagner. From day one of class he was aware that majority of his students were not taking his class because they loved rocks, but because they needed to complete a science credit. Instead of having anger that students did not…

advocate of women’s rights and a strong opponent of slavery. Davis earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in engineering from Harvard. From 1870 to 1873 he worked in meteorological observatory in Argentina and then returned to Harvard to study geology and physical geography. In 1878, he was appointed as an instructor in physical geography at Harvard and by 1885 became a full professor (Daly 1944). Davis contributed in the field of physical geography and geomorphology, not only that he also…