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EarthWord – Young Ice
This week's EarthWord is what Vanilla Ice might've called a follow-up to his most famous song...
EarthView – Chernobyl 30 Years Later
After 30 years, it's still a hot topic...
Copper Plates Gone (Sort of)
The General Services Administration has completed the donation or sale of nearlly 4,000 excess sets of historic USGS engraved copper map plates.
Glacial Pace? Anything But!
Think glaciers are always slow? Think again!
EarthView – Wildfires Scorch Large Swaths Along Oklahoma-Kansas border
This week's EarthView is a scorcher!
Gifts from the Sea
The USGS has completed the second phase of releasing thousands of photos and videos of the seafloor and coastline through their Coastal and Marine Video and Photography Portal.
EarthWord – Watershed
This week’s EarthWord sounds like what the British might call an outhouse...
EarthView – Wind, Waves Alter Coastal Barriers
You'll get washed or blown away by our latest EarthView!
EarthWord – Viscosity
Viscosity refers to a fluid’s resistance to flowing. Ever heard the phrase “slower than molasses?” Viscosity is what it’s referring to, since molasses has a fairly high viscosity and so doesn’t flow very quickly.
USGS EarthWord of the Week
The unsaturated zone is the area below the surface of the ground but above the groundwater table. In other words, it’s the area that is comparatively drier than aquifers, with both water and air in the pore space between rock and soil.
EarthWord – Induced Seismicity
The occurrence or frequency of earthquakes for which the origin is attributable to human activities.
EarthWord – Tertiary
The Tertiary is a system of rocks, above the Cretaceous and below the Quaternary, that defines the Tertiary Period of geologic time. T