Content tagged "geology"

Posted by Zahra Hirji S.M., Science Writing, 2013
Topics: disaster response, geology, hawaii, mauna loa, volcanoes

Living in the Shadow of Mauna Loa

While geologists and emergency managers prepare for a future eruption, Hawaii’s general public is largely ignorant or apathetic to the risk of Mauna Loa.
Posted by Selby Cull S.M., Science Writing, 2006
Topics: Boston, geology, gondwanaland, pangaea

From Gondwanaland, with Love: The Tale of How Boston Got Its Rocks

The history of our understanding of Boston’s journey illustrates how geologists think about their world, and how their ideas have changed over the last 150 years in one of science’s great revolutions.