Earth Sciences Forum

Post thread
Join the experts in discussing earth science topics. Earth science is the physical state of the earth and its atmosphere. Such as Geology, Meteorology, Oceanography, Ecology.
Science which goes into computing hurricane predictions
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5
Views
4K
Heavy rainfall and flooding in central Victoria, Australia
  • · Replies 10 ·
Replies
10
Views
2K
Mount Edgecumbe, dormant for 800 years, now showing activity
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1
Views
2K
Are Recent Volcanic and Seismic Activities in Italy Interconnected?
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4
Views
2K
Why 80% of Americans Live East of This Line
  • · Replies 39 ·
Replies
39
Views
6K
M 7.6 - Colima-Michoacan border region, Mexico
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2
Views
2K
What caused the recent earthquakes in Taiwan?
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2
Views
2K
I find the concept of folding a little fantastical
  • · Replies 16 ·
Replies
16
Views
2K
Mag 7.6 earthquake near Kainantu, Papua New Guinea
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3
Views
2K
Crest to Crest Velocity of Tsunami
  • · Replies 18 ·
Replies
18
Views
2K
Is This a Meteor? My Arrowhead Hunting Find in Southeast Missouri
  • · Replies 20 ·
Replies
20
Views
2K
Theories on how the food supply evolved along with life?
  • · Replies 11 ·
Replies
11
Views
2K
Could This Beach Find in Italy Be a Meteorite?
  • · Replies 7 ·
Replies
7
Views
2K
Environment: Plastics in rainfall (PFOA and PFAS)
  • · Replies 10 ·
Replies
10
Views
2K
Mapping "Every Inch [or cm] of the Seafloor"
  • · Replies 20 ·
Replies
20
Views
2K
Fossilized Footprints dating to ~23k years ago, White Sands, NM
  • · Replies 7 ·
Replies
7
Views
5K
Dangers at the World's Deepest Cave
  • · Replies 9 ·
Replies
9
Views
2K
At what depth is the phase of temperature profile reversed?
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2
Views
10K
Hungersteine -> "hunger stones" hydrologic markers of famine
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1
Views
3K
Chance of Rain: Interpreting Probabilities
  • · Replies 24 ·
Replies
24
Views
5K
Lake Hydrology Physics: Observing Shoreline Changes
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4
Views
2K
Measuring Earth and its Mountains
  • · Replies 6 ·
Replies
6
Views
2K
Splitting Rock with Superficial Heat
  • · Replies 7 ·
Replies
7
Views
3K
Probability of Rain in weather forecasts
  • · Replies 19 ·
Replies
19
Views
3K
How can I differentiate between monsoon rains and cyclonic rain?
  • · Replies 10 ·
Replies
10
Views
2K
Why are there clouds over the Intertropical Convergence Zone?
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2
Views
2K
Tornado path visualization - what is this data?
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3
Views
2K
What kind of rock have I found?
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5
Views
2K
CO2 allows volcanoes to form persistent lava lakes at the surface
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1
Views
2K
Dinosaur killed in asteroid strike found
  • · Replies 12 ·
Replies
12
Views
4K
Dark fiber optic cables as Earthquake detectors
  • · Replies 9 ·
Replies
9
Views
2K
Is It a Rock, Fossil, or Meteorite?
  • · Replies 9 ·
Replies
9
Views
2K
Impact events: when were they first seen as potentially catastrophic?
  • · Replies 20 ·
Replies
20
Views
3K
Ice Age Treasures: Searching for Frozen Relics in the Alps
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2
Views
2K
Earthquakes in Sao Jorge Island, Azores, Portugal
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1
Views
2K
Does climate change affect air density at altitude (scale height)?
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2
Views
2K
A new technique for imaging underground geothermal features
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2
Views
1K
What are the mysterious rock formations at Al-Naslaa?
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5
Views
2K
Hiawatha impact crater in Greenland, formed ~58 million years ago
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1
Views
2K
7.3 Magnitude Quake Hits North Japan
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4
Views
2K
Does anyone know what these rocks are? Please any info welcome
  • · Replies 25 ·
Replies
25
Views
3K
Tilting of Earth's crust, Ancient Megafloods, e.g., Missoula Floods
  • · Replies 6 ·
Replies
6
Views
2K
Yilan crater in Northeast China - 1.15-mile (1.85 km) wide
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2
Views
2K
Tornado prediction or forecasting possible using Supercomputers?
  • · Replies 18 ·
Replies
18
Views
2K
Coriolis Force in East-West Direction
  • · Replies 32 ·
Replies
32
Views
5K
New Zealand, as part of a small continent, Zealandia?
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1
Views
2K
170-million-year-old Jurassic pterosaur fossil found on Isle of Skye
  • · Replies 0 ·
Replies
0
Views
2K
Application Of Kirchoff Law (Desert)
  • · Replies 6 ·
Replies
6
Views
2K
The Alpine Fault, upper South Is., New Zealand
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3
Views
5K
Formation and evolution of the Great Lakes in US/Canada border
  • · Replies 8 ·
Replies
8
Views
3K
Huge mountain chains associated with major evolutionary changes.
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4
Views
2K
CME's, Blackstarts, and internet problems?
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5
Views
2K
Phys.org, 768-km (477 mile) US megaflash lightning discharge
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1
Views
2K
Volcanologists want to put sensors directly into an Underground Magma Chamber
  • · Replies 17 ·
Replies
17
Views
4K
How Do Methane and Hydrogen Sulfide Contribute to Global Warming?
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3
Views
3K
Where is the night side of the ITCZ during Northern Summer?
  • · Replies 7 ·
Replies
7
Views
2K
Understanding Fog Formation and Dew Point from Wikipedia
  • · Replies 23 ·
Replies
23
Views
4K
What Triggers Lightning - Revealed
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1
Views
2K
Can We Predict Earthquakes? | Hello PF
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4
Views
5K
Live volcanic eruption in Canary Islands, Spain
  • · Replies 25 ·
Replies
25
Views
5K
References on Artificial Volcanos
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2
Views
1K
Fate of Sinking Tectonic Plates
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2
Views
2K
Mount Semaru eruption (Indonesia)
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4
Views
2K
Stress at Plate Boundaries vs. Pure Elastic Stress: A Comparison
  • · Replies 12 ·
Replies
12
Views
3K
Popular estimate of the Earth's atmosphere possibly wrong?
  • · Replies 6 ·
Replies
6
Views
2K
What are the different types of volcanoes and how are they formed?
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4
Views
3K
How do Dangerous Unstable Lakes pose a potential threat to human populations?
  • · Replies 6 ·
Replies
6
Views
2K
Mysterious Shards of Glass Strewn Across Miles of Atacama Desert
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1
Views
2K
Ordovician mass extinction second wave - deep sea anoxia
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2
Views
1K
How to Grow Crops on a Hotter Earth
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1
Views
1K
Looking for review article on planetary interiors
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4
Views
2K
Condensed parts of Earth's atmosphere
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5
Views
2K
M 6.2 - 21 km SSE of Yilan, Taiwan
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1
Views
1K
Can we assume constant C14 to C12 ratio in living tissues?
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5
Views
4K
Excess CO2 Problem Solved by making starch out of CO2?
  • · Replies 18 ·
Replies
18
Views
3K
Sailing drone video from inside cat 4 hurricane
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2
Views
2K
Historic CO2 levels, climate change
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4
Views
2K
That Time the Mediterranean Sea Disappeared
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5
Views
2K
M6.0 Earthquake and aftershocks, Island of Crete, Greece
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1
Views
2K
South Atlantic Anomaly: Evolution & Solar Effects
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3
Views
4K
M 5.9 - 38 km S of Mount Buller, Australia
  • · Replies 9 ·
Replies
9
Views
3K
Simulation Code for Earth's Historical Temperature Record
  • · Replies 46 ·
Replies
46
Views
6K
Creating a Global Climate Calendar
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3
Views
2K
What Type of Rock is This Odd Beach Find from Northern California?
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2
Views
2K
How surface water flows in the US
  • · Replies 25 ·
Replies
25
Views
3K
Mag 7.0 Earthquake - Acapulco, Mexico
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1
Views
2K
Orbital atmosphere (Karman Line -1000km)
  • · Replies 27 ·
Replies
27
Views
3K
Climate skeptics according to faculty and/or degree?
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3
Views
2K
M6.3 Kermadec Islands, NZ Earthquake 2021
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1
Views
2K
Is the South Sandwich Islands region experiencing frequent strong earthquakes?
  • · Replies 19 ·
Replies
19
Views
2K
M 7.2 earthquake in Haiti August 14
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2
Views
2K
How large can a cloud cover be?
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1
Views
2K
Would the Earth speed up rotating if the molten core solidified?
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3
Views
2K
Mine collapse, Mag 3.1, in Tennessee
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1
Views
2K
Mag 8.2 Earthquake and aftershocks ~ 104 km SE of Perryville, Alaska
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5
Views
2K
Mw 7.1 offshr SE Mindanao, Philippines
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5
Views
2K
Perigee & Apogee: How Earth's Orbit Impacts Summer Temperatures
  • · Replies 7 ·
Replies
7
Views
7K
What is the current activity of Mount Etna?
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3
Views
3K
Identify if a Meteorite? Fusion Crust, Magnetic, Olivine
  • · Replies 31 ·
Replies
31
Views
8K
Further Geological Effects of Chicxulub Impact Found
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1
Views
2K