Top reserve-holding country for 18 key minerals

https://lemmy.world/post/48770399

Wildfire area burned globally, by land cover type (2026)

https://lemmy.world/post/48765428

📘 Geomorphometry: Concepts, Software, Applications (2nd ed.) by Reuter, Grohmann & Lecours is coming this fall!

A new edition covering approaches and applications in quantitative terrain analysis and Earth surface processes.

https://shop.elsevier.com/books/geomorphometry/reuter/978-0-443-33376-7

#Geomorphometry #GIScience #EarthScience

Earth and atmosphere cutaway illustration (2010)

https://lemmy.world/post/48719941

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🌱🔬 A new 3D #climate model suggests #Earth’s photosynthetic #biosphere could survive up to 1.86 billion more years, well past earlier 1 billion year estimates.

Researchers examined how rising #heat and declining #CO2 will squeeze future plant life. Hardiest survivors like CAM #plants and aquatic #algae may persist near the poles.

👉 https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/earths-plants-may-have-nearly-2-billion-years-left-before-the-planet-becomes-too-hostile/

#earthscience #climate #photosynthesis #astronomy #astrobiology #science #research #biology #botany #solarsystem #sun #evolution

Earth’s Plants May Have Nearly 2 Billion Years Left Before the Planet Becomes Too Hostile

New simulations extend the future of Earth’s plant life by hundreds of millions of years.

ZME Science

Earth, Sweet Earth ( Science For Everyone) by Ekaterina Radkevich

The book is based on the author’s impressions of her numerous expeditions in the many countries. It is a fascinating narrative rather than a mere record of facts irrespective of how scientifically valid they can be. The book is bound to be appreciated as a piece of absorbing reading by anyone who cares to increase the scope of his or her competence about our sweet home of a planet that must be saved from destruction at all costs.

Ekaterina Radkevich, Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, is one of the most distinguished geologists whose works are well known in her own country and in many other parts of the world. The overwhelming success of her publications is chiefly due to her indefatigable practical activity in the USSR and elsewhere and her unflagging interest in theoretical research which she has been conducting for quite some time at the Institute of Geological Studies in the Far East (Viadivostok).

Note: This book was the last remaining volume in the Science for Everyone Series! This completes volume the SFE series in English.

Many, many thanks to Hassaan Ali who purchased and posted this book to us to complete  this series. Much appreciated help!

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Contents
How I Became a Geologist (In Lieu of a Preface) 7

Part I. The Earth in the Universe 20

Chapter 1. The Earth as a Cosmic Body 20

Chapter 2. The Planet Earth 29

Chapter 3. The Deep-seated Structure of the Earth 38

Chapter 4. The Development of Views on the Origin of Earth and Other Planets of the Solar System 47

Part II. The History of the Development of the Earth 58

Chapter 5. The Dawn 58

Chapter 6. Life: The Earth’s Chronicle 70

Part III. Geology Everywhere 100

Chapter 7. The Work of the Wind 102

Chapter 8. The Role of Water in the Transformation of Our Planet 113

Chapter 9. The Activity of Subterranean Forces 127

Part IV. The Composition of the Earth’s Crust 147

Chapter 10. Sedimentary Rocks 147

Chapter 11. Magmatic (Igneous) Rocks 159

Chapter 12. Metamorphic Rocks 185

Part V. The Movements of the Earth’s Crust 202

Chapter 13. Mountains: Old and Young 203

Chapter 14. The Deformation of Rocks 208

Chapter 15. Fixism vs. Mobilism 216

Part VI. Mineral Resources 236

Chapter 16. The Mineral Kingdom 236

Chapter 17. Mineral Raw Materials and Technical Progress 258

Chapter 18. The Future of Mineral Raw Resources 280

Chapter 19. How Ores Are Formed 286

Chapter 20. The Science of Metallogeny 308

Chapter 21. In Quest of Ores 328

Chapter 22. At the Metallogenic Map of the Pacific Belt 338

Chapter 23. Mineral Resources of the Seas and the Underwater Storerooms of Mineral Raw Materials 349

Chapter 24. Save Our Earth! 361

To End on a Poetic Note 367

#earthHistory #earthScience #geochemistry #geology #geophysics #historyOfEarth #mineralResources #mining #planetaryScience #plateTectonics #popularScience #rocks #sovietLiterature

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🌍🔀 Two #earthquakes hit northern #Venezuela 39 seconds apart on June 25, 2026 – a magnitude 7.2 foreshock followed by a 7.5 mainshock.

The #USGS classifies this as a “#doublet” – two seismologically distinct quakes from different faults, triggered by stress transfer. Dr. Mark Quigley at the University of #Melbourne explains the rare event along Venezuela’s active plate boundary.

👉 https://www.zmescience.com/science/geology/venezuelas-earthquake-doublet/

#seismology #platetectonics #caribbean #science #geology #earthscience #naturaldisasters #Caracas

Venezuela's Devastating Earthquake Was a ‘Doublet’? Here's What This Means

The two deadly earthquakes happened just 39 seconds apart, but were seismologically distinct.

ZME Science

Venezuela’s Powerful Earthquakes Were a Rare ‘Seismic Doublet’

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/venezuelas-powerful-earthquakes-rare-seismic-doublet/

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🌱🔬 A new 3D #climate model suggests #Earth’s photosynthetic #biosphere could survive up to 1.86 billion more years, well past earlier 1 billion year estimates.

Researchers examined how rising #heat and declining #CO2 will squeeze future plant life. Hardiest survivors like CAM #plants and aquatic #algae may persist near the poles.

👉 https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/earths-plants-may-have-nearly-2-billion-years-left-before-the-planet-becomes-too-hostile/

#earthscience #climate #photosynthesis #astronomy #astrobiology #science #research #biology #botany #solarsystem #sun #evolution

Earth’s Plants May Have Nearly 2 Billion Years Left Before the Planet Becomes Too Hostile

New simulations extend the future of Earth’s plant life by hundreds of millions of years.

ZME Science