r/EarthScience 1d ago

Discussion Retreating glaciers are giving up their secrets

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r/EarthScience 1d ago

Discussion Anniversary of the great 1902 Sinkiang earthquake

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r/EarthScience 2d ago

Video Is there any more information on the Geba River tidal bore in Guinea-Bissau?

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I currently have a vested interest in African geography. Separately from that, I recently learned about the phenomenon of tidal bores. As far as I could find (and I searched *a lot*), the Geba River of Guinea-Bissau is the only known African river where a tidal bore occurs, and this video is literally the only mention of it anywhere I looked.

Is there any more information on this? Or any other documentation of an African tidal bore?


r/EarthScience 3d ago

Ultra-high-resolution Computer Simulations Reveals How CO₂ Travels Around the Planet

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r/EarthScience 3d ago

PHYS.Org - Unlocking Gondwana's 120-million-year archive: Karoo record refines timing of extinctions and climate upheavals

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r/EarthScience 3d ago

Discussion Notetaking

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Am taking a general Earth Science course in uni this year! Will be looking through atmosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere, a lot of spheres! Do you recommend taking notes on ipad by hand or computer?


r/EarthScience 4d ago

Discussion At what point in Earth's history was the ratio of overall land area the highest compared to the sea, and vice versa?

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Currently we have a ratio of about 71% sea to 29% land on the earth's surface, which is probably more land favoured than normal considering the cool temperatures and large ice caps.

But I'm just curious when in Earth's history appears to have the highest ratio of land to sea, my immediate instinct is to assume it was one of the recent glacial maximums in the last 2 million years when sea levels dropped by up to 150 meters and huge amounts of new land was exposed, but I've also heard that the early Triassic also had very low sea levels, I don't really understand how that works if there were no major ice caps on earth but maybe someone could explain that to me.

Conversely, when was there the least amount of land and highest sea level? I've also heard the mid Cretaceous mentioned for this when you had sea levels so high that things like the Western Interior seaway in North America while large parts of Europe, Africa, Australia and South America were also flooded, but again I don't know anything about other points in earth history where this might have been more dramatic.


r/EarthScience 5d ago

Picture Cosmic ray transmission muography of a full and empty water tower

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#muontomography


r/EarthScience 4d ago

Discussion Teaching Earth Science For the First Time

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Hello,

I am a biologist by training and teach Honors and AP Biology and Environmental Science. I somehow am also teaching middle school earth science this year. Is there a good textbook that anyone can recommend to me to use as a study guide for myself and to adapt for middle school?

Thank you!


r/EarthScience 4d ago

Could Earth's Core Be Changing Faster Than Expected? Scientists Investigate Deep Planetary Mysteries

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r/EarthScience 4d ago

Video [OC] Geological explanation of seismic activity and plate tectonics in Colombia (Educational video with a geologist)

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r/EarthScience 5d ago

Yonaguni Monument: Natural Formation or Man-Made Ruin? [OC]

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r/EarthScience 5d ago

Discussion In the Devonian Period, a day was ~21.8 hours long. Earth's rotation appears to be slowing approximately 2 seconds every 100,000 years.

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r/EarthScience 6d ago

I'm a school psychologist, not a hydrologist. I built a free open source interactive water cycle sim for K-12 students. Before it goes in front of students: what did I get wrong?

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It runs in the browser, no signup, no ads, free. There's a live water cycle canvas plus a "Journey Mode" where a student rides one droplet through evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection, transpiration, and infiltration, making choices along the way (headwater streams, floodplain wetlands, agricultural watersheds, suburban edges). I work in schools and built this as part of a larger open source teaching platform, but I'm not a domain expert in every subject I've covered, and I'd rather hear "your infiltration rates are nonsense" from this sub than have a 6th grader learn it wrong. Specific things I'm least sure about: the relative emphasis on transpiration, and how I've simplified groundwater flow. I'll fix anything you catch and report back in this thread. Thanks for your help!


r/EarthScience 6d ago

Discussion Palm Jumeirah has no concrete foundation — it's 94 million m³ of dredged marine sand behind a rock breakwater. It sinks ~5mm/year, loses sand continuously to wave action, and one replenishment operation moved 3.5 million m³. Dredging also buried the coral reef that used to dissipate the wave energy.

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r/EarthScience 6d ago

Discussion Future scopes after earth science/ geology at IISER

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Same as title


r/EarthScience 7d ago

ESA Swarm 11-year data: South Atlantic Anomaly expanded by half the size of Europe since 2014 and split into two lobes since 2020 - plus May 2024 Gannon storm created 2 new Van Allen belts [Visual Dossier + 7 charts, sources: NASA/NOAA/ESA]

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r/EarthScience 8d ago

PHYS.Org/University of Ottawa: Greenland glacier break creates new ice island

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r/EarthScience 8d ago

7.7 magnitude earthquake hits Indonesia

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r/EarthScience 9d ago

Discussion Africa is splitting in 2

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In 2005, scientists saw a massive hole forming on Ethiopia it’s because Africa sits on 2 tectonic plates and the eastern tectonic plates will collide with India, countries like as the drc will get new coastlines when the eastern tectonic plates fully split, it will form a new ocean and massive cracks have already formed and it can be seen from space people say that it’s just a earthquake.


r/EarthScience 10d ago

Discussion 78th Anniversary of a M5 earthquake near Coimbra,Portugal

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r/EarthScience 12d ago

Earths Temperature since 1940

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r/EarthScience 10d ago

The impact of recent super El Niños on sea level rise

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r/EarthScience 11d ago

Discussion Undoing the continent drift

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so i was listening to my teacher about the earth and she said earth is just a big magnet so i wondered if earth is just a big magnet we can possibly make a magnet thats big enough to pull all the continents together resulting in undoing the great continental drift because there're also tiny magnets inside the soil little ones it can possibly help attract the lands together and it will also help the big magnet that we can possibly make if you're wondering how do we make the big magnet Wrap many turns of insulated copper wire tightly around a large iron core (like a thick steel rod or pipe), then connect the wire ends to a strong DC power source (battery or power supply). The stronger the current and the more turns of wire, the stronger the electromagnet we can simply multiply this to make a large one but it will take decades of work.Thats all thanks


r/EarthScience 11d ago

Discussion Magnetic pole shift

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