The Geology P.A.G.E.

Geology Fun Fact Question: Did dinosaurs eat grass? There has been a continuous debate over the pictures showing dinosaurs eating gras...

Geology Fun Fact Topic: Dark Side of the Moon Contrary to popular opinion, and a Pink Floyd album, there is no actual "dark ...

Geology Fun Fact Topic: Elemental Abundance The abundance of the elements in the solar system generally decreases with increasing ato...

Geology Fun Fact Question: Are fossil fuels actually made of dinosaurs?  No! Despite the common misconception, most fossil fuels do n...

Geology Fun Fact Question: What is the Earth’s most common mineral?  Looking at the bulk composition of the Earth, the most common mi...

Geology Fun Fact Myth: there’s plenty of water to go around.  Out of all the water on the Earth, 97.5% is salt water. This means it i...

Geology Fun Fact Topic: Deadly Volcanoes Even though you can potentially outrun most of the eruptive materials from a volcano (if yo...

Geology Fun Fact Question: Do the continents move at the same rate that fingernails grow?  The continents have been clocked at pretty...

Geology Fun Fact Myth: A comet's tail points towards the sun.  A comet tail is only produced near a star (such as our sun). When ...

Geology Fun Fact Myth: The Asteroid Belt was a planet that was ripped apart. Currently scientists believe that the Asteroid Belt, loc...

Geology Fun Fact Myth: My compass points to the North Pole The Magnetic North Pole is not in the same location as the Geographic Nort...

Geology Fun Fact Topic: Dwarf Planets When Pluto was demoted from a planet, there was a new category created called “Dwarf Planet”. U...

Geology Fun Fact Topic: Compressed Graphite When you think of it, there doesn’t seem to be any greater divide than between diamonds a...

Geology Fun Fact Question: How Slow is “Slow as a Glacier”?  Even though glaciers are typically thought to move very slowly (think...

Geology Fun Fact Topic: Supercontinents It is relatively well known that there was at least one supercontinent in our planet’s pa...

Geology Fun Fact Myth: Dinosaurs are Extinct.  While all non-avian dinosaurs are extinct, there is overwhelming evidence that bir...

Geology Fun Fact Myth: Volcanoes grow slowly.  While often true in terms of human perception (not in geological terms) there are some...

Geology Fun Fact Myth: Pluto was stripped of planethood because people didn’t like it.  In reality, the reason Pluto got demoted...

Geology Fun Fact Moonquakes? Even though the moon is technically “inactive” there is some shaking still going on. The epicenters ...

Geology Fun Fact Early Life. The Phanerozoic Eon is the time period consisting of the last 540 million years and means “Visible l...