Geology
The Forces of the Earth. On the ground level
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The Oldest Body of Seawater
This goes back to as far as 35 million years ago; when a great chunk of Rock or it must have been Ice, slammed into what’s now the mouth of the bay, off Cape Charles, Virginia, hollowing out a 56-mile-wide (90- kilometer-wide) hole in the floor of the North Atlantic Ocean. But then we weren’t…
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Mount Pinatubo; the Eruption.
This event was among the very quite few of its kind, that affected the Globe on a tremendous scale. In June 1991, after 600 years of dormancy, mount Pinatubo in the Philippines erupted. The summit of the 1460-m volcano erupted. * 15-20 million tons of ash and sulphuric acid mist were blasted into the atmosphere;…
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Pinatubo Escape!
I read about Mount Pinatubo’s regal eruption three years ago. I’ll publish a short story of it next time.. But for now, the People in the Truck in this Photo narrowly escaped the Explosion of Mount Pinatubo on the Philippine Island of Luzon in 1991. However, some 800 inhabitants of Luzon did not escape. The…
Eupheus (to Know) 