Questions tagged [geology]
The science comprising the study of solid Earth, the rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which it evolves.
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Is the stone used for Ram temple construction 65 million years old?
Ram temple is being constructed in Ayodhya city of India. It has been claimed by various Indian news channels (which I don't trust very much) that a stone is used for its construction which is 65 ...
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Is this video of a fast-moving river of lava authentic?
In July 2020, Facebook page "Meteorologist Greg Pollak" posted a video (Facebook link):
WHOA! Check out how fast this river of lava was moving in Hawaii back in 2018 👀🌋 Note: This is not ...
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Did the Quran predict that the crust is thicker under mountains?
Miracles of The Quran claims that the Quran verse 21:31:
We placed firmly embedded mountains on the earth, so it would not move under them
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Do "Zombie bacteria" live for millions to tens-of-millions of years?
Sputnik News reports that researchers are finding a "subterranean Galapagos" including "creatures such as microbial life thriving at 121 degrees Celsius or 'zombie bacteria', which can ...
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Have scientists found 700,000-or-more visible annual ice layers?
For people who doubt radiometric dating, layer-counting may provide hard evidence for one or another minimum age of the earth. In its question-and-answer article on how the age of the earth is ...
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Is the discovery of tuff amongst dinosaur fossils in Utah incompatible with scientific consensus about dating of the fossils?
A Creation Ministries International article makes the following claim about the multiple-local-flood explanation for the deposits at the Morrison Formation:
The idea of many local floods might at ...
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Did all iron on Earth come from outer space?
According to the video 9 Shocking Facts from the Quran!
Iron is not natural to the Earth. It did not form on the Earth but came down to Earth from outer space. This may sound strange but it is true....
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Do the mountains around this Norwegian valley act like a giant battery?
The Gizmodo website has this article about the UFO-like lights often seen at night in Hessdalen, Norway. The article, titled "Why Mysterious UFO-Like Lights Glow in this Norwegian Valley", says that
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Does New Caledonia have a quarter of the world's nickel?
While reading this Guardian article, this claim stood out to me:
The territory is home to a quarter of the world’s known nickel, a key component in the manufacture of rechargeable batteries, coins ...
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Does China control 85% of the supply of rare metals used in lithium batteries?
A selected letter in The Guardian talking about electric vehicles claims:
The rare metals in lithium batteries are produced only in inconvenient places. More than 85% of the world’s supply comes ...
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Is the Yellowstone volcano due to explode?
With NASA plans for stopping a potential cataclysm I found the following statement repeated by several news sources (like BBC):
But Yellowstone explodes roughly every 600,000 years, and it is about ...
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Will plant-life on Earth end due to too little CO2?
According to a 2013 Daily Mail article :
greater evaporation and chemical reactions with rainwater will take away more and more carbon dioxide.
In less than a billion years, its levels will be too ...
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Has fracking caused hundreds of earthquakes in Oklahoma?
Rachel Maddow on her show tonight showed a statistic that in 2011 when Pruitt became attorney general of Oklahoma, there were 34 earthquakes stronger than 3.0 on the Richter scale, and that grew to ...
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Can "Seismic Blasting" from a ship induce massive earthquakes?
This YouTube video asks the question if the 2016 Kaikoura earthquake was caused by the ship the Amazon Warrior conducting "seismic blasting".
Is that even possible?
Green Party MP Steffan Browning ...
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Did every signer of the Declaration of independence (US) said they believed that men and women were created?
According to this video, Mike Pence said:
every signer of the Declaration of independence believed that men and women were created and were endowed by that same creator.
Did they express such ...
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Does the 'super-moon' have a measurable effect on probability and magnitude of earthquakes?
On the 14th of November 2016, the moon is both full, and is on its closest approach to Earth, causing its largest appearance size until 2033. Citation This large appearance gives it the 'super-moon' ...
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Carbon 14 in Coal [duplicate]
The creationist video claims Carbon 14 should not be found in layers older than 90 000 years old, and yet researchers found some, and concluded it was evidence of a global flood.
In 2003 a group ...
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Was the Earth one big ocean once?
Many people believe that Earth was one big ocean at some point in its past.
During Noah’s time the earth was completely covered with water.
There are many other examples, not all related to Noah. ...
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Is widespread adoption of the electric car unlikely due to lithium scarcity?
Although lithium is very abundant in sea water, only lithium mineral extraction seems to be economically viable. The world's total reserves in lithium minerals is estimated at 13.5 Mt (not sure ...
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Can earthquakes and volcanoes be due or overdue?
Can earthquakes and volcanic eruptions be "due" or "overdue"? As in "They typically happen every X years, we haven't had one for Y years, so we're more likely to have one now&...
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Does "geopathic stress" cause illness?
There are huge number of articles out there claiming that earth emits some sort of electromagnetic waves. When they are disturbed, it causes geopathic stress to humans which causes various illnesses.
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Are Earthquakes on the rise?
This came across my social media feed:
U.S. Geological Earthquakes Survey
1973 - 4,539 Earthquakes
1974 — 4,528 Earthquakes
2000 — 19,131 Earthquakes
2010 — 23,040 Earthquakes
2011 — 22,...
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Did granite form instantly?
Is it true that granite has formed in a matter of hours as described (and explained) in "Fingerprints of creation" by Robert Gentry (http://www.halos.com/).
The following simple analogy ...
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Are there any geological periods found on top of each other that have dinosaurs of that period with in them? [closed]
In diagrams, It is common to depict geological periods to be directly on top of each other with fossils of that period within them. When looking for evidence of this, I have only found examples of ...
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Are Easterbrook's oxygen-isotope paleo-temperature reconstructions credible?
In this video of a presentation given at a climate-skeptic Heartland Institute conference, Don Easterbrook presents his view of recent climate history. He compares his own projections of future ...
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Could meteors have been been formed with lead, and mislead radiometric dating?
The age of the Earth has been determined by radiometric dating of meteorites, by seeing how much uranium has decayed into lead.
How do we know the meteor samples weren't formed with lead already in ...
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Did Pangaea exist?
I recently had an argument with a conspiracy theory type who had a bunch of strange ideas about a number of pretty well established scientific phenomenon. One that I had never heard before, nor can I ...
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Are gem-quality diamonds common?
One often hears that diamonds aren't rare at all.
Upon closer inspection, such claims appear to actually state that diamonds cost more than their abundance alone would account for. Sources that ...
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Did a magnitude 8.2 earthquake hit Jerusalem in 33AD?
A Telegraph article makes an interesting claim, in a discussion about the Shroud of Turin:
However a new study claims than an earthquake in Jerusalem in 33AD may have not only created the image but ...
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Are the footprints found in Great Britain 800,000 years old?
Some footprints were found in Great Britain earlier this year. They are reported to be about 800,000 years old. Here is how they were dated, according to a Yahoo! article:
Scientists dated the ...
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Are Scotland's oil and gas reserves dwindling?
This article states that Scotland's oil and gas reserves and tax incomes are dwindling:
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/feb/07/scottish-independence-economic-implications-niesr
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Were deserts once oceans/seas?
I was reading The Alchemist and stumbled upon something that says,
Here and there, he found a shell, and realized that the desert, in remote times, had been a sea.
Were the deserts once oceans/...
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Will the bytes of data stored in 2020 be greater than the number of grains of sand on the world's beaches?
An article in The Independent covering recent developments in Big data contains the following, suspiciously precise, claim:
By 2020, it's thought that the number of bytes will be 57 times greater ...
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What was the density of prehistoric Earth atmosphere (dinosaurs buoyancy theory)
There is a site by David Esker named Dinosaur Theory: dinosaurtheory.com. David says that dinosaurs was so big because the early (at dinosaurs age) earth atmosphere was very dense and most mass of ...
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Are there three pyramids in Antarctica?
A story from an Illuminati conspiracy site has become a semi popular meme on Facebook:
Three ancient pyramids have been discovered in the Antarctic by a team
of American and European scientists. ...
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How much has Magnetic North shifted in the last few years and would this affect aeronautics?
I was talking to a contractor at a major U.S. airport, a Project Manager who told that they were moving the runways due to the shifting of 'Magnetic North'. I have heard that the poles have shifted ...
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Can a combination of wind and ice move a 700 lb (300 kg) rock?
Lately I've been thrilled by the interesting phenomenon of sliding stones (also known as sailing stones).
Photo credit: NASA/GSFC/Maggie McAdam
Wikipedia explains:
The stones move only every two ...
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Oxygen buildup in the atmosphere
It is commonly believed (or based on few evidences) that atmospheric oxygen built up because of extensive photosynthesis.
I am skeptical about this theory that biotic factors are solely responsible ...
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Was the 2003 Bam earthquake caused by nuclear testing?
From New earthquake hits Iran as Khatami denies Bam disaster caused by nuclear test
Meanwhile, the Iranian President, Mohammad Khatami on Tuesady brushed
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Did oil come from Dinosaurs?
Oil (and other carbon based fuels like Coal, but for this question, I'm more interested in Oil) is widely regarded as a "Fossil Fuel" because its origin was ancient flora and fauna, buried deep below ...
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Could El Hierro eruption cause a mega-tsunami?
Could an eruption of El Hierro in the Canary Islands lead to a megatsunami that would threaten the eastern coast of the United States or elsewhere?
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Have we only mined 16 tonnes of platinum in the whole of history?
In this blog explaining how money works as a response to the debate about the USA's proposal to mint a trillion dollar platinum coin, the author quotes two estimates. One is the amount of platinum ...
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Did Italian seismologists fail to give "adequate warning" about the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake?
From CBS News (October 22, 2012):
An Italian court convicted seven scientists and experts of manslaughter on Monday for failing to adequately warn citizens before an earthquake struck central Italy ...
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Evidence for early Earth's atmosphere
What best evidences there are that demonstrate what Earth was like in its early years? According to this video Earth started out with no oxygen in its atmosphere. And according to this link the Earth'...
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Is Earth as smooth as a billiard ball?
I've heard it said (on the YouTube channel vsauce) that the earth is smoother than a billiards ball if it's scaled down.
Is this true?
Of course the earth is relatively smooth:
Mt. Everest: ~10km+
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Do living lizards exist inside stones?
I have seen footage and articles that show living lizards walking out of a stone, when the stone is cracked open. Is this a reliable fact? Is it possible that a lizard (or in some cases, a beetle) ...
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Do radiometric dating labs throw out 8 of 10 specimens, and are the samples blinded?
I think that my question regarding KNM-ER 1470's and the change from previously believed "good dates" from methods other than the fossil record might be too broad. There is an aspect of the ...
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Does the radioactivity on Hiroshima's soil affect radiometric dating?
I heard several times from creationists that now, if scientists would examine the land in Hiroshima, it will tell them it is millions of years old all because of the atom bomb.
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Was the cretaceous the last time atmospheric carbon dioxide was significantly higher than it is today?
Dr. Michael E. Mann recounts a story in his recent book (the Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars) about an encounter with Hillary Clinton during a hostile congressional hearing. While he was fending off ...
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Was the Earth originally smaller and ocean-free?
This article on Viewzone proposes that the Earth used to be smaller, and the existing continents fitted neatly together, covering the entire globe with land. As the Earth expanded, the oceans formed, ...
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