The Wave is the popular name of a series of rock formations in the Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness, a nature preserve on the Arizona-Utah border. If there is any hope of surfing on dry land, this is the place to...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/04/25/Waves-in-the-Desert/
Looks ice cold, doesn't it? Actually, the water is quite warm at the Pamukkale terraces in Turkey. The white formations are deposits of minerals from spring water that built up into a series of dams, making the terraced...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/11/05/8-Wonderful-Terraced-Pools-Around-the-World/
In Kenya lies Lake Turkana, the world's largest alkaline lake. This is the Nabuyatom Crater, a geological marvel of that lake. It's a caldera--the remnants of a collapsed volcano.Link -via TYWKIWDBI | Photo: Christian St...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/09/08/The-Nabiyotum-Crater/
You may hear jokes about "oceanfront property in Arizona," but in the distant past, it really existed. In fact, 1.75 billion years ago, the area was undersea. However, there was a lot going on down there where tectonic p...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/06/11/how-an-undersea-eruption-created-jerome-arizona/
El Diablo Restaurant on the Spanish island of Lanzarote has a distinctly unique way of cooking food -over the heat of a volcano! The restaurant was built over a volcanic heat vent, which is used as a grill. Building a r...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/06/el-diablos-vulcan-dining/(YouTube link) Seismic measurements recorded on August 23rd during the earthquake centered in Virginia show how the shock wave traveled across the USA. If you didn't feel it, it was because the movements measured are...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/31/traveling-seismic-waves/
Our earth is a dynamic place that moves and changes with no regard to humans or anyone else. Every once in a while, those changes occur rapidly and powerfully. Cracked looks at five events that left behind some serious s...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/06/30/5-acts-of-nature-that-rearranged-the-face-of-the-planet/
I don’t know about you guys, but I am fascinated by the etymology of both words and nursery rhymes. But whenever I hear a new story about the origin of a nursery rhyme or tongue twister, I rush to find out more informa...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/06/29/2-true-and-2-false-origins-of-tongue-twisters-and-nursery-rhymes/
The official name for the geological epoch we are... ...vious to historians, but in the context of global geology , does the presence of man make that much differen...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/03/03/enter-the-anthropocene%e2%80%94age-of-man/
You'll be forgiven if you first read that as "The Eye of Sauron." Astronauts were the first to notice this 50-kilometer wide geological formation in Mauritania, in the middle of the Sahara Desert. Read about it and o...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/02/17/the-eye-of-the-sahara/
