Something our politicians should learn about! We need financial encouragement to get young people involved in STEM via our universities and technological institutes, rather than our universities being forced to become cash registers feeding off "business studies" for international students. And geologists don't just look for oil and gas but we look for every mineral important to civilisation, including WATER.
Thanks Robert - you are correct geologists have a critical role now and in our future (so hard to capture it all in a short video covering all of STEM but I hope that our other resources help to tell more of the story.
Good day. I am a researcher for the National Museum of the Philippines. We are currently developing our gallery hence we are in need of materials like yours to educate our audiences. May I ask your permission to use part of this video?
Hi Sharon, lovely to hear from you! If you wouldn't mind, could you please email us (info@earthsciencewa.com.au) to provide a little more information on how and where you would like to use the video.
Unfortunately we don't know a lot about the geology of Texas, being based in Western Australia, but perhaps it is one of the interesting cases where there has been regression (sea level drops) or isostatic rebound (where land masses rise once ice sheets melt, as the enormous amount of pressure is lifted). A quick Google check tells us that Texas was once under a shallow sea.
I have compared solar and wind and found wind much more eficient and works even at night when theres no light and produces more electricty atm then solar
Here's a thought. Plants had to live their life by taking in solar energy. By dumb luck, the plants got folded into the ground by tectonic energy. We call these stored remains a "source" and the Sun is "alternative." Right now, we're like Veruca Salt, "Don't care how, I want it now."
Watching videos to study for a climate dynamics quiz, and this is THE BEST one so far. The graphics are excellent in their use of 3-D depictions of SST anomalies. Most note-ably is in the description of La Nina, and the specific language used. Excellent work to the team behind this video!
I think it is silly that we still rely on fossil fuels when we cracked the technology for solar, wind, and hydro energy. It seems that most of the world can produce any of these 3 renewable technologies. But anyway, thank you! This was fascinating.
Nuclear, chemical process to make synthetic liquid fuel. Technology has grow exponentially the last 100 years. Hard to know what will be discovered. One video by a geologist says coal is fossil from plants but oil and gas are formed by processes similar to that forming lava. What do you think?
+Stu Mason geological mapping is working out the rock types in the area and where they contact each other. With oil and gas a lot of this is worked out through information from seismic and other surveys. On land it is as simple as walking the ground and identifying the rocks found in the area.
