BBC - History - Pompeii: Portents of Disaster Grab Google Earth Coordinates Into Your Windows Clipboad The GE Coords program simplifies the job of grabbing coordinates for a point in Google Earth, and putting them into your clipboard, from where you can paste them into the application of your choice. Not terribly complicated to use (and the website has more complete instructions if you need them): 1. 2. 3. 4. But running the program without any placemark code in the clipboard brings up the option to “Setup” the desired default coordinate format:
World Guide - Mexico Country Profile | Demographics | Geography/Maps | Economic Data | Transport/Comms | Satellite Images | Internet Links | IMF WEO 2008 | World GIS Tool Population and Demographics [Compare Countries] Mexico has a population of 111,211,789 (July 2009 est.). Labour Force Labour Force demographics available via the Mexico economic data page Changing Population (Life expectancy, births, deaths and fertility) The population growth rate for Mexico is 1.13% (2009 est.) Note: on the graphs, world figures are represented by a red bar, figures for Mexico are illustrated with a green bar.
Geoff Mackley's Site Directory U.S. Geological Survey Volcano Hazards Program Neptune and Uranus May Have Oceans of Liquid Diamond Future humans won't have to wait to travel to Pandora for the chance to mine unobtanium, because Neptune and Uranus may have diamond icebergs floating atop liquid diamond seas closer to home. The surprise finding comes from the first detailed measurements of the melting point of diamond, Discovery News reports. Scientists zapped diamond with a laser at pressures 40 million times greater than the Earth's atmosphere at sea level, and then slowly reduced both temperature and pressure. They eventually found that diamond behaves like water during freezing and melting, and that chunks of diamond will float in the liquid diamond. Diamond oceans could explain why the magnetic fields of Uranus and Neptune appear tilted so far off their north-south axes, given that they could deflect or tilt the magnetic fields. Scientists won't know for sure until they can launch missions to the planets, or try to simulate planetary conditions on Earth. [via Discovery News]
NMSU: Department of Geography Merapi volcano (Central Java, Indonesia) information / VolcanoDiscovery: Last update: 27 Mar 2014Typical eruption style: Highly explosive. Large Plinian eruption every few 1000 of years (the last ones at about 1000 BP and 2000 BP), sometimes with associated flank collapse. Growth of lava domes, pyroclastic flows.Merapi volcano eruptions: 1548, 1554, 1560, 1584, 1586(?), 1587, 1658, 1663, 1672, 1678, 1745, 1752, 1755, 1768, 1791, 1797, 1807, 1810, 1812-22, 1822-23, 1828, 1832-36, 1837-38, 1840, 1846, 1848(?) Last earthquakes nearby:No recent earthquakes
Global Volcanic Hazards and Risk Originally prepared for the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, this is the first comprehensive assessment of global volcanic hazards and risk, presenting the state of the art in our understanding of global volcanic activity. It examines our assessment and management capabilities, and considers the preparedness of the global scientific community and government agencies to manage volcanic hazards and risk. Particular attention is paid to volcanic ash, the most frequent and wide-ranging volcanic hazard. Reviews:
Proof of Life in Three Martian Rocks May Come This Year Monoliths may not have transformed Jupiter into a star and made Europa a new Earth, but the late science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke might still be pleased, wherever he is, with NASA's prediction for 2010. Spaceflight Now reports that this year should prove whether fossilized life truly exists in three Martian meteorites, one way or the other. Scientists have been reexamining the controversial Allen Hills meteorite since it sparked reaction from both NASA and the White House in 1996. But now better instruments have turned up possible Martian fossils inside two more meteorites, including a chunk of space rock that has sat inside the British Museum of Natural History in London for almost 100 years. The scientific teams are "very, very close to proving there is or has been life [on Mars]," said David McKay, chief of astrobiology at the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, in a Spaceflight Now interview. [Spaceflight Now]
Pacific Sea-Floor Mapping: Pinnacles Region Open File Report OF01-006 Introduction Recent USGS mapping shows an extensive deep (~100 m) reef tract occurs on the Mississippi-Alabama outer continental shelf (Figure 1). The tract, known as "The Pinnacles", is apparently part of a sequence of drowned reef complexes along the "40-fathom" shelf edge of the northern Gulf of Mexico (Ludwick and Walton, 1957). It is critical to determine the accurate geomorphology of these deep-reefs because of their importance as benthic habitats for fisheries. First posted January 9, 2002 Report HTML Part or all of this report is presented in Portable Document Format (PDF).
San Andreas Fault Homepage: Information, photos, maps, fault location and more! USGS Minerals Information: Mineral Commodity Summaries Published on an annual basis, this report is the earliest Government publication to furnish estimates covering nonfuel mineral industry data. Data sheets contain information on the domestic industry structure, Government programs, tariffs, and 5-year salient statistics for over 90 individual minerals and materials. Mineral Commodity Summaries (Complete) PDF Format, older editions: | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | TXT Format: | 1996 | Appendixes PDF Format: | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 |2012 |2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | TXT Format: | 1996 | Individual Commodity Data Sheets MCS 2016 individual commodity sheets will be available in the first week of February, 2016.