BYUI GeoJournal

 W13 - Climate Change I am originally from Salt Lake City, Utah. When I came into the world, snow is all I knew about. Utah is arid similar to a desert and the conditions are always unexpected. They say "if you don't like the weather, wait five minutes!" It could be the winter season, but it also could be freezing rain. It wasn't until after getting married and moving to the east coast I was able to experience humidity and all that it entailed. The winter is most definitely a different level of cold being lower than 10 degrees Fahrenheit. My husband was born and raised overseas in Tonga (South Pacific islands) where the weather is in a tropical setting and the seasons were the same depending on how warm and cool it becomes. It also depended on the hurricane season. I experienced a trip to Tonga during the month of December and it is most probably hottest time of the season because it was winter for us but their 'summer'. Now isn't this sight better than pi...

  W12 - Mid-Ocean Ridges I had issues pulling up the elevation table to measure this Mid-Ocean Ridge near the Atlantic Ocean. This mid-ocean ridge, in particular, is located near Africa off the coast of Sierra Leone and Liberia. I used a regular ruler and I measured in kilometers along the ridge and it ranged from 25.79 kilometers to 35.75 kilometers (larger opening towards the left). 

 Week 11 - Plate Tectonics "Plate Tectonics may have started 400 million years earlier than we thought." is an article I found online about the possibilities of finding the age of the Earth's movement. Harvard geologists have measured the Honeyeater Basalt in Western Australia.  They found by tracking the changes in the orientation of the lava, they are able to determine how the craton is moving.  I thought it was pretty interesting in that we are always looking for ways to find evidence from the past.  Reference: Earth's plate tectonics

 Week 10 - Earthquakes I have a screenshot for my area (College Station, TX). There has not been any activity in the last 30 days. I feel safe in my area plainly because I have been here for almost 3 years and I know what goes on. I am sure we all take time to adjust to our new homes and what expect on a daily basis. Anywhere we choose to live will come with risks and unknown scenarios.  I would think that we fear moving to a new state, new city, and never expect the worse until it happens. This technology will help those who care about earthquakes, and natural disasters so that we can be better prepared. This is the purpose of having welfare and emergency preparedness to help us no matter where we are in the world.

Week 9: Sediment Transportation  This week we observe the environment around us (locally). If I am not studying for school, or focusing on my little family. I am most likely at work. This is a photo of my work place. Sun rises are my absolute favorite thing to experience every morning as well as sunsets in the evenings. I live in Texas and some parts of the state can be found as having both a desert (dry) climate as well as a humid (wet) climate. Everywhere in College Station there is evidence of sand, silt and clay that is transported during high velocity wind and when it rains we have various floods caused by the precipitation that takes place during the year.  Limestone is prominent in this area as well as sandstone. Of which is poorly sorted, and angular. As for energy levels, it can fluctuate depending on the sediment movement, water and wind actions. Besides the use of these sediments in construction and landscape.  My husband works in West Texas (Midland) where the...

 Week 8: A Fictional Narrative Glacier's Wonderland  A glacier is a large, long-lasting mass of ice, formed on land and moves under its own weight. The Titanic is an example of how a glacier that later was an iceberg was seen. Sadly several lives were lost because the builders of the massive ship were not equipped for its impact and later sunken into the cold waters of the ocean.  Valley glacier or alpine glacier is confined to a valley and flows from a higher to a lower elevation. John Hopkins Inlet (Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska) is an example of a valley glacier. It also shows examples of a horn , cirque , and U-shaped valley.   A crevasse was found on the glacier, it is a deep, wedge-shaped opening in a moving mass of ice. Icebergs are smaller pieces of ice that have broken off.  example of iceberg  A cave is a large underground chamber.  I was able to visit this cave when I was in New Zealand last year. This is the Waitomo Glowworm Cave i...