Related Articles

Available Resources

Geologic Hazard Photos

February 28, 2008 rockman Available Resources Comments Off on Geologic Hazard Photos

The National Geodetic Data Center (NGDC) of NOAA has an online collection of photos of various geologic hazards. Many of the photos are from older sets of 35mm slides that have been digitized. They are free to use provided you credit the photographer and the NGDC as the source. The would be really useful for educators and for powerpoint presentations. The only drawback is that they are in TIF format and some of them could use some retouching. (Photo by University of Colorado, made available by NOAA/NGDC)

[…]

Geologic Hazards

Italy to use UAV to Monitor Volcano

November 16, 2007 rockman Geologic Hazards 1

Italy’s University of Bologna recently made the debut flights of a Raven unmanned air vehicle or UAV intended for use in low altitude monitoring of volcanos. Read on for more details. (Photo of Raven UAV in use by Australian Military, by OzStryker)

[…]

TVA coal ash dyke failure
Failures

TVA Coal Ash Disaster

January 5, 2009 rockman Failures Comments Off on TVA Coal Ash Disaster

On December 22 of 2008, there was a massive failure of a fly ash landfill (tailings dam?) at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA) Kingston power plant. The failure caused a torrent of coal ash sludge […]