Called Let’s Rock Ontario! the app is the brainchild of UTSC geology professor Nick Eyles and two of his undergraduate environmental science students: Richard Gao and Shane Soohkan. It uses Google Map technology to pinpoint the exact location of significant geological and natural history sites across Ontario, while Google Street View and Navigation aids bring the sites a click away. “This has huge educational potential because it brings the outdoors and the natural wonders of Ontario into the classroom through technology,” says Eyles. Field trips to remote sites by bus are becoming prohibitively expensive for schools notes Eyles, but this…

Very interesting video and article from the NY Times about the latest asteroid that fell into Russia.

From Geology via geology.com: A new study in the journal Geology is the latest to tie a string of unusual earthquakes, in this case, in central Oklahoma, to the injection of wastewater deep underground. Researchers now say that the magnitude 5.7 earthquake near Prague, Okla., on Nov. 6, 2011, may also be the largest ever linked to wastewater injection.

From Nature Geoscience via SciNews: “While geochemical and geological evidence has long alluded to a connection between earthquakes and the deposition of gold, there has been much debate through the decades as to whether the precipitation of gold was a slow, equilibrium process or whether, as Professor Henley was proposing, it was a rapid and far from equilibrium process,” explained Dr Dion Weatherley from the University of Queensland’s Sustainable Minerals Institute, co-author of a study published in the journal Nature Geoscience.