continental plates drift about as quickly as your fingernails grow.

continental plates drift at the same speed as your fingernails grow.

two-thirds of all of the geysers in the world are in yellowstone national park.

to get a sense of time and scale, continental plates drift about as far and as fast as human fingernails grow.

a knife made of obsidian is sharper than a knife made out of surgical steel.

most diamonds don't come from coal. they are older than the first plants, which is where coal comes from.

the center of the earth is not molten. it's a 700 mile across ball of very solid nickel and iron.

when the krakatoa volcano erupted, it created a pressure wave that circled the globe 7 times.

mount everest grows half an inch each year.

alfred wegener developed the theories of continental drift and plate tectonics. the american society of petroleum geologists considered his ideas a threat to their jobs, and mounted a massive smear campaign against him and all research that supported his conclusions.

hey.... this sounds familiar. are you sure that we haven't talked about oil guys denying established science before?

anyway, by doing everything that they could to discredit wegener and his work, it was 36 years before it became accepted, and the basis for how we predict earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, etc., today.