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Sea-Floor Sunday #63: Bathymetric maps in vicinity of Eyjafjallajokull volcano

Clastic Detritus [2010-04-18 18:20:53]   recommend this post  (53 visits)

I’m using this week’s Sea-Floor Sunday to show a few simple maps of the region around the erupting Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland. I don’t have a photographic memory of the Earth’s surface so I always like to remind [...]

Blog-Teleskop Nr. 50

And the Water seems inviting [2010-04-23 16:24:39]   recommend this post  (37 visits)

Nun ist es endlich da, fast eine Woche zu spät. Ursprünglich schon lange für den letzten Sonntag vorgesehen, haben sowohl Florian als auch ich das Teleskop Nr. 50 völlig vergessen, Verzeihung! Also - viel Spaß! In der Astronomie ist so [...]

Giant Eurypterid Trackway Found in UK

Geology.com News [2010-04-21 04:00:59]   recommend this post  (34 visits)

The tracks of a giant eurypterid called Hibbertopterus have been found in 330 million year old rocks in the UK. It is the largest known trackway of its kind and the size suggests that Hibbertopterus was about two meters long and one meter

Oil Resources Dwindling by 2015?

Geology.com News [2010-04-19 02:17:37]   recommend this post  (34 visits)

The “Joint Operating Environment” report from the U.S. Joint Forces Command speculates that oil shortages could begin as early as 2015. “By 2012, surplus oil production capacity could entirely disappear, and as early as 2015, the [...]

Photos of geological structures - SW Portuguese coast (#2): boudins

The Lisbon Structural Geologist [2010-04-23 22:33:00]   recommend this post  (33 visits)

Imagine a geological sandwich of a competent (high viscosity) layer of rock, interbedded within two low competent (low viscosity) ones. Fig.1 - Chocolate tablet boudinage pattern in Carboniferous sandstone (Almograve beach, SW Portuguese [...]

Calcite Replacement

Ammonoidea [2010-04-19 00:10:00]   recommend this post  (32 visits)

Calcite replaced ammonoid shell(is that really angular coiling in the umbilicus?)another showing partial suture

Photographs of Lightning in Eyafallajokull’s Eruption Cloud

Geology.com News [2010-04-18 03:19:28]   recommend this post  (32 visits)

Here is a photo gallery that includes images of lightning in the Eyjafjallajökull eruption

Webisode: Space is an Open Book Exam [Hubble 3D]

BEYONDbones [2010-04-23 21:53:34]   recommend this post  (31 visits)

Tomorrow is the 20th anniversary of the launch of the Hubble Telescope. To celebrate 20 years of amazing images and deep-space discovery, we’ve got an all-new Hubble 3D webisode! Check it out below for a fascinating tour of the space shuttle [...]

Blog housekeeping: images and e-mails

The Volcanism Blog [2010-04-18 11:21:30]   recommend this post  (30 visits)

The image hosting problem should be sorted out over the next couple of days: thanks to everyone who has made suggestions and especially to those who have very generously offered hosting space. I shouldn’t need to take up those offers now, but [...]

A collection of Iceland volcano blog and news sites

Arizona Geology [2010-04-22 06:15:00]   recommend this post  (28 visits)

 GSA Connection, the e-magazine of the Geological Society of America, was sent out today with a compilation of excellent blogs, news sites, and other online resources covering the eruption in Iceland.   The blog post at "Starts with a [...]