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Several weeks ago I received an interesting email from a Danish engineer in regard to my story about the Aon/Amoco/Standard Oil building (Big Stan) in Chicago. He was concerned that I had given a jaundiced picture of marble as a cladding material. [...]
Credit: NASA / Earth Observatory
Am 20. April geriet im Golf von Mexiko eine Ölförderplattform in Brand, explodierte, kenterte und sank, wobei 11 Menschen ihr Leben verloren. Das Feuer brannte mehr als einen Tag, bevor [...]
I want to thank everybody that commented on the last post and, as I promised to some of you, I am now adding some more structural details to the same problem: In the necking zones of the folded boudinaged layer (depicted in the last photo [...]
Over the past decade and a half paleontologists have found the remains of numerous feathered dinosaurs, but, as announced in this week’s edition of Nature, a new pair of specimens may show how the feathers of some of these dinosaurs changed as [...]
For the twenty-fourth edition of the Accretionary Wedge, I selected “heroes” as the theme. For those of you new to the geoblogosphere, the Accretionary Wedge is a ~monthly geoblog “carnival,” wherein various and sundry [...]
Vereinfachtes Pappmodell des Eyjafjallajökull
Über den Eyjafjallajökull (oder schlicht „der Vulkan auf Island“, wie er in den Medien meist nur noch genannt wird), ist ja eigentlich schon fast alles [...]
As sorry as I am to admit it, most movies with dinosaurs in them are not very good. It is far easier for me to think of bad dinosaur movies (I still have nightmares from Theodore Rex, and that was meant to be a comedy) than good ones, but there are [...]
Three cars where thought to be buried in this incredible slide on the National Expressway No. 2 near Taipei,
The California Geological Survey has published two new maps: 2010 State Geologic Map of California and 2010 Fault Activity Map of California. These maps are easy to access, they are free, and are integrated with Google
In recognition of the 150th anniversary of the founding of the California Geological Survey, the Survey has released the 2010 Geologic Map of California and the Fault Activity Map of California. Both are digital products built on the work of C.W. [...]