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This rock was found in a pile of Silurian Period Waldron Shale next to a busy parking lot. One side of it has a black layer that attracts a magnet. [I sometimes test things found with rare earth magnets after watching the Science Channel [...]
Catching up on catching up, I finally settled down for an hour or so to attack the pile of journals and magazines that had accumulated during my travels – a forlorn task, since there is always a pile. The
'Forced regression' is an important concept in sequence stratigraphy - it occurs when relative sea level falls and the shoreline shifts in a seaward direction, regardless of how much sediment is delivered to the sea. This is in contrast with [...]
A 24.78 carat “fancy intense pink” diamond named “The Graff Pink” was sold at auction in Geneva for $46 million. This is the highest price ever paid for a gemstone at
Jersey City passed a zoning ordinance to ban a proposed natural gas pipeline from crossing the city. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission says that a city can not use zoning ordinances to block interstate
“Full development of its major oilfields could make Kazakhstan one of the world’s top 5 oil producers within the next decade. With production of 1.54 million barrels per day (bbl/d) in 2009, Kazakhstan is already a major producer, and [...]
Last week, the online, open access journal Palaeontologia Electronica published a new issue, with a fantastic spectrum of papers. Much discussion has ensued on the blogosphere. For one, PE is unusual among paleontological journals in having its own [...]
Almost 100% of the energy consumed in Iceland is produced from renewable sources. This video provides a good summary of how they produce their energy. They used to be big fossil fuel
One of the most prominent among the active volcanic arcs in the Philippine Mobile Belt is the Bicol Arc, a ~260 km long volcanic arc located in the central-eastern margin of the Philippine Mobile Belt. The Bicol Arc hosts three of the active [...]
This is a guest post by Thomas M. Fletcher, Christine M. Janis and Emily J. Rayfield from the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, authors of Finite Element Analysis of Ungulate Jaws: Can Mode of Digestive Physiology be Determined? [...]