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One small step for a man...

Astronaut for Hire [2012-09-02 03:12:00]   recommend this post  (1730 visits)

Brian Shiro with Neil Armstrong (Feb 2012). Alternate photo shaking hands here. The world lost one of history's most important heroes this week. Hundreds of years from now, Neil Armstrong will still be a household name. I am humbled that I got to [...]

Rettet Siccar Point!

Mente et Malleo [2012-09-03 22:03:05]   recommend this post  (857 visits)

Es gibt Gebiete, an denen sich die Entwicklung der Erde quasi wie in einem Bilderbuch nachvollziehen lässt. Und oft haben diese erdgeschichtlichen Monumente auch den frühen Geologen zum ersten Mal regelrecht die Augen geöffnet. Die [...]

Siccar Point, One of the Most Important Field Sites in Historical Geology is Threatened...with Agricultural Sewage

Geotripper [2012-09-03 06:04:00]   recommend this post  (853 visits)

Siccar Point is in the far distance on the left The abyss of time is about to become a cesspool... An issue has crossed my desk that ought to be upsetting to anyone who has followed geology as a career or has any passing interest in the history [...]

First Spacecraft to Orbit Two Solar System Bodies

Geology.com News [2012-09-03 19:21:23]   recommend this post  (837 visits)

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is on track to become the first probe to orbit and study two distant solar system destinations. [...] The spacecraft is scheduled to leave the giant asteroid Vesta on September 4th PDT (September 5th EDT) to start its [...]

Which comes first, rise in global CO2 or rise in global temperature?

Wry Heat [2012-09-02 23:28:55]   recommend this post  (834 visits)

It is the contention of some (AGW proponents) that human carbon dioxide emissions are the major cause of global warming. Alternatively, natural cycles control the temperature and hence solution and exsolution of carbon dioxide into and out of the [...]

How Green is Local Food?

State of the Planet [2012-09-04 17:00:08]   recommend this post  (827 visits)

Local food proponents often claim that food grown close to home helps prevent global warming because it requires less fossil fuels to transport, generating fewer greenhouse gas emissions than conventionally produced food. But just how green are [...]

Cangrejos emitaños jurásicos, ¡diminutos!

DinoAstur. Blog sobre La Costa de los Dinosaurios [2012-09-08 17:06:54]   recommend this post  (809 visits)

El último número de la revista Acta Palaeontologica Polonica (57/3; septiembre 2012) publica dos trabajos describiendo tres nuevas especies de cangrejo ermitaño del Jurásico Superior de Polonia. Fotografías de Ammopylocheles robertboreki (A-D) [...]

Accretionary Wedge #49: It's just out of this world! Hollywood and the Cosmos

Geotripper [2012-09-04 01:36:00]   recommend this post  (806 visits)

It's time for an Accretionary Wedge! Specifically Wedge #49, hosted by Dana at En Tequila es Verdad. The topic is essentially anything exogeologic, that is, beyond the confines of planet Earth. I'm taking the broadly interpreted topic and turning my [...]

Ok You Geo Types: What Is This?

The Dragon’s Tales [2012-09-07 00:45:00]   recommend this post  (787 visits)

Ignore, for the moment, where it comes from.  What does it look like to

Cutting a 26,000-Pound Block of Granite with a 2-Pound Hammer!

Geology.com News [2012-09-02 15:09:43]   recommend this post  (759 visits)

You don’t need a huge hammer to break a massive rock. Lots of tiny blows smartly delivered and the help of a few simple tools. In the second half of the video you can clearly “hear” the rock