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A new book argues that dinosaur reconstructions, which stretch skin over bone, are bound to be inaccurate and imagines what the creatures may have looked with more fat, feathers and accessory
In the aftermath of the real super-storm (or hurricane) Sandy, there has been, not surprisingly, a super-storm of reporting, opinionating, blogging, and twittering. This is good – there is, in certain quarters at least, some kind of debate going [...]
So the 13th photo of the week is this sweet as pic of boiling mud from New Zealand’s North Island. Both photos were taken by me in July of 2009. I had to stand at the ready for quite a while to try and get good pictures of the bubbles bursting [...]
This simple, rounded fossil with tiny holes on its surface is the trepostome bryozoan Prasopora falesi (James, 1884) from the Middle Ordovician Galena Group of eastern Iowa. It was collected with dozens of others on an Independent Study field trip [...]
During the night. Harmonic tremor levels started to drop in Grímsfjall volcano. The reason for this harmonic tremor level increase remain unknown and unclear. But no volcano related activity has been seen or recorded so far in Grímsfjall volcano. [...]
Aquí tenemos a la evolución darwiniana, nunca mejor dicho, porque es el propio Darwin el que protagoniza el último paso en esta marcha del progreso que se puede adquirir aquí o aquí por menos de doce
This is a block of Swainland Road, at the high end of the Glen Highlands neighborhood hard under the powerline ridge just south of Route 24. The bedrock is mapped as Great Valley Sequence sandstone. It’s a lot harder and stronger than much of [...]
Current glacier flood from Grímsfjall volcano continues to grow in size. To everyone surprise I think. Currently the glacier flood remains small. Harmonic tremor on Grímsfjall SIL station continues to grow. But this is due to the glacier flood. [...]
Leaving behind Ohio and the high waters from Sandy, I ventured south in early November for the Geological Society of America meeting in my former home of Charlotte, North Carolina. The meeting was busy and wonderful, and far too packed … [...]
Several mails with job offers reached me during the last days, so here’s the collection. Doctoral Fellowship in Geochemistry or Geophysics at Utah State University The Department of Geology at USU seeks outstanding PhD applicants for a [...]