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Japan is bloody hot and humid. Stepping off the plane was more like walking into a well-prepped sauna. Just thought I’d get that out of the way. After three flights, no sleep, and 3 hours in a park twiddling my thumbs … Continue reading [...]
Reverse faults shorten horizontal layers and are therefore contractional faults. This is an example of a reverse fault in fine-grained sandstones and siltstones of the Entrada Sandstone (lower reddish part) and Curtis Formation (upper part) – [...]
Well the new ceratopsian Nasutoceratops has been named and the paper is out. If you want to read a bit about it, I have a post up over on the Guardian here. Since that’s already written, I wanted to do something a bit different here and thanks [...]
Sunday sees the start of the biggest gathering of volcanologists in a specialist conference. The International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth’s Interior (IAVCEI) General Assembly is only held every 4 years, each occasion [...]
Anton Schrammen, 1912. Die Kieselspongien der oberen Kreide von Nordwestdeutschland. II. Teil: Triaxonia (Hexactinellida). Palaeontographica - Supplement (E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung) Stuttgart V:
Geological Movie Review of The Day After Tomorrow - Overview - Scientific Input -1:57:24 - The scientific advisor for the movie is Michael Molitor, PhD. Now I understand that most scientists do not want their names on these types of [...]
Anton Schrammen, 1910. Die Kieselspongien der oberen Kreide von Nordwestdeutschland. I. Teil: Tetraxonia, Monaxonia und Silicea incert. sedis. Palaeontographica - Supplement (E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung) Stuttgart V:
Elisa Kagan sent me this nice field photo of the day – a drill core containg mass-movements of last glacial age from the Dead Sea:
Hans Scupin, 1913. Die Löwenberger Kreide und ihre Fauna. Palaeontographica - Supplement (E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung) Stuttgart 6: