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If you're interested in seeing what I had to say - or what any of the other speakers talked about, go on over to the TED Youth streaming video page. My talk is at about 48:07 of Session 1. But there are enough awesome talks that it might be cool to [...]
Central California has a lot of faults. One of them is a proclivity for bad geology puns. But it also has a great many exposures of active faults available for viewing in the space of an afternoon. The San Andreas, California's most famous fault [...]
A large sinkhole near Dunedin, Florida destroyed two homes, but the occupants were not injured. The 90' diameter by 50' deep sinkhole opened up in an area of Florida that is prone to sinkhole activity. The portion of the homes not destroyed by the [...]
Blogger.com, a web service that is part of Google, showed me a message today that my blog had passed over the half a million page view mark. For a fossil blog, that seems to be a pretty good accomplishment. Other metrics like the one I get from [...]
Sometimes you need to replace bits and bytes with dirt and soils, and today’s news are really pushing me to leave the desk and to go for a walk. Every year, the Deutsche Bodenkundliche Gesellschaft (German Pedological Society) announces the [...]
A New York Times article reports that projections in the International Energy Agency’s World Energy Outlook see oil from shale declining by the mid-2020s and traditional oil suppliers in the Middle East returning to
The county commission in Mora County, New Mexico decided to prohibit oil and gas development. They are being challenged by an oil and gas industry group and three
At the EGU2014 in Vienna (27 April – 2 Mai, 2014) a session on Digital Landscapes (GM2.1) will be convened by J.K. Hillier, P. Tarolli and S. Conway. The session “aims to bring together ‘users’ analysing digital landscapes to exhibit [...]
For almost two weeks, University of Utah paleontologist Randall Irmis has been pulling all-nighters to watch a drill.