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Yet again, thank you NASA. As announced last month, their latest extraordinary earth-monitoring system is in orbit, commissioned and providing data: SMAP, the Soil Moisture Active Passive mission provides a high-resolution view of continuing changes [...]
What the heck is this? These are fault slickensides (scraping marks from fault motions) at Hoover Dam. Where the movie says there are no faults.
I love sitting through geology-based movies, so I can sit and smirk at the screen and criticize the [...]
As we leave the Great Valley behind on our journey through the most dangerous plate boundary in the world, we finally enter the world of the Sierra Nevada. Many may think of Yosemite Valley or Lake Tahoe when the Sierras are mentioned, but the [...]
This cool looking trilobite is Mrakibina cattoi from the El Oftal formation Jebel Mrakib, Ma'der, Alnif, Morocco. It resembles a Greenops sp. trilobite, due to the smooth cephalon thet extends into the genal spines and the feathery looking pygidium. [...]
My first impression wasn’t wrong, it was just incomplete because I’d fallen victim to the Brazil nut effect.In my previous post, I described the shells of Orbitolina texana, an agglutinated foraminifera, which appear in staggering numbers in a [...]
Geology and Landscape of Gloucestershire and surroundingsA weekly field-based introductory course.No previous knowledge of geology is assumedTuesday evenings 9th June to 21st July 2015Gloucestershire is one of the most geologically diverse counties [...]
Scientists, psychologists, and philosophers have all forwarded reasons why they think dinosaurs have such a tenacious hold on
Titanosaurus from Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975). From Black
In the mid 2000s, I worked a lot in the Tien Shan of Kyrgyzstan with numerous colleagues and friends including Andrey Korjenkov, Ernes Mamyrov, Irina Povolotskaya, Chris Crosby, and Benny Guralnik. These were great times. Benny had joined my team [...]
When I think of dinosaurs, I think about bones. The skeletons that sunk their ancient talons into my