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Waikiki Beach at Cape Disappointment. Yes, the cliffs are basaltic like those in Hawaii, but the spot was named for a Hawaiian sailor who lost his life here in a shipwreck (one of many).
How does a place get a name? Cape Disappointment and [...]
These pictures appear to show a Zeacrinites wortheni crinoid calyx fossil. What is nice about this fossil is that most of its arms are intact. One side has the remains of Fenestella bryozoan. It was found in the Glen Dean Member of Grayson [...]
In the 60's we had our tilting buildings for earthquakes when there was extreme liquefaction. That's when the loose sand turned to soup. Many years of study and finally people understood not put buildings on loose sand. No tilting buildings [...]
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Built a 200 Acre Model of the Mississippi River Basin in 1948Atlas Obscura The Natural Gas Price Volatility Season ArrivesBloomberg Gemfields: Auctioning Colored Gemstone Deposits in India is Not ViableBusiness Standard [...]
Source: Scienze Geologiche
I immediately fell in love with this mapping concept from Scienze Geologiche that I saw on Facebook this morning. All I can say is "Bravo". I pay homage to a brilliant idea with my own offering on the Western [...]
Burke Museum – EPICC TCN CoordinatorThe Burke Museum invites applications for a part-time position as a Burke Museum EPICC TCN Coordinator. Funding for this position is for a 4-year period.Job Summary:Reporting to the Paleontology Collections [...]
Modern Seattle likes to pay homage to high technology, such as apps, iPhones, and drones, but I would argue that some decidely primitive technology has had as great of impact on the city as any of the recent developments. This will be a multi-part [...]
Almost a year since we completed on our house in Settle. The garden is a bit over-occupied. Being not that large and yet with 5 woodland trees it has an almost continuous canopy to offset its unremittingly sunny aspect. It is similarly full of [...]
Martínez, R. N., Apaldetti, C., Correa, G. A., and D. Abelín. 2015. A Norian lagerpetid dinosauromorph from the Quebrada del Barro Formation, northwestern Argentina. Ameghiniana (future issue) doi:10.5710/AMGH.21.06.2015.2894Abstract: The [...]
Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [2015-08-09 04:22:31]
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Just saw a story on the BBC that Scotland has banned GMO crops. I wonder if they know that every crop growing there now has been genetically modified by humans and nature countless times? The folks that passed the ban have been genetically modified [...]