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Put a Little ART in your EARTH Science

Earth and Mind Blog [2016-03-07 07:00:00]   recommend this post  (595 visits)

C.P. Snow famously wrote about "The Two Cultures"[1]—that great divide between the sciences and humanities. Snow argued that the inability of scientists/engineers and scholars of the arts/humanities to

Purple invertebrates in the Abyss!

Echinoblog [2016-03-09 14:28:00]   recommend this post  (584 visits)

Another week and another bunch of deep-sea Okeanos dives in the French Frigate/Hawaiian Islands region! One thing I noticed while reviewing the recent dives and those from last year was just how much COLOR you see in the deep-sea.. black, white, [...]

Rainfall milestone this week in my corner of California

Geotripper [2016-03-12 06:50:00]   recommend this post  (583 visits)

We reached a milestone this week in my backyard (backyard in both the literal and figurative sense). We reached "normal". I've been tracking rainfall totals in my backyard since 1991, and up until 2011, the average yearly rainfall has been [...]

This Winter Was The Warmest On Record Nationwide

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [2016-03-08 23:36:05]   recommend this post  (570 visits)

From NOAA NCEI: The December–February average temperature for the contiguous U.S. was 36.8°F, 4.6°F above the 20th century average, surpassing the previous record of 36.5°F set in 1999/2000. The exceptionally warm December boosted the [...]

Guest blog by Sascha Schneiderwind (RWTH Aachen University): Multiparametric trenching investigations

Paleoseismicity [2016-03-06 15:37:52]   recommend this post  (567 visits)

Greece is one of the main targets of RWTH Aachen’s Neotectonics & Geohazards group. They worked on paleo-tsunamis, active faults on the Peloponnese and in Attica, and on the application of terrestrial LiDAR and shallow geophysics for [...]

Nasty dancing rocks: boulders in Glenwood Canyon

The Landslide Blog [2016-03-12 10:14:39]   recommend this post  (566 visits)

A new video from Glenwood Canyon in Colorado shows nasty dancing rocks - boulders rolling down a steep slope. The potential for damage is

Arizona is Going to Get Another Meteor Crater, Only Bigger. And We Know Where and Why (repost)

Geotripper [2016-03-12 01:51:00]   recommend this post  (565 visits)

This is a repeat of a post I wrote in August of last year because the issue is still in the news, and represents a piece of political larceny that should disqualify Senator John McCain from ever being re-elected. Democrat Representative Anne [...]

New papers on paleoseismology, tsunami, and active tectonics (Mar 2016)

Paleoseismicity [2016-03-11 09:51:33]   recommend this post  (563 visits)

It’s only one month since my last paper update and yet I have nineteen interesting new studies for you. Today’s round-up includes tsunamis, tectonic geomorphology, environmental earthquake effects and soft sediment deformation, new [...]

Death Valley Trip, Part 2: More of the Badwater Turtleback Fault

Looking for Detachment [2016-03-10 18:00:00]   recommend this post  (559 visits)

If you remember from a couple days ago, toward the end of the first of, hopefully, a few more posts about our trip to Death Valley and vicinity, we had walked up an alluvial fan down near Badwater and were looking at the Badwater Turtleback fault, [...]

Packing up and heading out

AGU Meetings [2016-03-11 19:30:20]   recommend this post  (540 visits)

After a one-day delay due to bad weather, we finally headed out of Corvallis on Thursday afternoon. On the way to Newport, where the R/V Oceanus is docked, we stopped to take water samples from the Alsea River and estuary, which feed into the ocean. [...]