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State of the Oceans - the year in review -- 2023

Ontario-geofish [2024-01-07 14:35:00]   recommend this post  (222 visits)

 My buddy has finally released the year end ocean current maps.  I've been following these currents for years now, and I can safely say that my main hypothesis has been proven correct.  Of course, this could use more [...]

The end game for self-medication

Ontario-geofish [2024-01-07 14:09:00]   recommend this post  (202 visits)

 There is a gene arrangement I call 'super bright'.  It allows people to make original connections from the ages of 20 to 40.  The mechanism is a lack of brain serotonin, which allows the brain candle to burn at both [...]

Stagnant North America

Ontario-geofish [2024-01-07 13:32:00]   recommend this post  (201 visits)

 It's going 'all black' but not moving much.The Arctic spill has gone the sneaky way around Sweden, and forming magnificent lobes over

Tektonik des M 7.5 Erdbebens der Noto-Halbinsel vom 1. Januar 2024 in Japan

Mente et Malleo [2024-01-07 21:19:49]   recommend this post  (177 visits)

Am 1. Januar um 16.10 Uhr Ortszeit (ca. 7.10 Uhr UTC) ereignete sich auf der Halbinsel Noto im Westen von Honshu ein Erdbeben der Magnitude 7,5 bis 7,6. Die Stärke sowie die relativ geringe Herdtiefe … Der Beitrag Tektonik des M 7.5 Erdbebens [...]

BEARS OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST

ARCHEA [2024-01-09 10:00:00]   recommend this post  (157 visits)

A Grizzly Bear takes a rest on a fallen log in Alaska. While stumbling upon them may cause us surprise, they have heard us (and smelled us) coming for miles. If you work or play in the woods of British Columbia, both grizzly and black bear [...]

Imagining the enormity of geological time

Earth Learning Idea [2024-01-08 12:34:00]   recommend this post  (156 visits)

The new ELI today is 'Counting to one million? - trying to imagine the enormity of geological time'. This activity helps young children to understood the meaning of one million and from there hundreds and thousands of millions. Related [...]

SEXUAL DIMORPHISM: PLIENSBACHIAN APODEROCERAS

ARCHEA [2024-01-08 09:45:00]   recommend this post  (147 visits)

Apodoceras / Stonebarrow Fossils Apoderoceras is a wonderful example of sexual dimorphism within ammonites as the macroconch (female) shell grew to diameters in excess of 40 cm – many times larger than the diameters of the microconch (male) [...]

Kenjalgad Perched Aquifers

Reporting on a Revolution [2024-01-09 16:52:00]   recommend this post  (144 visits)

I have been experimenting with shooting videos of geological features with an accompanying commentary. Here are two of my recent efforts. Last month I visited Kenjalgad, a small fort near the town of Bhor. As is typical of forts of the Sahaydri [...]

AMMONITE TIME KEEPERS

ARCHEA [2024-01-09 10:00:00]   recommend this post  (136 visits)

Argonauticeras besairei, José Juárez RuizAn exceptional example of the fractal building of an ammonite septum, in this clytoceratid Argonauticeras besairei from the awesome José Juárez Ruiz.Ammonites were predatory, squidlike creatures that [...]

TEETH, CLAWS & HUNGER: SMILODON

ARCHEA [2024-01-07 09:05:00]   recommend this post  (132 visits)

This fierce predator with the luxurious coat and claws getting the upper hand in this fight is Smilodon fatalis — a compact but robust killer that weighed in around 160 to 280 kg and was 1.5 - 2.2 metres long.Smilodon is a genus of the extinct [...]