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New from Snet: Lithologs, a new tool to create lithological/sedimentological logs online..
Monday, 16 April 2018
The photo below shows teachers in Morocco trying out the Earthlearningidea 'The view from the site; using the view of the local area to tune yourself into the local geology'
All the ‘lumps and bumps’ of a landscape are either natural or the result of human activity; larger features can only be natural. This activity uses these features as clues to the underlying geology and
The ruins of Morse & Heslop’s mill, Haywards, after the 1868 earthquake (Bancroft Library image) This week the media will mark San Francisco Earthquake Day, 18 April, as they always do but with an extra message for 2018 — this year will be the 150th anniversary of the original “Big One” in the Bay area,
The semester is winding down, so we only have a few more of these climate visualization posts to go. Today, I want to highlight repeat photography. Taking a picture of the same place several or many years [...]
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With Ontario about to elect the druggiest of all drug people, it is time to end the 'war'. The only treatment for drugs and alcohol is 'controlled consumption'. That's a program where the [...]
Lecture – What Makes Us Human? Lessons from the Study of Wild Chimpanzees by John Mitani This evening leading Primate behavioral ecologist John Mitani will reveal interesting parallels between humans and [...]
Assateague Nat. Seashore is one of the jewels of Maryland and I never tire of soaking in the beauty of this windswept barrier island at the edge of the continent. This past weekend I grabbed my camera and [...]
There’s a new deputy in town: Andrew Wheeler, a fossil fuel fanatic who once served on the staff of snowball-wielding climate denier Senator James
Each month, Jesse Zondervan picks his favourite posts from geoscience and development blogs/news which cover the geology for global development interest. Here’s a round-up of Jesse’s selections for the [...]
Here at SV-POW!, we’re just not having it. Photo by Liguo Li, at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. Also, because it’s only fair: Giant Irish Matt, to go with Giant Irish Mike. Don’t hold [...]
St. George, Utah — This week I’m exploring the wonderful Middle Jurassic Carmel Formation exposed in southwestern Utah. It is a rare bit of solo fieldwork I’m doing to prepare for a Wooster Independent [...]
One final push…we were back on paleoclimate again first thing, more data than models though a bit of a mix of both. Just as the session ended and I started to think about going in search of lunch, lunch [...]
Last week I shared a picture of the beautiful and impressive Formica Leo, a volcanic crater located at the Piton de la Fournaise volcano on Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean. Last week’s picture showed [...]
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The photograph shows the Valle de la Luna, part of the amazing Cordillera de la Sal mountain range in northern Chile. Rising only 200 metres above the basin of the Salar de Atacama salt flat, the ridges of the [...]
Der Lavasee im Pitkrater der Gipfelcaldera steht dieser Tage besonders hoch. Er befindet sich 20 m unterhalb des Randes des Overlook-Kraters im Halema‘uma‘u und ist vom Jaggar-Museum aus gut sichtbar. Seit [...]
Megalosaurus (1962, Neave Parker)
“Londres. Acaba de terminar el primer trimestre académico y el rector está sentado en la taberna de Lincoln. Un tiempo implacable de noviembre. Tanto barro en las calles [...]
A recent episode of the Global Energy Exchange podcast, conservative economist Glenn Hubbard explains how "putting a price on carbon" might
Natgas futures are way up. The stress shadow is over, but the trucks take a week to roll in. As well, I think it is building. If there isn't m6 energy in 2 weeks, then my hypothesis is a loser. Of [...]
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