The Palisades in Cimarron Canyon, northern New Mexico.
Browsing through my photos of the Cimarron Canyon Palisades, I spotted an odd form on the crest which I hadn’t noticed when I was there. Is that really rock? Zooming in showed nothing to suggest otherwise. But how improbable!
I’m hardly the first to spot this weird finger of rock. Years ago someone thought it odd enough to add to the Devil’s collection of landforms and landmarks—Devil’s Postpile, Devil’s Backbone, [...]
I had quite a fruitful interaction today on Twitter, after I replied to a tweet about the location of Gooty Fort in Andhra Pradesh.
The fort is built on Archaean gneiss terrain just to the west of the [...]
Nach einem Wochenende mit der Vulkanologischen Gesellschaft e.V., berichte ich nun weiter über die aktuellen Ereignisse auf Hawaii und anderen globalen hot spots. Während es am Freitag am Kilauea recht ruhig [...]
The litter on the land falls along a spectrum. This disembodied deer hoof does not qualify as litter because, as far as I know, a human didn’t leave it on this abandoned, overgrown fire road. I felt no [...]
'Rolling, hopping, floating and invisibly moving along; investigating how sediment is transported by water'.
Sediment is transported in water (rivers, the sea or currents in gutters) in solution, [...]
En el reciente XVI EJIP, celebrado en Zarautz del 11 al 14 de abril, se presentó el trabajo: "Representaciones recientes de Troodontidae, Gilmore, 1924. (Dinosauria, Theropoda)", donde se analizan [...]
To help predict the future of sea level rise, scientists are studying ancient corals on the island of
Architect Lynnette Widder explains the challenges of making an old house more sustainable while maintaining its original
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Polarized light photomicrograph of a thin section of a charoite-bearing schist. Charoite is a rare silicate found only at one location in Yakutia, Russia. For its beautiful and uncommon purple color it is used [...]
Columbia scientists recently visited the Caribbean island of Barbados, whose fossilized coral reefs contain an exquisite record of how the ocean has risen and fallen in the
Dicen quienes me conocen que me pusieron el nombrecito porque reparto cera que da gusto, pero en realidad significa “lagarto con cuerno”. Fue Marsch, el famoso contrincante de Cope en la “Guerra de los [...]
L’evento Kellwasser è una delle “Big 5” di Sepkosky, cioè uno dei principali eventi di estinzione di massa. È avvenuto nel Devoniano superiore, ma non alla fine del periodo, che peraltro corrisponde [...]
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Since it began in 2000 Earth-Pages News has been covering the emergent science concerning the Neanderthals. To say that it has been a fertile field would be a considerable understatement, and I am certain that [...]
Vallibona es una preciosa localidad de la comarca de Els Ports de Morella (Castellón). Atendiendo a los datos que ofrece Wikipedia representa el segundo término municipal de la comarca en superficie, pero el [...]
Natural gas is on a tear, and OK is back. I was losing hope, since we had one of the quietest periods ever. I actually thought the okies stopped being themselves!
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Physics is everywhere and is totally ignored. This always comes back to bite you, and nothing is worse than a scraggly lawn. Most people just pave them over, but then all that extra rain goes into the [...]
Lecture – The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World by Simon Winchester Revered “New York Times” bestselling author Simon Winchester will trace the development of technology [...]
As our planet becomes more urban, the importance of parks and other public spaces becomes