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Geology Photo of the Week #29

GeoSphere [2013-04-08 15:54:55]   recommend this post  (1031 visits)

The photo this week is of another self collected beauty. I collected this piece below at the Marmoraton Iron Mine in Marmora, Ontario a few years ago. When I found it none of the garnet crystals you see were visible. They were all covered by a thick [...]

Primary structures in the Lake Vermillion Formation

Mountain Beltway [2013-04-10 13:49:01]   recommend this post  (951 visits)

Callan showcases some extraordinary depositional structures (graded bedding and flame structures) seen in Archean turbidites in the Superior province of northern

Around the web — 4/7/2013 — Archean jellyfish? Homeschool uncritical thinking? An atheist’s journey!

The GeoChristian [2013-04-08 01:17:35]   recommend this post  (890 visits)

Jellied jellyfish — The cover of the April 2013 Journal of Creation has a picture of a jellyfish, with a caption that states “Fossil Jellyfish from Western Australia: Challenging Geological Chronology.” The article is “Fossil [...]

Swimming in the sand

Through the Sandglass [2013-04-13 12:39:50]   recommend this post  (842 visits)

If you look at the two photos above, you will notice that the sand has moved – there is something down there……. I have long been fascinated by the sandfish – the sand swimmer, the sand skink, or Scincus

Curiosity continues to rock on Mars

Geological Society of London blog [2013-04-08 15:54:09]   recommend this post  (804 visits)

This was originally posted at: http://blogs.egu.eu/palaeoblog/?p=529 NASA might be having a rain-check on its outreach activities, but that’s not why Curiosity has gone silent the last few days. Every once in a while an event known as the [...]

Bingham Canyon Mine Slope Failure

I think mining [2013-04-13 00:27:12]   recommend this post  (792 visits)

A massive slope failure has occurred at the open pit of the Bingham Canyon Mine in Utah.  Here is a link to a magnificent collection of photographs of the failure, which appears to have taken out part of a building, access roads, and filled the [...]

Up Goer Five: writing excercises

GeoMika [2013-04-08 19:05:38]   recommend this post  (773 visits)

The Up-Goer Five meme of explaining science in less than 1,000 words received some belated criticism of being a poor exercise in science communication. Yes, just like not every article should be a one-draft 5-minute stream-of-consciousness [...]

Euglyphella ostracod from the Silica Shale

Views of the Mahantango [2013-04-07 09:01:00]   recommend this post  (760 visits)

There are five different species of Euglyphella ostracod found in the Silica Shale. Below is one I found in my sample from Sylvania, Ohio.I referred to "Ostracods of the Middle Devonian Silica Formation" to see if I could figure out which one the [...]

Future trends in natural hazard losses – the Powerpoint file from my Geographical Association 2013 conference talk

The Landslide Blog [2013-04-07 08:36:18]   recommend this post  (760 visits)

A talk from the Geographical Association annual conference on future losses from natural hazards, focusing on storms, floods, earthquakes and

The unusually large Bingham Canyon Mine landslide – an impressive example of prediction using monitoring

The Landslide Blog [2013-04-12 07:28:26]   recommend this post  (719 visits)

Initial information, and some fantastic images, are now available of the Bingham Canyon copper mine landslide. This is one of the largest mining-induced landslides of all