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2014 Posts That Never Quite Made It - A Lustrous Pearl for an Illustrious New Year; William Smith's Map That Changed the World; The Longitude Problem; Plaster of Paris Meets the Father of Comparative Anatomy; The Seine's Epic Journey to the Sea; Blue Sky,

Written In Stone...seen through my lens [2014-12-14 17:35:00]   recommend this post  (1187 visits)

Every blogger knows the challenge. What shall I blog about next? What photos should I use? By the time the end of the year rolls around, there are always a few posts that never quite made it. And so, with this final post of the year, here they are [...]

Dataforensics and Keynetix Announce Major Partnership

GeoPrac.net [2014-12-18 14:24:29]   recommend this post  (1102 visits)

Dataforensics and Keynetix Forge Partner Alliance to Revolutionize Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Data Management Norcross, Georgia, December 2014 – Dataforensics and Keynetix announce a partnership that teams the strengths of each [...]

Session at SSA meeting in Pasadena: How reliable are reconstructions and models of surfacr-rupturing earthquakes?

Paleoseismicity [2014-12-15 10:15:11]   recommend this post  (979 visits)

The SSA 2015 meeting will take place in Pasadena, CA, from 21-23 April. As always, there will be plenty of interesting things for paleoseismologists. Scott Bennett asked me to advertise the following session that deals with a topic most of us will [...]

If These Walls Could Talk: Tu-tok-a-nu'-la, the Greatest Cliff of All in the Ah-wah-nee

Geotripper [2014-12-14 10:04:00]   recommend this post  (917 visits)

So...who was the first to climb El Capitan, the stupendous cliff in Yosemite Valley? There are those who say it was Warren Harding, Wayne Merry and George Whitmore in 1958, but the elder people know better. It was climbed in the ancient days by the [...]

Should We Be Mining Our State Parks? Red Rock Canyon State Park: Comments Requested by Dec. 18

Geotripper [2014-12-15 05:12:00]   recommend this post  (858 visits)

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AGU 2014

Real Climate [2014-12-14 19:23:51]   recommend this post  (854 visits)

Once more unto the breach! Fall AGU this year will be (as last year) …the largest Earth Science conference on the planet, and is where you will get previews of new science results, get a sense of what other experts think about current topics, [...]

Fossil Shark Teeth of South Dakota

Louisville Area Fossils [2014-12-14 04:48:00]   recommend this post  (852 visits)

My cousin recently received some matrix from the Carisle Formation of Union County, South Dakota, USA. He has been carefully breaking it down to extract the hidden fossil shark teeth.  The fossils date to the Cretaceous Period (Turonian). We have [...]

Greenpeace Really Screws Up...Twice

Geotripper [2014-12-17 09:45:00]   recommend this post  (816 visits)

Source: Greenpeace via Reuters It's hard to imagine a more moronic act by a supposedly respectable environmental organization. I have appreciated the activism of Greenpeace in the past, especially the efforts of the Rainbow Warrior (all three of [...]

AGU2014 first impressions #1

A Lisbon Structural Geologist [2014-12-17 04:13:00]   recommend this post  (766 visits)

I am for the first time attending to the AGU meeting (SF, CA). I confess I’m a bit surprise to say that I’m really enjoying it. In these kind of mega meetings like the EGU (which I’ve attended several times before) there’s sometimes a [...]

Buzzard Rocks

Mountain Beltway [2014-12-16 13:57:19]   recommend this post  (745 visits)

Back in 2011, when we were still living in D.C., Lily and I made a hiking trip out to Buzzard Rocks. It was a destination. Now that I live out here in the Fort Valley, I see Buzzard Rocks all the time, and I love it. It’s such a cool feature [...]