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Redditch 30th Jan 2015 - The new release of HoleBASE SI includes ‘scheduling tools’ that allow engineers to electronically schedule geotechnical or environmental testing. This major breakthrough is likely to transform the way consultants [...]
Twin Lakes, above the town of Mammoth Lakes on the edge of the Long Valley Caldera
So what happened in Mammoth Lakes?
In the last post we talked about the titanic explosion at the Long Valley Caldera 760,000 years and tried to comprehend the [...]
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Quanto mi secca avere sempre
The book is now available in the UK and the US! I have to say that the publishers, Reaktion Books (and the University of Chicago Press in the US), have done a beautiful job – they accepted all my
Here are another group of bivalve fossils that I found at the Deep Springs Rd. Quarry in Madison County, NY. The rock exposed at the quarry is the Moscow formation (Devonian, Givetian stage).The first fossil is a right valve from a Modiomorpha [...]
What does it take to make a Walmart parking lot pretty? Atmospheric phenomena is a big help. I spend as little time as possible at Walmarts of any kind, but there was a fast food outlet nearby, and we wanted to eat something before shopping at [...]
Spurned on by a print request, I've spent free time this week revising two images of ceratopsids which may be familiar to long-term readers: my woolly Pachyrhinosaurus perotorum and scavenging Styracosaurus albertensis. The former is now just over [...]
A new book on the Dead Sea Transform has been published by Springer: DEAD SEA TRANSFORM FAULT SYSTEM: REVIEWS Together with Prof. Zvi Garfunkel and Prof. Zvi Ben-Avraham, I am a co-editor of this book. The book focuses on various aspects of the [...]
This week we to the dinner given in honor of Dr. Peter Byrne and his receiving the RF Legget Medal. RF Leggett was a distinguished Canadian geologist. And the award honors his works. The Medal is one of the highest awards a Canadian soils [...]
I just spotted this over the weekend, but its been out there for a week or so. It was taken by Astronaut Sam Cristoforetti (@AstroSamantha) on the ISS. It’s a shot of lightning illuminating the eye-wall of Cyclone Bansi in the Indian Ocean. [...]