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Saturday, 12 March 2016

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Out on the Ocean

AGU Meetings [23:53:30]

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by Nanci Bompey Nanci Bompey is AGU’s public information manager. She is spending a week aboard the R/V Oceanus with scientists from Oregon State University who are studying the role that small rivers play in the productivity of the coastal ocean during the winter. Click here to read Nanci’s previous blogs from this trip. We finally headed out on the ocean Friday morning. Unfortunately, bad weather is rolling in this

Weather warning for South to North Iceland

Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [23:21:48]

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Tomorrow (Sunday 13-March-2016) extremely bad weather is expected on south to north Iceland. The weather is also not going to be good in other parts of Iceland, but it is going to be far worse in south Iceland, … Continue reading

Old plastic to clay science: super-size Atterberg cylinder

The Lost Geologist [19:56:00]

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Size fractionation for sediment and clay minerals analysis is done using a centrifuge or Atterberg sedimentation cylinder. Both methods rely on the Stokes' Law to determine the settling time. The usual size [...]

Nasty dancing rocks: boulders in Glenwood Canyon

The Landslide Blog [10:14:39]

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A new video from Glenwood Canyon in Colorado shows nasty dancing rocks - boulders rolling down a steep slope. The potential for damage is

Arizona is Going to Get Another Meteor Crater, Only Bigger. And We Know Where and Why (repost)

Geotripper [01:51:00]

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where and when

This is a repeat of a post I wrote in August of last year because the issue is still in the news, and represents a piece of political larceny that should disqualify Senator John McCain from ever being [...]

3 scenes from the Timberville VA quad field review

Mountain Beltway [14:56:54]

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where and when

Explore a series of spherical photos taken on a field review of a new geologic map in western

Rainfall milestone this week in my corner of California

Geotripper [06:50:00]

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where and when

We reached a milestone this week in my backyard (backyard in both the literal and figurative sense). We reached "normal". I've been tracking rainfall totals in my backyard since 1991, and up until [...]