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Sunday Sand Selection - and my new toy

Through the Sandglass [2012-02-25 21:22:00]   recommend this post  (960 visits)

Last September, my report on a day out in Java was illustrated with the output from my new Sony a55 digital SLR camera (although strictly, it’s not an SLR because it uses Sony’s remarkable translucent mirror technology) – it’s

Katla Volcano Showing More Tremor

Volcano Science And News Blog [2012-02-23 20:20:00]   1 recommendations  (914 visits)

Katla volcano in Iceland has been showing more harmonic tremor pulses as well as minor earthquake swarms within the caldera. This has been typical of Katla for almost a year now ever since it's very minor eruption in mid 2011. Icelandic scientists [...]

Sunday Sermon: Sex and Ethical Mining

I think mining [2012-02-19 04:47:39]   recommend this post  (863 visits)

The cost to attend the South African Mining Indaba was R12,000.  So there was another meeting called Alternative Mining Indaba.  A report on that conference is at this link.  The report is long and convoluted.  I have difficulty in working out [...]

New GigaPans: source and sediment

Mountain Beltway [2012-02-21 13:53:18]   recommend this post  (850 visits)

New M.A.G.I.C. GigaPans are shown of two connected Hawaiian samples: one an igneous rock, one a loose beach sand. How could thematically-linked images like these be used to further geoscience education? Got any ideas? Chime

Santorum, Mining, and Abortion

I think mining [2012-02-20 07:19:38]   recommend this post  (848 visits)

Rick Santorum could conceivably be the next president.  I hope not, but it is not my choice. I would prefer Ron Paul; at least I agree with him fifty percent of the time.  Santorum may have a father, or was it grandfather who was miner.  But I [...]

Canadian Amber, Fin-Tailed Dinosaurs, and a Despairing Blogger

The Bite Stuff [2012-02-22 07:30:36]   recommend this post  (797 visits)

Science, as a process, promotes an adversarial system. A scientist poses an hypothesis from an observation, then attempts to refute this hypothesis through further observations arrived at from experimentation and testing, and poses a further [...]

Confession of a basalt addict

New Stories in Stone [2012-02-23 21:08:19]   1 recommendations  (782 visits)

They say the first step in addiction is to admit it. Okay, ... [ continue

Coal Black Santorum and His Wealth

I think mining [2012-02-21 03:30:49]   recommend this post  (758 visits)

Here is one way to make money from mining that I have not hitherto thought of: do what Rick Santorum did.  It is described in a report at this link thus: Santorum did not register as a lobbyist, but he aided corporate and other interests as a [...]

Quarz - Geben und Nehmen im Sediment

Mente et Malleo [2012-02-20 22:21:16]   recommend this post  (757 visits)

Sand gehört in unseren Breiten zu den recht häufig vorkommenden Gesteinen, und bei zunehmender Reife des Sediments (sprich: im Laufe der Verwitterung) nimmt der Anteil an Quarz immer mehr zu, denn Quarz ist unter den häufigen [...]

A ML3.3 earthquake in Tenerife volcano

Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [2012-02-19 00:19:16]   recommend this post  (693 visits)

Today at 13:28 UTC there was an ML3.3 earthquake in Tenerife volcano. The depth of this earthquake was at 31 km depth. But I do not know if this earthquake was felt, so far nothing suggests it. But this is … Continue reading