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Our research using only common words

Quake Hunters [2013-01-17 21:46:00]   recommend this post  (2253 visits)

Here's a summary of our past and present research in Chile using only the 1000 most common words used in the English language:When the ground shakes a lot it can kill many people. Ground shaking can also form very big waves of water which cover [...]

Writing up a PhD thesis

Geography Postgrads [2013-01-16 12:19:32]   recommend this post  (1656 visits)

It’s a time that comes to the best of us, when as Shane McGowan of The Pogues said; “it’s time to stop rambling, there’s work to be done”. The process of writing up a PhD thesis can be challenging and it is one of the three points in a PhD [...]

Deadly Frozen Smog Closes In On Beijing

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [2013-01-13 00:23:37]   recommend this post  (1610 visits)

Temps in Beijing are running around -5C and visibility is less than 200 meters in places. There is a large high pressure system over the region that is causing a strong temperature inversion. This means the air aloft is warmer than the air at [...]

Water in really big groups of hot rocks: When you can’t say “hydrothermal alteration and lava dome collapse hazards”

Magma Cum Laude [2013-01-18 17:51:25]   recommend this post  (1485 visits)

By now you've hopefully seen the geo-meme that Anne Jefferson over at Highly Allocthonous started using the Up-Goer-Five text editor, which forces you to write a description of something using only the thousand most commonly used words in the [...]

Inversion!

Looking for Detachment [2013-01-13 01:25:00]   recommend this post  (1410 visits)

When we got back from Alaska after Xmas, northern and western Nevada was locked into a classic mid-winter high-pressure system, with a surface temperature inversion creating below average low temperatures on the valley floors (and higher [...]

Terrorism in San Rafael Las Flores. Escobal Mine, Guatemala Attacked.

I think mining [2013-01-17 04:33:21]   recommend this post  (1405 visits)

Brief news reports and an announcement by Tahoe Resources indicate that three were killed in an attack on the Escobal Mine in Guatemala.  The local Spanish-language newspaper, El Metropolitano,  has a front-page headline  “Terrorism in San [...]

Godthul, Sandebugten, and Grytviken

Speaking of Geoscience [2013-01-16 00:04:02]   recommend this post  (1366 visits)

5 January 2013 Godthul, Sandebugten, and Grytviken Submitted By Passenger Joanna Ettlinger We awoke to yet another spectacular morning as the ship navigated past gigantic floating ice sculptures on our way into Godthul (Norweigian for “good [...]

What the Bible says directly about biological evolution

The GeoChristian [2013-01-14 03:18:06]   recommend this post  (1325 visits)

. . . . . . . . . . . . Filed under: Apologetics, Biology, Christianity, Creation in the Bible, Evolution, Geology, Old-Earth creationism, Origins, Theistic evolution, Young-Earth creationism Tagged: Creation,

Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A glass sponge from the Upper Ordovician of southern Ohio

Wooster Geologists [2013-01-13 06:47:09]   recommend this post  (1280 visits)

Like all those who teach, I learn plenty from my students, sometimes with a simple question. Richa Ekka (’13) asked me last semester during a paleontology lab if the above specimen was really a trace fossil as I had labeled it. I collected [...]

Rock star David Lee explains “dreamtime” rock art in a Distinguished Lecture Jan. 22

BEYONDbones [2013-01-16 23:11:31]   recommend this post  (1258 visits)

Editor’s note: The following post was written by David Lee, a rock expert specializing in the rock art sites of northern Australia. His Distinguished Lecture, co-sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America Society – Houston, [...]