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On Friday, the marina boathouses were mushed to splinters. There's really no fund, but generous rich people can contact the marina directly. I'm sure you get a unique Anstruther Lake t-shirt for every thousand donated. :)
Wow, that Friday was [...]
Trilobite, House Range, Millard County, Utah Photographer: Michael Vanden Berg Cambrian-age shales from western Utah’s House Range contain millions of fossilized trilobites, such as this specimen of Elrathia
Mount Timpanogos, Wasatch Range, Utah County, Utah Photographer: Jason Berry Thousands of years of precipitation, wind, and glacial erosion have sculpted the east face of the Mount Timpanogos massif. The steep cliffs and snow-covered ledges of the [...]
“I love to sail forbidden seas, …” Herman Melville in “Moby Dick” (1851) Strange tracks cover a muddy plain, located in a remote part of Death Valley National Park, named appropriately Racetrack-Playa. Most of these [...]
Back in 2011, I wrote about a fossil I'd found in Indiana called Eospirifer radiatus. Last year I received a package from my friend Christian that had some brachiopods from Gotland, Sweden and included with them was a Eospirifer radiatus. This is a [...]
ksl.com It’s been a month since a massive rock slide sent boulders the size of trucks tumbling into and across Jones Hole Creek, and a thick layer of cream-colored sandstone dust still coats every surface. READ MORE MORE
A few weeks ago I had never heard of shungite. Now, thanks to a Russian supplier, I have some in my secret laboratory. This black carbon mineraloid has a high reputation among the people who take a mystical approach to crystals and minerals. With [...]
Bergen University currently advertises a post-doc position in tectonics and surface processes, mainly involving modelling surface processes along active faults. It is a joint project with Patience Cowie, Rob Gawthorpe and Ritske Huismans. The [...]
Chromium has many uses that range from the pigment that produces the familiar “chrome yellow” of school buses and highway lines to the metal used to create an alloy that we know as “stainless steel”. Related: Chromite – [...]
Following Evelyn’s call for geological/geographical/funny signs in the field, I post some nice ones that I came across during the last years. Check out the Accretionary Wedge #58 for more signs! Albania-Macedonia (FYROM)-Greece border region: [...]