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10 Books Every Miner Should Read

I think mining [2014-02-13 05:40:35]   recommend this post  (822 visits)

Today I was sent this link.  It is to a site where people ask questions and commenters provide answers.  I find most such sites silly and this is no exception.  Although the question is profound: As a mining engineer student I am finding it a bit [...]

Sinkhole Beneath National Corvette Museum Devours 8 Cars

GeoPrac.net [2014-02-12 23:24:27]   recommend this post  (767 visits)

A 40 foot diameter sinkhole 30 feet deep opened up beneath the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and swallowed 8 of the Corvettes on display. The museum's security company alerted the staff members that the motion sensors had [...]

Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: Bioclaustration-boring structures in bryozoans from the Upper Ordovician of the Cincinnati region

Wooster Geologists [2014-02-09 06:36:43]   recommend this post  (759 visits)

Another bioerosion mystery from those fascinating Upper Ordovician rocks around Cincinnati. Above you see a flat, bifoliate trepostome bryozoan (probably Peronopora) with pock holes scattered across its surface. At first you may think, after reading [...]

Retaining Wall failure at Ho Ching Yuen, Malaysia

GeoPrac.net [2014-02-12 23:38:55]   recommend this post  (720 visits)

This retaining wall failure occurred in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 2009. The failure was caught on video, albeit with a crappy camera phone. But it's well worth a look! Dave Petley of the Landslide Blog also tracked down an article on the original [...]

Letusan G Kelud 2014

Dogeng Geology [2014-02-14 05:11:53]   recommend this post  (713 visits)

Gunung Kelud Meletus tentunya mengagetkan. Ya karena tahun 2007 lalu Gunung ini pernah dinyatakan AWAS sampai mengkhawatirkan namun ternyata letusannya tidak seperti letusan sebelumnya.  Perubahan-perubahan perilaku gunung ini memang harus [...]

…and In Other Science News This Weekend

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [2014-02-09 01:33:39]   recommend this post  (559 visits)

NUCLEAR WINTER What are you seeing, and what does it have to with weather? Check out this post on the CIMMS Satellite blog from the Uni. of Wisconsin. WELL MADE POINT After last week’s (and the previous week’s) viral false rumor about an [...]

Horrible sauropod skulls of the Yale Peabody Museum, part 1: Morosaurus lentus, the world’s most foolish sauropod

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [2014-02-13 09:08:26]   recommend this post  (516 visits)

Matt’s harsh-but-fair “Derp dah hurr” / “Ah hurr hurr hurr” captions on his Giraffatitan skull photos reminded me that there is a sauropod with a much, much stupider head than that of Giraffatitan. Step forward YPM [...]

Uranium Film Festival, Brooklyn

Friends of the Pleistocene [2014-02-09 17:55:16]   recommend this post  (504 visits)

graphic by Josh MacPhee, via Todos Somos Japon If you’ve ever wanted a movie-based crash course in how humans have put uranium to use on the planet, you might be interested in attending a film or two at the upcoming Uranium Film Festival. The [...]

When the politicians go to the beach

Through the Sandglass [2014-02-10 11:21:07]   recommend this post  (496 visits)

“I believe that we have to force the sea back and keep it out, not retreat from it, as we have done for years.” No, these are not the words of King Cnut (who, anyway, was simply demonstrating the

The Earth. Christianity. They go together.

The GeoChristian [2014-02-10 03:49:54]   recommend this post  (463 visits)

Since the inception of this blog in 2006, its subtitle has been, “A blog about science, Christianity, and other topics.” Although this is an accurate description of what one will find here on The GeoChristian, it isn’t very [...]