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As part of my vacation last fall I had an hour or so to kill in my schedule and happened to be passing near Florissant, Co. The town is well known for the Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument which preserves an ancient lake bed from the Eocene [...]
Am 12. Oktober 2011 brach vor dem Fischerort La Restinga auf der Kanareninsel El Hierro ein Unterwasservulkan aus. Angekündigt hatte sich die Eruption schon längere Zeit durch eine steigende seismische Aktivität, so dass man einigermaßen [...]
In the May 25 edition of the Arizona Daily Sun, reporter Emery Cowan takes a look at the controversy that inspired my newest book, "Grand Canyon: Monument to an Ancient Earth." Cowan relates how huge portions of the American public believe the [...]
The white buttons above are echinoderm holdfasts from the Snowy Range Formation (Upper Cambrian) of Carbon County, southern Montana. They and their hardground substrate were well described back in the day by Brett et al. (1983). We have these [...]
The story coming out of Lake Mead last year was lower water levels. This year, it’s not much different, except that the water body has continued to go even lower.[...]
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On Wednesday 25-May-2016 a small earthquake swarm took place in Grímsfjall volcano (also known as Grímsvötn), none of the earthquakes that took place managed to reach the magnitude 1,0, many of the earthquakes where shallow and might be … [...]
A tropical storm making landfall on the U.S. coast on Memorial Day weekend is almost unheard of, and I think it may have never happened before. It might this year though, and the record warm oceans are playing a role. An area of disturbed weather [...]
I’ve posted here before about the extraordinary intra-layer folds in the varved evaporite deposits of West Texas’ Permian Basin, but today I can go one better and offer a GIGAmacro look at these lovely folds: Link GIGAmacro by Callan [...]
Nunca es tarde si la dicha es buena. O, al menos, eso afirma un refrán español. En cualquier caso, las últimas semanas que se han ido llegaron cargadas de buenas noticias.
Por un lado, conocíamos que la revista Cretaceous Research acababa de [...]