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As promised a week ago, I completed the geology guide to the Excelsior Trail, rising from the Nooksack River east of Glacier to Excelsior Pass and ‘Excelsior Peak’. I will post a separate description for the ‘back door’ trail via the Damfino [...]
Our new ELI today is 'How can storms affect erosion rates? Predict what will happen to a landscape if it is affected by a storm.' In this activity, pupils are asked to study images of various landscapes and to predict how the rate of erosion might [...]
Part of the dynamic and hands-on team that keeps the Cockrell Butterfly Center humming and fluttering with life on a daily basis, horticulturist-slash-entomologist Theresa Lancaster has a very important role on the front lines inside our butterfly [...]
This lovely is Maotunia sp. from the Drumian Changhia Formation of China. You can see the 3D phosphatized gut glands still stuck to the underside of the dorsal carapace. Wang et al. published a paper in December 2018 on the fossilized gut of the [...]
Governments need scientists, and Heather Britton is telling you what to expect if you decide to join the Civil Service Fast Stream. For the past year, I have been on the Science and Engineering Fast Stream scheme. As the graduate recruitment [...]
As I sit up on the deck, I'm watching the last heatwave of the summer being swept away by cool northern air. Maybe the southern air will come up again. A change of air is good for fishing.I just looked at the new ocean currents map, and [...]
Nach einer mehrwöchigen Pause eruptierte der japanische Vulkan Sakurajima wieder und spie Aschewolken aus. Sie stiegen bis auf einer Höhe von 6000 m auf und wurden vom Wind in nördlicher Richtung verfrachtet. Die zahlreichen Livecams um den [...]
Continental strike-slip faults are complex structures on which the deformation is commonly distributed among a number of parallel to subparallel fault strands, making them in places significantly different in behaviour from their oceanic [...]
A lovely Pterocephalia trilobite from Upper Cambrian, Furongian strata of the McKay Group, Kootenay Rockies. The McKay Group has been explored extensively these past few years by Chris New and Chris Jenkins of Cranbrook, British [...]
Im österreichischen Tirol bebte es letzte Nacht mit einer Magnitude von 4,1. Das Hypozentrum befand sich in nur 4 km Tiefe. Das Epizentrum wurde 31 km östlich von Sankt Anton am Arlberg lokalisiert. Es gab mehrere Nachbeben. Der Erdstoß und ein [...]