Geobulletin alpha
News from the Geoblogosphere
New from Snet: Lithologs, a new tool to create lithological/sedimentological logs online..
Sunday, 05 December 2021
Paleontology — A lovely Lithograph from A History Of The Earth And Animated Nature By Oliver Gold Smith.I love the old lithographs. They transport me back in time to the beginnings of the study of the various realms of nature. Lithography was invented around 1796 in Germany by an otherwise unknown Bavarian playwright, Alois Senefelder, who accidentally discovered that he could duplicate
Landslides are unfortunately a common problem around the globe, especially in areas of growth where humans alter the landscape. But landslides can happen even when there isn't human activity to artificially steepen slopes or reduce the cohesiveness of the land surface. One such landslide was the Thistle Landslide, that ended up destroying the town of Thistle, Utah.
The picture above is overlooking the landslide itself, which came down the valley in the center of the picture. The landslide [...]
I saw a link to https://app.wombo.art/ on twitter and people were posting what they got out of using their research or dissertation titles as a prompt. It is pretty amazing. I gave it a try. My dissertation [...]
Here's a situation that you want to be temporary. The Universe is making a joke on the warmies and going to extreme cold.Why didn't we have any late hurricanes, or major typhoons? No heat energy. The [...]
The most powerful statement that warmies issue is that something is 'unprecedented'. Of course, they have blinkered vision. It's what they do. All their 'arguments' are selective, and when push comes [...]
Because the Cephalopods were so different, Rousseau H. Flower wrote proposing the Canadian System with four divisions of unspecified rank (Flower 1957 p. 17). Quoting from Flower:"Faunally, the Canadian [...]
Ads: