Geobulletin alpha

Echinocrinites fenestratus Cystoid Fossil 

Image courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution Specimen Catalog Number:  USNM PAL 35091 Specimen 2 GUID:     http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/m3c65a4dfe-ad99-45cc-8f4a-0217d73e8a45 Photographer Suzanne McIntire. Specimen housed in the collections of the Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution Echinocrinites fenestratus (Troost, 1850) cystoid fossil described in A Critical Summary of Troost's Unpublished Manuscript on the Crinoids of [...]

Arctic air mass breaking up 

 This is what Spring should look like, but it is happening quite slowly.  The tropical plumes that should be smashing into the Arctic are weak.  And the 60 below stuff is showing again in Greenland.  In Canada, we are getting lots of cold blobs descending on us.We will have a long, cold Spring.  Expect the last snow for Toronto in