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New from Snet: Lithologs, a new tool to create lithological/sedimentological logs online..
Sunday, 28 May 2023
Stemec suntokum, Sooke FormationThe diving bird you see here is Stemec suntokum, a Fossil Plopterid from Sooke, British Columbia, Canada.We all dream of finding new species, and new fossil species in particular. This happens more than you think. As impossible as it sounds, it has happened numerous times at many fossils sites in British Columbia including Sooke on Vancouver Island.The
I learned a lot with my past week of flubs. First, the 'Great Red Splotch' is real, in an odd sort of way. The base map of the average shows a huge cold spot there. During all the normal times of the past 100 years, the currents have pulled away from Ecuador, and brought up very cold water from the deep. Recently, a small convection cell of the Pacific Belt has reversed and piled warm
Very weird weather for the garden. The cold nights may have stunted some things. Very few cherries and pears, but lots of apples. Very dry, and my soaker hose system is always dripping. In the [...]
Everything shows continued cold, and the surfers are in heavy wetsuits. Yet all the headlines are just about the 'coming' heat wave. Just like 'Brexit Works'. I have found they have lowered their [...]
If you live in North American, there is a high probability that you have seen or heard the bird song of the Blue jay, Cyanocitta cristata (Linnaeus, 1758).Blue Jays are in the family Corvidae — along with [...]
We've started heating up like a kettle of fish.This is our fine summer weather from now on. No sweeping air from the Pacific, just a thick stew. We'll just get hotter and hotter, and may get rain when [...]
The new ocean current maps just came in, and this article follows the previous one, This is the whole Pacific. We have broken convection cells that aren't transporting anything. You can see the pinchout [...]
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