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New from Snet: Lithologs, a new tool to create lithological/sedimentological logs online..
Saturday, 29 November 2025
They are proud of themselves, which is great. They don't mention how they predicted a heavy hurricane season because of climate change. I looked at the temperature of the Atlantic hurricane zone, and said 'nothing'.Hurricanes are creatures of physics. They need hot water, and cold air to form the huge vortexes. No heat energy was available this year, in the
A Bird's Eye View of BC's InteriorOnce upon a geologic time—about 52 million years ago—British Columbia wasn’t the mountain-studded landscape we know today. Instead, imagine a steaming chain of tropical islands floating in a warm inland sea, alive with crocodiles, palm trees, and enough volcanic activity to make any self-respecting geologist swoon.Welcome to Eocene British Columbia—where
This image is of Hemiaster heberti echinoid fossils. These animals existed in the Cretaceous Period. Fossils were found in Thebaid, Egypt.
Picture taken at Museo di Geologia e Paleontologia Florence Italy [...]
This book is squarely at the intersection of being an objectively great thing to have in the world, and a subjectively great thing to have on my gaming shelf. I’ve been playing tabletop RPGs since I was 16, [...]
Every time I am dragging myself back on the last day of a tiring trek in the Himalaya, I curse and swear that I’ll never do this again. And yet, here I am, exploring the Pindari Glacier area in the Kumaon. [...]
For todays 30dayMapChallenge: Process I was processing a coastline dataset for Norway, trying to find out about the fractal dimension. osmdata.openstreetmap.de has a nice extract of this here:…
The post [...]
You might remember the intense hype a while ago. Turns out the flares hit the airplanes, although nobody specifically mentions it for some reason. It's all 'solar radiation', as [...]
It's the about the same as yesterday. The Blue Army continues to march down to us.It's so clear for NA that you can't see any internal structure. You can see more with [...]
Here is a picture of a cephalopod Crioceras (d'Orbigny, 1842) fossil at Museo di Geologia e Paleontologia Florence Italy
(Università degli Studi di Firenze) in August 2024. The creature lived
during [...]
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