One of the nice things about vagabonding, traveling without a set itinerary, is that one can make allowances for weather. That's a major consideration with a journey through the Pacific Northwest. We stayed an extra day on Vancouver Island, letting a weak storm pass through the region, because I couldn't stand the thought of missing out again on seeing and exploring an extraordinary place,
The land surrounding the Arctic Ocean is like a set of cradling arms, holding the ocean and the sea ice in a circular grasp. Within that cradle is a unique mix of waters, including freshwater from melting [...]
Regular readers will have noticed that I like posting pretty pictures. Today, I felt like posting the next one! This time it is a calcite crystals found in the voids of a carbonate nodule from the Bavarian [...]
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The one hope I had for a seismic early warning system (actually, it wasn't much hope) would be that a real-time GPS network would catch the pre-slip of a large fault system.
For a large fault, [...]
Understanding how coastal areas changed as ocean rose in the past could help communities protect themselves from storm surge flooding in the future as the oceans warm and sea levels
Abbildungen von mehr oder weniger vollständigen Exemplaren aus dem Elbsandsteingebirge in Sachsen, der Löwenberger Kreide (Schlesien) und dem böhmischen Kreidebecken (mit "Zittauer
Fritsch, 1893, "Prieser Schichten": S. 112, Fig. 148 A., B. - Turon, oberes Turon-mittleres Coniac (Brezno-Formation) - Ort: Březno (Priesen), Bezirk
Ternary Diagraph Paper: Free Printable Graph PaperWaterproofPaper.com The Way We Measure Earthquakes is Stupid !Wired Science Sakurajima in Japan Might Be Headed Towards a Large EruptionWired Science Arizona [...]
Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [08:20:36]
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(135 visits) category→recreation Cretaceous; US
As stinkin’ ornithischians go, Tenontosaurus is near and dear to my heart. For some reason beyond the ken of mortals, the Antlers Formation of southeast Oklahoma has yielded only a small handful of [...]
What do a sweaty baseball cap and fractured sandstone have in common? Episodes of absorption of dirty liquids that pile up material such as iron oxide at the soaking
Tsunamis generated by earthquake faults off the Santa Barbara coast could pose a greater danger to the cites of Ventura and Oxnard than previously
Name: Ganguroo robustiter Meaning: The species name denotes that this animal was about 20% larger than other known
Last week I attended the 100th Ecological Society of America annual meeting in Baltimore. Happy Birthday, ESA! It also occurred to me that I’ve been going to ESA for ten years now (which means I’ve [...]
So, that was a big gap. I got hit with a whole bunch of issues (personal and professional) that sucked up all my time, and then my posting fell by the wayside when my newfangled "write on weekends, post [...]
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Louisville Area Fossils [03:30:00]
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(184 visits) category→recreation Carboniferous; US
These pictures show a crinoid stem segment fossil. It was found in the Glen Dean Member of Grayson County, Kentucky, USA. The fossil dates to the Mississippian Period. It looks like a little flower or maybe [...]
When it came time to adopt a dog, I knew I wanted a dog. An angry, yappy gremlin
Biologen erstellen globale Übersicht der Einwanderung und Ausbreitung fremder Pflanzenarten
Eine wissenschaftliche Erhebung gibt erstmalig eine globale Übersicht
über die Einwanderung von Pflanzenarten auf [...]
Speech to be given August 20, 2015 by SEG President Christopher Liner at Grand Opening of GRC2. Original draft by Steve Brown (SEG Staff) with edits by C. Liner and D. Proubasta--------------------Good [...]
GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [14:30:40]
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Late last year the Rosetta’s Plasma Consortium (RPC) announced that Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, which the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft has been studying since August 2014, was singing [...]
"¡Hoy pa comel tiranosaurio al ajillo!"Dave estaba obsesionado con la caza, nunca tenía suficiente: jaguares, leones, cocodrilos, anacondas, elefantes... "Hasta el día que tuvo la mejor caza de todas... [...]
For her eighth birthday, Maddie Sanders told her mom she wanted nothing more than to read to dogs at the museum. It seems like an unlikely service, but the Houston Museum of Natural Science at Sugar Land is [...]
Hiroshima, Japan on August 7th, all images this post FOP, 2015 It was an odd sensation to walk with through the streets of an unfamiliar city. To feel one’s awareness constantly being pulled upward, [...]
Last week I attended the 100th Ecological Society of America annual meeting in Baltimore. Happy Birthday, ESA! It also occurred to me that I’ve been going to ESA for ten years now (which means I’ve [...]
Abbildungen von mehr oder weniger vollständigen Exemplaren aus dem Elbsandsteingebirge in Sachsen, der Löwenberger Kreide (Schlesien) und dem böhmischen Kreidebecken (mit "Zittauer