It's one thing to talk about a subduction zone from the outside, where one might see an oceanic trench, or a chain of volcanoes. It's quite another to explore the convergent zone from the inside out, by, for instance, standing under the volcano. Miles below the volcano. That's what one gets to do along the lower stretches of the Sea to Sky Highway between Whistler and Vancouver in
Bottled water sales are exploding again! During 2014 Americans consumed about 10.9 billion gallons of bottled water. Some types of bottled water are geological products. These include: mineral water, ground water, well water, artesian water, spring water and sparkling water. The source of the water is often marked on the
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A team of European researchers have developed a model to simulate
the impact of tsunamis generated by earthquakes and applied it to the
Eastern Mediterranean. The results show how tsunami waves could [...]
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Hi readers of “Green tea and Velociraptors”, my name is Sabine Lengger, I am a scientist, and I am an avid reader of Jon’s blog too. I started out my scientific career as a chemist / biochemist, and [...]
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sltrib.com In a community struggling with a depleted aquifer and land subsidence, the Central Iron County Water Conservancy District is banking on a 50-mile, $150 million pipeline to ease the area’s [...]
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from the Obere Süsswassermolasse of Luzern, Switzerlandsource:
Ichnium pachydactylum, albendorfense from the Rotliegend (Permian) - ?Wambierzyce, Silesia
OCadia bussenensis Ptychogaster heeri Fossil turtle remains from the Mainz-basin, Germany (Tertiary) - BHL:
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The Microcystis cyanobacteria bloom centralized around Lake Erie’s western shores has started to spread into its central basin, according to a bulletin released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric [...]
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Mount Erebus and surrounding glacier - R.F. Scotts last expedition -
ENGELHARDT, 1911. Oberpliocäne Flora und Fauna des Untermaintales - Fossil Flora from the Pliocene in Germany -
from the Obere Süsswassermolasse of Luzern, Switzerlandsource:
Ichnium pachydactylum, albendorfense from the Rotliegend (Permian) - ?Wambierzyce, Silesia
OCadia bussenensis Ptychogaster heeri Fossil turtle remains from the Mainz-basin, Germany (Tertiary) - BHL:
Something of a love-letter to science, from a version originally posted on En Tequila Es Verdad. Back-to-school time seems like a good time to remind everyone what a pleasure it is to know science...
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When I began my doctoral research I was lacking a really good knowledge of clay rocks and clay minerals. So, during the years I have been looking for easy to understand resources on clay minerals and methods. [...]