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Heart Rock is the Greatest Grumpy Valentine 

Love is like this boulder: unwieldy, needlessly symbolic, and slowly eroded by the inexorable march of time. Happy Valentine’s Day to all you curmudgeonly misanthropes who just want to get on with the eventual heat-death of the universe! Heart Rock. … Continue reading

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Happy Valentine’s Day from March of the Fossil Penguins 

The Black-footed Penguins at the California Academy of Sciences have it good.  Every year, they get Valentines from people – and seem to enjoy them! This video is from last year’s ceremony shows a few eager penguins accepting their card. You can also check in on the colony live anytime here: http://www.calacademy.org/webcams/penguins/ Filed under: Uncategorized

Happy Valentine’s Day from March of the Fossil Penguins 

We always try to find some holiday-related penguin content and here is one of the more unusual Valentine’s stories for penguins.  A pair of penguins at the Shanghai Ocean Aquarium is being married (twice a day no less). Xiaobai and Xiaoxue are Humboldt Penguins.  They were chosen because this species, like many penguins, often forms

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Happy Valentine's Day from the central Basin and Range 

Thanks to a combination of faults and linears along 1) the Walker Lane, 2) some ENE-trending structures in northwest Nevada that parallel the main trend of the Snake River Plain, 3) the Northern Nevada Rift (the north-central, NNE-trending magnetic linear on this map), 4) some northeasterly features in north-central Nevada that trend toward the Snake River Plain, 5) the Wasatch Fault, and

Happy Valentine’s Day from March of the Fossil Penguins 

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Dolostone ♥s shale 

Originally posted in September 2010 as part of this missive on the Champlain Thrust Fault. Happy Valentine’s

A Geo-Type Greeting: Happy Valentine's Day! 

More or less: I created a geo-greeting at geoGreeting! - as first seen at Geology.com. The site creates letters as you type a message. The letters are mostly enlargements of buildings from Google Maps - only three letters or symbols were from geologic or geographic features. The "D" is a lake, the *heart* symbol is an island, and the "@" is a small park.Instead of creating an embedding code for

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!1! 

Happy Valentine's Day from me and the lolducks! They are maned ducks Chenonetta jubata (Latham, 1802), both females, I think, photographed at the London Wetland Centre in December

Happy Valentine’s Day 

Happy Valentine’s Day from the heart-shaped giant star forming region W5 in Cassiopeia: Credit: Lori Allen, Xavier Koenig (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA) et al., JPL-Caltech, NASA (Astronomy Picture of the Day August 29, 2008) Grace and Peace P.S. My Valentine’s Day entry last year was Mars and Valentine’s Day.