Posts treating: "Lake"
Thursday, 13 July 2017
It all started with the squirrel, who was out in the side yard chomping on some seed we'd thrown out, or maybe it was a peanut. Somehow it inspired me to grab my camera and wander through the yard.
I walked around toward the front, and grabbed this shot of our wild patch of clover, growing along the fence protecting the Carolina allspice.
The clover isn't anything we actually planted,
As I have noted previously, July 4, 2017, will be the centennial of the official opening of Lake Washington Ship Canal and the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks. I am part of a group — Making the Cut — that is working to commemorate this event. One member of the group is videographer Vaun Raymond, who is … Continue reading Centennial Commemoration of the Locks and
Well, it’s summer time again and millions of people will be spending lots and lots of time outdoors. They will go to the lake, they will go to the beach, they will have picnics and barbecues and luaus. All the … Continue reading
Geology in the West Country [2016-04-18 10:48:00]
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(148 visits) Triassic,Carboniferous; GB
Saturday 23rd AprilSully Island and Lavernock PointLeader: Professor Maurice Tucker, University of Bristol and Bath Geological SocietyThe Triassic rocks near Sully and Penarth (50 miles west of Bristol), near Cardiff, were deposited around the edge of a lake or inland sea in which the Mercia Mudstone/ Keuper Marl was deposited. The Trias overlies the Carboniferous limestone which locally created hills and cliffs around the lake; wave-cut shore-platforms and wave-notches were cut into the [...]
It was a cold and misty morning, with lots of smoke from wood fires drifting by (cue that wonderful scent that reminds me of fall and winter, but makes my sinuses clog up a bit), when MOH finally got me to drag myself away from the heat of our front-room oil stove. "Take some pictures," he cried, "It's the first snow of the year! And it will melt soon!" So out I went.
Well, it hasn't
It's been a slow fall, it seems, and when I went out looking for brightly colored leaves yesterday, I didn't find all that many. One reason is that we've cut down all the aspen trees: they take over the yard and block the sun from our newly planted fruit trees and berry bushes ("newly" being in the last couple years). I did find one aspen that hasn't yet gotten pulled as the weed it is;
James says I must start blogging pix from our recent trip to the USA.
Day 1: RMNP
View of mtns from Boulder.
Took Pops for a walk round Bear Lake and ate lunch half way round. No chance of seeing any bears as there were so many people. Day was overcast, but pleasant nevertheless. Americans on a day out come across as really quite strange because they seem unable to walk past
A 250-ton slab of Navajo Sandstone is threatening to peel off the rock wall
above Lake Powell overlooking power plant facilities below Glen Canyon
Dam. Photos from local professional photographer Frank Talbott
(http://www.franktalbott.net/)
show work by Bureau of Reclamation crews rappelling off the cliff face
in an attempt to install rock bolts and prevent the slab from falling.
The Arizona Dept. of Transportation is working to restore US89A after heavy rainfall on August 9 covered miles of the highway between Marble Canyon and Jacob's Lake with mud and boulders.
The update from ADOT explains that the House Rock Flood was caused by approximately one-and-a-half inches
of rain in less than 20 minutes, according to the National Weather
Service. As a result, crews
Predicting the Shape of River DeltasMIT News The Selenga River Delta of Lake BaikalGeology.com A Challenge to the New York Fracking Ban ?Poughkeepsie Journal Measuring the Height of Mount McKinleyUnited States Geological Survey Cavers Enter Devil’s Well For the First Time in 30 YearsThe Salem News Online There’s a Volcano Called “Kick ’em Jenny”, and
Despite the horribly cold winter the ice went out of the lake on time, and we even were able to open up a week before long weekend. So we haven't quite gone back to the 70's. We were totally dying with heat, trying to sleep on Saturday night, and the water was so icy it didn't even cool you off if you dangled your feet in it. That's because all the blood in the feet instantly stopped, and
Researchers of the University Jena analyze the microbial community in volcanically active soils
The “Villa trans lacum“ at the eastern shore of the Laacher See
(lake) in the volcanic part of the Eifel – a rural landscape in Germany –
was a highly dangerous place. In the 19th century the Jesuit order
bought the abbey Maria Laach and built a villa at the shore of the lake.
This
The Center for Integrative Geosciences at the University of Connecticut invites applications for a postdoctoral researcher in the area of paleobiology, paleoclimatology and/or earth-system modeling. Information about the Center and University can be found at www.geosciences.uconn.edu.Minimum Qualifications: Candidates must have PhD in the geosciences, biosciences or related field, focusing in the area of paleobiology, paleoclimatology and/or earth-system modeling before the start date. A [...]
In order to make sense of the sediment cores that can be retrieved from lakes near to the Alpine Fault such as Lake Christabel, it is worth having a think about what happens to the environment when the fault ruptures in a large earthquake. Under normal conditions, alpine lakes fill up very slowly with sediment that is fed into them by rivers. The particles settle onto the lake bed gradually, to create a sequence of finely layered mud.When an earthquake occurs, a number of consequences affect [...]
The landslide of Köfels (named after a small village in Tyrol) is one of the largest recognized landslides in the Alps – large enough to dam up a 92 meters (300 feet) deep prehistoric lake and divide in two the valley of Ötz. Wood fragments discovered during the construction of a gallery in the landslide
...on the beach at Butt Valley Reservoir, also seen here and here.
Probably dog.
Deer?
Sasquatch — I mean, human.
Crawdad.
Small crawdad pinchers. Finger is red from blackberries.
Corbicula fluminea or Asian clam, not zebra mussel.
Jelly blob, probably Pectinatella magnifica, a type of freshwater bryozoan.
Enlargement of the same photo. This is a colony, and each of
We took off in under fairly clear skies and on a remarkably haze free day — the entire summer has been plagued by haze, smoke, and inordinate amounts of dust — in search of blackberries. On a loop road to the south, we stopped at a little overlook to look back at the lake, across part of a large burn from about two years ago.
Dead trees above the same overlook.
Fireweed.
We found
Up here alone with the dog. Fine weather for late October. The water is cold. Nobody on the lake. I wonder how cold it has to get to laugh at those funny
An update on the valley-blocking Sunkoshi landslide in Nepal, where efforts to drain the lake continue to proceed slowly amidst growing signs of unrest about the loss of the trade route to
The Sunkoshi landslide crisis in Nepal is now into day 3. The level of the lake may be dropping but the level of hazard remains