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Wednesday, 31 May 2017

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Geology Through Literature - The Last of the Mohicans 

The Geology P.A.G.E. [2017-05-31 07:20:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (44 visits) info
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The next up on my Geology Through Literature thread is The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper published in 1826. You can get my complete thoughts on the book/story over at my blog - The Remnant, but for here I will just go into the geological or basic scientific aspects that are brought up in the story. There is only one instance of geology that I could find worth mentioning but it is a long one.  Midway through Chapter 6      A spectral-looking figure stalked from [...]

A Wooster Geologist visits the caves of Tel Maresha in central Israel 

Wooster Geologists [2016-03-21 08:02:25]  recommend  recommend this post  (103 visits) info

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TEL AVIV, ISRAEL — My last day in Israel was spent with my friend Yoav Avni exploring some sites in the central part of the country before my flight left Tel Aviv late in the evening. The most geological place we visited was Maresha (which later became, in order, Beit Guvrin, Eleutheropolis, Bethgibelin, Bayt Jibrin,

The Karst Topography...of California? Getting Filthy Rich from Karst in Columbia 

Geotripper [2015-11-08 06:28:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (587 visits) info

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The Fricot Nugget at the State Mineral Museum in Mariposa, California As I noted in the last post, California has some unique landscapes that are unfamiliar to most visitors, specifically karst topography. Karst results when a region is underlain by limestone or marble. The formation of caves is sometimes revealed at the surface when the roof of a cavern collapses, forming sinkholes

February 11, 2015 

Geology.com News [2015-02-11 07:10:52]  recommend  recommend this post  (90 visits) info
Citizen Scientists Lead Astronomers to Mystery Objects in SpaceNASA USGS Publishes Historical Hydraulic Fracturing DataUnited States Geological Survey Geoscience Enrollments & Degrees Robust in 2014American Geosciences Institute Searching for Caves with Thermal Imaging on a DroneCaving News A Visit to Sharps Cave, West VirginiaCaving News The Organism that Didn’t Evolve for 2 Billion YearsLos Angeles

The Sierra Nevada Underground: How does a newly discovered pristine cave look? Finding out at Black Chasm 

Geotripper [2014-10-19 20:58:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (633 visits) info

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There are caves and there are caves. Many of them were discovered long ago, and the easily accessible ones suffered grievous damage. In earlier days, cave decorations (speleothems) were broken off as souvenirs in the sadly mistaken belief that they would grow back quickly. Today's cave vandals have no such excuse. They break and destroy for sheer maliciousness. It's sad either way because

The Road Goes Ever Ever On: Getting Into the Field Again! 

Geotripper [2014-07-15 10:36:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (79 visits) info
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  Roads go ever ever on,Over rock and under tree,By caves where never sun has shone,By streams that never find the sea;Over snow by winter sown,And through the merry flowers of June,Over grass and over stone,And under mountains in the moon. The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings were an important part of my youth, in part because Tolkien constructed a vividly real

Natural Bridge Falls 

The GeoChristian [2014-07-04 05:47:35]  recommend  recommend this post  (91 visits) info

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My favorite waterfall in Montana is Natural Bridge Falls, located on the Boulder River, south of Big Timber. At high water—such as in this photo taken this spring—some of the water flows over the top of the cliff, while a considerable part of the flow comes out of caves in the side of the cliff.

This is One Really Big Underground Cavern...The Miao Room in Gebihe Cave 

Geotripper [2014-07-01 23:40:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (72 visits) info
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Maybe you've noticed, but I'm not commonly known to promote commercial enterprises here at Geotripper. Spam comments get immediately squashed, and book reviews and commercial links are very rare. But sometimes, something very spectacular crosses my virtual desk. National Geographic asked if I wanted to link to one of their stories, and I usually pass, but this was pretty incredible.

Cave Rescue in Southern Germany 

Geology.com News [2014-06-18 13:55:51]  recommend  recommend this post  (49 visits) info

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Over 100 cave rescue workers are trying to bring a person injured in a rock fall to the surface

Diagnosing White-Nose Syndrome with UV Light 

Geology.com News [2014-06-03 13:31:20]  recommend  recommend this post  (55 visits) info
“Scientists working to understand the devastating bat disease known as white-nose syndrome (WNS) now have a new, non-lethal tool to identify bats with WNS lesions —ultraviolet, or UV, light.” Quoted from the USGS press

Photo Gallery: Ruby Falls Cave 

Geology.com News [2014-04-06 14:03:42]  recommend  recommend this post  (84 visits) info

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The Weather Channel has a photo gallery that offers 21 views of Ruby Falls Cave in Tennessee. Several of the photos feature Ruby Falls, the largest and deepest waterfall open to the public in the United

Peak Cavern Video 

Geology.com News [2014-03-27 13:35:16]  recommend  recommend this post  (58 visits) info

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Caving News has a video that takes you into some of the remote portions of Peak Cavern near Derbyshire,

NSS to Purchase New River Cave 

Geology.com News [2014-03-27 13:18:40]  recommend  recommend this post  (36 visits) info

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The NSS Cave and Karst Acquisition Fund voted to purchase New River Cave in Giles County,

Sinkhole Collapse Warnings from Radar? 

Geology.com News [2014-03-25 13:27:33]  recommend  recommend this post  (88 visits) info
“Radar data, if collected routinely from airborne systems or satellites, could at least in some cases foresee sinkholes before they happen, decreasing danger to people and property.” Quoted from the NASA press

White-Nose Along Tour Routes in Mammoth Cave 

Geology.com News [2014-03-06 12:53:05]  recommend  recommend this post  (68 visits) info
White-nose syndrome is a disease that has killed millions of bats in the past few years. Now the disease has been spotted in bats along the tour routes of Mammoth

Corvettes and sinkholes: what is a sinkhole? 

Geology in Motion [2014-03-03 19:19:39]  recommend  recommend this post  (74 visits) info

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1962 Black Corvettefrom Roscoe-Restoration.comA few weeks ago, a sinkhole swallowed eight valuable Corvettes at the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and today the news is that the recovery of the cars has started. Here, from CNN.com, is a list of the cars:-- a 1962 "Black Corvette"-- a 1984 PPG pace car-- a 2009 ZR1 "Blue Devil"-- the 1992 white "1 Millionth Corvette"-- a 1993 ruby red "40th Anniversary Corvette"-- a 2001 Mallett Hammer Z06 Corvette-- the 2009 white "1.5 [...]

Bat Recovery in Europe? 

Geology.com News [2014-02-06 12:47:34]  recommend  recommend this post  (29 visits) info

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Over the past several years, white-nose syndrome has been killing tremendous numbers of bats in the United States. However, a new study in Europe shows several species experiencing a rise in

Tanker Truck Spill Goes into a Cave? 

Geology.com News [2014-02-06 12:44:36]  recommend  recommend this post  (51 visits) info

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A tanker truck accident in Kentucky spilled about 8,200 gallons of gasoline, some of which flowed over frozen ground and into a swallow hole that is thought to connect to the Sloan’s Valley Cave

Spanish City is One With the Rocks 

GeoPrac.net [2014-02-03 06:36:02]  recommend  recommend this post  (617 visits) info

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I had never heard of this town before seeing the post on Geoengineer.org. Setenil de las Bodegas is a small town of about 3,000 people in the Spanish province of Cadiz. The town is built within the narrow gorge cut by the Rio Trejo. Some of the buildings in the town are built into caves and beneath rock overhangs making this a very dramatic, and exotic European town! [Source: More info at Geoengineer.org. Image: La Pantera via

Climate Change and Echolocation in Bats 

Geology.com News [2013-12-17 12:52:53]  recommend  recommend this post  (32 visits) info
Researchers suspect that climate change might cause problems for bats that navigate in the dark of night using
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