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Vagabonding on Dangerous Ground: Danger Follows Us Home (As it does all of us) 

Mt. St. Helens from Silver Lake We have finally reached the last few days of our meandering journey through the lands influenced by the Cascadia Subduction Zone. We spent several weeks out there, checking out the landscapes threatened by a possible magnitude nine earthquake. Although the hazard has been recognized for quite a few years, there was a media storm over the summer that brought

The Missing Sink: Carbon storage in the world’s deserts 

Deep-rooted and completely erroneous preconceptions of our planet’s arid lands as sterile bit-players in the great game of the earth’s dynamic systems have long inhibited our scientific enthusiasm for, and understanding of, the desert. We are now beginning to

Recognizing Nature and also Landscapes 

Our should cherish landscapes and also the adjustments that lands have undertaken in the previous decades has actually raised. This has actually been mostly due to a boosted need for recognizing the best means to manage changes in land and also environments. This has actually resulted in innovative brand-new methods which assist us to comprehend […] The post Recognizing Nature and also Landscapes appeared first on Liberty, Equality, and

Ecosystem engineers and keystone species 

In large areas of Australia there are probably several hundred tons of termites in every square kilometre. From The Desert, Lands of Lost Borders, Chapter 6: The most ubiquitous (and irritating) vegetation in the Australian outback is spinifex, strictly

Where the River No Longer Runs, Life Persists: Fossil Falls in the Eastern Sierra Nevada 

Red Hill near Fossil Falls, with the crest of the Sierra Nevada in the distance. The Sierra Nevada is the largest single block of rock in the United States. It takes the shape of a huge 400 mile long westward tilting range reaching elevations exceeding 14,000 feet. As such, it acts as a gigantic barrier to Pacific storms. The lands to the east are dry and largely barren. One high

The Desert: Lands of Lost Borders 

The book is now available in the UK and the US! I have to say that the publishers, Reaktion Books (and the University of Chicago Press in the US), have done a beautiful job – they accepted all my

Feb 5th - Bath Geological Society AGM and Earthquakes in Asia 

Bath Geological Society Annual General Meeting 7.00 p.m. followed by the lecture at 7.30p.m.Searching for ancient earthquakes in the interior of AsiaDr. Richard Walker, Dept. Earth Sciences, University of Oxford Mongolia, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan are lands of high mountains, faults, and earthquakes in the heart of Asia. The active deformation is due to the collision of India and Asia, which has generated faulting and mountain-building covering a region stretching from the Himalaya [...]

Lake Goo Clue 

The lands of Africa's Horn, Great Valleys sliced by a Rift, By drought and famine are torn ... What drives such a large rainfall

Game of Thrones Geologic Map 

The fourth season of the TV series Game of Thrones recently starting airing. I haven’t watched the first episode of the new season yet, but I plan to once my husband is back from a business trip. A friend of mine just sent me a link to this geologic map for the lands of the Game of Thrones series, and I have to say it’s pretty neat! This map appears

US Army Still Not Interested in V-22 Osprey, Plans Alternative Development 

On a rainy day in Paris earlier this year, the Marine Corps officer who oversees the V-22 Osprey program talked about the aircraft’s rising international demand. More than a few countries are lining up to buy the tilt-rotor aircraft, which takes off and lands like a helicopter and flies like a plane, Col. Greg Masiello said during a June 17 press conference with reporters at the Paris

Deinosuchids: The Beasts That Ate Tyrannosaurs (Back Cover) 

A long time ago, in lands of the Great Plains and Atlantic United States, dragons roamed the continent. These beasts, called Deinosuchus, ate Tyrannosaurs. These crocodylians also had enemies, such as the shark Cretoxyrhina and the sea reptile Tylosaurus. These monsters fought many battles, enjoyed massive meals, and conquered the lands in which they lived.

BLM bands mining claims from new solar zones 

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has established 17 solar energy zones (SEZs) in six western states totaling 303,900 acres.  The areas are withdrawn from entry of new mining claims.  The lands have been and will remain open to mineral and geothermal leasing, and mineral material sales.  The Feds will seek solar energy developers to

I look for and find small to large areas on and under the ground... 

I look for and find small to large areas on and under the ground: lands and rocks that have something we want, something that we will mine if we can make enough money. First, we drive or fly into an area of great promise, so we can put small and large rocks into bags. These rocks in bags are sent away so we can find out what they are made of, so we can see what the numbers will tell us. If