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Stunning Highlights from Okeanos 3rd leg of the Marianas Expedition!! 

Echinoblog [2016-06-26 20:01:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (254 visits) info

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This last week has been a busy one-made even more momentous with all of the very AMAZING observations made by this last leg of the Okeanos Explorer as it explores various seamounts and other sites in the Marianas Islands! A whole bunch of information on the geological setting and the various study areas can be found on their website here.  The entire mission overview can be found on

The Basin That Keeps On Giving 

EXPEDITION LIVE! [2016-06-03 23:32:38]  recommend  recommend this post  (734 visits) info

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Once we’d found a basin with bone, we hit the area with a fine tooth comb, spending a week scouring the hillsides for more sites. In total we turned up a few fragmentary theropod bones, a very large upper leg bone in sandstone, some crocodile scutes, a few turtles, plant fossils, and one hillside with 42 … Continue reading The Basin That Keeps On Giving

Em2 at Japan's Izu Peninsula Geopark 

Riparian Rap [2016-04-07 21:03:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (108 visits) info

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Another Emriver Em2 has made its way to Japan. The Izu Peninsula Geopark had its grand opening for a new museum - called Georia - on April 2nd where the Em2 was on display. The stream table also made the local news. This clip talks about the new museum and how it will have more than 60 displays. Izu Peninsula Geopark is one of dozens in the Japan Geopark Network. There is also a network of geoparks around the world. UNESCO defines a geopark as containing one [...]

Backlog assistance 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [2016-03-23 22:57:59]  recommend  recommend this post  (129 visits) info

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With only 8 hours of transit time between our final site and the Cape Town port, it's going to be a challenge to get all the core from the final site processed and packed up before we have to depart the ship.  That means it has been a top priority on this 5 day transit to clear out the backlog from the last two sites, where the water was shallow, core came up every 20 minutes, and there wa read

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,

Saturday 27th February 

Geology in the West Country [2016-02-16 15:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (143 visits) info

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Saturday 27th FebruaryBrown's Folly, near Monkton Farleigh and BathfordEither - walk around the geological trail with Elizabeth Devon, Bath Geological SocietyOr - join us in our annual conservation of the sites Come along with gardening tools or just take the opportunity to visit the sites and talk about geology.Meet at 10.30 a.m. at Brown's Folly Car Park (G.R. ST 798663). Please note that the car park has been cleared of trees and is now available. Strong boots, waterproofs, [...]

Google auto movie of Guatemala 

Ontario-geofish [2015-12-18 23:26:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (222 visits) info

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Wonderful trip, I think I might be recovering.  This is place is choked with rampant population growth, and huge inequality.  Nothing works, but the people are almost the happiest in the world.  That's the Latin fever. If you take the monster tour bus you are sheltered from the fact that the place is choked.  The hotels and sites are wonderful.  Here's the

local hand specimen 

Accidental Remediation [2015-11-20 23:34:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (213 visits) info
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I'm not approached to identify rocks very often. Most of the time I'm working in the field, I'm not in a location that's visible to the public, and when I am, I'm usually not doing something that obviously involves rocks. That's fine because rocks aren't actually my thing. A while back, a maintenance guy working on one of my sites noticed that my business card had a variant of the word

Exp359. JOIDES. Some news about the sites 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [2015-11-05 10:08:32]  recommend  recommend this post  (83 visits) info
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Summer 2016 European GigaPan expedition: Sites wanted 

Mountain Beltway [2015-10-13 16:36:51]  recommend  recommend this post  (130 visits) info

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Great news – I have been awarded a great professorship for the next two years. The Chancellor’s Commonwealth Professorship is a great honor and a major investment by the Virginia Community College System in me and my GigaPan project. I get course release time, a summer stipend, and reimbursable expenses of around $7500. I intend to use that money and that time to do a major GigaPan expedition in Europe

Field trip to Anglesey, May 2016 - Lecture December 3rd 2015 

Geology in the West Country [2015-10-07 13:49:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (246 visits) info

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Bath Geological SocietyField trip to Anglesey, Cemaes Bay in north Anglesey 27th to 30th May 2016Dave Green, Geostudies The course will start at 7.30 pm on 27th and is based at the Harbour Hotel in Cemaes Bay. The course ends at lunch time on 30th May near the Menai Straits bridge, but details will be given of other sites to visit for those who wish to stay on.The cost for tuition is £40 of which only £20 is refundable.Transport is by private car to the location. Sharing is advisable during [...]

Friday fold: a kink fold at Baldwin Gap 

Mountain Beltway [2015-08-21 14:38:13]  recommend  recommend this post  (162 visits) info

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Ladies and gentlemen, I give you… The Friday fold: This beauty came to my attention on Monday, when I was lucky enough to go on a field trip with my friends Leigh and Mary. They are founding members of our local informal geology club, and we have been meaning to take a Cedar Creek field trip together since I moved out to the Fort Valley. One of the sites we

Stromatoporoids in a Devonian reef 

Mountain Beltway [2015-08-20 15:03:31]  recommend  recommend this post  (150 visits) info

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Here are a few shots of a Devonian aged reef exposed in Mustoe, Virginia – one of the sites I visited this spring with GMU’s Rick Diecchio, when he led his sedimentology and stratigraphy trip there. At first, the outcrop made no sense to me – I kept searching for bedding, and failed to find it. Then, the reef interpretation clicked, and suddenly I didn’t “need” bedding any more… Stromatoporoids

Another long train journey through Great Britain 

Wooster Geologists [2015-06-29 12:22:49]  recommend  recommend this post  (149 visits) info

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THURSO, SCOTLAND (June 22, 2015) — Back to the trains today as I leave for a long journey south through Scotland and central England and then west to Aberystwyth, Wales, to spend some quality field time with my friend Tim Palmer. Our goal will be to explore sites for potential Independent Study projects. Lots of

Geological Monuments Of India 

Reporting on a Revolution [2015-05-26 09:10:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (204 visits) info

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Well well, this is something I noticed only recently... you will see on the Geological Survey of India website (when it finally uploads) an interactive map showing sites of geological importance.  The GSI has declared these sites National Geological Monuments and has taken on the responsibility of the protection of these sites as well as their promotion for tourism purposes. Here is the

Prionocyclus macombi Ammonite Fossil 

Louisville Area Fossils [2015-03-18 02:30:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (133 visits) info

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This Prionocyclus macombi (Meek, 1876) ammonite fossil is on display at the Mesa Verde National Park as of August 2014. The ammonite existed in the Late Cretaceous Period (Campanian). The area is rich in geological history going back 2 billion years. The national park was founded in 1906 to protect the Anasazi Native American sites found on the mesa tops, cliffs, and canyons. The exposed

Feathered Raptors Forever 

Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [2015-02-03 16:24:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (238 visits) info

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The new Indiana Raptor Center website is open for business.I've written about Indiana Raptor Center several times over the years. They are a local (to me) hospital that rescues and rehabilitates orphaned and injured birds of prey, as well as performing educational programs to teach the public about the importance of raptors in the environment and conservation in general. Since last summer, I have been working on their new website along with my wife Jennie, who was instrumental in rethinking the [...]

Now that I'm home... some videos! 

polar soils blog [2015-01-19 20:20:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (144 visits) info

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I made it back to Phoenix, Arizona last week according to schedule. It was a long journey, taking about 25 hours total. When I got home, I came down with a cold! (This is funny, since I was going from a cold place to a much warmer place. Night-time temperatures in Phoenix are warmer than day-time temperatures at Rothera!)Now that I'm back home and have fast internet, I want to share some video clips with you that I wasn't able to upload from Rothera Station.First, some wildlife! There were a [...]

AGU2014 first impressions #2 

A Lisbon Structural Geologist [2014-12-17 04:23:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (168 visits) info
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Continuing the report on my general first impressions on the AGU2014 meeting, one really annoying thing is the poor quality of the Internet access in most sites, but especially on the Marriott Marquis where I simply could not get a free connection. As result most of my blogging is being made at night from my hotel

Last Fieldtrip for Climate Change 

Wooster Geologists [2014-11-13 16:27:12]  recommend  recommend this post  (160 visits) info

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As the weather cools – the Wooster Geology Climate Change class ventured out in the field one more time. For the remainder of the semester we will try to get some work done. Two sites were visited – the Cedar Creek Mastodon Site and the OARDC. Two weeks ago a pit was dug from our coring
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