Via Chris Rowan (@Allochthonous) on Twitter, comes this excellent and beautiful sequence of an ice arch collapsing in Antarctica.
View More TGIF – Antarctic Ice Arch CollapseCategory: Geology
GUEST INTERVIEW: Peter Rona on the Diversity of Hydrothermal Systems on Slow Spreading Ocean Ridges
Editor’s Note: The following interview was conducted by Colin Schultz for American Geophysical Union’s (AGU) member publication Eos. AGU and Colin have been kind enough…
View More GUEST INTERVIEW: Peter Rona on the Diversity of Hydrothermal Systems on Slow Spreading Ocean RidgesDeepest Trench Now With More Deep
A new survey puts the depth of the Challenger Deep, the deepest part of the Mariana Trench, at 10,994 meters, nearly 75 meters…
View More Deepest Trench Now With More DeepVirginia Earthquake
In case you haven’t heard a 5.9 earthquake hit Virginia just outside of Richmond. I felt it in Durham, NC and Kevin felt it out on…
View More Virginia EarthquakeScientist in Residence: Beth Orcutt – “There is More to the Marine Subsurface than Sediments”
Beth is an U.S. postdoc scientist at the Center for Geomicrobiology in Denmark studying tiny microbes that live at the bottom of the ocean and…
View More Scientist in Residence: Beth Orcutt – “There is More to the Marine Subsurface than Sediments”TGIF: The Cambrian Explosion Song
Because it’s Friday and you need to begin every Friday morning with a song about the Cambrian Explosion
View More TGIF: The Cambrian Explosion SongThe Ocean Moon of Saturn
Sixty two moons orbit Saturn. The sixth largest of these at just 300 miles in diameter is Enceladus named after one of the giant children,…
View More The Ocean Moon of SaturnOn the Reasons Why We Need A New Supereon
The largest unit of defined geologic time is the supereon. Only one is defined, the Precambrian spanning from the formation of the Earth to right…
View More On the Reasons Why We Need A New SupereonTsunami Video Roundup
Before you watch the videos below I urge you to head over to Highly Allochthonous. Chris Rowan has two excellent posts explaining the geology behind…
View More Tsunami Video RoundupDeep-Sea Mining is Coming
In an interview with Yale Environment 360, Van Dover compared the deep sea to America’s Wild West and cautioned that wildlife losses could be similar…
View More Deep-Sea Mining is Coming