I don’t study hydrothermal vents. I rather enjoy the deep muddy ooze, and its organisms, that comprise much of the earth’s surface. Not that I…
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Sometimes Sea Monsters Are Real
Add another tremendously gargantuan fossil lizard to your list. “The Monster”, which unfortunately was a predator, measured 50 feet putting it in contention for the…
View More Sometimes Sea Monsters Are RealClimate Induced Collapse of Deep-Sea Ecosystems
Beginning with Victorian science and progressing through the onset of modern deep-sea biology, the dominant paradigm was that the deep sea was a stable ecosystem.…
View More Climate Induced Collapse of Deep-Sea EcosystemsSea Floor Sundays at Clastic Detritus
With three biologist on staff now our coverage tends to lean toward the biological. We do cover geology, technology, and the such but from our…
View More Sea Floor Sundays at Clastic DetritusChallenging The Mavericks and Why The Surf Gods Love Geologists
Image from surfersvillage.com. Surfer catching wave at Mavericks The Mavericks competition was this past Saturday bringing in the best dozen or so big waver surfers…
View More Challenging The Mavericks and Why The Surf Gods Love GeologistsChikyu Vs. The Earthquake
Behemoth is the only word that comes to mind as I discuss, with mouth agape, about the deep-sea drilling vessel Chikyu. JAMSTEC, the Japanese Agency…
View More Chikyu Vs. The EarthquakeA Lethal Deep Sea Leads To Mass Extinctions For All!
The ends of Permian and Triassic periods were a very bad time for marine invertebrates. Suffering, starvations, watching loved ones die…very hard times indeed. A…
View More A Lethal Deep Sea Leads To Mass Extinctions For All!Landslide!
I took my love, I took it down Climbed a mountain and I turned around I saw my reflection in the snow covered hills till…
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Pangea Ultima: Earth in 250 Million Years? Credit & Copyright: C. R. Scotese (U. Texas at Arlington), PALEOMAP In 250 million years from now, my…
View More One Less Variable I Have To Keep Track OfFrom The Desk of Zelnio: New Geophysical Study May Point The Direction To New Vent Discoveries
Perspective view of East Pacific Rise and the seismic velocity structure of the underlying mantle. Surprisingly, regions of magma storage in the mantle (shown as…
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