To any one who, for the first time, sees a great stretch of sandy shore covered with innumerable ridges and furrows, as if combed with…
View More The origin of ripples and other fantastic fluid experiments by Hertha Marks Ayrton
Tag: Geology
Update on Geology and the Election
I was glued to my computer last night both to see how the future of country would take shape but see if the Blue Belt…
View More Update on Geology and the ElectionDrilling for dinosaur death: the Joides Resolution finds extinction in deep sea mud
There are scientists floating in the middle of the North Atlantic who are holding the dinosaur extinction in their hands. Really. Here it is: This…
View More Drilling for dinosaur death: the Joides Resolution finds extinction in deep sea mudOn 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 SupereonI Like Sills But Not A Fan Of The Popular Or My Friend’s Ex
I’m a contrarian. Majority consensus makes me shudder. I just like rooting for underdogs*. Those undersea ridges at the boundaries of tectonic plates, spewing molten…
View More I Like Sills But Not A Fan Of The Popular Or My Friend’s ExFinding Life Where the Sun Don’t Shine
A flurry of new research is redefining our views on where life resides on Earth. The biosphere is the zone of air, land, and water…
View More Finding Life Where the Sun Don’t ShineThe Creation of a New Deep-Sea Feature
A recent oceanographic survey on the NOAA ship Okeanos Explorer led by James V. Gardner, a marine geologist at the University of New Hampshire, discovered…
View More The Creation of a New Deep-Sea FeatureTrilobites Ride the Crazy Train
A new paper published recently in the journal Geology reports on peculiar conga party lines of our paleo-friend, the Trilobite. Gutierrez-Marco and colleagues discovered a…
View More Trilobites Ride the Crazy TrainA Ring of Fire…
From Richard Alley, a geoscientist at Penn State. Hat tip to Nature‘s The Great Beyond.
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