Showing posts with label Geology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Geology. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Aussie Au

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Australian man 42-year-old Mick Brown hit the jackpot with his metal detector near Wedderburn, Victoria. Only 6" (15 cm) beneath the ...
Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Dinosaur dance floors

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There is an amazing sight (site) in Sucre, Bolivia, which features hundreds of distinct dinosaur tracks from at least 8 different species ...
Saturday, August 9, 2014

Prismatic presumption

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In the latest example of tourists behaving badly , a visitor to Yellowstone National Park crashed a camera-equipped drone into the world...
Monday, June 9, 2014

Litter to littoral

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Yet another negative legacy of our tenure on earth has turned up. Geologist Patricia Corcoran of the University of Western Ontario in Lond...
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Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Putnisite

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Australian mineralogist Peter Elliott of the South Australian Museum and the University of Adelaide has led an international team of scien...
Sunday, April 20, 2014

Lay of the (Green)land

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Last year, American geologists from the University of Vermont identified a landscape in Greenland that was 800,000 years old. This year, ...
Thursday, April 3, 2014

Abbey asbestos

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It was news to me that asbestos, which we now know to be carcinogenic, is a natural mineral. I also had no idea that before its industrial...
Friday, January 17, 2014

Blue spew

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French photographer Olivier Grunewald has been photographing volcanoes since 1997 and, with his friend Régis Etienne, captured scenes of...
Sunday, December 22, 2013

Pressing precious

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“ It’s a new kind of chemistry ,” says geophysicist Russell J. Hemley of the Carnegie Institution for Science about something which I aga...
Thursday, December 5, 2013

Subterranean schematic

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Beneath the ancient city of Rome is a maze of tunnels. Originally carved out as the Romans quarried the volcanic tufa, they have been use...
Friday, November 22, 2013

Wayback water

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“ This was not something we were looking for or even expected ,” comments hydrologist Ward Sanford of the U.S. Geological Service. His tea...
Sunday, October 20, 2013

Mapping the Matterhorn

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When English mountaineer George Mallory (1886-1924) was asked why he wanted to climb Mount Everest the Himalayas, he responded, " Bec...
Saturday, October 19, 2013

Hoodoo hoodlums

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The landscape of Utah's Goblin Valley State Park is characterized by formations known as hoodoos , or more colloquially as "gobl...
Friday, October 11, 2013

Space scarab

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I may have seen this amulet belonging to King Tutankhamun when I visited the traveling exhibition of his treasures in the 1970s. Little ...
Friday, August 23, 2013

Fox photo

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Salt print from a calotype negative entitled "The Geologists, Chudleigh, Devon" by William Henry Fox Talbot c. 1843, in the col...
Friday, August 9, 2013

Greenland's glaciers

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If you happen to visit Greenland and gaze across the earth near Upernavik ( IMAGE ABOVE ), you would be looking at land that appears much...
Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Vocal volcanoes

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Popocatepetl (Puebla, Mexico), Tungurahua (Tungurahua, Ecuador), and Pavlof (Alaska, U.S.) are among the volcanoes currently erupting ...
Saturday, July 13, 2013

Ingesting the ice

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I found out several years ago that it was typical of French-American naturalist John James Audubon to eat the specimens he drew, but I on...
Monday, July 1, 2013

Petrified lightning

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A few weeks ago, one of my aides Octavia told me that lightning hit the side of her apartment building, leaving a strange icicle-like some...
Saturday, June 8, 2013

Below

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Bedrock beneath : Unlike the North Pole, which is situated on (rapidly disappearing) floating ice, the South Pole is located on a landmass...