• Daily Geology Photos – May 31

    Updated: 2010-05-31 17:20:15
    A summary of photos posted on flickr today, tagged with “geology.” Displayed below are 86 geology-related photos were added to flickr today. [...]

  • Geology Links for May 31st, 2010

    Updated: 2010-05-31 17:00:07
    Links from del.icio.us, tagged with geology for May 31st, 2010: , The Sedimentary Archives [ The Earth Through Time - Pamela Gore - GPC ] EQlocation IRIS – Event Search Tool Make Maps Natural Arch in Nevada collapses – latimes.com GeoCentral ~ Discover the Wonders of Our World ~ fossils, gems, rocks, stones, science, educational, toys, puzzles, gemstones, minerals, jewelry, sticky [...]

  • Geology Links for May 30th, 2010

    Updated: 2010-05-31 02:00:05
    Links from del.icio.us, tagged with geology for May 30th, 2010: Low frequency cultural noise Clastic Detritus Earth & Environmental Sciences – Cambridge University Press. New Books Catalogue 2010 Chapter 3, part 1, Chapter Tutorial, Time and Geology, Levin 2005: The … Chapter Tutorials Levin 2006: The Earth Through Time, 8th edition, Wiley This Dynamic Earth–Contents [USGS] Earth Science Week Clastic Detritus achatx.pdf (application/pdf Object) Tsunami vol37_no5_ocr.pdf [...]

  • Papers I’m Reading — May 2010

    Updated: 2010-05-30 17:38:45
    Here is this month’s installment in the papers I’m reading series: Willenbring, J.K. and von Blanckenburg. F, 2010, Long-term stability of global erosion rates and weathering during late-Cenozoic cooling: Nature, doi:10.1038/nature09044. [link] Jensen, M.A. and Pedersen, G.K., in press, Architecture of vertically stacked fluvial deposits, Atane Formation, Cretaceous, Nuussuaq, central West Greenland: Sedimentology, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2010.01146.x. [...]

  • Daily Geology Photos – May 30

    Updated: 2010-05-30 17:20:10
    A summary of photos posted on flickr today, tagged with “geology.” Displayed below are 100 geology-related photos were added to flickr today. [...]

  • Sea-Floor Sunday #64: Lake Baikal, Siberia

    Updated: 2010-05-30 16:10:36
    I saw these images over at the geoscience blog Pools and Riffles, as part of his  ‘Map Monday’ series, and couldn’t resist showing them here as well. So, if you’ve already seen this, move along … either way, make sure to check out the diverse collection of interesting maps on Pools and Riffles when you’re [...]

  • Daily Geology Photos – May 29

    Updated: 2010-05-29 17:20:12
    A summary of photos posted on flickr today, tagged with “geology.” Displayed below are 84 geology-related photos were added to flickr today. [...]

  • Geology Links for May 29th, 2010

    Updated: 2010-05-29 16:00:05
    Links from del.icio.us, tagged with geology for May 29th, 2010: Field Trip Guides – Prof. Nelson Eby – USA rock hammer hard on Mineral Matters Ron Blakey, Colorado Plateau Stratigraphy and Geology and Global and Regional Paleogeography Pliocene Epoch (geochronology) — Britannica Online Encyclopedia USGS Water Science for Schools School Programs | Water Education Foundation How Volcanoes Work – Volcano Types Sea-Floor Spreading and [...]

  • Daily Geology Photos – May 28

    Updated: 2010-05-28 17:20:07
    A summary of photos posted on flickr today, tagged with “geology.” Displayed below are 45 geology-related photos were added to flickr today. [...]

  • Geo-image extravaganza — my header photograph

    Updated: 2010-05-28 16:35:47
    This month’s installment of the geoscience blog carnival, The Accretionary Wedge, is hosted by Highly Allochthonous and is asking participants to highlight images of geoscience: The theme that we’ve chosen is simple: we want to amass a gallery of all of your favorite geologically themed pictures. This is a great idea — the geoblogosphere is [...]

  • Geology Links for May 28th, 2010

    Updated: 2010-05-28 11:00:08
    Links from del.icio.us, tagged with geology for May 28th, 2010: Minéraux métalliques en lames minces polies et lumière réfléchie Arizona Geology Geology Earth science webgeology Structure of the Earth System Interactives . The Rock Cycle . Introduction Educational materials Web geology Futurity.org – Mysteries of Martian ice cap solved Stopping the oil leak Geoscience Australia Cummingtonite – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Geologic time scale – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Frazil [...]

  • Thank you!

    Updated: 2010-05-28 03:36:54
    Thank you to all of our blog and email entrants for our Virtaul Rock kit contest.  We will post our virtual rock kit on our website this summer! Sign up for our newsletter to receive a notice when the virtual rock kit is available.  As a special thank you for all ...

  • Flow Rate Group Provides Preliminary Best Estimate Of Oil Flowing from BP Oil Well

    Updated: 2010-05-28 00:15:48
    USGS Director Dr. Marcia McNutt today announced that the National Incident Command’s Flow Rate Technical Group (FRTG) has developed an independent, preliminary estimate of the amount of oil flowing from BP’s leaking oil well.

  • COLORADO PLATEAU YIELDS ANOTHER NEW DINO SPECIES

    Updated: 2010-05-27 23:38:28
    Salt Lake Tribune A team of scientists that includes Utah state paleontologist James Kirkland have identified a new dinosaur from a partial skull and other fossil bone fragments recovered in a 91-million-year-old formation in western New Mexico. Jeyawati rugoculus appears to be a link between the iguanodon lineage and hadrosaurs, a highly evolved group of duck-billed dinosaurs [...]

  • Wednesday potpourri of the geoblogosphere

    Updated: 2010-05-26 15:51:05
    I’ve been quite busy and traveling a bit so I haven’t been keeping up with reading everything in the geoblogosphere. Here are just a few interesting posts out there from recent days: Through the Sandglass — 80 Miles of Sandberms?? Experts Express Doubts … –  Michael Welland highlights a recent article discussing plan to create [...]

  • Glad You Asked—What are those lines on the mountain? From bread lines to erosion-control lines

    Updated: 2010-05-25 22:33:52
    by Mark Milligan Recent photo of erosion-control terraces constructed by the CCC in the 1930s, above the Bonneville shoreline in North Salt Lake, Davis County. Sometimes I get a public inquiry that leads to a “Glad You Asked” article, and sometimes I see something interesting in the field and wish I would get a question about it. [...]

  • SURVEY NOTES volume 42, number2

    Updated: 2010-05-25 22:15:44
    This Issue Contains: Modeling Ground-Water Flow in Cedar Valley Bringing Earth’s Ancient Past to Life Ground-Water Monitoring Network Energy News: Saline Water Disposal in the Uinta Basin, Utah Glad You Asked: How many islands are in Great Salt Lake? GeoSights: Fremont Indian State Park, Sevier County, Utah Survey News New Publications READ THIS ISSUE PAST ISSUES

  • Geology Links for May 20th, 2010

    Updated: 2010-05-20 14:00:09
    Links from del.icio.us, tagged with geology for May 20th, 2010: Anja’s website Latest Carboniferous Climate Map ( Late Carboniferous Climate Map (Bashkirian Stage) – 318,1Ma [Scotese] Early Late Carboniferous Climate Map (Serpukhovian Stage) – 328,3Ma [Scotese] Early Carboniferous Climate Map (Tournaisian Stage) – 359,2Ma [Scotese] Late Devonian Climate Map – 360Ma [Scotese) Middle Devonian Climate Map - 320Ma [Scotese] Early Devonian Climate Map [...]

  • Streamflow 2.0 Redux: Wateralert

    Updated: 2010-05-19 23:21:41
    Back in January of this year, I enthusiastically lauded the USGS for some nice new ‘Streamflow 2.0′ functionality: http://geofroth.org/?p=465 At the end of that post, I reported on their StreaMail program which provided a venue for getting sms or email updates on flow conditions at your favorite gaging station. My bold and crass assertion was that [...]

  • Do we need to capture and store CO2 from coal plants to meet emissions reduction targets?

    Updated: 2010-05-19 15:16:34
    I wrote a very brief article for EARTH magazine addressing this question for their ‘Voices’ series. It is posted here and will be in the print edition in a couple months. Feel free to use this post for any comments and discussion about it — however, I am doing some traveling through the weekend so [...]

  • Accretionary Wedge: The Geo-Image Bonanza

    Updated: 2010-05-19 12:59:00
    : : skip to main skip to sidebar The Lost Geologist Pages Home About Me Research Interests Geoblogoshere Favorite Links and Bookmarks Wednesday , May 19, 2010 Accretionary Wedge : The Geo-Image Bonanza Posted by Lost Geologist Chris and Anne from Highly Allochthonous have asked us to chose our favorite geo-images for the current edition of the Accretionary Wedge carnival . Similiar to Suvrat I chose a microphotograph of carbonates . The image below is from my on-going thesis about Jurassic carbonates . I have chosen this image because it beautifully unites simplicity and complexity and allows me to tell the story of these rocks with just a single . image Microphotograph of Jurassic carbonate and diagenetic history , crossed . nicols What you see in the image above are primarily tangential

  • REBATES GALORE FOR GOING ENERGY-EFFICIENT

    Updated: 2010-05-10 17:44:08
    Salt Lake Tribune First, there was Cash for Clunkers. Now, there’s Cash for Appliances. States have been given $300 million in federal stimulus money to create rebate programs that encourage consumers to make energy-efficient appliance upgrades. Utah’s $2.3 million portion is going toward a Cash for Appliances program that starts Wednesday and will provide rebates of $30 to [...]

  • Exporting environmental catastrophes

    Updated: 2010-05-07 19:26:36
    At the time of this writing the leaking/spilling of an oil well operated by BP in the northern Gulf of Mexico has yet to be fully contained. Crews are right now in the process of lowering a 100 ton concrete and steel container onto a part of the damaged seafloor infrastructure that is leaking. Because [...]

  • Friday Field Foto #111: Mauna Ulu steam vents

    Updated: 2010-05-07 14:00:39
    This week’s Friday Field Foto is from a trip my wife and I took earlier this year to Hawai’i. We spent three days on the Big Island exploring Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park. The photo below is from a great six-hour hike we did around Mauna Ulu. The landscape is surreal — as we hiked on [...]

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