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Links from del.icio.us, tagged with geology for August 31st, 2010: Double space strike ’caused dinosaur extinction’ 6 • Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics w/Disovery Education – Ashford School Technology Lesson Plans Iowa’s Manson Impact Structure google earth geology tectonics – Google Search Heaps of Fossils From Evolutionary ‘Big Bang’ Discovered | Wired Science | Wired.com [...]
The Island of Hawai‘i is composed of five coalesced basaltic volcanoes. Lava flows constitute the greatest volcanic hazard from these volcanoes. This report is concerned with lava flow hazards on Mauna Loa, the largest of the island shield volcanoes. Hilo lies 58 km from the summit of Mauna Loa, the Kona coast 33 km, and [...]Links from del.icio.us, tagged with geology on August 30th, 2010: Tectonic Plates Time’s Pendulum: From Sundials to … – Google Books pg. 12 Mammoth-Killer Impact Rejected – ScienceNOW USGS Education Chunk of original earth found – Technology & science – Science – msnbc.com Earth Science Week USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory (CVO) Science In Your State: [...] LEETOWN, W. Links from del.icio.us, tagged with geology for August 30th, 2010: OneGeology OpenGeoscience | Free data | British Geological Survey (BGS) Subduction – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Rock Cycle NASA – The Mysterious Roving Rocks of Racetrack Playa Web Resources – Geology Reference Guide – UA Libraries Subject and Research Guides at University of Alabama This [...]Links from del.icio.us, tagged with geology for August 29th, 2010: Southcentral Alaskan Terranes Virtual Seismic Atlas: Home IRIS Seismic Monitor I’m a teacher, get me OUTSIDE here!: Geology at The Coombes School Data Assimilation Death Valley Mystery: Why Do Rocks Wander Interactives . The Rock Cycle . Introduction Institute for Global Environmental Strategies >> home [...]
The ongoing flooding of the Indus River in Pakistan inspired me to search for an image of the Indus submarine canyon for this week’s Sea-Floor Sunday image. The image below is from this website describing a research cruise in 2008-2009 that acquired multibeam bathymetry data and cores. Check out the site for more details about [...]Links from del.icio.us, tagged with geology for August 27th, 2010: Latest Earthquakes in the World – Past 7 days Lee Hotz: Inside an Antarctic time machine | Video on TED.com Earth History NAGT – National Association of Geoscience Teachers Geologic Time Scale I Geologic Time Our altered biome – Mankind remakes the world – Wired® [...]
This week’s Friday Field Foto is from some Miocene beach-cliff exposures on the Atlantic coast of Tierra del Fuego. These sandstones are characterized by a mix of ‘normal’ turbidites thick successions of traction-dominated (including large climbing dunes) deposits. Also note the surface cutting down from left to right in upper part of cliff — a [...]Links from del.icio.us, tagged with geology for August 26th, 2010: Interactives . Dynamic Earth . Intro IAN Symbol Libraries (Free Vector Symbols for Illustrator) – Integration and Application Network Welcome to the USGS – U.S. Geological Survey Geology of the Wessex Coast, Southern England by Ian West Databases & Collections. Landcare Research – Manaaki Whenua [...] Anchorage, Alaska — A secluded island in the Aleutian chain is revealing secrets of how land and marine ecosystems react to and recover from a catastrophic volcanic eruption that appeared at first glance to destroy all life on the island. Yet little by little – a wingless beetle here, a tuft of grass there, Kasatochi, an island in the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge rarely studied by scientists before its Aug. 7, 2008, volcanic eruption, is showing signs of recovery. Many of Asia’s glaciers are retreating as a result of climate change. This retreat impacts water supplies to millions of people, increases the likelihood of outburst floods that threaten life and property in nearby areas, and contributes to sea-level rise. The U.S
This week’s Sea-Floor Sunday image is from a site I saw linked to by various folks the past week. As part of NSF’s Ocean Observatories Initiative they have included a live feed from Axial Volcano, an active volcano along the Juan de Fuca ridge offshore of Oregon. This is a great idea and, similar to [...]
Be the first on your block to throw a Rock & Roll Birthday Party! Our new Birthday Party Packs are perfect for elementary age kids who love to have fun. Spend time rock hunting, cracking open geodes and searching clues with these party packs. Plus, give each child their own ...
Posterous Login Get your own Posterous Geologic Froth Digital geologic flotsam for . all Blog Me Back to blog Viewed 2991 times Favorited 0 times July 26, 2010 My employment avulsion Those of you who check out Pathological Geomorphology may have now realized that my proposed theme of fluvial transitions in June portended my potential now , actual transition move to Flagstaff , Arizona to take a permanent position with the U.S . Geological Survey in a month Nevada and NBMG have been very good to me , but this new job prospect was the chance of a lifetime . I am thrilled to have been given this opportunity to do some of my favorite stuff while situated in one of my favorite places . I plan to maintain my focus on surficial geologic mapping , GIS , and landscape evolution among other things .
This week’s Sea-Floor Sunday image* is from the Black Sea side of the Bosphorous Strait and, as always, shows sea floor bathymetry (hot colors are shallower water and cooler colors are deeper water). Note the prominent channel carving its way into deeper water and then possibly splitting into smaller channels. Or maybe those are overspill [...]
This week’s Friday Field Foto is from the Adventdalen River mouth near the town of Longyearbyen, Svalbard. Check out more photographs from a trip I took to Svalbard in June 2009 on this Flickr page. Filed under: delta, Friday Field Foto, marine science, photographs I've taken, rivers, sedimentation, Svalbard
This week’s Friday Field Foto is from the Upper Cretaceous Magallanes Basin strata in southern Chile. The “natural” outcrops in this region are exceptional, but a geologist will always take advantage of roadcuts when they can. The national park in this region is attracting more visitors with each passing year, which has resulted in some [...]