Links from del.icio.us, tagged with geology for September 6th, 2010: smudge GeoNet – Home Interactive Geology Project | Home How Volcanoes Work Tectonics of the M7 earthquake near Christchurch, New Zealand | Highly Allochthonous Geology Tags Earthquake Notification Service New [...]
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Ichnology is considered a relatively young branch of the earth sciences, although like common fossils the marks left by organisms (especially vertebrate footprints) were noted already in antiquity. So its seems that the nature of fossil tracks was recognized relatively early in human history, many [...]
CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND–Andrew Collins is a Wooster geology student studying abroad at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. Here is his account of Saturday morning’s earthquake:
Just got another tremor as I sat here writing! Certainly is active!
I don’t [...]
Links from del.icio.us, tagged with geology for September 4th, 2010: Centro Sismologico Europa-Mediterrraneo (EMSC) GeoNet – New Zealand Earthquake Report – Sep 4 2010 at 4:35 am (NZST) Geology Niagara Escarpment Resource Network (NERN) Heliotrope (mineral) – Wikipedia AGU – [...]
CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND–Wooster geology student Andrew Collins is studying abroad in Christchurch, New Zealand, this semester and was there during the 7.1 magnitude earthquake early Saturday morning. He is fine and I hope will be able to send us his story and some photographs later. We have [...]
Links from del.icio.us, tagged with geology for September 3rd, 2010: Christchurch earthquake photos Tsunami: at a Science on a Sphere near you GeoNet – Earthquake Resources Mass Extinction Threat: Earth on Verge of Huge Reset Button? – Yahoo! News Continental drift: Facts, Discussion [...]
Not exactly volcanic, but...
Not many details yet, but the USGS Earthquake list shows a M7.2 earthquake ~25-30 km from Christchurch, New Zealand. I'll post more details as I find them, but here is a Google Map of the epicenter - UPDATE: the refined location puts it further from Christchurch, to the [...]
At 4:35 in the morning of Saturday September 4 local time, a large earthquake struck New Zealand's South Island. Because it was a strike-slip event, typical of this area's transcurrent ...Read Full
This week’s Friday Field Foto doesn’t show any geology — but shows what a geologist must sometimes do to get to the rocks. In this case, I think we are on our way back from spending several days staying at the base of and climbing the mountain in the background on the right. Good [...]
Over at the History of Geology blog, David Bressan is commemorating the Goldau Landslide in Switzerland that occurred on September 2, 1806. A landslide from the Rossberg mountain killed nearly 500 people. It was the first time that a natural, as opposed to supernatural, cause was assigned to a [...]
Links from del.icio.us, tagged with geology for September 2nd, 2010: UCMP – University of California Museum of Paleontology National Fossil Day – Home Welcome to the USGS – U.S. Geological Survey Fossils in the Architecture of Washington, DC: A Guide to Washington’s [...]
This is the largest group of students we’ve had in the Wooster Geology Club for a long time. It is going to be a great year. Names of these happy people will follow later! Note the excellent
I've been working on a Highway 50 roadside geology series for quite a long time, and have managed to get a few posts in every now and then, but have many more to go before I really consider it complete (could it ever be complete?). The entire Highway 50 Series as listed below includes posts that [...]
A shiny new report of the week's volcanic activity, brought to us by the Smithsonian, USGS and the Global Volcanism Program ... and of course, Sally Kuhn Sennert.
Some highlights from this week's report (not including Galeras and Sinabung):
I'm always astonished when yet another Kuril [...]
Over the summer, I finished reading an excellent history of creationism called The Creationists, authored by Ronald L. Numbers. Many of my students at Northern Virginia Community College come to my geology classes from a creationist background. Some are true believers, some are looking for the [...]
This is a parochial story for Californians, but I think it's of wider interest: Senate Bill 624, which would have removed serpentinite as the state rock and enacted into law ...Read Full
The publication of Balaur bondoc has generated a lot of responses by the palaeo - dedicated geoblogosphere, nevertheless it's only a preliminary last chapter in the long and intriguing exploration of the geology and palaeontology of the former cretaceous islands of Hateg, now Romania.Dealing with [...]
Links from del.icio.us, tagged with geology for September 1st, 2010: Structure of the Earth Prehistoric land under the sea Geology – Clipart ETC Streams of the Ridge and Valley Province — Forest Encyclopedia Network Geography of North Carolina Geology.com – Earth Science News, [...]
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