So September is officially mass wasting month. Since it was my suggestion, I suppose I had better make a contribution. Here is probably England's most famous landslide at Mam Tor in Derbyshire. Actually initiated about 4,000 years ago, the landslide way traversed by a salt trading route [...]
Following up on bits and pieces of news, I periodically find myself on one of the Mars imagery sites, lost in wonder; it’s a time-consuming process. So, I thought, why not, again, lure readers of this blog to accompany
Some highlights from the Global Volcanism Program Weekly Volcanic Activity Report for 11-17 August 2010, compiled by Sally Kuhn Sennert: San Miguel: seismicity increases and then declines, access restrictions remain in place Fuego: explosions throw up ash plumes to nearly 5 km altitude Turrialba: [...]
There is a long running competition in the Geoblogosphere called "Where on Google Earth" (WOGE), which essentially challenges readers to identify locations pictured on Google Earth imagery. The last was WOGE (number 210), hosted by Meta-Geologist; I was the lucky winner. The winner [...]
Geological Movie Review of Armageddon - Overview- NASA Technology - Some of the events or items in the movie I am not going to get too in depth about. These include the use of civilians in space or the drill that they plan on using. [...]
Earlier this summer, we had a chance to ask Sally Kuhn Sennert of the Smithsonian Institution/USGS Global Volcanism Program questions about her job as the main writer of the well-loved Weekly Volcanic Activity Report. Well, now here are the answers!
Sally Kuhn Sennert of the Global Volcanism [...]
Links from del.icio.us, tagged with geology for August 6th, 2010: Pruned: Speleotherapy Biblical and Scientific Shortcomings of Flood Geology, Part 1 | The BioLogos Forum Mount St. Helens, 30 years ago – The Big Picture – Boston.com USGS: Maps, Imagery, and Publications Collapsible [...]
Accretionary Wedge #25: An Illustrated Glossary of Cool Geological Things Category: geology • photos Posted on: June 2, 2010 7:15 AM, by Chris Rowan Welcome to the latest edition of the Accretionary Wedge geoblogging carnival. We’ve been delighted by the response to our call for your [...]
One of my favorite features in Google Maps is the terrain layer, which provides a shaded relief (aka hillshade) view of the topography derived from a digital elevation model. Google has done a nice job generating a visually pleasing terrain layer, and we use it for all of our Google [...]
Two sweet snippets of a new 15mb kml file that shows the distribution of piedmont and playa flood hazards in Ivanpah Valley, Nevada (just south of Vegas) as inferred from geomorphology. I think that the information content of these types of derivative characterizations of hazards is [...]
The JPL folks used UAVSAR mounted on their Gulfstream-III aircraft to take highly accurate radar measurements of the ground surface in Baja, California, near the site of the April 4, 2010 magnitude 7.2 Baja earthquake that rocked portions of Mexico and the US. This interferrogram imagery is on the [...]
You can download the EPA's KMZ file for use in Google Earth and view locations of water, air, sediment, and waste samples, view aerial imagery taken by the EPA and satellite imagery from NOAA, NASA and others. [Source: Google Earth Blog. Image: Google Earth
Following the January 12th, 2010 Haiti earthquake I wrote a number of blog posts related to the post-earthquake LiDAR data that were collected by the Center for Imaging Science at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), Kucera International, and ImageCat, Inc (with funding from the World Bank), [...]
Google has announced the release of Google Earth and Google Earth Pro 5.2. The latest release of the software includes the ability to view graphs that show elevation, speed, and other data from GPSs directly in Google Earth. Time animation has been improved, which means you can relive your journey [...]
USGS has a webpage that they will be continually updating with information about their activities related to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. USGS efforts include:
* Collecting satellite imagery to assess wetlands and coasts
* Mapping the spill trajectory with respect to DOI Lands
* Sampling soils [...]
In this edition of Science Picks , learn what the USGS is doing in response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and how satellite imagery can be used to get information after a major
Thanks to a number of people for bringing this one to my attention. The community of Oliver in British Columbia yesterday suffered an impressive mud and debris flow that is reported to have destroyed five homes (images from the Vancouver Sun):
The flow has clearly come out of a deeply incised [...]
By now most everybody knows that the old restorations of snub-nosed, tail-dragging, swamp-dwelling “Brontosaurus” were woefully incorrect, but I have to admit I have a soft spot for such out-of-date dinosaur imagery. It was part of my introduction to dinosaurs, and I am glad that when [...]
Some great thoughts on what paleoart is and isn't here already, and I can only stand on the sidelines for so long. Here's my take:Paleoart is obviously art - the name says so. And since no one can agree on what that is, I'm not going to make the mistake of offering any answers here... I couldn't do [...]
Welcome to the latest edition of the Accretionary Wedge geoblogging carnival. We've been delighted by the response to our call for your favourite geological imagery, and the number of nominations we've received has been matched by their diversity - images have ranged from the microscopic to [...]
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