You probably heard about the fire in Flagstaff earlier this summer in June. Check out some amazing photos of the fire at Wayne Ranney's blog here: http://earthly-musings.blogspot.com/2010/06/new-shots-of-schultz-fire.html.The fire was followed by some heavy thunderstorms and significant [...]
We spent a scorching day working on trenches for the four jackets we’re hoping to remove by this Saturday. As usual, this produced a wealth of teeth and small bones that had to be removed and bagged (and, in some cases, repaired first), including some rare finds. Perhaps the most unusual was a [...]
Part 2 of your recollections of the May 18, 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens.
You can read Part 1 here.
You can also check out an amazing set of satellite images spanning 1979-2010 at the NASA Earth Observatory. Great stuff!
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A line of severe thunderstorms produced an extreme rainfall event in Tennessee and Kentucky on May 1-2, 2010. Rain gauges on the ground recorded between 10 and 19 inches of rain in the hardest hit
From Today in Science History:Miller is an American chemist who made a series of famous experiments beginning in 1953, to determine the possible origin of life from inorganic chemicals on the primeval earth. He passed electrical discharges (simulating thunderstorms) through mixtures of reducing [...]
We’re already settling into a steady routine with so many exposed bones. Tim was able to remove the rib he’s been working on (above). Meanwhile, we pretty much completed a trench around the first four vertebrae in the series:Other than the usual mass of whale bones, we haven’t uncovered [...]
I tried to due some field work in early June, as you can see from the above photo of my area, I experienced rain the entire time. Even with excellent rain gear, it is still not fun to work in a constant rain when it is 40 degrees. It would of been better if it would of snowed. Who would of [...]
Another short day. This time it was because we lost the truck keys for several hours. We were finally able to get to the site around lunchtime, and managed to get a few hours of digging in, including removing the small probable rib shown above. We also continued removing sediment around the [...]
This is how it's looked around these here parts during the last week to month. They say that the monsoon season doesn't start until June 15th, at least in New Mexico, but that hasn't kept me from thinking this weather is a lot like an early and over-done monsoon, with thunderstorms building [...]
Dante's Peak - Part 1Dante's Peak - Part 2Dante's Peak - Part 3Dante's Peak - Part 4Dante's Peak - Part 5- Eruption!!! -- Types of Eruptions -0:56:02 - First a little background on eruptions before we delve into the eruption itself. There are 5 main types of eruptions. Each type is indicative with [...]
The Air France accident is extremely tragic. Bad weather has (so far) been mentioned as a possible cause. Although this may seem unlikely as cause, I would nevertheless like to say a few words about the zone, where the plane vanished from radar screens.The low-pressure zone near equator is known by [...]
Saturday drove up to the cottage. Left-over stringers of thunderstorms kept hitting us, but it was mild. Stopped at our lovely little bakery in Woodville, on the way to Apsley. The lady told us about a fine young family going camping for the first time at Silent Lake, and they had no concept of [...]
“Severe thunderstorms swept through the southeastern United States on March 26, 2009. The storms dropped heavy rain and hail and spawned tornadoes.” Earth Observatory has a precipitation map and an interesting three-dimensional view of towering clouds produced by precipitation
The flooding along the upper Zambezi river and its tributaries is the worst since 1969. Flooding in the upper Zambezi river basin has already displaced hundreds of thousands in Angola, Namibia and Zambia. Zambia's air force began airlifting relief supplies on Friday 27 march. Namibia has declared a [...]
Not too long after leaving the Mid-Atlantic region we saw the edge of the New World and the coast of Brazil. I remember looking at the 10-day forecast for Rio about a week ago and there were 10 days of thunderstorms predicted with 60% chance of rain each day. Rio can be sloppy in the rain but it [...]
Thunderstorms develop where a plume of warm, moist buoyant air is rising rapidly upward through the atmosphere. The warm, moist air usually originates near the ground and rises to 12 km or more. As it rises, the air cools slowly and forms a mushroom shaped cloud called a "cumulonimbus" [...]
According to a study of deaths from natural hazard "events"* across the U.S., earthquakes, volcanoes, and other spectacular geophysical hazards are much less deadly than common weather events like heat waves, floods, and thunderstorms. The study was published in the open-access International [...]
According to a study of deaths from natural hazard "events"* across the U.S., earthquakes, volcanoes, and other spectacular geophysical hazards are much less deadly than common weather events like heat waves, floods, and thunderstorms. The study was published in the open-access International [...]
Our excursion to Price River 2 started out hot and muggy and buggy. Our purpose was to prepare the sauropod bones for removal. This would let us excavate further and hopefully find some nodosaur. The ischium had been jacketed on our previous trip and we removed it first thing. This opened up the [...]
The June 2008 edition of The Accretionary Wedge geoscience blog carnival was hosted by Geological Musings in the Taconic Mountains. Check it out.
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Johan Christian Claussen Dahl: Outbreak of the Vesuvius (1826)
Well, depending on your geographic location, you have may have been experiencing [...]
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