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One of my favorite things is taking photos of geologic features. In 12 years of doing that and putting them online here, I've learned a few tricks and tips . This photo illustrates one of the best: get there during the morning or evening "golden hour" for the best light. Most of the other tips in th ...

At the last meeting of my local geological society , they announced that the deadline for our three scholarships , one undergraduate and two graduate, is being extended to December 15 to collect more candidates. This money is meant for research in or near northern California (I guess that means al ...

Last night I attended a presentation on the rock-physics based theory of earthquake precursors (the p-hole theory), and things are moving along nicely. Funders including the World Bank and institutions like the new SUSEL underground lab in South Dakota are supporting research projects. I confess to ...

No, this isn't about a mysterious cosmic visitor that will cause the world to end in 2013. It's about Lake Kivu in Africa, a large rift-valley lake that straddles the Rwanda-Congo border. It is the world's third known erupting lake, after deadly lakes Nyos and Monoun in Cameroon which produced deadl ...

I found two fun things yesterday. First is Mike Russell's CulturePulp online comic, where the latest entry is a spoof on geological disaster movies featuring " Lava Tornado! " Old fuddy-duddy that I am, I've written about the twisted ideas that moviemakers have about geologic hazards, but this guy h ...

Isen omkring Nordpolen forsvinder hurtigere, end selv de mest skeptiske...

Det svenske Vattenfall overtog tre danske kulfyrede kraftværker –...

I Sverige har en mineralsamler fundet de første svenske diamanter...

Dig og klimaet Informationscenter for Miljø og Sundhed har i dag (1....

Jordskred, som det der onsdag aften rev 400 meter af motorvej E6 og 300 meter...

Well would you look at that. "Blog" is an increasingly popular buzzword in the published literature. You gotta feel bad for all those postmodern, pico-cybernetics, that run on cold-fusion though.

One of California's hidden treasures is Pinnacles National Monument, in the Coast Ranges south of the town of Hollister. It was the main destination of our field studies class last week as we explored sites along the San Andreas fault. Some of our other stops were described here , here and here . T ...

Popocatépetl volcano had an active 24 hours over 21 and 22 November, reports CENAPRED, Mexico’s Centro Nacional de Prevención de Desastres (CENAPRED bulletins for November can be found by searching via this archive page ). A magnitude 2 volcano-tectonic earthquake was recorded and there were fo ...

Just a quick update about the current state of comment moderation on LFD. I've been receiving more than the usual number of spam comments linking to advertising sites and such, so I have put all posts on comment moderation, not just the usual pre-14-day posts. I'll leave it this way until spammites ...

One of my favorite things is taking photos of geologic features. In 12 years of doing that and putting them online here, I've learned a few tricks and tips . This photo illustrates one of the best: get there during the morning or evening "golden hour" for the best light. Most of the other tips in th ...