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I'm spending most of the week in Fresno, California, at the Cordilleran Section meeting of the Geological Society of America. Yesterday, in one of the preliminary field trips for the event, I joined a party of 25 to visit the fossil collection from the Fairmead Landfill project a few miles north ...

If you think you know your way around, think again. A geologic map will transform the way you see your stomping grounds. The familiar features—roads, cities, buildings and all that—are grayed out while the aboriginal land itself shines forth in colors, patterns and lines. Sprinkling ...

On 17 March 2013, NASA cameras captured the brightest impact on the Moon seen in eight years of monitoring. It lasted only a fraction of a second, but at the brightness of a fourth-magnitude star it could have been seen by anyone with binoculars and possibly with the naked eye. Six of the 17 fra ...

When I went to geology school, I was already so advanced that I never used mnemonics—those anagram sentences that help students keep track of the names of the geologic time periods. A reader in the Forum has been using the good old sentence "camels often sit down carefully, perhaps their j ...

Geology takes in subjects of all sizes from planets to molecules. Many of these have a micro component—that's not to stipulate that they're microscopic, or even minuscule, just, well, hey take the quiz now and you'll see. The quiz is definitely not about minutia, and if you can get through ...

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

Today’s Monday Geology Picture and description are courtesy of my husband Jackie Gauntlett, who is sharing another picture from his recent field trip as part of his masters degree in Exploration Geology at Rhodes University. From Jackie: Mogolokwena Platinum Mine is the largest platinum mine in ...

For most of April, while Mars scuttled behind the Sun as seen from Earth, both Mars rovers were pretty inactive. Now that conjunction has ended, both are doing what rovers should be doing: roving and exploring. As of sol 3312 Opportunity had moved more than 300 meters southward toward Solander P ...

From PhD comics: The tables can very easily be turned on you, the faculty, when a student goes over the syllabus with a tooth comb and then holds you to every dot and comma in it. My friend who is an igneous petrologist and faculty at a local university here in Pune saw the nasty side ...

When you hear the word “shrimp,” you probably picture those that show up in grocery stores and restaurants throughout the world, which are then consumed voraciously by their terrestrial admirers. Also, some recent attention has been given to mantis shrimp, and deservedly so, because they are amo ...

This week: Extreme flooding in the Guangdong Province of Southern China, flooding displaces thousands during the rainy season in Somalia, water infrastructure approved by the Senate and now moves to the House, the status of the state water bill in California, and the Netherlands’ use of sand eng ...