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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 ...

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...

A massive and violent tornado at least a mile wide smashed through Moore, Oklahoma near 3 pm CDT Monday, causing catastrophic damage along a 20-mile long path. The National Weather Service in Norman, Oklahoma has rated the tornado at least an EF-4 (166 - 200 mph winds), and detailed damage surve ...

Dieser Beitrag auf Deutsch. Today, I’ll finally explain a bit about the sneak previews I recently posted. All goes back to a crazy idea I had a long time ago, which I have elaborated on publicly for the first time in my SVP 2011 talk.  I’ve written about it in three instalments here, here and he ...

By Chops Some research came out of RSES last week regarding the rotation of the inner core, and how it speeds up and slows down. This research, made by Hrvoje Tkalcic and others, has got a little bit of publicity (http://rses.anu.edu.au/news-events/news/earth039s-centre-out-sync) and also was pu ...

Shawnee, Oklahoma tornado, May 19, 2013 photo by Brett Wright from http://www.tornadotitans.comThe forecast map posted for May 20, 2013 on the tornado chaser's WWW site at http://www.tornadotitans.comUpdate: A one-mile wide tornado, estimated already to be an EF-4 or EF-5, moved through Moore, O ...

I need to apologize to my commentators. I only realized that I had a spam comment tab recently, and I found a bunch of great comments buried there - some from 2011! About half of the comments flagged as "spam" were legitimate, which is only slightly higher than the proportion of spammy comments ...