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Thanks to Phil Leinart for pointing out a lovely new item from Good Nature Publishing Company: a poster displaying the fossils to be found all over Washington state . There's everything from trilobites and cycads to whales, camels, mammoths and ginkgos, plus a few oddities like D.B. Cooper, Bigfoot, ...

As the Copenhagen climate meetings go on for the next few days, it's worth contemplating the risks and benefits of simplicity. When it comes to what I'll just refer to as the climate problem, public awareness relies on simplicity. And the climate policy problem being debated in Copenhagen is so comp ...

It's an old cliché among geologists that humans will leave their mark in the rock record of the future as a layer of petrified garbage, and stratigraphers will call our age the Broken Glass Epoch. Paul Crutzen put it more formally in 1990 with the proposal to name a new geologic age called the Anth ...

The BBC will start running its colossal series " How Earth Made Us " next month. But a slight preview is available on photographer Paul Williams' blog Iron Ammonite , where he recounts his experience filming in the Cueva de los Cristales, the Mexican mine chamber where preposterously large gypsum cr ...

In 1978 two men came upon a large bone in a riverbank north of Waco, Texas, that local experts identified as the remains of an Ice Age mammoth . The site later yielded the remains of a whole nursing herd, which had perished during a flood some 68,000 years ago. This weekend the Waco Mammoth Site ope ...

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 summary of photos posted on flickr today, tagged with “ geology .” Displayed below are 21 geology-related photos were added to flickr today. Similar Posts on Geology News: Daily Geology Photos – September 23 Daily Geology Photo ...

Get all 6 Rock Detectives kits for the price of 5 when you buy the full set.  Each kit comes complete with six or 7 cool rock or mineral samples, a hand magnifier and a CD with 30 pages of rock and mineral information, sample identification activities, puzzles, coloring pages, and experiments. Othe ...

Oceans come and go. Long ago an ocean existed between Siberia and North China, known by geologists as the Paleoasian Ocean. It probably opened about 900 million years ago - according to Dobretsov et al. (2003) the opening occurred 970-850 million years ago. Here is a very rough global plate tectonic ...

...but maybe that's because I'm a scientist who happens to be a vegetarian.* Anyway, John Wilkins has a nice little comment on the CRU emails fiasco. This will definitely be useful for those civilized discussions you're planning on having with that global warming denier in your family over the holid ...

I have always been one of those people who prefers to complete tasks well before their deadlines. Alas, recent events have been teaching me to push deadlines harder than I would like. I fly out Friday morning for AGU, and have only just completed my first draft of my poster to be presented. Fortun ...