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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 ...

The International Commission on Stratigraphy has done a lot of work this year, and the world-standard geologic time scale has changed enough for me to update everything to match the new divisions, dates, and map colors. Start with the high-level eras and eons scale and poke around the last 4 billion ...

California is full of wineries and faults, but only one active winery sits on an active fault. Last weekend's Wall Street Journal visited the DeRose Winery and posted photos and a video to go with the story. The winery is in the Cienega Valley in the creeping section of the San Andreas fault. Contin ...

People have asked me for years if there are geology courses online. There are lots of places where you can see professors' lecture notes, but nothing exists like the many business-oriented online degree programs. The blogger known as GeoCastAway pointed me to MIT's extensive Open Courseware offering ...

ISIHighlyCited.com is a service of the Institute for Scientific Information or ISI, now owned by Thomson Reuters, that picks the most prominent scientists on the basis of their citations in the literature by their fellow professionals. If you go to its browse page and pick "Geosciences," it will ser ...

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

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

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

Since early in my blog career, my Livclean threads have been the most active, but now they are dead. A long time ago, when I started, DE behaved like a monopoly scumbag. They only replaced tanks with 1960 versions, and only after they blew up and ruined your basement. Little Livclean came along wh ...

A summary of photos posted on flickr today, tagged with “ geology .” Displayed below are 36 geology-related photos were added to flickr today. Similar Posts on Geology News: Daily Geolog ...

A substantial hiatus between "Sunday Sed Structures", perhaps, but seeing as how I'm a fan of the ol' Sed/Strat side of things, I reckon it's perfectly acceptably for me to engage in hiatuses of all sorts (as well as terrible pun-based stratigraphy humor). Below is a picture from the Holiest of Holi ...

Article How long must Canadians wait for Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government to settle on a remedy for the shortage of medical isotopes? Hello? I just included this little tidbit to show the thinking processes of the bankrupt newspapers. :) Harper is just as hopeless in this issue as all th ...

It is of great help that Google Maps is now covering the bottom of the oceans as well. A quick look at the area in the Drake Passage between the southern tip of South America and the northern tip of Antarctica may make you suspicious. Do we see a tectonic plate bordered by two fracture zones, a subd ...