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Wednesday was the last day of the formal sessions at the GSA Cordilleran Section meeting. The talks I attended were the final segment of the "meeting in a meeting" and centered on the hot new tool for sorting out the history of the highly scrambled western margin of North America: detrital zirco ...

The heart of the GSA Cordilleran Section meeting is over; the Wednesday session will be just half a day, giving me time for a side trip or two before the post-meeting field trip. It has been fun hearing from and talking with some of our local West Coast experts and the visiting experts who have ...

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 ...

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News of landslides from the USA, Canada and Hong Kong, and about the role of landslides in the Day of Judgement

Schematic of the life of a blogging PhD. Source: http://www.sidthomas.net/SenEssence/Genes/omics.htm By Kelly It’s the end of the week, the near end of a season, and it’s time to spring clean a little. As leaves senesce and fall off the trees…so do bloggers. OnCirculation has been going strong f ...

I signed off regular writing for Hot Topic some months ago. But failing eyesight doesn’t mean failing concern, and my anger at the way our government heedlessly pursues the expansion of fossil fuel exploration led me recently to reflect I could still see sufficiently to write letters to editors. ...

Charles Bolden stopped by JPL to highlight research being done on advanced propulsion techniques that would be used in the proposed asteroid retrieval mission.

Scientific endeavors rely on an exhaustible number of technologies. On the JR, these range in sophistication from paint brushes to magnotometers. Many of the tools available to collect and process data, make observations, record and shar ...