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The rain poured down upon Vermont, but the sun shone upon New York as I went down Route 22 through the Slate Valley and the Taconic foothills. Much of the...

I had ambitious plans for today, the heart of my trip. But yesterday involved so much driving and so little time "on site," I decided to give Vermont the bulk...

By the way, I'm in the field this week, trying to see and absorb as much New York/New England geology as I can before Friday. Look for some posts during...

Too often in the field, you'll be looking at a hillside and there are no outcrops of bedrock. A poor second choice is relying on float—isolated stones in the soil...

I've been putting together this photo introduction to the geology of the California coast, and I realized that the Franciscan is the key to it all. Northern California is defined...

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...

Here’s a new open thread, to keep the previous ones from getting too full. By the way, I’m going away this weekend (starting today), my wife and I are celebrating our anniversary. So, moderation may be slower than usual.

All photos below are from the rock glacier on Wheeler Peak .Photo #1 Photo #2 Above, a couple pictures of cross bedding in the Prospect Mountain Quartzite - once a sandstone, now metamorphosed to a quartzite. Cross bedding can tell a geologist which way was up (if the rocks are in place in an outcro ...

The rain poured down upon Vermont, but the sun shone upon New York as I went down Route 22 through the Slate Valley and the Taconic foothills. Much of the...

This post is a submission to the July Accretionary Wedge , being hosted by Ron Schott at his Geology Home Companion Blog .Field camp for me was a long time ago and far, far away (well, it was far away at the time, a lot closer now). The year was 1973. I was in a slump due to various personal events ...

AGU will cease print subscriptions to its journals in 2010, the first of what be I expect to be a rush of geoscience societies turning to electronic publication only. AGU attributes the decision to the problem of printed versions increasingly differing from electronic versions, and to the increased ...