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Today's magnitude-8.3 earthquake beneath the Kamchatka Peninsula was both extraordinarily deep and extraordinarily large. At 610 kilometers depth, it was pretty much as deep as earthquakes get. That's down near the bottom of the upper mantle. And at M8.3, it was one of the largest deep earthquak ...

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 ...

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Anglerfish (Lophiiformes) are highly specialized Teleost Fish, related to Cod but with highly modified bodies due to their specialized lifestyle. Anglerfish are ambush predators, luring prey within reach with a special organ called the 'illicium', which is comprised of the three foremost spines ...

Going through photos for the next installment, I realized I neglected to mention the stop by the fastest-rising most-westernest bit of the Oregon Coast on Day the Seconde*. Sorry bout that. Here ’tis: Moi at Cape Blanco. Image credit Lockwood DeWitt. Those holes I’m staring at are places where b ...

Photographer: Greg Parker Summary Author: Greg Parker This photomicromosaic showing a collection of diatoms at a magnification of 200 is composed of approximately 160 individual exposures. Diatoms are aquatic, photosynthetic plants comprising a major group of algae. They're also one of ...

Photographer: Kathleen Kiefer; Kathleen's Web site Summary Author: Kathleen Kiefer The photo above shows hedgehog cacti blooming in the Ancient Lakes area of Washington State. I had always wanted to see the illusive crimson to cherry colored blooms of the "hedgehog," which gr ...

An analysis of imagery of the lanslides at the Laxiwa HEP in China. The stability of the slopes are a source of real concern