Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Partial Ellipsis of the Sun is on Spring Break, Week 2

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      A smattering of images from our last week in NM and CO, USA. Guesses as to where? Some are pretty easy. Hope you are having a great w...
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Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Partial Ellipsis of the Sun is on Spring Break

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      Enjoy a few views of the Great Sand Dunes in southern Colorado, USA, after our big April snow. . . Amazing Clouds! All the moisture s...
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Wednesday, April 13, 2016

The Tully (Not Telly) Monster was a VERTEBRATE (!) Extremely Well Preserved in Siderite

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      A 300 million year-old fossil mystery has possibly been solved by a research team at the University of Leicester, which has identifie...
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Thursday, April 7, 2016

Revisiting Iceland: A Kentucky-Sized Place Where Geology is in Your Face at Every Turn

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         A friend's trip to Iceland the past two weeks has reinspired a look at this Kentucky-sized land. My friend's description...
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Thursday, March 31, 2016

White-Nose Bat Syndrome Crosses the Rocky Mountains close to Seattle, Washington, USA

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      Sadly, today, "a sick bat caught by hikers not far from Seattle has now been confirmed to have the first case west of the Rocki...
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Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Shrinky Dinks: Crumpled Graphene

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        "Brown University researchers have developed a method for making super-wrinkled and super-crumpled sheets of the nanomaterial...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Geologic Field Camp: Blooming and In Tents, Lumping and Splitting

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      Ah, nostalgia for geologic field camp and geologic field work emerges in the springtime like saguaro cactus blooms and ocotillo flowe...
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Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Diatom Beams: Naturally Strong Silicious Honeycomb Architecture Posts

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      "Beams made of sawn diatom shells and poked with a diamond-tipped probe until they cracked have revealed that the microbial armo...
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