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Hiking A Batholith

May 8, 2012
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Batholith. I love that word. It is a portmanteau of “depth” (bathos) and “rock” (lithos), literally meaning “deep rock,” but sounds like you’re trying to say “basilisk” after having burned your tongue on hot coffee. On Sunday, Racy of the Racy Mind, VirgoTex (whom you all know by now as she who puts the Town [...]

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A Countertop of Kilkenny Marble

January 26, 2012
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Cari The Geologist And Certified U2 Freak is sure to love this post. Volcanoclast hosts this month’s Accretionary Wedge on countertop geology. Have you seen a great countertop out there?  Sure, everyone says it’s “granite”, but you know better.  Take a picture, post it on your own blog or send it to me and I’ll [...]

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Saturday Geology Picture: Pahoehoe Cross Section

December 17, 2011

Ropy lava in cross section view. With scale, because that’s how I (rock and) roll. Tweet

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Wednesday Geology Picture: Eye-Of-Sauron Basalt In Fire Coral

December 14, 2011

One dreary Wisconsin day right before Christmas, D and I drove down a grey country road towards Manitowoc. We stepped out of the car for a minute and, to our chagrin, the car kept going without us. Suddenly, stop lights appeared out of nowhere and we followed the vehicle as it continued forward through these [...]

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Tuesday Geology Picture: Crystalline Growths On Aa

December 13, 2011

GeoEvelyn has declared this Geology-Picture-A-Day Week and I thought I’d join in. Mostly since I need a couple of things identified. Found this chunk of aa (rubbly basalt) in the roof of a collapsed lava tube right next door to where we stayed on the Big Island of Hawaii. What are the growths/precipitates on the [...]

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A Trip To Kilauea or The Volcanic Smog Gets In Your Eyes

December 6, 2011

In National Geographic’s Finding The Next Earth, an astronomer enters the Gemini Observatory at Mauna Kea and begins to weep tears of joy on seeing a brand new space telescope. There’s no crying in science, but I get it. The stuff we see and achieve is often too damned beautiful not to be overwhelmed with [...]

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Vignettes From The Volcanoes

November 21, 2011

Back from Hawaii. Some panoramas of various places we visited for your viewing pleasure (please click on each picture to embiggenate). More complete descriptions and tales of hilarity after emergence from turkey coma. Diamondhead Crater from the Waikiki Banyan Northshore/Haleiwa, O’ahu Remains of the Pu’u O Mahiuka Heiau or the Pu’u O Mahiuka temple in [...]

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Sunrise Over Diamondhead Crater

November 7, 2011

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November 3, 2011

Light posting ahead. D and I will be on vacation / proper-honeymoon-after-five-years for the next couple of weeks. Aloha! Tweet

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Now Showing At Homeland Insecurity Theater

October 18, 2011

Remember when TSA had this program and then cancelled it? Yeah, they’re resurrecting it. I would say Hallelujah but who knows whether it will make it out of the (second) trial? Pilot Starts at Select Airports to Further Enhance Security The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) [on October 4th, 2011] announced that it began testing a [...]

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