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Québec City Was Founded On A High Cape Of Utica Shale

July 18, 2011

Québec City sits between the Laurentian highlands of the southeastern Grenville Province of the Canadian Shield and the Appalachian Mountains that were formed during the Taconic and Acadian orogenies. Bedrock here is the Upper Ordovician Utica shale that “overlies the predominantly shallow marine carbonate facies of the Cambrian-Ordovician St. Lawrence Platform” (or St. Lawrence lowlands).The [...]

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Court Intrigue

May 31, 2011

This is probably the best picture I took on the tectonics field trip to Utah last week, and it was with my brand spanking new iPhone. Now powered by Verizon, thank you. Created by fracture-controlled weathering of sandstone, just like the rest of the rock formations and arches of Arches National Park, this group looked [...]

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In Which D And I Move. Again.

March 12, 2011

Today, I took a Taiwanese-British girl who speaks Dutch and lives in Holland shopping for cowboy boots in Houston, Texas. It was only slightly less weird than the time I was standing behind two white boys during a bluegrass concert in a dive bar and they began to speak to one another in proper Tamil. [...]

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HamsterLand

February 27, 2011

We cruised by a store called FishLand today. Me: “So, they sell, um, all fish at FishLand?” D: “Yeah.” Me: “Like halibut and tuna. Fried or blackened.” D: “No, they sell fish as pets. It’s a pet store.” Me: “A whole store dedicated to pet fish instead of a fishmonger. Okay, then where’s HamsterLand?” D: [...]

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What A Couple Of Weeks

February 21, 2011

Here I sit in a friend’s living room in New Orleans with a few moments to myself. A rare luxury these days. When things happen in my life, they tend to happen all at once. 1) The Packers won the Superbowl! It all happened so fast – we went from possibly wild card to laying [...]

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2010 In Travel Photographs

December 21, 2010

Note: Thanks to geobloggers Silver Fox and GeoTripper for inspiring me to do this post. Check out their beautiful travel photographs, too. Tweet

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A Large Part Of Control Is Mental

December 6, 2010

At the Guinness Brewery “Water” exhibit. This was the look on Domingo’s face before he turned and asked, “Do you have to pee yet?” Wicked man. Tweet

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How Guinness Is Made

December 5, 2010

The exhibits and layout of the Guinness Brewery tour have changed since we were there last six years ago. Each ingredient is highlighted appropriately and the walk is a lot more logical. I approve Here’s a collage of some pictures I took on the tour. Starting from the bottom left and running clockwise: the mix [...]

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Next Up: The St. James’s Gate Brewery Tour

December 4, 2010

Where some rather brilliant people make and store Guinness. For now, this is all you need to know. Tweet

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The Secret Bar At Kelly’s Hotel

December 4, 2010

Also known as “The Not So Secret Bar” at Kelly’s Hotel in the heart of Dublin. It felt a lot like the upstairs at Elizabeth’s restaurant in the Bywater of New Orleans. All the way from the little American hipsters hanging out in the various high-ceilinged rooms to the Neville Brothers and Killer’s favorite Professor [...]

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