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Pelican In Flight Over Galveston Bay

April 20, 2012
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From The Director Of “spOILed”

April 6, 2012

I was mailed this by an oil industry colleague with whom I share many views on how energy is made and its future. spOILed is yet another documentary/film making the rounds following the rise of domestic onshore shale gas drilling, especially in the northeast United States shale trends. Its director, Mark Mathis, outlines his motives [...]

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Happy Birthday, Michael Hart

March 8, 2012
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Books prices plummet. Literacy rates soar. Education rates soar. Old structures crumble, as did the Church. Scientific Revolution. Industrial Revolution. Humanitarian Revolution. Inventor of the electronic book and my dear friend Michael S. Hart would have been 65 today. Each time I say or think that – “he would have been 65 today” – the [...]

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But That’s Just An Old Fantasy

February 14, 2012

Whitney Houston was the first cassette tape my uncle bought along with a brand new player back in 1985. And while listening to “Saving All My Love” at the age of 10 was when I first really understood unrequited love and loss. This isn’t about a post about memorializing celebrities, burnouts and addicts. It isn’t [...]

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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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Friday Geology Picture: The Oldest Known Rock In The World

December 16, 2011

“I burned the candle at both ends and it often gave a lovely light.” To mark the passing of Christopher Hitchens, today’s rock is the Hadean Acasta gneiss on display in the Smithsonian Museum. Give hell hell, Hitch! Tweet

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Thursday Geology Picture: Cool Geologists Against Cool Geology

December 15, 2011

Basil Tikoff and Steve Marshak, my graduate and undergraduate structural geology thesis advisors respectively, at the famous Van Hise Rock in Baraboo, Wisconsin. 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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