geology

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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Halloween 2011: Coastline Retreat Is Scary, Kids!

October 29, 2011

It started with me walking across the family room in a nude bathing suit and D looking up from his laptop with a “What the …” “I’ll be right back,” I said, putting on flip flops before walking into the frigid-by-Texas-drought-standards garage. “There’s some makeup in the car that I need.” And D got that [...]

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Donors Choose And ROCK!

October 25, 2011

The 2011 Science Bloggers for Students online charity challenge was once again a smashing success thanks to all of you who donated. The overall drive brought in more than $51,000 from 698 people. Ocean and Geobloggers brought in around $3100 of that money to which you guys contributed $585 $645! In order of donation date, [...]

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“So, Geologist, When Are You Going On Your Next Dig?”

October 13, 2011

Rocking Discovery: Boulders rub shoulders during quakes (ht, Julie) While the others wandered off to see the sites, as geologists are wont to do, Quade climbed under the truck to get out of the beating sunlight. That’s when Quade noticed something very unusual about the half-ton to 8-ton boulders near the truck: they appeared to [...]

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National Fossil Day!

October 12, 2011

As much as I love trilobites, here is a photograph I took of pretty Missippian-age crinoids on display at the Smithsonian Museum. Ok, ok, Matt has a trilobite head for you who insist. Happy Fossil Day! Hug your favorite dead-and-preserved-in-the-rock-record critter today! Don’t forget to donate to science classrooms in honor of Earth Science week, [...]

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Please Give To Science In Classrooms!

October 5, 2011

Yes, it’s that time of year again when I beseech you, dear readers, to donate to the DonorsChoose Science Bloggers For Students online charity challenge that helps high-poverty science and mathematics classrooms in need. There is a lot less fanfare and competition between us science bloggers this year, but classrooms are more underfunded than ever. [...]

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Learning How To Learn

September 28, 2011

“To understand is to invent.” – Jean Piaget The latest Accretionary Wedge topic is Back To School. Anne Jefferson, professor of hydrogeology and one of the blogging pair at Highly Allochthonous, has a set of questions for students, professors, those outside academia and science fans. The following are specific questions addressed in this post: If [...]

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DC Quake

August 25, 2011

Me: “Mom! Did you feel the earthquake?” Mom: “You know, Maitri, I felt this couch shake and wondered what it was. But I didn’t want to say anything.” Me: “Sweet! You felt the DC earthquake!” Mom: “It was in Washington DC and I felt it in northeast Ohio? What magnitude?” Me: “Good question. It was [...]

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On Bayes And Uncertainty Analysis

August 18, 2011

“When the facts change, I change my opinion. What do you do, sir?” — Thomas Bayes, British mathematician and Presbyterian minister The New York Times reviews Sharon Bertsch McGrayne’s The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes’ Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy. Three [...]

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