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Seismic Interpretation Rage 1

August 4, 2011

Some of you have asked what my typical work day looks like. Thanks to MemeBase, I can now bring you samples of the daily challenges and small victories of an exploration geophysicist in cartoon form. Introducing Seismic Interpretation Rage. There’s a lot more where this came from. Tweet

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Scientists On Twitter, Treme Bloggers

July 28, 2011

The American Geophysical Union’s blog interviewed a number of physical scientists on why scientists should use Twitter. My response reflects two important requirements I have of science: that it is increasingly inter-disciplinary and shares findings with the public as much as possible. *** OffBeat Magazine: Treme Bloggers – Ray Shea and I were part of [...]

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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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Second Favorite Geology Word: Crenulation – UPDATED

June 25, 2011

“Boudinage” and “transtensional” are #1 in my geo-lexicon, but Callan Bentley took boudinage and I’ll leave “transtensional” for another day as it was the topic of my first graduate thesis. “Crenulation” it is for Accretionary Wedge Episode 35: What’s Your Favorite Geology Word? This comes from my fascination with polyphase deformation, or multiple episodes of [...]

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“Even More Hilarious Than The Day After Tomorrow”

June 13, 2011

On the road this week. I leave you with the latest from a geo-blog which must go in my feedreader once I get back. It seems that Hollywood is putting out another sciencepocalypse (or is that scienceageddon?) film, this one entitled 2012: Ice Age. There’s a volcano. It unleashes a glacier. Don’t ask me how. [...]

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Post-Moratorium

June 9, 2011

Here is a good article on the latest from the oil patch: ExxonMobil Announces Three Discoveries in Deepwater Gulf of Mexico I’m not going to name any names, but there has been some stupid reporting on this in the last couple of days. Note to self: Write a primer on how not to report an [...]

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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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The Morganza Spillway Is Now Open

May 14, 2011

Morganza Floodway Travel Times, a photo by Team New Orleans, US Army Corps of Engineers on Flickr. The Pointe Coupee Banner | Corps directed to open Morganza Spillway The Morganza Spillway has been opened to protect Baton Rouge and New Orleans from the Mississippi River potentially overflowing its carefully-carved banks in these cities. According to [...]

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Of Interest On January 31st, 2011

January 31, 2011

GeoTripper | The Yellowstone Media Storm: We’re All Gonna Die! Oh, Well Sure, But … … worrying about whether I’m gonna die from an eruption at Yellowstone is so far down my list of concerns that I am more worried about being gnawed to death by a pack of angry prairie dogs. It could happen, [...]

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Blogs, Newspapers, Your Arm, Whatever. Just Write.

January 21, 2011

Bora Zivkovic: “Not all bloggers want to be journalists.” Bora talks about science blogging in particular, but you could apply his explanation to any discipline. I’d like to add that those of us in New Orleans in late 2005 learned quickly that if we didn’t blog, many local and national journalists would write a limited [...]

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