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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Lowe’s Knows – Updated

December 12, 2011

Updated December 12th, 2011: Today’s USA Today has a column on the “All-American Muslim” controversy written by an American Muslim. In it, the author is asked by an Ohio man if Muslim girls can own dolls. It’s a valid question and understanding starts with honest curiosity, respectful interrogation and civil cross-cultural dialogue, which also seems [...]

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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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December 1, 2011

Watching Build It Bigger’s Battle Machines episode, I was reminded of a troubling thing: American “defense contractors” and their subcontractors who have little to no experience and bid on projects that come down to life or death for our soldiers in combat … and call themselves capitalists and patriots. Tweet

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The Quest For The Perfect Feedreader Continues

November 30, 2011

Ever since Google killed existing features in Google Reader and began catering it to their new (mediocre) Google+ Social Media Extravaganza experience, I’ve been on the hunt for ONE quick and easy way by which to deliver media from around the web to a single archival list which I can then share here and elsewhere. [...]

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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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