Apr 27 2013
Geologic language is very conducive to puns. It’s inevitable: you get two geologists together in the same room, they’re gonna let loose with some geo puns. It’s as certain as gabbro being called “black granite” by purveyors of quality countertops. And we can keep it up past the point of reason. But we’re very gneiss …
Apr 25 2013
We’ve got our next Pioneering Woman in the Geosciences up: Mary Horner Lyell. Yes, married to that Lyell. Some of you may not have known she was a fine scientist in her own right. It was hard finding information on her, but I did manage to draw together enough for a sketch, and I think …
Apr 24 2013
All of this is true: Aside from that wonder of birth stuff. Sorry, but I find it more icky than inspiring. What I do think is wonderful is that the squalling bundle of raw need that rips its way out of a woman kinda like something from Aliens ends up becoming a small mobile science …
Apr 23 2013
Few places on Earth are so full of geological mayhem as a subduction zone. Life in the interior of a continent in no way prepares you for the chaos you’ll encounter when seafloor dives under continent. Where I grew up on the Colorado Plateau, the geology’s like a lovely layer cake: nice horizontal slabs of …
Apr 23 2013
Hey, look, Rosetta Stones is now just over a year old! Outstanding! I think that means I can start filching from it now, and reposting stuff here for those who missed it, or would like to relive the adventure again. Don’t worry, I’ll be subjecting Rosetta Stones to the same treatment, so if you have …
Apr 22 2013
Happy Earth Day, my darlings! I’m very happy to showcase a website chock full of simple and fun ideas for making a difference. I hope you get lots of excellent ideas, and have a good time helping kids help us save the planet. Earth. It’s where we keep all our stuff.
Apr 18 2013
Stupid trees. They’ve been giving me fits. It all seemed very simple: volcano go boom, trees fall down, end of story. But we all know it’s more complicated than that. And, of course, this is the first time I’ve written a Mount St. Helens post with Dragon. But I eventually wrestled data into some semblance …
Apr 17 2013
So, two posts up on Rosetta Stones so far this week (and I promise you, I’m going to try to get to our next Cataclysm post tomorrow – it’s harder to write with Dragon, but we’ll get there). The first one is a kind of self-congratulatory thingy: I ended up getting linked by NASA Earth …
Apr 12 2013
My heart sister Nicole posted this for me on Facebook. She knows me entirely too well. The moment I saw it, I fell deeply in love, and knew I had to share it with you. I think you lot will love it as much as I did: That whole damned thing is so very, very …
Apr 11 2013
I’m a bit frantically busy round here this week, so I haven’t had time to write much. I promise we’ll return to Mount St. Helens soon, but in the meantime, I’ve reprised one of my favorite posts. If you missed “Time and Space, Space and Time” the first go-round, go have a gander. I think …
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