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Beach Nourishment and Sediment Budgets

I’m in the US at the moment (outside Philadelphia to be more precise), visiting family and preparing to give a talk in a couple of weeks time at the aquarium in...

May 1, 2009 6 min read

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Dr Who and the Sands of Time

For those non-UK readers who are saying to themselves, “Dr Who?” and suspecting that this might be a version of the “who’s on first?” routine, I’m referring to...

May 1, 2009 4 min read

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Philadelphia sandy news, and a couple of commercials

I’m reporting from the Philadelphia suburbs at the moment and therefore enjoying all the news that’s fit to print in the Philadelphia Inquirer each morning. On...

May 1, 2009 3 min read

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Kitchen physics continued

Some further observations, and hints for readers who wish to try this at home (or in the classroom). I was, as you could probably tell, flushed with the success...

April 1, 2009 7 min read

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Sandstone-making microbes, tafoni - and an extraordinary design idea

I love connections. Those unexpected and wonderful threads of stories that link and flow from one subject to another, subjects that would have seemed to have ha...

April 1, 2009 9 min read

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April 2009

Musings and news on the extraordinary stories sand has to tell of our planet and daily lives

April 1, 2009 8 min read

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Clogged Arteries - natural and unnatural rivers

Rivers are vital but also complex and dynamic systems - vital for the planet and vital for us. Civilization has always had an intimate relationship with rivers....

March 1, 2009 6 min read

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Invading dunes

Dunes move - it’s what they do, it’s what makes them dunes as opposed to lifeless piles of sand; and nothing will stand in their way. The images above are of du...

March 1, 2009 5 min read

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On the sands of time - the footprints of Ileret

I know that much has been written on this elsewhere over the last few days, but this blog is about the stories that sand can tell us - how could I possibly omit...

March 1, 2009 3 min read

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Rugby: England 34, France 10

Right, a new category for this blog - sport. I tend, not surprisingly, to collect images that use sand in any way, and the picture above comes from an advertisi...

March 1, 2009 4 min read

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March 2009

Musings and news on the extraordinary stories sand has to tell of our planet and daily lives

March 1, 2009 5 min read

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Building New York - the Long Island Sandminers

You’re standing by the side of the road when a dump truck hauls into view, one of the big ones, filled with sand. It’s closely followed by another, and another,...

February 1, 2009 5 min read