education - Through the sandglass

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Sunday sand: small details, large effects

As you may have guessed by now, I find sands and sandstones fascinating - fascinating and vital in so many different ways to our daily lives. But while, more of...

June 1, 2011 7 min read

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June 2011

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

June 1, 2011 9 min read

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May 2011

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

May 1, 2011 3 min read

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Yardangs: an Accretionary Wedge Weirdness Cross-post

Yardangs 1. Photo courtesy of Michael Welland. It has been great fun to collaborate with Evelyn over at Georneys on a serendipitous coincidence of the letter “Y...

May 1, 2011 6 min read

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April 2011

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

April 1, 2011 8 min read

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March 2011

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

March 1, 2011 5 min read

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It's a sandpile world

One of the – many – entertaining research themes for my book was the role that sand plays in the imagery of our imaginations. Large numbers, very small things,...

February 1, 2011 7 min read

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A catch-up round-up of the Geoblogosphere

If I were one for New Year’s resolutions, which, after decades of disappointing self-scrutiny, I’m afraid I’m not, I would probably resolve to try to manage my...

January 1, 2011 7 min read

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January 2011

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

January 1, 2011 4 min read

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A prominent role for a sandglass

I promise that I’ll get back to more serious topics shortly, but I’m still trying to catch up on catching up. Among recent distractions was the fact that on Tue...

November 1, 2010 3 min read

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Earth Science Week and Earth Science Literacy

Earth Science Week and Earth Science Literacy It’s Earth Science Week again, stimulated and coordinated by the AGI: Since October 1998, the American Geological...

October 1, 2010 10 min read

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Sunday sand: Halloween and a cruise

I’m in the US - Philadelphia to be exact - and it’s October 31st, so, HAPPY SANDY HALLOWEEN! The reason that I’m over here is that tomorrow I must go to New Yor...

October 1, 2010 3 min read