geology - Through the sandglass

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A sad story of desert preservation

A story that appeared all over the news recently caught my eye for a number of reasons - here’s an example of the headlines: “Frozen in the sands of time: Eerie...

May 1, 2012 10 min read

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Reposing differently on Mars

Sand, Mars, and a challenge to conventional wisdom. What better ingredients for a post could I wish for? The two images above show sedimentary fan deposits, the...

May 1, 2012 8 min read

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Guest post: a gallery of sand photographers' styles

Kurt Meyer writes: SHOOTING SAND For the last 15 years, on and off, I have been collecting sand. The “off” times resulted from not having an answer to the quest...

April 1, 2012 7 min read

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April 2012

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

April 1, 2012 8 min read

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Lying vehicles

It has become a sarcastic proverb that a thing must be true if you saw it in a newspaper. That is the opinion intelligent people have of that lying vehicle in a...

January 1, 2012 9 min read

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Tom, Dick, Harry, and George - sand and The Great Escape

The plan to dig down to the workshop at the starting point of the tunnel known as Harry, where the wartime fliers began their effort to tunnel beneath the barbe...

January 1, 2012 9 min read

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A selection, a reflection, and a wish for 2012

It’s that time of the year when I, for one, am grateful that the endless reflections in the media on the previous twelve months must come to an end – the events...

December 1, 2011 5 min read

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Playing in the sand box – continuing connections

What do all these images have in common? Well, immediately, it’s quite obvious: they are all 3D models of landscapes. But the thinking, the execution, and the t...

December 1, 2011 4 min read

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December 2011

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

December 1, 2011 4 min read

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Another margarita!

You live and learn – well, at least I try. And often I don’t even have to try – something I didn’t know (a category that knows no limits) just ups and surprises...

August 1, 2011 4 min read

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August 2011

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

August 1, 2011 7 min read

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Military forensics: a reader's query

I have frequently noted my pleasure in regularly receiving “out of the blue” comments and e-mails – I find myself in contact with all kinds of people from aroun...

July 1, 2011 5 min read