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July 2011

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

July 1, 2011 3 min read

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Martian floods of tears - are the TSIs ESRs? Or is it just the total drag?

It’s always sobering to realise that we have a more detailed view of the surface of Mars than we do of the floors of our own oceans. And, while the evidence for...

June 1, 2011 9 min read

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Sunday Sand: grains of tragic truth, June 6, 1944

In Sand, talking about the genetic history of families of grains, I wrote the following: A traveler expects to sample a local cuisine that has its origins in lo...

June 1, 2011 4 min read

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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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Sand and ice in Queens

Late last year, I reported on the strange interactions of sand and ice on the shores of Lake Superior and 500-million-year-old beaches. Recently, I heard from m...

April 1, 2011 2 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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Accretionary Wedge # 32

The March edition of the Accretionary Wedge geoblog carnival is at Ann’s Musings, and the theme is a deceptively simple summons: “Throw me your ‘favorite geolog...

March 1, 2011 2 min read