geology - Through the sandglass

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Accretionary Wedge: the Geoblogosphere

Dave Bressan (History of Geology and Cryology and Co.) has posted a call for a new Accretionary Wedge episode with the grand theme of the geoblogosphere, geolog...

July 1, 2010 7 min read

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June 2010

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

June 1, 2010 9 min read

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The Geoblogosphere: a commentary

Curious about the cultural dimensions of the International Geoblogosphere, and with the impression (without much in the way of supporting statistics) that the U...

May 1, 2010 14 min read

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May 2010

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

May 1, 2010 20 min read

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Larry's beach - and a scale quiz

Just about exactly a year ago, I had the pleasure of posting some of Larry Deemer’s spectacular photographs from his local beach at Breezy Point, Queens, New Yo...

April 1, 2010 3 min read

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Mark Twain the geologist

Mark Twain died one hundred years ago today “The Old Oolitic Silurian” – my father used to periodically quote this to me to illustrate his familiarity with geol...

April 1, 2010 8 min read

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April 2010

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

April 1, 2010 7 min read

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March 2010

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

March 1, 2010 10 min read

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February 2010

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

February 1, 2010 3 min read

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Two museums and the Fontainebleau glass sand

A few weeks ago, the art museum in Montpellier provided a welcome refuge from torrential rain (of course, I was planning on visiting anyway, but the weather dro...

February 1, 2010 5 min read

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January 2010

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

January 1, 2010 5 min read

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Reports from the Solway Firth (2): Guest Writer and a Submerged Forest

My kind hosts for the Café Scientifique event were Ann Lackie and her husband, John. They had set up the group originally and are to be commended for their devo...

December 1, 2009 15 min read