geomorphology - Through the sandglass

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April 2013

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

April 1, 2013 9 min read

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February 2013

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

February 1, 2013 5 min read

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The muddied waters of Sandy

In the aftermath of the real super-storm (or hurricane) Sandy, there has been, not surprisingly, a super-storm of reporting, opinionating, blogging, and twitter...

November 1, 2012 7 min read

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The ongoing theme, ongoing

“We cannot sustain the shoreline in the future as we have in the past” Oblique aerial photographs of Mantoloking, NJ. View looking west along the New Jersey sho...

November 1, 2012 4 min read

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November 2012

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

November 1, 2012 7 min read

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Scooped!

How could I not post this? The activities of our Martian geologist friend continue to amaze, the latest being sand sampling. All images and captions are courtes...

October 1, 2012 6 min read

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What is happening to British dunes? The testimony of Eryngium maritimum

It was tempting to make the subject of this entire post the egregious activities of the outstanding American buffoon, Donald Trump (plea to trans-Atlantic reade...

September 1, 2012 11 min read

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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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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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Caption competition?

Well, sorry, no, this is just too easy: guess “World’s biggest bunker!” or “World’s biggest sand trap!” (depending on which side of the Atlantic your golfing pe...

January 1, 2012 4 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