geomorphology - Through the sandglass

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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

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November 2009

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

November 1, 2009 6 min read

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A different kind of sand - on the road again in the volcanoes of the Auvergne

I’ve just spent several days rambling around the geology of the Puy de Dome and the surrounding volcanoes in the Auvergne region of France’s Massif Central. The...

October 1, 2009 1 min read

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October 2009

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

October 1, 2009 7 min read

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Two tourist lessons in sand dynamics

A few days ago, I described the fractal sand landscapes on the beach of Cap Ferret on the Atlantic coast west of Bordeaux. The swirling sand banks that shape-sh...

October 1, 2009 2 min read

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Arenophile genetics, Jedi, and another submarine canyon

Geology doesn’t exactly run in my family. My parents weren’t geologists, I married someone to whom dip and strike will eternally remain an arcane concept, and n...

September 1, 2009 6 min read

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Mont-Saint-Michel: a massive sedimentology experiment

The bay of Mont-Saint-Michel, in the coastal corner of France between Normandy and Brittany, boasts the fourth-largest tidal range in the world – up to 14 meter...

September 1, 2009 7 min read

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Nature's patterns, fractal landscapes, and a beach laboratory

The termination of the seemingly endless stretch of beach and dunes that forms the Atlantic boundary of the Bordeaux region is Cap Ferret, a constantly changing...

September 1, 2009 2 min read

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September 2009

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

September 1, 2009 7 min read

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The mother of all extinctions and the perils of correlation (1)

Nature abhors a vacuum, continuity and the status quo. Variety is the spice of life and change is the order of the day. Such things make life complex for a geol...

August 1, 2009 10 min read

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The mother of all extinctions and the perils of correlation (2)

The previous post, instalment one of this saga, looked at what a geologist must do, faced with rock exposures in, say, a cliff face, to read the ledgers of our...

August 1, 2009 14 min read

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The Poetry of Sand: Guest Writer, Richard Bready

Times of Sand Richard Bready In science one tries to say something that no one knew before in a way that everyone can understand. Whereas in poetry . . . - Dira...

August 1, 2009 13 min read