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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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Sand continuum - a modelling breakthrough

It’s happened again – a topic that I touched on in my Milan talk shows up in a New Scientist report from earlier this year (I only just caught up with it). In t...

November 1, 2011 4 min read

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Sunday sand: Komodo pink

No, these photos are not photoshopped – these are the real colours of this beach on Komodo Island: Simply spectacular, macroscopically and microscopically, and...

November 1, 2011 3 min read

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October 2011

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

October 1, 2011 3 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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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: 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