rivers_water - Through the sandglass

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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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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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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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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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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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Too much, too little, and often in the wrong place

It rose out of the omnipresent sand of a natural island, and there remains a thin layer of the ocher substance almost everywhere: on the canopied grandstands, o...

November 1, 2009 8 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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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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Sand contributes to the economic stimulus

As a young kid, I was blessed with six great-aunts, who lived together in two groups of three, one group in Nottingham and the other in the East End of London....

September 1, 2009 7 min read