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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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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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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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Weekend break - other sand in the news

Put the words “Louisiana sand berms” (or even simply “sand”) into Google news search, and it’s apparent that the rhetoric around what is now being termed “The G...

June 1, 2010 2 min read

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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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Berms and bacteria: a couple more sources - one of them illustrious

Orrin Pilkey, Emeritus Professor of Geology at Duke University, author of hundreds of papers and books, doyen and uber-guru of all things coastal, has stated hi...

July 1, 2010 1 min read

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Limulus polyphemus: sand artist and one of nature's wonders

So OK, Jim Denevan is in a different league, but back in May, when the tides were high and the first full moon of the month was rising over Queens, New York, La...

July 1, 2010 8 min read

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Sandfish robotics: the story continues

Almost exactly a year ago, I wrote about the remarkable abilities of Scincus scincus, otherwise known as the sandfish, sand skink or sand swimmer. This little S...

July 1, 2010 5 min read

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July 2010

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

July 1, 2010 1 min read

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Sands of the San Francisco Exploratorium

When I bought my ticket for the Exploratorium, I asked, of course, where there were exhibits that used sand. After initially pointing to one close by, the guy b...

August 1, 2010 7 min read