Sonntag, 6. Juni 2010

Geology and Cyclicity

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1842, 5 years after Agassiz's " Discourse of Neuchatel ", the French mathematician Joseph Alphonse Adhémar elaborated a hy...
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Montag, 24. Mai 2010

Megafauna Methane collapse

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There are lots of hypothesis dealing with the extinction of the Pleistocene Megafauna. Now a research team of the University of New Mexico ...

The hard life of being geologist - An introduction

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150 years ago the practical work of geologists in the field was considerable different to modern standards (at least in Europe), there wer...
Mittwoch, 19. Mai 2010

Mount St. Helens: 30 years of posteruption glacier development

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Fig.1. Glaciers in the crater of Mount Saint Helens. The Crater Glacier is shaped in a horseshoe around the new domes that have developed i...
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Montag, 17. Mai 2010

They say that reading rocks is hard to do...

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Ever wonder how to tell if a rock layer is right-side-up or turned by mountain building? Dr. Richard Alley has the answers !
Dienstag, 11. Mai 2010

Te Pito Te Henua: Botanical Investigations from the navel of the world

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The collapse of the civilisation on Easter Island, or Rapa Nui in the native language, became very popular with the film "Rapa Nui...
Sonntag, 9. Mai 2010

The first geological map depicting loess (1865)

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Loess is silt dominated sediment with minor amounts of sand and clay. This homogenous particle distribution is a result of the formation of ...
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