The one I posted earlier came via iPhone, and iPhone cameras are rather low in resolution, especially after pocket-lint accumulates on the unprotected lens. I took this one with my normal camera & I think it came out a bit better: Penny (upper center-left) for scale. I’ve got high-resolution versions of this if anyone needs … Read more
All the photos I posted over the weekend here were via iPhone, and hence not particularly high-quality, despite their excellent geological content. Now I’ve downloaded the photos from my real camera, and have a few good ones to show. Here’s a succession of photos of the same specimen of Pterodactylus longirostrus, each progressively more zoomed … Read more
Today, a few photos of my spring Environmental Geology class doing a New Orleans Case Study lab using our lovely Emriver river process simulator: That’s it. I mainly shot these photos for Steve Gough, as NOVA is participating in the new grant he submitted to NSF, but I figured I would share them here, too. … Read more
Last Friday, I spent the evening riding up to New York on a bus. To pass the time, I had my iPod and a new paper by Francis Macdonald and colleagues in Science. The paper examines the timing of one of the episodes of “Snowball Earth” glaciation. There’s some important new data in this paper, … Read more
http://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/viewArticle.do?id=61206 (from one of the Skepchicks)
One of my students brought this sample in the other day: She said her father collected it in South Africa. It was labeled “suevite.” I learned the term suevite about a year ago, while touring the USGS Chesapeake Bay Impact Crater coring project samples at the USGS Headquarters in Reston, Virginia. Wright Horton taught me … Read more
On a granite block
In the American Museum of Natural History: These mylodontids reminded me of Puerto Natales…
Another in the Geology Of Central Park series…
Propagation direction: upper left towards lower right: