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Category Archives: geology
The Cuyahoga River burned today for the first time in 51 years. Here’s what we can learn from it.
How many of you had “Cuyahoga River catches fire” on your 2020 bingo card? Yet that’s what happened today. A tanker-car collision/fire near the Cuyahoga River in Akron this morning spilled burning fuel into a storm sewer and then the … Continue reading
Older than the solar system
As Carl Sagan once said, “we are made of star stuff“: and here some of it is; mineral grains formed around distant suns, hundreds of millions of years before our solar system was born. These grains of silicon carbide were … Continue reading
Can we detect plate tectonics on exoplanets?
As celebrated in this Ars Technica piece, the 2010s was ‘the decade of the exoplanet’. Largely thanks to the Kepler telescope, the past ten years has seen an explosion in exoplanet discoveries. More than 4000 planets have now been identified orbiting other stars, … Continue reading
Oxygenation of Earth’s atmosphere may not have required a trigger event after all
In Earth history, there have been 3 abrupt jumps in atmospheric oxygen. A evolutionary or tectonic trigger is usually invoked, but a new study just published in Science suggests all you need is gradual oxidation of earth’s surface plus feedbacks … Continue reading
Whet your Appetite with these 45+ Books on Water
For some reason, I have a lot of books about water on my shelves. But my collection, seems like a drop in the ocean (forgive me) compared to all of the great books on water that are out there. I … Continue reading
