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Category Archives: geology
Weird rocky exoplanets
Obtaining the composition of rocky exoplanets from the spectral signature produced when their dying parent star eats them is already pretty mind-blowing. But the results – which suggest that on some of these worlds, quartz is substituted for olivine in their … Continue reading
Diversity (or lack thereof) in geoscience: are we hyping up the wrong things?
Via Dr Sarah Greene, some data from a survey of student attitudes to STEM careers, including geosciences, at a college in the SW US indicates that they care more about whether their career can help people or the environment than the … Continue reading
Why do we get earthquakes a long way from plate boundaries?
There’s already a lot of good info out there about this week’s magnitude 5.9 earthquake near Melbourne, Australia. I wanted to dig a little more into the broader reasons you can get earthquakes like this in places you might not … Continue reading
The unthanked shoulders we stand on
Via Liz Hide on Twitter, a thought-provoking acknowledgement of the important role the in discovering and excavating the paleontological treasures in many museums’ collections. On a similar theme, I think of the story of Alfred Wegener and continental drift. The … Continue reading
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
Nice plan for content warnings on Mastodon and the Fediverse. Now you need a Mastodon/Fediverse button on this blog.