And next week, Hurricane Lowell could swing sharply toward Hawaii....

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Flowery pink Erythrite is against shiny silver and structurally-useful Skutterudite in this match of cobalt minerals. Will you pick the weathering product, or the mineral it comes from?

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Star Wars is one of the most influential science-fiction worlds created in our time. The central theme revolves around the struggle between the tyrannical Galactic Empire and the rebels trying to bring it down. Star Wars has many reasons to pull you in: iconic lightsaber duels, technological advancements such as hyperspace travel, and perhaps most importantly for a geologist: a remarkable number of habitable planets in the galaxy. The planets in the Star Wars galaxy also has diverse flora and fauna. Planets with lava, ice, forests, deserts, inhabited by various species like large, cunning wookiees and crafty Anzellans. But how realistic are these planets they inhabit?

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It's carbonate-vs-carbonate with copper-rich Azurite against zinc-rich Smithsonite.

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Welcome to "Climate Change through a Geomorphological Lens", a blog series exploring the changing climate from a geomorphological perspective.

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This month's open thread on climate topics. Please be constructive and keep nonsense to a minimum. The post Unforced Variations: Sep 2026 first appeared on RealClimate....

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It's already September, time is flying - at least for me. This is the latest list of papers that deal with paleoseismology and active tectonics. If you published a study that would fit in here, please get in touch. And if you would like to write about your paleoseismology research or present ongoing project, please also don't hesitate to drop me a mail. 

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A couple of weeks ago Sarah and I spent three days in Hemet, California, attending our first 'PaleoCon' event at the Western Science Center. Hemet is a small suburban city in the easternmost part of the "Inland Empire", located about 20 miles northea...

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The system looming over toasty water just offshore on Monday was small but potentially potent....

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Answer: Capsules filled with seeds! (Striped Coralroot, Awinch1001)Welcome back to the The Monthly Orchid, a series about South Dakota's native orchids. This month we again look at Coralroots, specifically the Striped Coralroot, Corallorhiza striata....

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Of possible relevance to the current bosque dieback in New Mexico's Middle Rio Grande? From PNAS: Predicting forest resilience requires knowing whether trees can physiologically acclimate to drought. Drawing on global in-situ field experiments,...

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Glen Echo Creek has had more than one name in the past. A while ago I wrote about the lower part of Glen Echo Creek, the part that flows through residential territory. This is a closer look at the upper part, where the creek is born in a bedrock valley and flows through beautiful Mountain View Cemetery, which uses it to water the grounds.

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Thinking about doing fieldwork? 'The do-it-yourself dip and strike model (with DIY clinometer); using a model to measure and understand dip, dip direction, strike and apparent dip'.

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Each month we feature specific Divisions of EGU and during the monthly GeoRoundup we put the journals that publish science from those Divisions at the top of the Highlights section. For August, we are featuring the Natural Hazards (NH), Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology (GMPV), and Geodesy (G). They are represented by the journals Solid Earth (SE), Geoscientific Model Development (GMD),and Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (NHESS).

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We have been undergoing a dramatic quest for green in the face of climate change, green in the urban, green in the rural, from greening the desert to reforestation and afforestation. These "green" solutions (afforestation, exurban tree-planting, ...

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Google maps is showing their true face: stupidity and cowardice, by bending over for Dumbass Trump and pretending he gets to re-name Lake Ontario, or anything else. Fuck you, google....

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Use the blank bracket to plan out your campaigns or lesson plans, print and post in a hallway to update each match, or even fill out with your predictions for bragging points! (Filling out a bracket is not necessary to play.) Daily voting takes place on www.MineralCup.org in September. Campaign on your favourite social media using #MinCup26.

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NASA's next flagship orbital observatory will reshape what we know about planets throughout the galaxy....

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All this means that it is going to be increasingly difficult to import one's way out of food shortages as the whole of world agriculture becomes affected. Few in positions of civilian or military leadership have yet to comprehend this.

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 Good morning, Monterey Bay. This is an uncommonly accurate true natural cast of one of Santa Cruz's most iconic fossil species, Anadara trilineata, Purisima Formation rock layer, Santa Cruz, May 16, 2026, c. 3 million years ago. These rather rare...

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I monitor climate-related data, including the total wildfire area burned in the USA according to the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC). Here's the yearly total acres burned since 1983 (the figure for 2026 is year-so-far): The straight-line fi...

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 Disneyland's Matterhorn BobsledsMy next entry in the Geology of Disney are Disneyland's Matterhorn Bobsleds ride. Based on the real Matterhorn peak in the Swiss Alps on the Italian-Switzerland Border, the ride was initially opened in 1959 and is no...

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In our new paper, we explore the potential origins of a rare lunar rock type - granites. Since the return of Moon rocks by the Apollo missions, our ideas of how the different rock types that make up the crust formed have generally held true. How...

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Glacier collapse, not an earthquake, was the direct cause of the disaster that has left thousands missing....

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