Monthly Archives: March 2008

Lusi in Time

The latest from Lusi I’ve just come across an excellent article in Time about Lusi, the mud volcano currently engulfing eastern Java. Entitled ‘A Wound In the Earth’, it’s a good summary of the human impacts, the attempts to contain … Continue reading

Categories: geohazards, Lusi

Fieldwork Album

Scenic and action shots from my sampling trip.
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Categories: fieldwork, outcrops, photos

Fieldwork

I’m away until the end of the week doing some more sampling. Don’t mess up the place while I’m away.

Categories: bloggery

Keep your impacts out of our deglaciation!

Just to prove that it’s not a good week for high-impact asteroid theories, John Hawks points to a piece in Science which discusses a growing scepticism about Firestone et al.‘s proposal in PNAS last year that the Younger Dryas – … Continue reading

Categories: geohazards

Retreat of the Megatsunami?

The question of whether chevrons and their associated deposits are formed by tsunami is of more than just academic importance; if they are, then we may be severely underestimating the average frequency of events capable of causing destructive tsunami (be … Continue reading

Categories: geohazards