Monthly Archives: May 2008

Ripples aplenty

Last week’s geopuzzle was really just an excuse to show off more photos of the rather nice sedimentary structures preserved in the Archean rocks I visited the other week. All of the photos show preserved ripple marks. I’ve always found … Continue reading

Categories: geopuzzling

Pangaea Day, geology-style

A brief geographic trip into the late Triassic.
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Categories: deep time, geology, Mesozoic, past worlds

Geopuzzle #11

Spot (and explain, if you can) the differences. It’s not much of a hint to say that the last one is quite difficult – but the last one is quite difficult. Update: Click through for the answer.

Categories: geopuzzling

Active, dormant, and extinct volcanoes

How do you know your if friendly neighbourhood volcano is dead, or merely dozing?
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Categories: basics, geohazards, geology, volcanoes

What’s up with those Archean sandstones?

In addition to searching out evidence for Archean microbial mats, my revisitation of the Pongola sandstones gave me the chance to look a bit more closely at their lithology. When I last posted pictures from this sequence, there was a … Continue reading

Categories: Archean, fieldwork, geology, geopuzzling, past worlds