Monthly Archives: April 2010

More tributes to Reds Wolman from all those who miss him

Reds is deeply missed by all who knew him, but these wonderful tributes give us a small way to hang on to the man who influenced and inspired us.
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Categories: academic life, by Anne, geomorphology

Volcanic ash: you can’t avoid if you can’t detect it

“we have got a storm scope and weather radar and they were looking straight through it.”
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Categories: geohazards, public science, ranting

Stuff I linked to on Twitter last week

More interesting geo-stuff I’ve highlighted for my followers on Twitter in the past 7 days, unsurprisingly dominated by the ongoing eruption of Eyjafjallajoekull. I’ve yet to find the definitive link on how to pronounce it, though. I’m trying out dividing … Continue reading

Categories: links

A volcanic sunset over Edinburgh

It may have grounded much of Europe’s air traffic, but at least Eyjafjallajoekull’s eruption has a pleasing aesthetic effect on the atmosphere.
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Categories: photos, volcanoes

Tectonics of the Qinghai Earthquake

Late on Tuesday (or Wednesday morning local time) western China was shaken by a magnitude 6.9 earthquake. The focal mechanism, courtesy of the USGS, tells us that it occured on a strike-slip fault like the San Andreas fault and the … Continue reading

Categories: earthquakes, geology, tectonics