Monthly Archives: December 2011

Scenic Saturday: Year End Reflections

The last day of the year saw me doing field work in my very favorite spot in North Carolina, a short drive from Charlotte which takes me to a place that feels worlds away. I was collecting the final dataset … Continue reading

Categories: by Anne, fieldwork, photos

Our Highly Allochthonous travels in 2011

As 2011 draws to a close, ’tis the season for retrospectives, and we’re surprised that no-one this year seems to have started up the travel meme that has been so popular in the geoblogosphere in the past. After all, it … Continue reading

Categories: by Anne, fieldwork, photos

Two more earthquakes shake Christchurch

Just as it seemed that seismic activity was finally dying down in Christchurch, the city has been shaken by two more earthquakes. The USGS currently has the first shock pegged as a magnitude 5.8, and the second as a magnitude … Continue reading

Categories: earthquakes, focal mechanisms, geohazards

Stuff we linked to on Twitter last week

A good crop of links for your Sunday reading pleasure this week – and some new geoblogs to check out, too. Other posts on All-geo Geology word of the week has to be ‘geospeedometry’: Metageologist asks, how fast do metamorphic … Continue reading

Categories: links

Scenic Saturday: Mammoth Cave, where surface water and groundwater meet

It’s that wonderful time of year, as one semester finally gives up the fight and a new one waits in the shadows, pouncing on unsuspecting students and faculty just as they breathe a sigh of that they’ve won the first … Continue reading

Categories: by Anne, geomorphology, hydrology