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Hotspot volcanism on Hawaii: textbook vs reality

Posted on July 12, 2012 by Chris Rowan

Just like an iceberg, the parts of the Hawaiian Islands that you see above the ocean surface are dwarfed in volume by the stuff below the waves. For a start, any volcano that forms in the middle of the Pacific … Continue reading →

Categories: geology, outcrops, photos, tectonics, volcanoes

Stuff we linked to on Twitter last week

Posted on July 8, 2012 by Chris Rowan

There was a certain amount of cowering away from >100 F temperatures by team Allochthonous this week, which means that (a) the link-fest is a bit lighter than usual, and (b) there may be a slight focus on things related … Continue reading →

Categories: links

Scenic Saturday: seeing geology everywhere

Posted on July 7, 2012 by Chris Rowan

One of the gifts of a geological education (or one of the curses, if you are one of our long-suffering friends) is that our habit of looking for patterns in the landscape – the evidence of past worlds preserved in … Continue reading →

Categories: geology, geomorphology, photos

Stuff we linked to on Twitter last week

Posted on July 1, 2012 by Chris Rowan

A bit late with the link-fest this week: it turns out that when you spend the whole weekend under a sprinkler to avoid overheating in the midwest’s current heatwave, laptop and internet usage go down substantially… Other posts on All-geo … Continue reading →

Categories: links