Category Archives: geology

Not to scale

Like all geologists, I’m a great fan of scale bars. Except, it seems, on some of my figures… Continue reading

Categories: geology, public science, science education

New at Erratics: What’s up with Cu?

Our goal in starting Earth Science Erratics was to promote and encourage new voices to take there first steps into the geoblogosphere. But we also want to make sure that people who have taken those first steps already, but have … Continue reading

Categories: geology, links

The making of an angular unconformity: Hutton’s unconformity at Siccar Point

Photos and video from a geo-pilgrimage: an in-depth look at Hutton’s Unconformity, and the geological history that it represents. Continue reading

Categories: deep time, geology, outcrops, Palaeozoic, photos, structures

Geology is destiny: globally mapping permeability by rock type

The first maps of the global distribution of the ease of subsurface water flow have been produced, and they are based on maps of rock type. Continue reading

Categories: by Anne, geology, hydrology, paper reviews

An avalanche at the museum

At the Chicago Museum of Science & Technology, make your own debris flows with the hypnotic Avalanche Disk. Continue reading

Categories: geohazards, geology, geophysics, public science, science education