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Category Archives: geology
Obsessing over the Anthropocene’s “golden spike” misses the point of the Anthropocene
This is a good write-up of the latest step in the long and somewhat contentious process of making the Anthropocene “official”: In the same week as the world’s population ticked over to 8 billion people, the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) began … Continue reading
Juno reveals Europa’s evolving surface
About a month ago, NASA’s Juno probe buzzed the Jovian moon Jupiter, and we got this cool picture, taken from a distance of about 400 km away. The grooves and ridges criss-crossing Europa’s icy shell are thought to record water from … Continue reading
The beautiful geological info-art of John Emslie
Look at this beautiful 19th century infographic, courtesy of the History of Geology on Twitter: Here it is in all it’s glory: Except for the somewhat interesting landscape associated with label 12 – “Earthquakes and elevations of the land by … Continue reading
Just published: can sandbox models be educational and fun?
Just out: a paper by me and education expert Bridget Mulvey grapples with the question: analogue sandbox models are cool, but are they effective teaching tools? Analogue sandbox models are a way of demonstrating tectonic deformation processes in the classroom: the … Continue reading
The long-term seismic impact of mega thrust earthquakes
Here’s a very interesting analysis of aftershock patterns in the wake of M9+ megathrust events: the aftershocks in a ‘core’ region closest to the rupture shut off within a few years of the main shock, after which seismicity might remain … Continue reading
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