'Geology' Category
Casual Friday — the new Bay Bridge
Building a bridge to last 150 years, in the middle of an earthquake zone…
The scientific tourist #123 — banded iron
A slab of banded iron at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C….
Carnivalia — 4/21 – 4/27
Plenty of reading material in the past week’s crop of blog carnivals…
Carnivalia — 3/31 – 4/06
The past week’s selection of (mostly) science-related blog carnivals…
Carnivalia — 3/24 – 3/30
The past week’s crop of (mostly) science-related blog carnivals awaits your reading attentions…
Casual Friday — Fly me to the m… to Mars!
OK, so at this point we have no idea where astronauts will go next, if anywhere. But in the meantime, armchair astronauts can (to some degree) content themselves with a couple of cool videos put together by Doug Ellison of UnmannedSpaceflight.com from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) data…
The scientific tourist #109 — Fairy Caves
This week’s image comes to you from the Fairy Caves, now part of the Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park, just outside of Glenwood Springs, Colorado
The scientific tourist #108 — the painted desert
Today’s image comes to you from the “Painted Desert” in northern Arizona in the U.S….
Casual Friday — going deep…
I’ve posted some “Scientific tourist” shots from Carlsbad Caverns in southern New Mexico. But thanks to BBC’s “Planet Earth” series, you can see video of a nearby (still in the boundaries of the National Park) and far larger / deeper (deepest in the U.S.) cave — Lechuguilla…
Carnivalia — 9/23 – 9/29
The past week’s crop of (mostly) science-related blog carnivals awaits you…
