Category Archives: Geology

The scientific tourist #203 — Swiftcurrent lake

This week’s photo comes to you from Swiftcurrent lake — a beautiful little lake in the Many Glacier region of Glacier National Park in Montana…

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The scientific tourist #202 — Selenite

More crystal goodness from the Houston Museum of Natural Science — this time, you get a nice sample of selenite: Curiously enough, there’s no selenium in selenite — it’s a crystalline form of gypsum, and gets its name from its … Continue reading

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Casual Friday — getting ready for Curiosity

If all goes well, the Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity will launch from Florida tomorrow morning (10:25 a.m. Eastern Time, 1525 GMT). JPL put together this video of highlights in the rover’s planned mission…

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The scientific tourist #195 — azurite and malachite

Another image from the excellent geology collection at the Houston (Texas) Museum of Natural Science — this one of a sample of azurite and malachite

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The scientific tourist #192 — bad, bad lands

From the southwest corner of South Dakota comes today’s image for you — a landscape panorama the Badlands…

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The scientific tourist #191 — Glacier tracks

It’s back to Alaska this week, for another look at traces of a glacier’s passage. This shot’s from the Tracy Arm fjord: You can see faults in the rock running roughly vertically. But those horizontal grooves? They’re the tracks of … Continue reading

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The scientific tourist #190 — Vanadinite

Coming to you from the Houston Natural History Museum, it’s a sample of Vanadinite…

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Carnivalia — 8/23 – 8/31

The past week’s crop of (mostly) science-related blog carnivals…

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The scientific tourist #186 — the La Garita caldera

Stop and think about volcanoes for a second — do you think you know which ones were the biggest of them all?

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Carnivalia — 7/13 – 7/19

The past week’s crop of (mostly) science-related blog carnivals, just waiting for you…

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