Category Archives: Geology

The scientific tourist #190 — Vanadinite

Posted on 5 September, 2011 by Sam Wise

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

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Carnivalia — 8/23 – 8/31

Posted on 31 August, 2011 by Sam Wise

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

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The scientific tourist #186 — the La Garita caldera

Posted on 8 August, 2011 by Sam Wise

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

Posted on 20 July, 2011 by Sam Wise

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

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The scientific tourist #183 — rock flour in the Tracy Arm fjord

Posted on 18 July, 2011 by Sam Wise

A bit of calved glacier from Alaska’s Tracy Arm fjord…

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Casual Friday — Welcome to the Anthropocene!

Posted on 8 July, 2011 by Sam Wise

Back in 2000, a nobel laureate in Chemistry named Paul Crutzen proposed that the Earth is no longer in the Holocene era. Instead, he feels (and he’s gaining a lot of company) that we’ve long since entered the Anthropocene, an era in which human activity is playing a driving role in the planet’s ecosystems…

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