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Category Archives: Oceans
Catastrophic Floods
An interesting blog posting, Catastrophic History, produced on the website The Not So Solid Earth, makes the point that much of future archeology will be marine archeology. During the last ice age, a lot of sea water was captured in … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Culture, History, Oceans, The Book
Tagged Agassiz, Ballard, Biblical Flood, Black Sea, exploration, history, mountain mystery book, myths, Noah, oceanography
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The Age of Man?
Well, this is not the Age of Aquarius. Last week, geologists met in Berlin to discuss renaming our current geological epoch – the Holocene. They say it began when the ice age ended, 11,700 years ago. The geologists in Berlin … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Culture, Oceans, Philosophy
Tagged Anthropocene, carbon dioxide, Charles Lyell, evolution, extinction, fossils, history, Holocene, oceanography
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Russia’s Growing Pains
Russia plans to grow. It may do this by annexing 1.2 million square kilometres of Arctic Ocean. That’s a piece of Earth more than twice the current size of the Ukraine. This includes the North Pole. And potentially a lot … Continue reading
Posted in Exploration, Oceans
Tagged Alaska, Arctic Ocean, Canada, continental shelf, Greenland, Lomonosov ridge, North Pole, oceanography, oil industry, Putin, Russia
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Who gave Santa all that Oil?
This weekend Russia announced that the world’s most northerly oil well was about to spud. Vladimir Putin did the actual announcing himself from his summer vacation palace in Sochi. (He is the guy behind the big desk, above.) He was … Continue reading
All Aboard the Barracuda
Maurice Ewing was a Texas-panhandle farm boy, became a geophysicist, and then and oceanographer. He conducted the first marine seismic acquisition, inventing the equipment he needed as he sailed the oceans. I find it odd that a lad from the … Continue reading
Posted in Exploration, History, Oceans
Tagged Bullard, Ewing, geodesy, Harry Hess, Meinesz, oceanography, subduction
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The Death of Heezen
The Des Moines Register described Bruce Heezen as a large man. This, they said, contributed to his early death at age 53, on this day in 1977. But when we look at photographs of Bruce Heezen, he doesn’t appear to … Continue reading
Posted in Biography, History, Oceans, The Book
Tagged Ewing, geophysics, Heezen, mountain mystery book, oceanography, Tharp
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Searching for Haida Gwaii
Haida Gwaii. Totem poles and sea mist shroud the west coast islands of Canada. Rain is occasionally heavy enough to drown a duck. (30 cm a day is possible.) Or maybe the ducks drown in the tsunamis – earthquakes give … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, Exploration, History, Oceans
Tagged books, Canada, Haida Gwaii, Harry Hess
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