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Category Archives: Reblogs
A Creationist Speaker Comes to Town
Originally posted on Letters to Creationists:
By the early 1800s European geologists (many of them devout Christians) realized that the rock layers they observed had to be far older than the 6000 years allowed by a literal interpretation of Bible…
Posted in Geology, Philosophy, Reblogs, Religion, Science Education
Tagged Creationism
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Geoscience Nobels?
Originally posted on The Grumpy Geophysicist:
As long as we are on the subject, what sorts of things might be worth Nobel Prizes in geoscience? There are two aspects of the Nobels that differ from most geoscience prizes: they are…
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Free course on remote sensing for water exploration
250 million people who live in the drylands of Africa and Asia face a shortage of water for their entire lives. Hundreds of millions more in less drought-prone regions of the ‘Third World’ have to cope repeatedly with reduced supplies.…
Posted in Environment, Exploration, Geology, Reblogs, Science Education
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Horses, barns and earthquakes
Originally posted on The Grumpy Geophysicist:
Well, it appears that the Oklahoma finally bought into the connection of earthquakes to deep injection wells as the recent M5.6 earthquake led them to shut down injection wells in the vicinity of the…
Posted in How Geophysics Works, Reblogs
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Oceans of magma, Moon formation and Earth’s ‘Year Zero’
That the Moon formed and Earth’s geochemistry was reset by our planet’s collision with another, now vanished world, has become pretty much part of the geoscientific canon. It was but one of some unimaginably catastrophic events that possibly characterised the…
Posted in How Geophysics Works, Reblogs
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The Bees’ Sixth Sense
Originally posted on Bad Beekeeping Blog:
Bees sense the environment differently than humans. For example, bees can see ultra-violet colour and distinguish it from violet and white, yet they see red as if it were black. They sense the orientation…
Posted in How Geophysics Works, Reblogs
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Rocks within rocks, and rocks within rocks within rocks
Originally posted on Primate's Progress:
Benalmadena, Costa del Sol, Spain, some 20 miles West of Malaga, and perhaps readers can enlighten me about what I’m seeing: Rocks within rocks within rocks; red sandstone matrix (no stratification or bedding apparent),…
The Mountain Mystery (Book Review)
Originally posted on The Grumpy Geophysicist:
Many months ago, Ron Miksha was kind enough to send a copy of his book, The Mountain Mystery, to GG (Ron writes a blog under the book’s name). Although the book was mostly read long…
Posted in Book Review, Plate Tectonics, Reblogs, The Book
Tagged history, plate tectonics
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Cuba, America, and Oil
With America’s president visiting Cuba this week, I thought it might be helpful to re-post my story “Has Cuba Got Oil?” which I wrote in 2014. It’s still valid. Cuba still has oil. But I argued that I doubt oil … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Exploration, Geology, History, Reblogs
Tagged Castro, Cuba, offshore oil, oil industry, oil seeps
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Charles Darwin, the Geologist
Originally posted on The Mountain Mystery:
Darwin as imagined by Hornet magazine 1871 It’s his birthday. It seems Charles Darwin’s legacy is experiencing a renaissance. Sure, some 60% of Americans vilify the man and hope he is roasting in hell.…
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