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Tag Archives: myths
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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Okotoks, The Big Rock
A shattered rock as large as a 3-storey house sits in an alfalfa field on the flat Alberta prairie. It is about 30 minutes from my home in Calgary and the rock is more than a little startling, resting out … Continue reading
We Love Comets… but it wasn’t always that way
So, today we kissed a comet. Many of us shared the excitement of the European Space Agency’s successful landing. Something built on the Earth is now sitting on a comet, traveling at 135,000 kilometres an hour, heading towards an even … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Engineering, Exploration, History, Religion, Science Education, Space
Tagged comets, Edmond Halley, European Space Agency, Halley, history, Immanuel Velikovsky, myths, Philae, Rosetta, Whiston
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A Bad Day at the Beach
Today marks the death of Gaius Plinius Secundus, aka Pliny the Elder. He died along with 20,000 of his friends and neighbors. On August 24, 79, Mount Vesuvius exploded and Pompeii and Herculaneum were no more. From the book, The … Continue reading
Posted in History, Religion, The Book
Tagged history, mountain mystery book, myths, Pliny, religion, volcanoes
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Goddess Pele is stirring
The goddess Pele may be restless again. It seems that the legendary fire-woman, believed by early Hawaiian islanders to live under the sea and breathe lava into the throats of mountains, may be stirring. According to the ancient legends, the … Continue reading
Posted in History, How Geophysics Works
Tagged earthquakes, Hawaii, myths, plumes, Tuzo Wilson, volcanoes
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