Posts Tagged ‘geology’
That greenish mineral? Trilobite poop.
By Ben | scienceInvestigating the composition of sand from around the world is a fairly common activity in many earth [&hellip
Disco Lava: Lava poured on ice
By Ben | art, sciencePart volcanology research, part performance art, in 2010 & 2011, the Syracuse Lava Project melted [&hellip
Thickness of Ice Sheets
By Ben | scienceby xkcd
A Political Map of Pangea
By Ben | maps, scienceWhat would Pangea look like if we plopped our current political borders on top of [&hellip
An Interactive Representation of Time
By Ben | art, infographics, scienceGetting a sense of how long various lengths of time, especially the really big [&hellip
Lava Fountains vs the Empire State Building
By Ben | infographics, nature, scienceLava fountains are impressive. Recently Mt. Etna has been throwing up lava fountains that reach [&hellip
Dangerous Science: Sampling Lava Directly From an Active Lava Lake
By Ben | scienceFrom BBC One's Journey to the Centre of the Planetvia Mental Floss. Shot at Mount [&hellip
Amazing facts about the Carboniferous (a.k.a. Geology is cooler than you think)
By Ben | nature, scienceTIL, upon the advent of wood [400mya], it took fungi 50mil yrs to evolve a [&hellip
xkcd: Lakes and Oceans
By Ben | Uncategorizedvia xkcd.com
Google honors Nicolas Steno's 374th birthday
By Ben | Uncategorizedvia google.com a.k.a. Niels Stensen
Beautiful Destruction: 11 Gorgeous Geological Maps of Volcanoes
By Ben | Uncategorizedvia wired.com Medicine Lake: The most gorgeous of the
Spectacular rockfall video on the Franz Josef glacier - a lucky escape for a tour party
By Ben | Uncategorizedvia blogs.agu.org
One reason I love the geology (via @Allochthonous)
By Ben | UncategorizedFortunately for me, the nature of geology itself helped to counterbalance the narrowing pressures of [&hellip
Crazy slow landslide (50cm/hr) timelapse
By Ben | Uncategorizedvia boingboing.net The world is more crazy than you thought
Time lapse of Hawai'i's Puʻu ʻŌʻō crater eruption
By Ben | Uncategorizedhttp://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/kilauea/update/archive/2011/Jan/PuuOo_20110206_small.mov Before deciding to become a teacher, I was pretty sure I wanted to study [&hellip
Geological Stratigraphic Column Cake
By Ben | Uncategorizedvia neatorama.com Geeky & tasty!