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| 11/19/2008 Geofiction
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| Jessica Ball, better known online as Tuff Cookie, reviewed some geology-oriented fiction the other day on her Magma Cum Laude blog including Jules Verne's ur-classic Voyage au centre de le...
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| 11/18/2008 How Many Plates Are There?
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| This question came up in email. It's not one that geologists ask—we're content to say "about a dozen major ones." But, my correspondent says, "The folks who write the standardized...
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| 11/17/2008 The Kleinpell Stratagem
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| I've been reading a little about Robert Kleinpell, whose career was a prime part of California's success as an oil-producing state. His painstaking work in California biostratigraphy (mapping rocks through...
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| 11/16/2008 Magnitude 7.5 Quake, Northern Indonesia
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| Indonesia is the world's most earthquake-prone nation, but even there a 7.5 is pretty large. It was a shallow subduction-related thrust event just north of Sulawesi island's northern Minahasa Peninsula,...
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| 11/15/2008 Weekend Browsing: Extrusive Igneous Rocks
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| There's a wide variety of rocks to be found in, near and around volcanoes—the extrusive igneous rocks. Here are a couple dozen pictures of the major types, tuffs and flows...
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| 11/14/2008 On the Origin of Minerals
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| It's not every day that you get a whole new perspective on mineralogy, but the current issue of American Mineralogist delivers one: Over the lifespan of the planet Earth, the...
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| 11/14/2008 Get Closer to the San Andreas
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| If you took part in the big ShakeOut earthquake drill yesterday and were underwhelmed, like some of my friends, because all you did was crouch under the desk for a...
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| 11/12/2008 The Great Southern California ShakeOut Is Today
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| The largest earthquake drill ever conducted starts today, November 13, all over southern California and elsewhere. At 10:00 am local time, everyone will pretend that a magnitude 7.8 earthquake has...
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| 11/12/2008 "Once We All Believed in Global Cooling": Bunk
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| A persistent thread in arguments about global warming is that "in the 1970s, scientists used to warn that global cooling would lead to a new ice age." I used to...
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| 11/11/2008 Wilshire/Nielson: Their Time Come Round at Last
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| From my time at the US Geological Survey in the late 1970s, I have a strong memory of a brown-bag presentation by Survey scientists Howard Wilshire and Jane Nielson on...
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