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Flood, Fire and Ice in the Lake District

paulgarner wrote 1 year ago: In April I led a group of home school families and their friends on a geological field trip to the L … more →

Tags: lake district, Borrowdale Volcanic Group, Skiddaw Group, Shap Granite, Penrith Sandstone

Some wonderful Lake District geology: Part 2

paulgarner wrote 1 year ago: Yesterday I started my “visual tour” of Lake District geology, at least the parts of it … more →

Tags: Geology, lake district, Windermere Supergroup, Shap Granite

Birthing a litter of drumlins

Callan Bentley wrote 2 years ago: Quite appropriately, Glacial Till won the new the latest edition of “Where on (Google) Earth? … more →

Tags: Glaciers, Iceland, Pleistocene, sediment, unconformities

The Purgatory Conglomerate6 comments

Callan Bentley wrote 2 years ago: After my thesis defense at the University of Maryland, my mentor and friend E-an Zen asked me if I h … more →

Tags: Structure, sediment, joints, Rhode Island

Mineral phantasms?5 comments

Callan Bentley wrote 3 years ago: Ice… serpentine… halite… What do they all have in common? I’ve discussed min … more →

Tags: Geology, Glaciers, ice, Minerals, Plate Tectonics

Erratic

Callan Bentley wrote 3 years ago: !!! … more →

Tags: Geology, sediment, New York, NYC

Glacial striations, southern Central Park1 comment

Callan Bentley wrote 3 years ago: New York City has some cool geology: Paleozoic metamorphics scraped by Pleistocene glaciers. … more →

Tags: Geology, metamorphism, Pleistocene, paleozoic, New York, NYC

Rockies course applications open

Callan Bentley wrote 3 years ago: For those of you who are potential NOVA students (really, that’s pretty much anyone on the pla … more →

Tags: NOVA, Montaña, Rockies, mississippian (carboniferous)

Faulted moraine

Callan Bentley wrote 3 years ago: Continuing with the recounting of geological sights in the Owens Valley, California, area… Thi … more →

Tags: Geology, Structure, Faults, California, sierras, Basin and Range, Pleistocene, holocene

Rapid sea floor spreading and glacial mega-lineations

paulgarner wrote 3 years ago: It’s been a busy week — not much opportunity for blogging — but I’ve just got time to me … more →

Tags: Geology, Catastrophic plate tectonics


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