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Stunning image of sediment plumes in Gulf of Mexico22 comments

BrianR wrote 2 weeks ago: I was alerted to this image from a reader and also saw it linked to on geology.com/news and just had … more →

Tags: Complexity, map, Marine Science, Patterns, Photos/Images, Rivers, shallow-marine

Word clouds for two upcoming conference presentations2 comments

BrianR wrote 2 months ago: As I mentioned last week (as have others as well) it is abstract-writing and presentation-preparatio … more →

Tags: Conference, detrital zircons, dissertation research, Patterns, Personal, Plate Tectonics, Professional life, Publication, Rivers

Some photos from a trip to the Arctic20 comments

BrianR wrote 4 months ago: I just returned from a trip to Svalbard, which is an island group in the Arctic Ocean about 1000 km … more →

Tags: photographs I've taken, Travel, map, Delta, Rivers, Svalbard

Suspending sediment in a fluid1 comment

BrianR wrote 5 months ago: Blogging will be even lighter than usual for the next two weeks … I am doing some traveling an … more →

Tags: Photos/Images, turbidites, Personal

Sea-Floor Sunday #50: Saline density flow channel network

BrianR wrote 5 months ago: This week’s Sea-Floor Sunday is an image from a recent paper from Flood et al. about channel n … more →

Tags: sea-floor image, map, Sea-Floor Sunday

GSA Special Paper 454: Earth Science in the Urban Ocean1 comment

BrianR wrote 6 months ago: A special volume from GSA (Geological Society of America) titled Earth Science in the Urban Ocean is … more →

Tags: Marine Science, turbidites, Publication, Science and Society, dissertation research, Personal, source-to-sink, sedimentary basins

Sea-Floor Sunday #49: Turbidite system pathways on Gulf of Mexico continental slope1 comment

BrianR wrote 6 months ago: This week’s Sea-Floor Sunday is an image from the continental slope in the northern Gulf of Me … more →

Tags: turbidites, sea-floor image, Patterns, Sea-Floor Sunday, sedimentary basins

Friday Field Foto #83: Cross-stratified volcanogenic sands6 comments

BrianR wrote 7 months ago: This week’s Friday Field Foto is from Kilbourne Hole in southernmost New Mexico — very c … more →

Tags: Friday Field Foto, photographs I've taken, sedimentary structures, earth hazards, West Texas, igneous rocks

Friday Field Foto #82: Mouth of the Russian River5 comments

BrianR wrote 7 months ago: This week’s Friday Field Foto isn’t technically from “the field” — nev … more →

Tags: Friday Field Foto, map, Personal, photographs I've taken, Rivers, sediment flux

Beautiful sediment plumes in the Gulf of Mexico

BrianR wrote 7 months ago: If you don’t already have NASA’s Earth Observatory site in your reader or bookmarked som … more →

Tags: Photos/Images, sediment flux, Delta, shallow-marine, Rivers, sedimentary basins

SS p1: Construction Activity Pollution Prevention

dearmariana wrote 7 months ago: intent reduce pollution during construction - control Soil erosion - control Airborne dust generatio … more →

Tags: Sustainable Sites, Credits, strategies for memorizing, acronyms, LEED NC v2.2 AP Exam, Acronyms, Construction, Pollution, Erosion

Changes in morphology of the Yellow River delta from 1979 to 20004 comments

BrianR wrote 8 months ago: I was looking at the always-awesome Earth Observatory website from NASA and came across an interesti … more →

Tags: Photos/Images, sediment flux, map, Delta, Patterns, Rivers

Issues in Water Quality Stemming from Lack of a Riparian Buffer

Peder wrote 9 months ago: Compromised Riverbank Integrity This could be a picture of Anywhere, Belize.  We see the convergence … more →

Tags: What Do We See in This Picture?, Fresh water, Water Ecology, riparian buffer, river ecosystem, river health

Coal Gets Dirty Again

eriewire wrote 9 months ago: Published on Friday, February 13, 2009 by the Charleston Gazette (West Virginia) Appeals Court Overt … more →

Tags: Coal, the erie wire, free market, sandusky, Erie County, deconstructing dinner, erie wire, Economy, Local

A million years worth of deposition: where and how much?4 comments

BrianR wrote 10 months ago: The theme for this month’s geoscience blog carnival, The Accretionary Wedge, was to speculate … more →

Tags: stratigraphy, sediment flux, Plate Tectonics, The Accretionary Wedge, Delta, Rivers, sedimentary basins

Sea-Floor Sunday #40: Puyallup Delta, Puget Sound4 comments

BrianR wrote 10 months ago: I apologize for the lack of posts lately … I have been incredibly busy the last month or so. O … more →

Tags: Delta, map, Marine Science, Rivers, sea-floor image, Sea-Floor Sunday, sedimentary structures, shallow-marine, source-to-sink

Friday Field Foto #74: Deep-marine mud

BrianR wrote 11 months ago: This week’s Friday Field Foto is from a short research cruise on went on a few years ago just … more →

Tags: Friday Field Foto, Marine Science, photographs I've taken

Text cloud for paper in press9 comments

BrianR wrote 11 months ago: A text cloud meme worked it’s way through the geoblogosphere earlier this year but since that … more →

Tags: turbidites, Data Visualization, sediment flux, Publication, Rivers, Meme, dissertation research, Personal, source-to-sink

Agriculture on the outer part of an alluvial fan9 comments

BrianR wrote 12 months ago: A reader from Germany alerted me to a cool image from the Terra satellite. This is from southern Ira … more →

Tags: alluvial fans, Patterns, Photos/Images


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