With now 100 blog posts under my belt now I’m picking up on an idea from Chris Rowan at Highly Allochthonous who recently tweeted that he had geotagged his blog posts. It makes some kind of sense that blog posts in the geoblogoshere should be geotagged. So, after a couple of hours in google maps here [...]
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Recently I attended a geological walk lead by Mike Allen from the South Peak Estate of the National Trust to have a look at a new geological section that has been opened upon the side of Ossum’s Hill above the Manifold Valley in the Staffordshire part of the Peak District. The geology of the area [...] It’s accretionary wedge time again an this month Dino Jim is asking us to ‘think outside the box’ when teaching geology. I seem to detect a food theme developing. Here is a quick piece on using a banana as an analogue for rock deformation in general, and fault propagation folding in particular. First take your banana and [...] I’d like to introduce the concept of ‘stone miles’. A bit like ‘food miles’, building stones are often transported great distances (in some cases halfway around the world) when local ones will do, often much better. David Williams from ‘Stories in Stone‘ recently posted about the slate used for the new café at the [...] The second large earthquake in two days, this time in the Andaman Islands region, at felt around the north east Indian Ocean coastal areas. This earthquake was unusual in that it had a ‘normal’ faulting mechanism rather that the ‘reverse’ or ‘thrust’ fault mechanism, like the earthquake that which caused the Boxing Day 2004 tsunami. Because of [...] |
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