Posts tagged “GEOLOGY”
  • Non-depressing Ivanpah item
    By Chris Clarke on 2010 08 26 at 5:38:41 pm | 0 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x0sb

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    The alluvial fan pictured here is about five miles north of Nipton. I always meant to go for a little hike through the canyon that feeds it, and probably ought to soon.

    Anyway, Geoblogger Kyle House has some interesting observations about this

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  • Batholith
    By Chris Clarke on 2009 07 21 at 5:54:53 pm | 0 comments

    I do not remember the person I was back then. I recall the basic outlines of my life, but the memories replay by rote as tales told me long ago by someone else about another’s life. The dates are clear enough, the places somewhat dimmed, but my

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  • Shifting Terrain
    By Chris Clarke on 2009 07 16 at 11:32:17 am | 1 comment

    Via Kimberly, 650 million years of geology in one minute.

  • Alluvium
    By Chris Clarke on 2009 02 20 at 11:01:01 pm | 1 comment

    This pebble in my boot, when it was one
    still with its mother rock, cooled over tens
    of centuries: a batholith. Bright grew
    the flakes of muscovite, bright grew the pale
    discolored quartz, each grain an infinite
    fine tetrahedral tesselation, it … (continues)

  • There’s no such thing as desertification
    By Chris Clarke on 2009 02 16 at 6:33:19 pm | 6 comments

    If you want evidence to support my increasingly frequent contention that environmentalists as a whole really don’t care about arid environments, it’s instructive to look at a bit of jargon in use over the last few decades.

    The jargon is used to

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  • Desert Bones
    By Chris Clarke on 2008 12 12 at 11:41:25 am | 1 comment

    Despite its dangerous reputation among non-physicists, the typical uranium atom is only weakly radioactive. More than 99 percent of the uranium found in nature consists of the isotope U-238, whose atomic nucleus contains 92 protons and 146

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