Blogs about Earth science
13 blogs about Earth science.
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Dr. Roseanne Chambers – Blog
“Geologist, geographer and writer in the San Francisco Bay Area.” 🇺🇸Updated
Monoliths, Megaliths, and Ancient Quarries—Part 1 Ancient people collected, transported, and shaped enormous rocks—known as monoliths—for thousands of years. They dealt with impressive sizes and weights when they carved gigantic statues and shaped stone blocks for pyramids, temples, and other monumental …
Feed Roughly one post per month. Started in .
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Earth Science Picture of the Day - a service of USRA
“Highlights the diverse processes and phenomena which shape our planet and our lives. EPOD will collect and archive photos, imagery, graphics, and artwork with short explanatory captions and links exemplifying features within the Earth system.” 🇺🇸Updated ⚠️️
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Little Egret and Caustic Network Photographer: Emanuele Nifosì Summary Author: Emanuele Nifosì; Jim Foster In this photo, which shows a little egret in flight over the Pantano Longarini (Italy), we can see the phenomenon known as a caustic network (barbàglio …
Feed Roughly four posts per week. Started in .
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Editors’ Vox - Eos
“Eos is the science news magazine published by AGU [Advancing Earth and Space Science].” 🇺🇸Updated
Earthquakes Have Preparatory Stage Years Before Rupture Editors’ Highlights are summaries of recent papers by AGU’s journal editors. Source: Geophysical Research Letters Given the damage that large earthquakes cause, humans have naturally spent a great deal of effort looking for signs of …
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Fossil Huntress
“Musings in natural history meant to captivate, educate & inspire. Deepen your world.” 🇨🇦Updated
CANADA'S GREAT BEARS Look at how this protective mamma bear holds her cub in her arms to give him a bit of a wash. Her gentle maternal care is truly touching. This mamma has spent late Autumn to …
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From a Glacier's Perspective - AGU Blogosphere
“Glacier change in a world of climate change.” By Mauri Pelto. 🇺🇸Updated
From Mount Hood to Mount Robson Extremely Limited 2023 Snowcover Retained Written by Ben Pelto, Jill Pelto and Mauri Pelto Field Sketch of Ice Worm Glacier from Aug. 13, 2023 on photograph of glacier. (Jill Pelto) It was July 5, 1981 and Juneau meteorologist Brad Coleman …
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GeoEd Trek - AGU Blogosphere
“Focuses on geoscience education/outreach, science communication, and technology tools in the classroom, online, and in the field.” By Laura Guertin. 🇺🇸Updated
ChatGPT does take-home assignments – but can it do citations? I have never seen a topic that has generated such a flurry of discussion and faculty development workshops as the entrance of ChatGPT. Although there is such energy and engagement around the topic, the reactions …
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Georneys - AGU Blogosphere
“Geological musings, wanderings, and adventures.” By Evelyn Mervine. 🇺🇸Updated
Geology Word of the Week: N is for Notebook My favorite type of geological field notebook. Picture by my husband. def. Notebook: A small book for recording notes, such as geological data. Since geologists often have to record notes in rainy (and sometimes snowy!) …
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Geotripper
“I am a teacher of geology at Modesto Junior College and former president of the National Association of Geoscience Teachers, Far Western Section.” By Garry Hayes. 🇺🇸Updated
An Aerial Tour of the Stanislaus Table Mountain This is a short blog series of informational articles from my college faculty website that is soon to be extinct (arcane unsafe software, they say). Way back in 2002, the parent of one of my …
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The Landslide Blog - AGU Blogosphere
“Provides commentary and analysis of landslide events occurring worldwide, including the landslides themselves, latest research, and conferences and meetings.” By Dave Petley. 🇬🇧Updated
A new home for the Landslide Blog A new home for the Landslide Blog I started this blog on 16 December 2007 – that feels like a long time ago now – as a site on Blogger. In 2010, the American Geophysical …
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Mountain Beltway - AGU Blogosphere
By Callan Bentley. 🇺🇸Updated
Friday fold: Candler Formation On a birding hike yesterday morning, I found this: This is a little slab of kinked phyllite of the Candler Formation. This metamorphic rock started as mud (and ash) deposited atop the Catoctin Formation, and …
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The Plainspoken Scientist - AGU Blogosphere
“The science communication blog of AGU’s Sharing Science program.” 🇺🇸Updated
What makes a river a river? Close your eyes and picture a river…go on, do it! What did you see? Did you picture a clear, deep mountain stream? A raging river in a steep gorge? A creek with grassy banks and …
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Spooky Geology
“Earth mysteries, weird locations, anomalous phenomena.” By Sharon A. Hill. 🇺🇸Updated
Media hypes questionable “mysterious” earthquake lights in Morocco Claims of blue flashes and floating balls of light were associated with the latest strong quake After every sizable earthquake these days, it is inevitable that several people on social media will post a photo …
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VolcanoCafe
“Because Volcanoes are Ewesome.”Updated
Tambora: making history In between Lombok (the location of infamous Rinjani) and Flores (with the magic lakes of Kelimutu) is the island of Sumbawa. It lies in the heart of the most volcanic region of the most volcanic …
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