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A Heart of Stone for Valentine’s Day and a spectacular mantle xenolith
Happy Valentine’s Day! Xenolith from Cerro Mercedes, Costa Rica. Photo by Fara Lindsay.
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MORE helicoptering over Iceland!
I got such a great response from my earlier post of photos taken from a helicopter in Iceland, that I decided to go for round 2 (I certainly have enough left). Enjoy. I was so excited, I took about 25...
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Want to help design the next Estwing hammer?
Awhile ago, I wrote a post about Estwing hammers and the geologists who love them, which inspired some commentators to reminisce about their first Estwing. Last week I was contacted by an Estwing...
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Who wants volcanic bombs from Italy? You do, of course.
One of the most interesting things about of having a blog is receiving e-mail from distant corners of the globe. Sometimes, they bear gifts. A few weeks ago, I was contacted by an Italian volcanic...
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How the heck did I miss this hunk of pyrite in my floor?
I’ve been a geologist for years and a rock collector my whole life. Nevertheless, I somehow managed to overlook this pyrite concretion in the slate patio at my grandparents house. I must have stepped...
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Volcan San Cristobal Before the Eruption
As most of you have heard by now, Nicaragua’s Volcan San Cristobal has erupted, which is not unusual as the volcano has been active for hundreds of years. This is of course a subduction zone and San...
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One more picture of San Cristobal
Yesterday, I posted some pictures of San Cristobal taken during fieldwork in Nicaragua and I just found one more. It was taken from Cerro Negro and shows 5 volcanoes, both dormant and active, in a...
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Want to see what a hurricane looks like on a seismometer?
Hurricane Sandy is currently making my house shake, so I thought I’d share what it’s doing to our seismometer in northeast PA. That extreme background noise is NOT the wind. It’s the storm waves...
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