Scales Are Not Just For Fish: A Blog Series about Time and Space in Geology
Blog Series Installment #1: Introduction One of the joys of geology is that we study really big things like mountains and really…
Blog Series Installment #1: Introduction One of the joys of geology is that we study really big things like mountains and really…
There is an important question to answer for the sedimentologists: where do the sediments come from? One way to answer…
Aside from the gentle rocking motion, the 12-hour shifts, the vacuum toilets, the noise of 12 thrusters keeping us in place, and…
When I saw this core in the core lab, I immediately asked myself (which I am doing all the…
Hi, everyone! I will be sporadically blogging about my time sailing on the Joides Resolution as a diatom paleontologist during…
The drilling process is controlled from the rig floor. The pipes are stored in a large rack, located aft of…
A few of us realized recently that it’s hard to picture the JOIDES (a 143 m ship) lowering a drill…
After the core comes on deck at the catwalk and whole-round samples are taken for fossils and chemistry, it comes…
So today’s post will be short — I’m off shift now and would really like to get some sleep before…
Fifty years ago the world looked very different to geologists. Not only was most television still in black and white,…