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Canadian Earth Science for @PMHarper 11 – Dino Hunt!
The preamble to this review series is here Posted today, February 12, the 206th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth and just in time for tomorrow, another #FossilFriday and another day to watch Dino Hunt! —– Bramble, K., M.E. Burns and … Continue reading
Extreme tides and Winter ice
Figure 1. Winter ice on the salt marshes of Minas Basin photographed from Wolfville, Nova Scotia, March 1, 2007. View to the North. What is an estuary? An estuary is a bay with an open connection to the sea. Rivers … Continue reading
Posted in climate change, General geoscience, Nova Scotia
Tagged Atlantic, Canada, climate, Climate Change, coastal zone management, earth science, energy, environment, geology, geoscience, Ice Age, Minas Basin, Nova Scotia, oceanography, Quaternary, Science, Sea Level, sedimentology, tides
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Canadian Earth Science for @PMHarper 10 – a question of Iron
The preamble to this review series is here —– Halverson, G.P., F. Poitrasson, P.E. Hoffman, A. Nédélec, J.-M. Montel and J. Kirby, 2011, Fe-isotope and trace element geochemistry of the Neoproterozoic syn-glacial Rapitan iron formation. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. … Continue reading
Nova Scotia’s own Great Unconformity: my new banner photo for 2015
The Angular Unconformity (U) at Nova Scotia’s Rainy Cove, separating intensely folded and faulted early Carboniferous shales and sandstones of the Horton Group (labeled 1 below the unconformity) and gently inclined, undeformed sandstones and conglomerates of the Wolfville Formation (2) at … Continue reading
Posted in General geoscience, Nova Scotia
Tagged Atlantic, Canada, Carboniferous, continent break-up, earth science, energy, evolution, geology, geoscience, Minas Basin, Nova Scotia, paleogeography, sedimentology, tectonic, Triassic
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2014 in review: my world according to WordPress
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 6,200 times in 2014. If it were a NYC subway … Continue reading
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A #tsunami is really a tidal wave, except it isn’t
Katsushika Hokusai, Great Wave off Kanagawa. Image from Wikimedia. Original in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA This week marks the 10-year anniversary of the Great Sumatra earthquake which triggered the devastating Indian Ocean Tsunami that killed a quarter million people. … Continue reading
Four Billion Years and Counting: Canada is as old as the Earth and this book tells all
Just published! 400-pages on Canada’s geologic heritage in both official languages for only $39.95! Order your English language copy here and your French copy here. The book’s website has tons of freely downloadable illustrations and other materials for … Continue reading
Posted in General geoscience, Geoheritage
Tagged Canada, earth science, energy, environment, evolution, extinction, geology, Ice Age, natural disaster, natural hazard
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