Here's a bit of a mystery for a friday night...what do you make of this outcrop? I missed it's significance when I was there looking at it. What do you think it might be? We are in southern California, somewhere in the San Gabriel Mountains.

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A child's drawing of Chasmosaurus, shred on flicker by Kurt Best. Love the description: "Chasmosaurus was a rhinocerosish dinosaur."...

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...it hits a water-repellant surface. In this case, compare what happens to a drop of water when it hits glass:to water hitting a fabric that has been treated with a special nano-scale coating that causes the water to bead up:The thin, spread-out fil...

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Signs of New Life as U.N. Searches for a Climate Accord, New York Times, Jan 24 The recently concluded meeting in Durban, South Africa, which established a new mandate for concluding a binding agreement of some sort by 2015, has given the process new...

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This Week's TreasuresSOPA, PIPA  An email message arrived from Wyoming Senator Mike Enzi -- he is dropping his cosponsorship of PIPA.  He thinks PIPA would have been fine of course, but is listening to the public.  Also, he's glad that Senator ...

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The Microsoft Research film crew has packed up and moved out to get background city shots, after spending all day filming at AZGS. They are preparing a video showcasing how different scientific organizations are using their new Layerscape visualiz...

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The 2012 Environmental Performance Index is a powerful tool for diagnosing trends not just across countries but over time, too. Consider what we can learn about overfishing, for example....

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A lot has already been said about Newt Gingrich's promise of a moon base; however, I still want to talk about it because I sort of agree with the two ways this statement has been met-optimism and cynicism. First lets go with cynicism, it should be obvious this is shameless pandering from a politician who will hedge back and forth on science insulting it or complementing it depending on when it suits him. I am almost positive that if he was elected he would either forget all about or make a half-hearted attempt which wouldn't work. I think The Crux had one of the best cynical responses, and I have to agree with all of their points; however, I don't have to like it.

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The pink is where it was just weeks ago, the red where the surface breakouts are today.

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Review of Robert H. Gray, The Elusive Wow: Searching for Extraterrestrial intelligence (Chicago: Palmer Square Press, 2011). By Amir Alexander The signal from the stars arrived at the Big Ear radio observatory in Ohio at 11:16 p.m. on the night of...

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According to web cam images and images on the internet of Etna volcano. It seems that Etna volcano is preparing for an new small eruption. When and how big this eruption is going to be is impossible to know for sure. But ash emission have already started in the crater that is most likley going to erupt.

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Volcanoclast has put out the call for Accretionary Wedge 42 here .

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I'm a metageologist, trained as a geologist but cast adrift amongst normal folk. I sometimes notice ways in which I've been marked by that training. Some are trivial, some not so much. I feel the need for a theme of quick whimsical posts so I'm going to talk about them a bit. Here goes...

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A new study reveals that new microbes supplant the active hydrothermal vent's microbes after the site ceases to produce thermal energy. Though more research is necessary to fully understand the regeneration process in the dormant hydrothermal vents...

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Today at 14:53 UTC there was an Mw5.0 earthquake in north Italy according to EMSC. This earthquake had the depth of 60 km according to EMSC. This earthquake was felt in the area. But I have not seen any reports of damage from this earthquake. According to GVP this area of Italy is not volcanic in nature. Next active volcano is considerable distance to the south of this earthquake. This earthquake follows an swarm of earthquakes in this area. It is hard know for sure if this an pattern of something larger, or if this is just an minor earthquakes swarm that is over or is just about to be over.

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Short Sands Beach, OregonSeeking aerial images of the sand burial site at Waldport, Oregon I posted on yesterday caused me to meander around and look at some other images of the Oregon coast. (Yes, this is not the Washington Landscape, but Washingto...

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I feel like I've been running at waaaaaay too many revolutions per minute for the last week, so what better way to relax a bit than to share some of the excellent work my fellow dinosaur bloggers have been doing? Maybe indulge in a bit of inspiring dinosaur art while we're at it? The fiftieth edition of our occasional roundup series is here, so pour the tea, light the stogies, put on a bit of Kenny G, and slip into your Forever Lazy. It's chill time.

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Unfortunately it is largely quite futile attempt to search for interesting outcrops and geolocations of Sri Lanka in the web.

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Sometime yesterday, I had my 100,000th unique visitor to this blog according to StatCounter which I installed on the first day I set this up a couple of years ago.  I started with only a few unique hits a day and now I have 500-600. I find that pleasantly surprising.

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Baprang the Binturong at the San Diego Zoo. Photo by Flickr user auntie rain.

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The year 2011 tied with 1997 as the 11th warmest year since records began in 1880, NOAA's National Climatic Data Center said last week. NASA rated 2011 as the 9th warmest on record. Land temperatures were the 8th warmest on record, and ocean temperat...

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The recent earthquake sequence in Christchurch has of course heightened awareness of seismic hazard in New Zealand.  On the way across South Island last weekend I stopped in the town of Murchison, after which the 1929 earthquake is named.  This was...

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Dinosaur, Colorado's bizarre, long-snouted Triceratops. Photo by author. Last week I asked you submit your favorite atrocious roadside dinosaurs. While the sculptures along the main drag of Dinosaur, Colorado come close to the top of the list, my vo...

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It has been a busier than expected week, so I've been putting off another post thanks to that and the relative quiet in the realm of volcanoes as of late. Today I have a new Vulcan's View with some great images of volcanoes as seen from orbiting platforms - many of them taken in the last few weeks. If you're looking for a full summary of the week's activity, remember, you can find that on the USGS/Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program's Weekly Volcanic Activity Report. Enjoy!

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Interested in learning more about environmental markets and the nexus between business, regulation, and sustainability? How does an organization trade carbon credits?...

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