March 19, 2024 • #
The Richat Structure in the Saharan Desert of Mauritania.
An eroded geologic dome.
Topic / geology
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February 26, 2024 • #
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February 15, 2024 • #
The karsting limestone of Mount Api , Malaysia.
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February 7, 2024 • #
If you go back to the Permian, you’d find the Appalachians, Massif Central, Atlas Mountains, and Scottish Highlands were all part of a single range cutting through the Pangean supercontinent.
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Seaflooding
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Portals Into Earth
September 21, 2022 • #From John McPhee's 'Annals of the Former World'.
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The Kalevala and the Underworld
August 5, 2022 • #An eerie similarity between an ancient Finnish myth and a deep geological nuclear repository.
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Subterranean Trees of Magma
September 15, 2021 • #Superheated plumes of magma, hotspots, and the composition of the mantle.
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Places: Remnants of an Ancient Lake
February 17, 2020 • #Satellite data shows the expansive ancient shores of Lake Chad.
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Weekend Reading: LiDAR, Auto Generated Textbooks, and Paleo Plate Tectonics
February 9, 2019 • #LiDAR, Auto Generated Textbooks, and Paleo Plate Tectonics
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What Did the Earth Look Like?
January 15, 2019 • #An interactive map to see what the Earth looked like in prehistoric time.
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Weekend Reading: How We Collect Data, Mapping the Camp Fire, and Earth's Great Unconformity
January 5, 2019 • #How we collect data at Spatial Networks, DJI maps the Camp Fire, and on mysterious geological records.
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Annals of the Former World
March 15, 2016 • #A review of John McPhee's book and resparking an interest in geology.
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The Diminishing Coast
September 29, 2014 • #The state of Louisiana is gradually eroding, and a number of groups are using maps to highlight the gravity of the situation.
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