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The outcrop I’ve been carting around Part 1
For the past year I’ve been living in the academic equivalent of the penthouse apartment. I was the sole inhabitant of a two-room office; the outer room has two enormous windows looking out over the campus. It is a first … Continue reading
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Red Rock Canyon State Park
Red Rock Canyon State Park, in southern California, is usually the first stop on the Death Valley field trip my graduate department used to run over spring break. I had the chance to TA this trip once, and went on … Continue reading
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The Barton Garnet Mine and Fall in the Adirondacks
This Saturday I was able to tag along on a mineralogy field trip to Gore Mountain, in the Adirondack Highlands, home of the Barton Garnet Mine. I was especially excited about this, even as far back as my mineralogy course … Continue reading
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Holy crap, the fireplace is overturned!
One of my absences this summer from blogging was due to a trip to see the family at our yearly retreat deep in the woods of northern Wisconsin. Well, maybe not that deep, but it is certainly an excellent place. … Continue reading
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Apparent Return
I have now returned from the field, and am ready to once again rejoin the geoblogosphereo, armed with field pics, a new appreciation for cheese, vertical profiles, and a few hundred pounds of nice fresh granite. First the field pics … Continue reading
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Show us your lab – BWRU edition
Following Lab Lemming and Sara at Life is Nich si mal as well as the related field photo post from …Or Something I am contributing pictures of my old lab. This is kind of cheating, because I no longer work … Continue reading
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National Parks in 3D, on Your Laptop!
I’ve been checking out the Branner Earth Sciences Library Blog lately, and it just pointed me towards a National Park Service site that offers 3D pictures and images relating to the geology of national parks. Here’s a classic example.
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The Clocks in the Rocks
As I mentioned in my last post, the Smithsonian Natural History Museum has a geochronology display in the Rocks and Minerals section of the museum. The exhibit wasn’t enormous, and did not have anything on thermochronology, which is too bad … Continue reading
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Lake Tahoe and the evil 1098-T
Today I’ve been thinking quite a bit about Lake Tahoe. Why? Well, because I did my taxes. Let me explain. This post will begin largely as a rant about 1098-T forms, and the absurdity they represent. 1098-T forms are what … Continue reading
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Therapy for staring at ugly apatites all day
I spent time today helping a student pick out apatites for (U-Th)/He analysis. For those of you unfamiliar with this process, it is easily the biggest time sink in the whole method. After you chose a study area, collect samples, … Continue reading
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