…has now been solved: (By Bizarro; found at Pharyngula the other day.) I'm quite happy that I didn't yet have to discuss with students the creationst crap the cartoon makes fun of.
Unlike an advent calendar, this one is for the whole year. And it doesn't cause weight gain, because there's no chocolate in it, but (mostly) ravenous parasites: Parasite of the Day
I've waited so long for this, and now I've almost missed it: there are some first results from the geoblog survey 2009. Lutz Geißler presents a summary on geoberg.de (and a shorter German version on geonetzwerk.org). Also, there's going to be a publication about it in a not-yet-known journal. It's interesting (similar to the first […]
Quite some time ago, I posted a colourful specimen of modern art and asked whether someone could tell what it is. One or two people seemed to like it, but couldn't add anything to my suggestion of the “Purple Woman Holding a Large Fish”. So now the picture in its complete context:
Sometimes, leafing through old books yields little gems. The hydraulic processes of groundwater in nature cause great difficulties for calculations. To date, the geologist usually tends to rely on imagination [impression? understanding? concept? How the hell do you translate „Anschauung“?] only, and to disregard calculations completely. The mathematically trained engineer, on the other hand, often […]
I wish all my readers a happy new year!
Dominion on her/his blog “The Couloir Times” has shown a part of the Blue Ridge Mountains where she/he grew up as WoGE #177. Just in time before Christmas, I'd like to present the new snowy/icy WoGE #178:
Change the language with the flags on the top left. Sprache ändern mit den Flaggen oben links.
This month's Accretionary Wedge (hosted by Magma Cum Laude) is about earth science outreach, so I'd like to write a bit about the practical courses our university (BTU – Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus) provides for secondary school students in 11th and 12th grade. Our department (Environmental Geology) offers such practicals since 2007, but […]
The new geoblog survey is online this month. This aims at getting a better picture of the geoblogosphere, and to find out what's good, what's bad, what's missing. However, participitation has been low yet. So if you own a geoscience-oriented blog, take this short survey! The survey is open until 1st November.
David of Cryology and Co. has pulled us firmly into the Quaternary with the climate sequence from the Lac du Bouchet (some additional info about is in David's follow-up post). Here's my new WoGE picture. I hope to attract some new players (or reactivate the old ones), so I choose something not too difficult.
Again, Péter's WoGE took quite some time to solve. (Or was just nobody interested?) He also suggested another twist to the game: the location should be connected to the previous one by some common concept, or “keyword”. His keyword was “type locality” – of komatiite, as it turned out. This prevented some of my nastier […]
My geological data collection on the Nachterstedt landslide received some response, at least in the German-speaking part of the net. (Thanks to Gunnar and Lutz!) Also, I find my articles quite close to the top of Google searches on “Geologie Nachterstedt” (German) and “geology Nachterstedt”. The high rank in the English search is a bit […]
I've stumbled across this nice piece of modern, abstract art: A purple woman with violet hair, holding a large fish in front of her body? Offer your explanations and interpretations!
I'm about to write some posts about maps I rather often use and realised that I'm not always quite sure about translations for various glaciation-related terms. (Pleistocene glacial sediments make up most of the geology in Brandenburg.) Most information I have found on the net focuses on valley glaciers and their landforms, less on the […]
What else to say besides being green with envy? Hat tip to Diax's Rake (Scienceblogs.de).
[After switching to multilingual blogging, I have merged this english translation with the original article.]
When working on the local geology, I'm constantly reminded that in the former German Democratic Republic, topographic and geological maps were classified material. Most of the Lithofacies Map of the Quaternary 1:50000 (LKQ50) and the Hydrogeological Map 1:50000 (HK50) were ranked confidental („VD – Vertrauliche Dienstsache“, literally “confidential offical matter”), the rest was even secret […]
The Geochemical Atlas of Europe contains a nice short overview of the continent's geological and tectonic framework (PDF) and subsequent Tertiary and Quaternary landscape evolution (PDF). For more information on the structure, there's a slightly more detailed variant of the map with explanations from Christian Röhr's Upper Rhine Graben site (sorry, German only) and the […]
The dreaded day has come. Yesterday was our secretary's last day at work. I dare not think about how things may turn out in the future.
