Month: December 2009
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Do You Know Your Mineral Rights?
Via Geology.com “MineralWeb.com has developed a rich resource library for citizen mineral owners who are looking for plain spoken intelligence about their mineral rights.” Quoted from a MineralWeb press release.
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Student Finds 4-7000 Yr Spear While Gardening On Campus
Via Seattle Times: University of Washington freshman Ellen Van Wyk was digging up rocks from a campus garden when she made her discovery a stone spear tip that archaeologists believe was fashioned some 4,000 to 7,000 years ago.
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Students Discredit Theory
Alberta, Dec. 16 (UPI) — Three University of Alberta paleontology graduate students have confirmed an 85-year-old dinosaur find, discrediting a 1970s revision of the discovery.
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Deeper Plume Than Thought at Yellowstone
Hmmm… ScienceDaily (Dec. 14, 2009) — The most detailed seismic images yet published of the plumbing that feeds the Yellowstone supervolcano shows a plume of hot and molten rock rising at an angle from the northwest at a depth of at least 410 miles, contradicting claims that there is no deep plume, only shallow hot…
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More Gift Ideas
The Great Dinosaurs by Darren Naish. and for kids… Indiana Jones Lost City Archaeological Treasure Dig
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Join a Ning Site about Micromineral
You can join this Ning site about Microminerals. They are organizing an international micromineral swap.
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How to Send Web Posts to Your Email
You can now sign up to have posts from this web site sent to your email with feedmyinbox.com
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Field Trip: Chicago Academy of Sciences, Sat. 1/23/2009
The Chicago Academy of Sciences (CAS) and its Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum would like to offer a behind the scenes tour of its museum collections for ESCONI members as a thank you to members (Dianna, Elaine, Jack, Joan, Joe) who contributed their time this past year with an inventory of our paleontology collection. The tour,…
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Earth Science Gift Books
Some more ideas for gifts for the holiday season… Prehistoric Life: The Definitive Visual History of Life on Earth by DK Publishing Extreme Scientists: Exploring Nature’s Mysteries from Perilous Places by Donna M. Jackson Bodies from the Ice: Melting Glaciers and the Recovery of the Past by James M. Deem The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins:…
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Musings on 60 Years Of ESCONI by Karen Nordquist
As I try to put together a slide show for the 60 year anniversary party, I marvel at what this club has been through over the years. I myself have only been here for about the last ten years having found ESCONI late in my life unfortunately. I seem to have missed the really great…
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Linked In Page for Archaeologists
The Society for Industrial Archeology has a LinkedIn page, for those of you who use LinkedIn.
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Mineral – Micromount Meeting: Sat., 12/12, 7:30 p.m.
Mineral – Micromount Study Group Meeting, 7:30 pm, Saturday, 12/12, College of Dupage, Building K – Rm 131. Bring three minerals and four labels for the identification contest – fabulous prizes for all! John’s Ice Cream will be served.
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Gift Idea for Earth Science Person
A new book, Over the Coasts: An Aerial View of Geology, by Michael Collier, may be just that present for the geolgist in your life (or for yourself!)
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Building Stones of US Capital
Interesting description of building materials used in Washington D.C., including descriptions of the local geology from the USGS.
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Man vs Machine Fossil Identification
Via University of Leicester: …A new study pitting academic expertise against a computer in recreating a 425 million-year old jigsaw puzzle has discovered that there is no substitute for wisdom born out of experience. The research tested the reliability of expert identification versus computer analysis in reconstructing fossils. The investigation, based on fossil teeth from…
