Neat educational site… The Rock Cycle

An Online Guide to Sequence Stratigraphy: “…This online guide is primarily aimed at the application of sequence stratigraphy to outcrops. As a result, none of the examples deal with topics related specifically to cores, well logs, or most significantly, seismic. Perhaps the best way to work through this online guide is to start with accommodation and to continue down the list of topics from there…”

College Crunch web site says they have identified the top 10 colleges for geology. There are many more great college programs for geology beyond these 10 colleges, but it is sort of interesting to look at the list and the writer’s explanations.

Stunning views of glaciers from space.

Via ScienceDaily:   "… A fossil supervolcano has been discovered in the Italian Alps' Sesia Valley by a team led by James E. Quick, a geology professor at Southern Methodist University. The discovery will advance scientific understanding of active supervolcanoes, like Yellowstone,…"

Via AP: “…The Dutch national museum said Thursday that one of its prized possessions, a rock supposedly brought back from the moon by U.S. astronauts, is just a piece of petrified wood. Rijksmuseum spokeswoman Xandra van Gelder, who oversaw the investigation that proved the piece was a fake, said the museum will keep it anyway as a curiosity….”