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Friday Field Foto #59: Patagonian deep-marine conglomerate deposits
This week’s Friday Field Foto heads back down to southern South America. While doing my own PhD work down there, I had the opportunity to help out another student with his project on the underly… more »
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Friday Field Foto #59: Patagonian deep-marine conglomerate deposits
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BrianR wrote 1 week ago: This week’s Friday Field Foto heads back down to southern South America. While doing my own Ph … more »
Friday Field Foto #57: Dish structures
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BrianR wrote 4 weeks ago: A relatively common sedimentary structure found in sandstone turbidite beds are dish structures. Tak … more »
Friday Field Foto #55: Antidunes!
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BrianR wrote 1 month ago: Man, this week has been crazy … just one of those weeks, I guess … I haven’t had a … more »
Sea-Floor Sunday #21: Cyclic steps in the deep sea
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BrianR wrote 1 month ago: After several larger-scale sea-floor images highlighting tectonic features, I’m going to zoom … more »
Friday Field Foto #53: Armored mud ball
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BrianR wrote 1 month ago: I was recently going through all my field photographs from Patagonia while putting together some mat … more »
Friday Field Foto #50: Swaley cross-stratified sandstone
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BrianR wrote 2 months ago: Today’s Friday Field Foto is from the Cretaceous of Utah and is a nice example of a type of cr … more »
Friday Field Foto #48: Wall of plane- and ripple-laminated sandstone
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BrianR wrote 3 months ago: If you ever find yourself around Guadalupe Mtns National Park in west Texas and southeastern New Mex … more »
Friday Field Foto #47: Paleozoic glacial tillite
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BrianR wrote 3 months ago: Although my recent trip to South Africa was to look at the Permian turbidites, we couldn’t res … more »
Sea-Floor Sunday #15: Online photo archive of the North Atlantic sea floor
BrianR wrote 4 months ago: I usually show bathymetry images for Sea-Floor Sunday, but I saw this on Deep Sea News the other day … more »
Friday Field Foto #45: Glauconitic sandstone
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BrianR wrote 4 months ago: It’s several days late, but I wanted to get my own green rock (or, at least, photograph of a o … more »
Geopuzzle: What's the scale? (ANSWER)
BrianR wrote 4 months ago: ChrisR was the closest, and Ed wasn’t too far off either … the unknown scale bar from th … more »
Geopuzzle: What's the scale?
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BrianR wrote 4 months ago: There have been some great geopuzzles coming out of the ever-growing geoblogosphere the last few mon … more »
Friday Field Foto #44: Patterns in the beach
BrianR wrote 4 months ago: Way back in Friday Field Foto #4, I showed a photograph of some interesting patterns in a California … more »
Friday Field Foto #41: Armored mudball (eroded out)
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BrianR wrote 5 months ago: Realizing how fun posting a geopuzzle can be, this week I asked the readers to tell me what they thi … more »
Who said mud isn't exciting?
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BrianR wrote 7 months ago: I’ve seen a few science news stories/blurbs about a paper that came out in Science last week m … more »
A few of my favorite pet rocks
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BrianR wrote 7 months ago: For the 4th edition of The Accretionary Wedge blog carnival, which is hosted over at goodSchist, we … more »
Rock and life: Trace fossils
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BrianR wrote 8 months ago: I know it sounds lame to bring out this excuse (yet again) … but it’s the truth! I have … more »
Friday Field Foto #32: Load structures in shallow-marine sediments
BrianR wrote 9 months ago: I went out to the coast recently for fun and was reminded of some photos I took a few years back of … more »
Friday Field Foto #30: Cross section in a gravel quarry
BrianR wrote 10 months ago: A few years back, when I was doing my master’s in Colorado, we went to a gravel quarry for the … more »
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