I’m not sure exactly what this is a map of (other than Glen Tilt, Tayside), because there’s not much information on the USGS page where I found it.
It’s got a lovely geometry,… Read the rest “Science Art: Map, Glen Tilt, Tayside, by James Hutton”
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This is a detail of a page from Geology for Beginners, comprising a familiar explanation of geology, and its associate sciences, an 1842 introduction to stones and mountains… Read the rest “Science Art: Rhombic Dodecahedron, Figs. 44 and 45 from “Crystalline Forms,” G.F. Richardson, 1842”
Yeah, this was just rebroadcast on Prairie Home Companion this weekend. But why not?
A pretty good country song that does everything you’d want a science song to do.
Behold the West.
This is the frontispiece to a scientific report, the Report on the geology of the eastern portion of the Uinta Mountains and a region of country adjacent thereto – … Read the rest “Science Art: Gate of Lodore, from the Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories.”
SONG: “Kavachi”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE:Based on “Deep-Sea Cameras Reveal a ‘Sharkcano'”, National Geographic Explorers’ Journal, 9 July … Read the rest “SONG: “Kavachi””
The New Yorker paints a pretty vivid seismic picture of the quake that some scientists say is due to rip the Pacific Northwest in two:
… Read the rest “The Big One is coming. Sorry, Seattle. And Portland.”Most people in the United States know just one fault line
National Geographic reveals an ecosystem my 10-year-old son might have dreamed up. It’s all lava, acid and sharks. Inside the cauldron of Kavachi is a “sharkcano”… Read the rest “Live sharks discovered inside a live volcano.”
SONG: “How the Moon Began.”
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE:Based on “Puzzle of Moon’s origin resolved”, Nature, 8 April 2015, as used in the post “Scientists:… Read the rest “SONG: “How the Moon Began””
Nature has more on the research into the aformentioned artificial earthquakes:
… Read the rest “The phrase “human-induced seismic hazards” means “man-made earthquakes.” Thanks to oil mining…”It’s the first thing that geologist Todd Halihan asks on a sunny spring afternoon at Oklahoma State University
This is a handmade map from the construction of the Panama Canal, one of history’s greatest feats of engineering. Culebra Cut is where the project experienced massive… Read the rest “Science Art: Las Cascadas Slide (Section 6) from AB Nichols Notebook Vol. 38, 1910”
Nature reports on a new way of looking at lunar formation that almost reads like a myth. The moon came to be when Earth collided with a near-identical sister planet:
… Read the rest “Scientists: The moon was formed when Earth smacked her twin sister.”The ‘giant impact’ hypothesis,
This is how the the gooey inside becomes the crusty outside… oozing up from rifts.
A “phragmocone” is a fancy word for a shell of a nautilus or ammonoid, and “Belemnitella” is a genus of belemnite, which is to say, a … Read the rest “Science Art: Phramgocone of Belemnitella, In Flint, 1851”
Daily Beast has more on how 204 billion tons of melting glaciers have changed the way our planet’s gravity works:
… Read the rest “Antarctica has melted so much, it’s changing Earth’s gravitational profile.”Between 2009 and 2012, the years for which GOCE was taking data, the
This is a story of explosive growth, as told by the USGS Landsat satellite, and recorded in the Earth Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center “Image… Read the rest “Science Art: Urban Expansion of Shenyang, China, 2014.”
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