If you haven't seen the Geo-Cams list, it's time to take a look--live Web cameras are trained on geologically interesting locations around the world. It's time NOW because I've checked ... Read More

Perhaps the most Mars-like place on Earth is Chile's Atacama Desert. A fine article in the new Wired is a first-person report from a research expedition to this extremely dry ... Read More

Early today (2:27 local time) a shallow strike-slip earthquake of magnitude 6.4 struck northeastern Morocco. Several hundred people have died. See the seismic hazard map of the region. The U.S. ... Read More

One of my fondest geological memories is the day I spent touring Napa Valley rocks and wineries in the company of a group of geologists (read the article, A Day ... Read More

I used to call these Peaks of the Week, but now they're irregular occasions. Anyway, today we have a new mountain in the gallery, from the Mojave Desert. If you've ... Read More

When John Garver of Union College in Schenectady NY went to do fieldwork in far eastern Siberia in 2001, the plane trip across 17 time zones was only the beginning. ... Read More

The Union of Concerned Scientists has issued a 46-page report making a case that the Bush administration has seriously distorted the use of science in making policy. Here's the top ... Read More

You have probably seen Colorado marble, specifically the Yule Marble, a high-quality white stone used in the Lincoln Memorial, many other buildings, and sculpture. (The state Geological Survey has just ... Read More

We all have our individual sweeties to honor today, but let's spare an affectionate thought for this fine planet we inhabit, too. With that in mind I've opened a new ... Read More

The Rhynie Chert comes through again. This body of silicified sediment in Scotland, some 400 million years old, is a lagerstatte—a "universal graveyard" where even delicate and microscopic fossils are ... Read More

I just can't get over the bedrock close-ups from the Opportunity rover. (Go here for the big version.) To me the rock still looks more like volcanic ashfall than waterlaid ... Read More

Is there one? Maybe there was when the talk.origins archive was new, but today there are several contenders. The latest one is Understanding Evolution, aimed at teachers. Not just a ... Read More

Are there real magnetic and gravity effects at "mystery spots"? Read more...

This doesn't exist yet, but it should: the Cable Science Network or CSN. A flurry of interest rose when Scientific American mentioned it a few months ago, but not much ... Read More

Mantleplumes.org, the iconoclastic site where researchers share papers arguing against the mantle-plume theory, has gotten user-friendlier. Less than a year old, mantleplumes has a large amount of content including the ... Read More

Sometimes on busy rainy days, I wish I were off on a real adventure like climbing Oldoinyo Lengai. That's the unique volcano in the remote African Rift Valley that erupts ... Read More

The Opportunity lander has confirmed the presence of hematite from its infrared color, that is, the spectrum recorded by the rover's thermal emission spectrometer (TES). Look at the global map ... Read More

What better thing to do this afternoon than take one step at a time on your earthquake preparedness list? In fact, why not start the list, based on the resources ... Read More